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#InkyDays: A year of drawing, daily, with ink.
Copyright © Kristin Henry 2018
Originally published at kristinhenry.github.io.
What possessed me to try #inktober last year? I can’t draw! At least, that’s what I thought. My work revolves around code and data.
When I do create art, it’s usually with code. It involves a lot of creativity, but it’s abstract. If I’m drawing, it’s usually just to figure out the mathematics of something.
And yet, I decided to give #inktober a try, to draw with ink every day in October and share my drawings on social media with the hashtag #inktober. Along with artists around the world.
My first drawing was truly terrible. Yes, really. It was terrible.
My second drawing was a little less terrible. With that second drawing I started experimenting with a glass pen and ink I’d brought home as a souvenir from Venice.
In the early days, I was drawing grids with a pencil and using these grids to guide my drawing in ink. It took me awhile, but eventually I started letting go of the grid.
