Hi guys and welcome to Everydayidraw.
I am finally, FINALLY sharing my inktober
sketchbook tour with you.
Words cannot describe how happy I am
to be finally able to do so, because
this Inktober took me freaking FOREVER.
Strictly speaking this sketchbook is not
even a sketchbook, because I was using
separate A4 format paper for watercolour
and inks and later I gathered it all
into one place, so you can take a look at that.
Every year starting from 2015, when
I first decided to participate in this
challenge, I had this feeling, that
I finally tamed inktober: "Now I know how to
do it, now I will be able to finish it in time".
And every year I failed miserably. Each year I had
more knowledge, I had more skill, and
I've been setting myself more and more difficult
goals, which took me a gazillion amount
of hours to finish. So this year I've decided to
explore two characters for my upcoming
comic books called "Atomgrad-29".
I've started sketch creation process and
thinking process in the beginning of
September almost. In the first week of
September I've made a mood board on
Pinterest. I thought about the way that
I want to release the finished product and
I really wanted to make another fanzine,
because the way that printed
illustrations look is something
absolutely out of this world. I love how
my illustrations look in real life.
That's why I've decided, that I want to make
a fanzine. It would tell a story of my
two main characters. I still haven't come up
with names, so that's a mystery for me
for now. But those are just 2 "gopnik" guys.
I've decided, that I will draw different
life situations, that they might end up in.
Very simple ones, since it's a
challenge that you are supposed
to do daily. And I won't be doing
backgrounds. I even wrote it down for
myself in a huge red letters and put it
above my desk: "I will not draw
backgrounds". Well, little did I know…:D But
I knew from my previous Inktober experience,
that I'm not really good with
daily drawings and I also had another
responsibilities in my life apart
from inktober, like teaching my students
and doing other clients work. And you
know taking out my dog and having a
relationship. So I've decided that I will
do one to two drawings per day. I did a
schedule, and I tried to perform
according to it. But again, even when
I think, that something will take "this" and
"this" amount of time, it's the same with
time and with money - it will always take
three times more. Something will be more expensive
than you can imagine. Or something,
if you you are thinking: "Okay, it will
only take me one hour to finish
this drawing" - you will be working for
three hours, or two days, I don't know.
I always try to be very thoughtful when
I set myself a calendar and when I work
with the goals and timing and stuff like
that. Because I'm a working artist, so
working with client means meeting deadlines
and every time, every time I fail. But
I guess, next inktober probably… :D
My story is taking place in a closed
military town in the middle of Russia.
That's why I'm including a lot of
Soviet classical staples, like this sofa,
or a deer carpet. This deer carpet is
actually a thing, there is a Google
search category devoted only to this
deer carpet. And when I posted this
picture on my Instagram, a lot of my
Russian-speaking audience, a lot of you
guys, commented, that they had the same
freaking deer with dead eyes,
when they were growing up, looking,
starring at them from the wall. I was
really hugely inspired by the 'Welcome to the
Night Vale". I love this idea of
magical, weird conspiracy world,
coexisting with a normal world, so-called
'normal' world. When if you are a demon, you
are still supposed to have
a registration or some kind of an ID card,
and you have to go to DMV, and you know,
all this kind of stuff. I've tried to
incorporate something that is very dear
to my heart, an image of Russia in the 90s,
which was very weird and kind of, you
might say, scary times for the country.
For me it was when I was growing up. So
I wouldn't say, that I was suffering, that's
for sure, no, no, but I still have this
romanticized image of gopnick's or
mobs and street fights. I've never
actually experienced this myself. I only
read about it in newspapers or seen over the
TV, because my parents never let me go
out during the night, and I didn't date
during the school days, I was just this
weird geek kid, watching Harry Potter and
Lord of the Rings and anime. So for
sure, for me it all has this taste of
romance to it. I am also taking a
storytelling class, because I figured that
I have this idea, this image of a world
and heroes inside my head, but I am
absolutely and totally lost when it
comes to what is going to happen to them :D
I have a general idea of what is going
to happen, but no small details and no
small stories. That is why I'm taking a
storytelling class with the guy who is
working in movies. And it's so
interesting! I mean, everything he says is
absolutely new to me and I'm always
gasping during the classes, like: "Ooh! Is
that so ?!" That's very interesting and now
knowing, how much work is going into
writing down a scenario, I start to
appreciate scenarist's work so much more.
And here comes an illustration
with "no background" as I said. This
background took me freaking forever,
I have to say, and the only thing that
really saved me during this inktober, were
audiobooks, Harry Potter. I was listening
to audiobooks read by Stephen Fry,
which is a delight! I mean, he is just,
he's just so good! I mean, he reads it in
such a way, that I imagine everything
inside my mind, and it's just so
much fuller than a picture that I might
see in movies. And to me this is a new
thing, because I was never this kid who
would say "book is better", because for me
those were two different experience. When
I was reading books I didn't really
imagine things all that much, I would say.
Readings by Stephen Fry is absolute
delight. And I would also listen to "Lore"
podcast, which totally settled the mood
for a frightening one October. After I finished
my inktober, I think that's very important
part of working as an artist is creating
a portfolio piece, that represents
fully what you did. And I did
this project on Behance, and I would
really appreciate if you would guys,
take a look and give it a like.
Because I feel, like a lot of us think,
that drawing is real work, and putting it
all together, is you know, just a pain in
the a**. But it's just as important,
because people need to see what you do,
and they need to be able to appreciate that.
So thank you so much in advance for
giving it one click, It means a world to me.
I finished this project, and I've made
a fanzine out of it. It exists in 2 forms:
printed form and I loooooove it ! You can
buy it from my Etsy store or from my store in Vkontakte.
And it also exists in digital format,
If you are more likely to look at
things on the screen and to zoom in and out.
You can download it from my Gumroad.
The fanzine has one secret picture, that
I didn't show you here, but it's the main
one, and it shows where the relationship
of my two heroes is going.
And as you can guess from my voice,... yeah...
a lot of hot stuff is involved :D
Thank you, guys, for watching. Leave links to your
inktober projects in the comments down below.
I would love to see, what you guys
did for the challenge. Give this video a
thumbs up, subscribe to my channel, and
I'll see you next time.
Bye!
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