i knew I wouldn’t have much time today so did this last night and posted in a break during todays teaching. Using the Sketch app – I quite like the way it gives a rougher spikier line than Paper, but the brush tool gives very distinctive circular marks which are becoming a bit repetitive. The iPad apps do make it easy to do quick sketches while watching tv at night, but I think I need to find time for some ‘real’ ink drawing.

a very silly image today that popped into my head as soon as I read today’s two prompts. This was my first very quick sketch – I tried redoing it with more detail, but the later versions  turned out very stiff so I went with the first attempt

not sure where this cuddly punk came from – drawn freehand from my imagination using the Paper app

not the easiest combination but it sparked this image of a moonlit room with a slightly spooky student contemplating their assignment

based on a news photo of police carrying away fracking protesters at  Balcombe – ink on paper so I could still see the source photo on my iPad

I was heading off to London today to visit the Jasper Johns exhibition at the RA, so assumed I’d be able to draw a crowded train on the way home. But it was such a great exhibition that I decided to make today’s task a homage to Johns’ early monochrome graphic pieces which I’ve always loved. So it doesn’t really fit the inktober2017 side of the brief, unless you count the dense cross hatching. I tried doing it in the Paper app, but couldnt get my lines straight enough so reverted to pen on paper.

an easier combination today 

After a difficult 24hours (see entry for Day 9) and then a flight back from Holland, I got home so late I thought I’d have to skip my self-imposed challenge to combine the daily prompts for #inktober2017 (gigantic) and #brightinktober (cinema). But then slumped in front of TV news I saw a large crowd in Barcelona watching the Catalonian presidents independence speech on a giant outdoor screen. Perfect!  So I paused the TV and did this quick drawing with the Sketch app, which I’m currently experimenting with.

I thought combining the #inktober2017 and #brightinktober themes for Day 9 would be impossible, but as things turned out it was a fairly accurate description of the last 24 hours.  Travelled to the Netherlands on Sunday for two days teaching at the University of Wittenborg, Just outside Amsterdam. (UoW delivers some Uni of Brighton accredited degrees and wanted their staff to undertake our PgCert in Learning & Teaching in HE. ) Colleague and I checked into the hotel, finished planning the first session over supper and then retired for an early night. Middle of the night, woken by an unearthly screeching noise, tracked down to the radiators. Finally made it stop, went back to sleep only to be woken an hour later by the same noise, along with everyone else on the corridor. So my drawing for today is an attempt to tell that story in pictures!