Monthly Ink Challenge - Season IV

[LizEF]

12 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Curling ... was invented in Scotland.

By frozen children, with rocks, brooms, and a frozen pond.   (Do not try to dissuade me - I care nothing for the facts as Quin, Makhabesh, Essri, and Vika can all attest - under oath, if need be. )

 

14 minutes ago, Mercian said:

As a sport it's almost as daft, and almost as full of obscure rules and measurement units, and almost as pointless - and just as deep and as fascinating - as the English game of cricket

  Cricket makes absolutely no sense to this American.  None.  And it's only interesting when it's part of the plot in an episode of Midsomer Murders.

[Mercian]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

By frozen children, with rocks, brooms, and a frozen pond.

 

I see that you've actually been to Scotland...

(For anyone who hasn't, it's just like Yorkshire, only more so.)

[yazeh]

12 minutes ago, Mercian said:

 

I see that you've actually been to Scotland...

(For anyone who hasn't, it's just like Yorkshire, only more so.)

We used to have frozen ponds (read aka hockey rinks). I used to enjoy the muffled sound of the hockey puck hitting rinks. Nowadays, it's a luxury. The weather is so capricious that we're getting used to having rain on the snow. Yuck!  

[LizEF]

37 minutes ago, Mercian said:

I see that you've actually been to Scotland...

(For anyone who hasn't, it's just like Yorkshire, only more so.)

  Closest I've been is London.  But Mom's side of the family are from up there (some of them), while Dad's side were from England.  Mom was a genealogist and had done sufficient research to theorize that her family and Dad's probably fought on opposite sides in at least one conflict between the Scots and the English.   Once in America, Dad's side were Yankees and Mom's were southerners, so the battles may have continued through the civil war...

[yazeh]

@LizEF I was reading on my phone and was trying to figure out the relationship between a gynecologist and Scotland. Sometimes one needs glasses 

Poor @InesFwI'll wake up and see her thread has grown like the Beanstalk into the clouds 😄

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

@LizEF I was reading on my phone and was trying to figure out the relationship between a gynecologist and Scotland. Sometimes one needs glasses 

Poor @InesFwI'll wake up and see her thread has grown like the Beanstalk into the clouds 😄

[InesF]

On 11/21/2024 at 12:00 AM, yazeh said:

Poor @InesFwI'll wake up and see her thread has grown like the Beanstalk into the clouds 😄

Poor InesF awakes, reads the thread entries, and: is amazed!

There's trafic going on!   

[yazeh]

22 hours ago, InesF said:

Poor InesF awakes, reads the thread entries, and: is amazed!

There's trafic going on!   

 

Here is another attempt at a foggy landscape. Done with a brush pen filled 1:1 Lexington Gray

Paper is a Talens pocket notebook. 

[InesF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Here is another attempt at a foggy landscape. Done with a brush pen filled 1:1 Lexington Gray

Paper is a Talens pocket notebook. 

Oh yes!, that's real November atmosphere! 

A nice interpretation, a fitting colour, and a ghost in the centre 👀 as an add-on!  

[yazeh]

37 minutes ago, InesF said:

Oh yes!, that's real November atmosphere! 

A nice interpretation, a fitting colour, and a ghost in the centre 👀 as an add-on!  

Ghost neat. I really enjoyed this challenge @InesF. Trying to blur lines with ink is not an easy feat, especially with waterproof ink. 

Here is another attempt. 

I used Lexington Gray for rough sketches and grey back ground. 

The green is either Kala Scapolite or Noodler's Polar Green. I don't remember which because I added do much diluted Lexington Gray. But the edges were too harsh. 

Then I used Octopus White Polar Bear to soften the edges. I like how this ink creates texture. 

Paper is Talens pocket book. So it enters a shirt pocket  

 

  

[InesF]

On 11/23/2024 at 4:07 PM, yazeh said:

Here is another attempt. 

I used Lexington Gray for rough sketches and grey back ground. 

The green is either Kala Scapolite or Noodler's Polar Green. I don't remember which because I added do much diluted Lexington Gray. But the edges were too harsh.

I see, you have fun doing these images!  That's the best part and much more than I hoped for.

I love how you bring muted colours into the wash - it suggests deepness!

Before adding the white, the drawing had a dreary atmosphere. With the white, it looks ghostly and spooky! 👀

 

My idea was to make a tree alley that disappears towards the horizon. I'm not sure when I will find the time doing it. Until then, I enjoy your drawings and got the impression that November Challenge is a full success! Thank you! 👍  

[yazeh]

4 hours ago, InesF said:

I see, you have fun doing these images!  That's the best part and much more than I hoped for.

 

4 hours ago, InesF said:

I love how you bring muted colours into the wash - it suggests deepness!

Thanks!

4 hours ago, InesF said:

Before adding the white, the drawing had a dreary atmosphere. With the white, it looks ghostly and spooky! 👀

I never though I'd enjoy white ink so much

4 hours ago, InesF said:

My idea was to make a tree alley that disappears towards the horizon. I'm not sure when I will find the time doing it. Until then, I enjoy your drawings and got the impression that November Challenge is a full success! Thank you! 👍  

I'm looking forward to seeing your work. I normally do my work on the fly, but when I do take the time and sketch and ink properly it is really fun, but it takes a lot of time.  

 

 

[yazeh]

On 11/25/2024 at 5:40 AM, InesF said:

My idea was to make a tree alley that disappears towards the horizon. I'm not sure when I will find the time doing it. Until then, I enjoy your drawings and got the impression that November Challenge is a full success! Thank you! 👍  

There's a new French animation film released in Europe and poster has the same image you depict. The title in German is: Das kostbarste aller Güter or The Most Precious Of Cargoes in English. 

 

[InesF]

4 hours ago, yazeh said:

There's a new French animation film released in Europe and poster has the same image you depict. The title in German is: Das kostbarste aller Güter or The Most Precious Of Cargoes in English. 

Thank you, @yazeh, great find! 👍

OMG, that's very close to what I intended and, as the critique reads, it will be a movie well worth seeing! 

[yazeh]

4 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @yazeh, great find! 👍

OMG, that's very close to what I intended and, as the critique reads, it will be a movie well worth seeing! 

When I saw the poster, the first thing I thought was what you intended to draw.. 

BTW, there's also a new animation from Latvia, featuring @LizEF, Klaw

It's about a cat who has to learn to face his fear of water and mistrust of others  

 

 

[LizEF]

4 hours ago, yazeh said:

When I saw the poster, the first thing I thought was what you intended to draw.. 

BTW, there's also a new animation from Latvia, featuring @LizEF, Klaw

It's about a cat who has to learn to face his fear of water and mistrust of others  

 

 

[InesF]

20 hours ago, yazeh said:

When I saw the poster, the first thing I thought was what you intended to draw.. 

BTW, there's also a new animation from Latvia, featuring @LizEF, Klaw

+1 👍 Thank you!

[InesF]

Last day of November - last chance! Got it!

Here is my own Season IV November Challenge contribution:

 

 

Real November is a bit more foggy than my drawing. That's life, I guess 🤷‍♀️

 

See you tomorrow with Season IV December Inks. 

[yazeh]

@InesF love it. So peaceful and calming

Looking forward to December  

[LizEF]

Very nice!  I can imaging a nice stroll with the occasional cheep from a bird hidden in the trees, huddling in my nice warm fall jacket.   Thanks, @InesF!

 

(I haven't given up on writing a little story - I still have today...  This month has been absurdly busy, and if I'm blunt, I hate the holidays for that. People you haven't seen or heard from all year suddenly think you should get together and catch up just because it's a big holiday, other people try to cram a zillion events into the final two months of the year.  It's annoying.  I wish the big holidays were evenly distributed throughout the year.)