Inktober 2018 – Juxtaposition
Merging the unmergeable
03 January 2019
October is becoming my favorite month, because of the Inktober. I have taken part several times before, but this year I had a group of really talented and supportive people joining me at my new work. We made out own theme: Juxtaposition, and selected random words which we printed on paper and drew out of a hat to form our 31 Juxtapositions.
The thing I loved the most about the challenge this year is not the work i produced, not my improvement – it was the feeling of togetherness I got from my colleagues. And of course all these talented illustrators finding their forgotten passion for sketching. This was truly rewarding for me to witness.
Challenges:
- Draw everyday, while being employed full time and going to my regular after work classes, which doesn’t seem like a massive challenge, but for me it was.
- Experimenting with new techniques. This year I combined liner and Quink and tried to improve my linework.
Lessons learned:
- Don’t overthink it – if it looks like shit – it is just paper – it is not you, it is only an exercise, a process and it will get better if you are stubborn enough (believe me).
Here is what we produced at Editions Financial:
