INKTOBER 2016.

This October is the first year that I took on the INKTOBER challenge. To produce 1 ink drawing per day for 31 days can be quite challenging especially with a day job to juggle. I’m glad I managed to accomplish this challenge and really enjoyed myself in the process.

Few years ago, I used to draw and write to both my children daily notes to give them some words of encouragement before they go to school. Soon I found it hard to keep up with my drawing and my daily notes became weekly notes and eventually stopped after about a year and half:(

Taking this INKTOBER challenge as an opportunity to build up my drawing cards so that I can eventually keep up to at least twice a week:)

As these drawing cards that I did are going to be in pair, so I did my INKTOBER challenge in a set of 2 drawings every 2 days instead of 1 per day.

Set 1: Day 1 and 2

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Set 2 : Day 3 & 4

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Set 3 : Day 5 & 6

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Set 4 : Day 7 & 8

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Set 5 : Day 9 & 10

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Set 6 : Day 11 & 12

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Set 7 : 13 & 14

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Set 8 : Day 15 & 16

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Set 9 : Day 17 & 18

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Set 10 : Day 19 & 20

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Set 11 : Day 21 & 22

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Set 12 : Day 23 & 24

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Set 13 : Day 25 & 26

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Set 14 : Day 27 & 28

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Set 15 : Day 29 & 30

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Day 31, which is also the last day and last piece of INKTOBER and since it is the last one, I did it for my wife instead of the children.

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Unity Ez Link Card illustration.

Did these 2 illustrations for the Unity Pharmacy for their Ez Link Card design earlier this year. They needed something that based on the theme of ‘Year of the Monkey’. I proposed 3 designs in total, they ended up taking 2 of my designs instead of just 1:)

 

Year of the Monkey Card 1

UNity Ez-Link Design 1

How The Murray Was Created.

This batch of illustration was done in aboriginal art style and is about how the murray was created. An aboriginal myth.

Ngurunderi is a great ancestor of the Ngarrindjeri people. One day, he travelled down the Murray in search of his two wives who had run away. The Murray was then a small stream.

Murray-1(low-res)

A giant Murray cod was swimming ahead. Ngurunderi tried to spear it from his canoe but the fish swam away, widening the river with sweeps of its tail.

Murray-2(low-res)

At last, Ngurunderi speared the fish. He cut it into many pieces and threw them in the river. Each piece became a new species of fish.

Murray-3(low-res)

The actual panel:

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