Cream and toasted cat decides that drawing on paper is basically the same as petting it and I could be petting him instead.

3×4 inking pattern practice with undulating waves and a stomping (but still marshmallowy soft) cat paw on the corner.

Big marshmallow feet stomps on my art i worked like 6 hours on today, he is the best little helper and the beigest white-out.

Also finished that instructional piece and *toast is helping help he is kneading my nice paper* #inkwitch

weird painting/speedpaint of black haired Tessa with smoking fountain pen and wispy purple shirt over a black waist-cinched dress.

It's nice to be back! #inkwitch

Ever had a song change your entire vibe? 🎶 My goth revival and activism were sparked by a tune about cats being less arseholish than Republicans. Don't ask how! 😹 Shoutout to Baroness Peepers for finally moving her royal tush. 🖤 Thank you Vision Video #visionvideo #InkWitch #GothRevival #BlackCat

close to final watercolor and colored pencil pen and ink illustration of Tessa smoking in a library.

Done? Is this done? Probably close enough, time to take it off the block. I miss my magenta hair, i'm getting the itch for it again. #Inkwitch

The illustration from before, Tessa smoking in a library, the smoke changing the shading and rendering of the books on the shelf. There are faint pink undersketch lines.

The same illo, but the pink lines are gone, and the black inks are crisp and unfaded.

Closeup of the face and side bangs- the inks are delightfully textured due to the paper.

Shot of Jacket on the shelf- this time no undersketch, and very crisp.

Sophomore year, when arthritis kicked in, I saw Pilot Frixion pencils, and ordered them from jetpens for the first time. I can work in 'layers' without scrubbing and erasing. It slightly changes the surface for water-based colors after, but seeing my lines render forth still feels magical! #inkwitch

In progress pen and ink sketch of Tessa smoking in a library. There's a pilot frixion hilighter and fine tip marker, used for the undersketch/roughs. There's a staedtler fineliner in 0.5 and 0.3, and a copic liner in 0.03. All of the pens are tested on a scrap blotter paper.

Closeup of the pen and ink, showing the pink underlines and telltale start and stop spots of fineliners at corners of rectangles. There's also a Jacket doll on the shelf. Parts of the drawing that are seen theough the smoke aren't inked yet- I intend to hatch those areas without lines.

There's no comparison between digital and the soulwarming feeling of reliable inking tools on paper. The grain plays with your pen tip, informing when lines break, and not having pixel-perfect lines makes the organic wobbles collaborative, not mathematic defects. #inkwitch #inking #frixion

Pen and ink drawing.

I'm trying my best.
My best isn't good enough.
#inkwitch

Pencil sketches of a black cat. Their ears have odd notches on the front edge that resemble batwings, and their tail has suction-cup line rings, and a tentacle-like curl. Sometimes they have fangs, and sometimes don't. I'm experimenting with different collar bows to help separate the silhouette of the head and body. I like the long, pointy ones that resemble both fangs and Tessa's bow. Without the bow? A terrifying, definitionless stygian mass contorting itself into a familiar but imperfect shape. With bow? Distinguished little blorbo with precious quirks, don't mind that it walks up the walls and on the ceiling.

New avatar (still messing with it), solidifying new design/branding. New gremli.... mascot. Meet Inksplot, *definitely* a normal cat with an acceptable amount of limbs! I forgot how good it feels to draw the 'wrong' thing and figure it out on paper. #inkwitch

Also hopefully announcement tonight!

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Going to be opening up #commissions this week to help raise monthly funds for my teeth. What do we think, $60? (Will be going through artistree, tho donos through Ko-Fi are extra helpful! #Inkwitch
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pen and ink sketch of a catgirl wtih doll joints, ivy and flower-like markings, and a weird face, plus a granulating pink, blue and purple wash bg. I believe the nib was a.... Nikko spoon nib, dr PH Martin's Blackstar matte, some assorted water soluble felt tips for an undersketch, and gansai tambi granulating aurora purple. Paper was... Paper Source stone paper sketchbook.

Found my #inking supplies and tested out some stone paper- it's like a pliable vellum- supple but durable. You can use a ws marker for an undersketch, it shows off matte-black bones of the ink nicely, and it's surprisingly nice for light washes and fountain pen inks. Comms-worthy? #Inkwitch

Twitch Twitch is the world

Get In, Twitches, or not, i'm recovering from burnout and want to watch digital paint dry. #inkwitch

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Page of a journal with messy handwriting saying: Quoth the Raven, "Touch grass." "I'm no longer chasing after happiness. I'm accepting my call to adventure, and I'm building a cozy niche in the present, and happiness and all its colors will perch here when it's ready. There's a drawing but i'm putting its description in the next image.

Ink drawing of a short haired woman reading a book in a moon-shaped hole and not wearing socks the neurotypical way. Next to her is a black bird in a nest. Probably a raven, that says "I touched grass, and it was overrated. Three stars." The raven.... let's just name it Quoth, annoy the bird and honor Pratchett. The girl's Paige, she has the ability to get isekai'd on demand and i'm very original and clever with names.

I'm no longer chasing after happiness. I'm accepting my call to adventure, and I'm building a cozy niche in the present, and happiness and all its colors will perch here when it's ready.

Quoth the Raven, "Touch grass."

#Inkwitch

forgot my own dang art tag again distracted by round #Inkwitch

A little of a drawing rut. When in doubt, check your values. #inkwitch #dailysketch

Pencil sketches of Tessa and Jacket, all playing with different proportions and levels of detail.

Muscle tightness goin on lately, but yesterday was a lovely rainy day to relax and draw. I want to do a better exploration of Tessa in different styles, but finding a way to make her like Jacket feels sublime. #inkwitch #dailysketch

a shoddily made but efective 'how to draw gobbos' taken heavily from JoCat's design. It covers one way to approach the head (which is weird), the body (which is a macaroni with a couple cones around it, limbs, which are kind of like a stingy ice cream cone with attitude, and then throwing it all out and just having fun drawing funny faces.

my #dailysketch log is behind as life happens, so we're uploading old stuff.

You're not allowed to trace and gobbos I make, You are Legally obligated to draw your own gobbo, so there will be n+1 chaos at all times.

#GobboArmy #Inkwitch

sheet of 32 lb letter paper covered in sharpie sketches of cubes. I added two levels of gray to practice making the 3d shapes easier to read, and to push back some flatter 2d squares in the background. One, playing with values is a really useful tool for composition, especially in comics or illustration. And 2, working right in sharpie or marker means you have to make quick gut decisions about where your marks go, and sticking with it or fixing mistakes with more deliberate choices. Plus, drawing cubes is a foundational skill to drawing any form.

pencil sketch of circular ripples with a series of contours radiating in a checker pattern. It's light and sketchy, not precise enough to go right into a final. However, it's really useful to try something more ambitious, like radial ellipses in perspective, and self-referential patterns like checks, and make mistakes in that version before trying to go right to a final. Because i made some mistakes here, like forgetting how many rings I made, or not planning to evenly space the checks so they'd alternate properly, I now know how to do it better.

And yester-- no, I slept all yesterday, the day before yesterday, I sketched outside. Cannot overstate how simple exercises in marker boost your art. I've also got ideas for a practice piece, but it's hard to get right without proper mapping. #Inkwitch #dailysketch

the same pastel watercolor cubes as before, but upscaled to four times standard HD. that's 16k, or 4x4k. If you zoom in enough, you can even see the simulated paper texture the program adds in to add visual noise.

A bonus version! This is with the Nanopixel export, it's 7680x4320 pixels at 144 DPI. That's ike 16K. It's a toggle using actual good upscaling, so it's awesome for saving processing power and filesize. #rebelle7pro is worth springing for if you can, just for the nanopixel, for me. #Inkwitch

A grid of a bunch of colorful pastel squares slightly tilted. Each one has a gradient and watercolor texture to it. It was a test of some Masking tools for Rebelle 7 Pro.

From the stream the other day, earlier this week my #dailysketch was a watercolor test in #Rebelle7. I used a grid to mask off squares, filled them in with a base color, and accent color, and a third extra color. Just fun to watch the colors melt with fluid physics #Inkwitch

Digital pencil sketch of 3 female figures-- one in a dress by a door, one in a cheerleader-like outfit and legwarmers on grass, and one with a cropped jacket and baggy pants leaning over a puddle. It has a gradient map on it, with the darker areas in blue, and the lighter in yellow, fading to a light cream.

I do have 2 other #dailysketches, and I'll upload them later. I want to try being a little more stylized/playing with value. The Reagan pencil is still my favorite for its versatility. #Inkwitch

Business card sized artist trading card with 3 cartoon characters inked and watercolored. One is struggling to hold up some kind of heavy, boxy screen, one sips from a juicebox, and one flings herself out of frame.

Yesterday I reorganized my workspace, and today was a rest day. I also reworked my travel watercolor case- i'll try to show it off tomorrow. To test it out before bed, today's #dailysketch is some Jackets and an essay topic idea. #Inkwitch

Today's #dailysketch is a remake comp of this Genshin poster. I use something called a Notan- a posterized breakdown of values to help test the composition. It's an incredibly handy step thst lets me visualize the final without the effort. #Inkwitch

Sharpie sketch of Tessa, a young woman with purple sidelocked hair and a square-ish beanie, kneels under an umbrella in the rain. The rain outside the umbrella is dark and scratchy, but underneath the umbrella, shining like a beam, it's much drier and with warm yellow motes floating by, There's also a little black cat, and their tail has tentacle suckers on the underside.

The same sketch as before, but showing some of the tools used. A double-ended fine/ultrafine black sharpie (I replaced the smaller cap with a pink one so it's easier to spot), a purple, yellow and blue S-note marker, a Uni ball white gelpen, and a Staedtler white brush. It's drawn on 32 pound printer paper, which is super smooth, bright, and thick. It's held on top of a blue storage clipboard I've had forever, and on top of my currently very fuschia laptop.

Look at that, 2 #dailysketch in a row!
In college, my professor said to keep a block of loose 32 lb paper and a clipboard as a sketchbook. You can work straight with a sharpie, and it builds confidence. No undersketch. A hilighter works for shading, too! #Inkwitch

Ballpoint sketch of a black cat with a big head, average body, and their tail has suction cups along the bottom like an octopus tentacle. There's some loose sketches of a cat body, the way the tentacles might curve around the tail, and she shape of cats heads around it.

Larger picture of yesterday's sketches-- theres the more refined voidcat picture, a fuller view of another pose with more curvy shapes, messing with how much you can stretch the cat head into just a lump with googly eyes on an L with a tail on it, and a bunch of doodles testing out the ballpoint pen and rollerball pen i was uisng. There's also my New Years Resolution list-- DM a oneshot, run a heist, improve handwriting (heh), donate platelets, and redesign my room.

Starting up #Dailysketch once again! I'm thinking of this as the next 'volume' this year, though figuring that out is a problem for the future #Inkwitch.
Goal is to draw 1 thing a day, i get 2 skip days a week.
I actually did this yesterday, most accurate drawing of my voidcat to date.

pink, blue and grey sketch of a young woman sitting in a square frame, occasionally poking out of it. There are notes at the top describing the value of making thumbnails for sketches, doodles on the right for some face details, doodles and notes on the left saying that if you can draw certain basic forms, you can draw basically anything, and on the right, a full list of the tools used to make the drawing-- from a light grey, pink and blue fineliner, to pink and blue markers, and a purple gel pen.

I love to go to the drawing section of craft stores and make a little tutorial with surrounding art supplies. A lot of how I got more comfy with my drawing was using pen or marker for all the steps, and relying on the lightness to layer. #Inkwitch

Pen an ink sketch of Tessa with a festive hat holding a cup of cocoa, with the text Happy Holidays! Help my stove broke as we put our christmas meal in! See you in 2025! Yes this is the same one thay broke last thanksgiving and the easter before that its out of warranty now.

The year's almost up! You've survived! I'm proud of you! Let's coast to an arbitrary rollover of a number system in a world that only contorts to the numbers we like! #happyholidays #inkwitch

Black and white comp of a young woman in a leather jacket in a panicked state inside a bottle or jar in a black void as the black void leaks in, and air out.

pink and teal thumbnail of a sketchy figure curled up in the corner of a bottle with the word Fermi labelled over the lid. the i in fermi has a fermata over the dot.

.... look I had to pin the idea down before it got away, okay? And the name is a double pun. #dailysketch #Inkwitch

Spent the day sick/resting, a postit #dailysketch counts. #inkwitch

A few black and white simple sketches of dogs, and a very puffy black cat, and a swirly tabby cat, and an orb doing the pallas cat feet on tail pose

*okay we can have a little #dailysketch as a treat there was a dog ok #Inkwitch

Heccin #inkwitch tag forgetter I am.

That's an Ibis sketch mechanical carpenters pencil, blackwing extra extra firm volume 2 (the lightning cracks glow!) And a Caran D'ache sketcher NPBlue (The Dove , but not)