Inktober 2025

[yazeh]

Inktober - Day 27 - Onion

 

Mouse, created an iconic soup, while cat was outside shovelling snow. 

 

Tintenlabor Echinacea , Uniball Signo gel pen, Pebeo red marker, Talens Mixed Media Notebook. 

 

 

 

Inktober - Day 27 - Onion (Twist)

A square took a free spirit to a diner, not knowing that she would launch the hula-hoop craze in the ’50s and change his life forever with a simple onion ring.

 

Diamine Grey, Tintenlabor Echinacea, Blausee (iron gall inks), Uniball Signo White Gel pen, Pebeo metalliic marker Red, Talens Mixed Media.

 

[Scriptitans]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

 

Thanks! Means a lot. 🙏

Also thanks ! ☺️

[Scriptitans]

#Inktober 2025 #27 Onion

Moonman M800 nib Kanwrite ultra-flex ; Kaigelu 316a nib Kanwrite ultra-flex ; 
Ink Ostrich Blue, Rede ; Karkos Green, Red, Orange, Yellow ;
Sketchbook (unbranded)

[catbert]

Another late one. Like Dom Lobo, I abandoned an earlier idea.

 

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27 onion

 

João considered the onion the most emotional of vegetables — and, very much like himself, humble, earthy, many-layered.  

 

Dom Lobo, overhearing the king’s musings, mentally added ‘thin-skinned’ and ‘aromatic’, and resolved to remove the onion dome from the latest samovar design.

 

Parker 75/Lamy black, Kokuyo

[Misfit]

14 hours ago, Scriptitans said:

#Inktober 2025 #27 Onion

Moonman M800 nib Kanwrite ultra-flex ; Kaigelu 316a nib Kanwrite ultra-flex ; 
Ink Ostrich Blue, Rede ; Karkos Green, Red, Orange, Yellow ;
Sketchbook (unbranded)

Cool take on the word prompt. This is what I’ve so been enjoying is the various takes on the daily prompt. I’ll be sad to see this end. 

[inkstainedruth]

14 hours ago, Scriptitans said:

#Inktober 2025 #27 Onion

Moonman M800 nib Kanwrite ultra-flex ; Kaigelu 316a nib Kanwrite ultra-flex ; 
Ink Ostrich Blue, Rede ; Karkos Green, Red, Orange, Yellow ;
Sketchbook (unbranded)

Oh that's really cool!  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

4 hours ago, catbert said:

Another late one. Like Dom Lobo, I abandoned an earlier idea.

 

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27 onion

 

João considered the onion the most emotional of vegetables — and, very much like himself, humble, earthy, many-layered.  

 

Dom Lobo, overhearing the king’s musings, mentally added ‘thin-skinned’ and ‘aromatic’, and resolved to remove the onion dome from the latest samovar design.

 

Parker 75/Lamy black, Kokuyo

This is so me peeling onions, and sweet onions at that. I get more than one tear. I love how yours are a series of the character. Well done!

[Misfit]

16 hours ago, yazeh said:

Inktober - Day 27 - Onion

 

Mouse, created an iconic soup, while cat was outside shovelling snow. 

 

Tintenlabor Echinacea , Uniball Signo gel pen, Pebeo red marker, Talens Mixed Media Notebook. 

 

 

 

Inktober - Day 27 - Onion (Twist)

A square took a free spirit to a diner, not knowing that she would launch the hula-hoop craze in the ’50s and change his life forever with a simple onion ring.

 

Diamine Grey, Tintenlabor Echinacea, Blausee (iron gall inks), Uniball Signo White Gel pen, Pebeo metalliic marker Red, Talens Mixed Media.

 

Took me a bit, but the iconic soup, mmm. I’m used to seeing your cat in ink reviews. 

[Misfit]

Oh! What if people gave you three a word or two a week to keep this going? Or is it just Inktober then done?

[yazeh]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

Took me a bit, but the iconic soup, mmm. I’m used to seeing your cat in ink reviews. 

Yes. Sometimes it takes a break.

 

[yazeh]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

Oh! What if people gave you three a word or two a week to keep this going? Or is it just Inktober then done?

There's a year-long inktober. It's once a week. We can  add the thread here, and we can post, November and December,.if everyone is ok with it.

 

[Misfit]

That’s a great idea. Maybe more people would add drawings. 

[yazeh]

10 minutes ago, Misfit said:

That’s a great idea. Maybe more people would add drawings. 

That's the whole point. To encourage people to be creative.

 

[Scriptitans]

#Inktober 2025 #28 Skeletal

Kanwrite Legacy nib Titanium ultra-flex ; 
Ink Ostrich Blue ;
Sketchbook (unbranded)

A flayed figure that I encountered by chance when I was younger, and which had hypnotized me, leaving me transfixed for a good hour in a church in Bar-le-Duc, a few months before it reappeared, almost an entire chapter, in a book by Salvador Dali that someone had lent me.

[yazeh]

Inktober - Day 28 - Skeletal

 

With apologies to George de la Tour.

 

Waterbrush. 

 

Tintenlabor Gold Black (iron gall ink)

Uniball Signo White ink

 

Canson Water colour paper

 

Oxidation in progress....

 

 

[yazeh]

4 hours ago, Scriptitans said:

 

A flayed figure that I encountered by chance when I was younger, and which had hypnotized me, leaving me transfixed for a good hour in a church in Bar-le-Duc, a few months before it reappeared, almost an entire chapter, in a book by Salvador Dali that someone had lent me.

 

Breathtaking! It precedes Hamlet.  

[catbert]

28 skeletal

 

João languished in the long hours between lunch and dinner, subsisting on pastéis de nata, disappointingly tepid coffee and the occasional roast chicken. The sweltering tedium was enlivened only by visiting diplomats and exploding samovars. He felt himself wasting away. 

 

Dom Lobo, entering with a tray of refreshments, conceded that indeed, in certain lights, his majesty might perhaps be described as somewhat diminished, though skeletal would be to overstate the severity of his condition.

 

Kuretake zig 005, Kokuyo

[yazeh]

 

Thanks @catbert. I needed a chuckle . 

 

This was a different one to draw, take 2. 

 

Inktober - Day 28 - Skeletal

 

Inspired by The Dead Lovers by an anonymous German painter, 1470, mixed with members of the carrion fraternity who while despised by many, clean and purify nature.

 

Ink is Tintenlabor Blausee, a turqiouse black IG ink.

I also use a Uniball Signo white gel pen.

 

Notebook is Talens Mixed Media

[catbert]

16 hours ago, Misfit said:

This is so me peeling onions, and sweet onions at that. I get more than one tear. I love how yours are a series of the character. Well done!

 

Thank you! I'm enjoying where the prompts take João and Dom Lobo.

 

About onions, refrigerating them before peeling helps. Something to do with slowing the production of volatile compounds?

 

 

 

[Scriptitans]

3 hours ago, yazeh said:

Breathtaking! It precedes Hamlet.  

Truly breathtaking! This piece has something special, something indefinable; decades later, it still captivates me.