Inktober52 - 2026- One Sketch a Week

[catbert]

@inkstainedruth Thank you! 🙏 If my drawings can lighten your day in some small way, they’ve achieved their purpose.

 

So sorry to hear it’s been such a rough couple of days — wishing your husband a smooth recovery.

[yazeh]

@inkstainedruth I'm so sorry to hear that. Hope your husband is better today. 🙏 I hope today, you can take care of yourself. 

 

@catbert thanks so much. I've noticed that when I push myself out of the way, the work comes together somehow. 

I was not thinking of Cagney particularly. My rendition turned the character like that. And the rest is history.

As for the K-drama, i wasn't really inspired with the ink and was muddling my way and then inspiration struck. They say if we showup regularly, inspiration shows up too. Here, I have proof. 

After your very creative work above, I had visions of the Greasy spoon diner. The possibilities are endless.

 

[inkstainedruth]

@catbert and @yazeh -- Thanks for the kind words.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

 

[yazeh]

Inktober 52, prompt 17: Greasy

 

When the Greasy Spoon came to town, the wolves went berserk and reverted to their instinctual selves.

 

Jacques Herbin Cacao du Brésil, Taccia Fukaki-hanada, Ban Mi Macaron Rose, Sharpie Silver, Ostrich Evening Mist (Wolves), Talens Mixed Media Notebook

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

LoL!  I'm now going to add "The Greasy Spoons" to the file list I have of potential band names that aren't the names of REAL groups in the past or present....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

Inktober52, 2026, prompt 17: Airplane

 

Cat & Mouse fly in a biplane, in search of dragonland.

 

I used an ink brush to coax out the ink’s chromatography at the top, and bleach to spark the little dragon’s fire. I was pleasantly surprised by the pink produced by both methods.

 

Ostrich Evening Mist, Platinum Carbon Black, bleach, Talens Mixed Media.

 

 

@LizEF story idea. Maybe Essri has to grow to Dragonland, or Azhdahaak, where many dormant volcanos (aka dragons) are and have to save the last baby dragon.  

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, yazeh said:

@LizEF story idea. Maybe Essri has to grow to Dragonland, or Azhdahaak, where many dormant volcanos (aka dragons) are and have to save the last baby dragon.  

[yazeh]

Paper plane

Inktober52, 2026, Prompt 18:  Airplane 
First experimental drawing on mica ripe xuan paper, a sized Chinese painting/calligraphy paper with mica shimmer - with fountain pen ink.
Inspired by childhood paper planes.

 Ostrich Evening Mist, Platinum Carbon Black, mica ripe xuan paper. 

 

[catbert]

18 airplane

 

"Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has switched off the seatbelt sign and you are now free to move about the cabin. 

We do recommend, however, that when seated you keep your seatbelt loosely fastened in case of unexpected turbulence. 

Meal service will commence shortly. Passengers wishing to resume running and screaming may do so at this time. 

Thank you."

 

 

 

Geha 605 fountain pen/Platinum carbon black ink, Stabilo markers, unknown paper

[yazeh]

Striking composition. Very expressive. Superb work.

[catbert]

@yazeh Thank you! A lot of credit goes to the unknown coated paper I've been using since 'greasy' — marker colours really pop, and it's more forgiving of ink washes. The main drawback so far is it resists a fine reverse line — the nib gouges out the coating instead of laying down ink — but the struggle yields some pleasing irregularities.

[yazeh]

 

1 hour ago, catbert said:

@yazeh Thank you! A lot of credit goes to the unknown coated paper I've been using since 'greasy' — marker colours really pop, and it's more forgiving of ink washes. The main drawback so far is it resists a fine reverse line — the nib gouges out the coating instead of laying down ink — but the struggle yields some pleasing irregularities.

I love these discussions. Thanks for sharing your experience. I had the same difficulty with the Chinese paper. Besides being difficult to draw on, it's like a sieve and one needs to work on a waterproof surface. @Scriptitans has done some fantastic work with it. Hint, hint.

[yazeh]

[yazeh]

Posture

 

As a teenager, I was fascinated by a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, The Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseille, part of a 24-painting cycle celebrating Marie de’ Medici, Queen of France.

However, my eyes were glued, with a mixture of revulsion and fascination, to the postures of the Nereids.

At the time, I knew nothing about Greek mythology. I only knew that the foreground bodies disturbed me: their twisted, theatrical postures and their overwhelming physicality. Later, when I studied the painting, I realized I was reacting to the dissonance of the composition, how these supposedly graceful sea nymphs had supplanted the Queen.

 

Jacques Herbin Rouille d'ancre, Platinum Carbon Black, Noodler's Eel Red Rattler's Red, Ostrich Evening Mist, Cinerous Phoenix, Inkebara Earth, , Taccia Fukaki-hanada, Talens Mixed Media

 

[catbert]

James Dean crept in again here ...

 

19 posture

 

 

Geha 605 fountain pen/Platinum carbon black ink, unknown paper

[yazeh]

Iconic and ironic. Brilliant.

[catbert]

@yazeh 🙏

 

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19 posture 2

 

This was very loosely inspired by your take on Rubens and by Matisse's La Danse, but mostly an excuse to draw cavorting pigs.

 

 

Geha 605 fountain pen/Platinum carbon black ink, Stabilo marker, unknown paper, digital colour grading for added Fauvism

[yazeh]

I love how you've captured the energy of Matisse and the nymph dance from Rubens with your frolicking pigs and creatures. 👍

 

You can do a whole series like the hoop ones with this thematic. Like the piggies going for James Dean posture, (pigs can dream in pink too ) and the wolves dancing the Matisse.