Inktober 2015

Last year I participated in the "Inktober" drawing challenge for the first time, and while I didn't get to fulfill the drawing-a-day goal, I did manage to generate a number of images that I liked. Here are my favorites (originally posted to my Instagram account):

Pit Stop

Joyride

Air Patrol

Mechanized Parkour Racing League

Arrivals and Departures

All of these pieces were drawn in a toned paper sketchbook, using a combination of pens, grayscale markers, and colored pencils. With each illustration, I tried focusing on worldbuilding and narrative, giving a glimpse of a larger story, which is something I feel these examples best exemplify.

More story sketches

Here are a couple more preliminary sketches for the robot story thingie:

Story sketches

Things have come to a dead stop here at work, so I had some time to scan in a couple sketches.

Here are some preliminary sketches of the main robot from the story I've been developing:



Another robot head concept:



And these are a couple of mecha sketches that, while I don't know that they'll necessarily appear in the story, inform the general direction of the design style I'm leaning towards: