#inktober first post

I grabbed a sketchpad from the Student Shop down at Grand Parade, and topped up one of my Copic Ciao Black markers, in fact I topped it up so much I leaked ink all over my hands. A good start for #inktober.

I've got a bunch of inky things I want to try out this month, there are a couple of DELETER inks, some interesting pen nibs, and some paper that I've not tried before.
Anyway
First sketch of #inktober is a Vampire Dinosaur, I muffed the head and ended up cutting and sticking an alternative version over the top... some things don't change.

#Inktober2015 - the plan

I sat down at lunchtime today and tried to think about what on earth I'd draw for Inktober,  31 days in Inktober, means 31 inked pictures.
Without a theme its entirely possible I'd end up just sitting in front of my drawing pad each lunchtime, and draw nothing.
So I thought I may follow up on the idea at the beginning of my (still unfinished) book NDvsPR:

"There have been many

discussions about who would

win in a fight between

Ninjas and Pirates...

Robots and Dinosaurs...

Werewolves and Draculas?

What if the Dinosaur was a Ninja?

What if the Robot was a Pirate?"

I drafted a table that mixes up a few of these archetypes:

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	Ninja	Dinosaur	Robot	Pirate
Ninja	XXXXXXX	XXXXXXXX	XXXXXX	XXXXXX
Dinosaur	Ninja-Dinosaur	XXXXXXXX	XXXXXX	XXXXXX
Robot	Ninja-Robot	Dinosaur-Robot	XXXXXX	XXXXXX
Pirate	Ninja-Pirate	Pirate-Dinosaur	Pirate-Robot	XXXXXX
Vampire	Ninja-Vampire	Vampire-Dinosaur	Vampire-Robot	Pirate-Vampire
Werewolf	Ninja-Werewolf	Dinosaur-Werewolf	Robot-Werewolf	Pirate-Werewolf
Zombie	Ninja-Zombie	Zombie-Dinosaur	Zombie-Robot	Zombie Pirate
Space	Space-Ninja	Space-Dinosaur	Space-Robot	Space-Pirate
Super	Super-Ninja	Super-Dinosaur	Super-Robot	Super-Pirate

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Vampire	Werewolf	Zombie	Space	Super
XXXXX	XXXXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXXX
XXXXX	XXXXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXXX
XXXXX	XXXXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXXX
XXXXX	XXXXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXXX
XXXXX	XXXXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXXX
Vampire-Werewolf	XXXXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXXX
Zombie-Vampire	Zombie-Werewolf	XXXXX	XXXXX	XXXXXX
Space-Vampire	Space-Werewolf	Space-Zombie	XXXXX	XXXXXX
Super-Vampire	Super-Werewolf	Super-Zombie	Super-Space(r)	XXXXXX

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...and Voila I have over 31 things to draw!

iPads

Adam is home from Uni, so I thought I'd check out how the ibooks stuff looks on an iPad3 (which he has) compared to my lowly iPad2. can you tell which is which?

Dom - Flash Ninja

My son Dom is a Flash Ninja, he'd been complaining about the creaky old version of Flash MX 2044 not working, so I sprung for a student copy of Flash CS6 pro++ gold star, or whatever ridiculous title it has.
Installed it at lunchtime, and Dom has managed to animate the ninja dinosaur quite nicely...
obviously it's flash, created on a PC etc... so I can't look at it on my iPad etc, but I think the lad is showing some promise...