Arty Antics and Similar Stuff

[Raid]

Tintin!

Hah, not intentionally, but I can see it.

[Mantis]

Day 25: Dangerous

[Sly Boots]

Nice!

[Solitaire]

I'm just about to throw my hand into all this - my family has offered to spring for an iPad Air, so that I can get Procreate to draw/paint, and GarageBand to continue my menacing of society with whacky electronica downbeats and industrial.

Will you guys be continuing this daily thing? And if so, how do I go about getting the daily prompt? Great ideas, all of you! Inspiring me

[Mantis]

Never too late to pick up a pen and start learning mate.

These prompts are all part of a community challenge called Inktober. I forget who created it but it runs every October for the month with a different prompt every day. There are tons of alternatives out there that run alongside it in all the different art communities you can find online, I'm sure there are other challenges for other months of the year too in plenty of places. Inktober is probably the most well known one.

This little experiment with it has definitely given me the bug to get back into drawing properly once the challenge is over.

[Rusty]

https://inktober.com/rules

[Solitaire]

https://inktober.com/rules

And Mantis, thanks for the replies

I was an artist in my teen years, did some cool stuff that I hope to scan and share one day. Since the mid-90s I've wanted to get into digital painting, with the idea that I might retire and have something interesting to do, such as creating concept art for video games, etc. Tough field, I know, there's tons of amazing artists out there, but nothing stops me from giving it a try. Hope to join you guys fairly soon, when I have something decent to share!

[Raid]

Yeah, there's an Inktober 52 as well, which is one prompt a week, which I like the idea of. Inktober has been happening since 2016, so there are 8 months worth of daily prompts if you want to go back and use those too. Even without the "official" Inktober stuff, there's no reason you couldn't just use a random word generator.

As for doing it collaboratively, I'm definitely giving myself a break after this month is up, but I like the idea of doing the weekly one. I just don't have the multiple hours I'd need each day to do something I'm really happy with, but having an entire week to come up with an idea and actually do something good with it does appeal.

[Raid]

Day 25: Dangerous

[Rusty]

Please, please tell me that's Donald "Trump" Duck.

[Raid]

I mean there's a possibility the button just orders a coke, you can't see where that wire goes. Nobody does big buttons as well as Duck.

[Raid]

I didn't draw anything yesterday; a mixture of just wanting a day off and every idea I came up with for the prompt ("Remove") being too complicated and likely time-consuming to do. Back to it today though.

Day 27: Beast



Lookit, he saved the best part 'til last! Clever little fella.

[Raid]

Day 28: Sparkle



She's really happy with her sparkly new collar. Look at that smile!

[Raid]

Was afforded more time this morning partly thanks to the clocks changing, so attempted something a little more complex than usual.

Day 29: Massive
Northern France; 1947 - German troops guard the P. 3000 Festungspanzer König Gustav as it inches its way toward the coast, ready to shell Allied bases in Southern England.


I've been fascinated by the increasingly ambitious plans for Nazi superweapons in the latter stages of World War II, ever since I read an article on SomethingAwful.com (remember that?) about the "Maus" - a 200 ton tank with a turreted gun capable of destroying any Allied tank while deflecting anything fired back at it. That was a real vehicle, with a prototype that was later captured when thew Soviets advanced. Then there was the Schwerer Gustav, the gigantic 1350 ton rail gun (as in, a gun large enough to require mounting to a super-heavy train) that was deployed on a number of fronts.

But it was the proposals that came after that grab my attention. First there was the "Ratte", a 1000-ton tank which mounted a spare naval turret from the battleship Scharnhorst, and larger versions of the Schwerer Gustav that would have been able to shell London from Calais, not to mention a rocket-powered sub-orbitalsuperbomber that was intended to deliver a nuclear bomb to New York. I think there's plenty of evidence that Hitler became increasingly deranged by the end of the war, but the fact that these projects weren't just presented to him, but supposedly agreed upon despite the monstrous resource requirements that Germany just didn't have, is what sparks the imagination. The above is an amalgamation of a number of these concepts.

Anyway, it's ages since I last put this much effort into perspective, and I'm not sure I've actually ever tried it on a design this complicated. I uploaded this around lunchtime, let it sit for a few hours, then went back with fresher eyes and tried to correct some of the more glaring issues I could see with it (namely the barrel ends, which were far too round for the angle to look right, and one of the back limbs).

[Snowy]

Are you aware of Batterie Mirus which was built on nazi-occupied Guernsey Chris? We went there when I was a kid and toured round a lot of the facilities built during the occupation. I picked up a poster about the occupation which was on my bedroom wall for years and the batterie was at the centre of the images.

https://island-fortress.com/2022/10/01/ ... -big-guns/