What's good yalls! This is Day 2 of my Inktober journey, and the prompt today is Spider! If you have since my blog post about my day 1 (which you can see from the link), I totally missed reading the part that the art process should be on a traditional, which I try to save by creating a quick sketch for it, but today I made sure I'll do it the right way.
They're Hairy and Scary! 😱
For this process I'm using my sketch pad and a ballpoint pen...no pencil.
One of the wildest creepy crawlers that scare me a lot is tarantulas, not only that I'm a hundred percent sure that its hair would definitely trigger my allergies to insect bites (since I've been taken to a hospital once because of an insect bite), the creature itself is such a... 🥶😵😱. Yes, those emojis are definitely my reaction if they crawl on me and definitely splat it off this realm! (Sorry, not sorry)🤣
But don't get me wrong, I just love how they look, they have these beautiful different colors, huge fangs, have different ways to kill their prey when they molt they sometimes leave the old skin intact like a natural way to 3D print themselves. anyway, I'll over how I made this art.
First of I went to Instagram and searched for references, checking the anatomy of it, at first I wanted to just make a close-up with the eyes on mouth only but then I went ahead and just did the whole thing, I wasn't able to take a photo of the initial sketch since I was in the zone at the time until I realize it was too late but my plan for it was hatching.
Sketching and Shading
With traditional artwork, this is one of the things I'm really fond of doing is hatching it creates boldness and structure to the whole thing. Started sketching the head and the two large fangs, the butt 🍑 (I don't know the right term for it. 🤣) then sketch the legs before proceeding with my shading.
Hatching
After applying bold structure to my sketch, as you can see in the mouth area, the initial cross-hatching I did, but I came across yesterday one of the Instagram pages I'm following, about the shading process he calls "squiggly shading" Check out his Instagram post here 👉 j.a.d.o.k.a.r.
I think it looks awesome, so I did the same for mine. (I think I over did it and made it poorly. 🤣🤣)
After finishing my shading, I added shadow still trying to use the squiggly shading process and line strokes on the ground to make more realistic.
Final Form
After signing my art, if figured something was missing (which was the hair) so I added strokes on it and this was the final form for my spider entry for day 2 of #inktober2023
On a scale of 1-10, how much would rate my work? type "LOL" if you think this is lame 🤣🤣🤣
crossing fingers I really hope you enjoyed my post. Cheers!