hey hey! today is Friday the 13th!!! and also Wednesday Addams' birthday!!!! and also the night of a Halloween party I'll be attso I'm writing this early 😅
How are you guys? it's day 13 and the prompt word is rise yet I have no will to rise out of bed this morning!
kidding aside, i didn't want to draw something so literal today.
For today's attempt, i tried to draw a pheonix.A resting pheonix that is 😅 because i wasn't so excited to draw dynamic stuff
And that's how i ended up with a pheonix.
Whne you say pheonix, it means that they are reborn from their ashes.
Duration: 2.5 hours
Materials: red ink, black ink, red pen, orange pen, brown pwn, a hint of black and chalk
This was actually meant as something inspirational in the sense of rebirth where you will consistently die and will rise again but this time as something stronger, something still yourself but as something more brilliant. And it also kinds of describes my extremely rough journey this year where I constantly felt like I had to kil parts off myself and have it be constantly reborn and recreated to something better and more efficient. Nobody would know how much I had to endure for so many things this year that I constantly felt like dying.
But I'd rather save this talk for another time. For now, let's move on to my process
I started with a ridiculously bright orange base for this one XD and even though I hate this kind of orange it really worked well with the image I wanted
Then I moved on to a red layer and I actually thought this was already pretty complete as it is but me wanting to add in more details to me pretty pheonix, I opted for more layers 🤣
And that's how I added a brown layer for more depth and shadowns, and also for more definition on where the feather ends. This was a pheonix close to rebirth and I know right now we're all close to rebirth
Then I worked in a few hints of black ink and then some very minimal highlights because I didn't have such a strong light source for this one so I had to tone down that highlight significantly, make the contrast less sharp and make it a lot more mellow because that was the image i was going for. something a bit mild but still vibrant
So this concludes my day 13 of inktober. I'm aware that I'm a few hours late in posting, but at least I'm still on track. I was just preoccupied with a party last night.
Thank you so much for dropping by on this little blog!
Bonus pic: here's me as sexy barbie cuz this is what I wore to my halloween costume party with my best friend. we just got way too drunk at midnight and decided to go out for fresh air and pictures
