This week I have been prepping for inktober! I have been gathering all my martirials and cleaning off my work table so I am all ready to paint each day. This year I am going to use Dr. Ph. Martins watercolors again, but I think I will use color well as black, but not all at once. I want to still work with a single color for each painting to continue to work on my tones and values. I have made a list of what I am going to paint each day and gathered reference materials from my local library and online as well, this is (I hope!) going to keep me organized and to help on those days when creative fatigue starts to set in. 

This year I want to paint a young ballet dancer doing a different step or pose everyday. I chose ballet dancers as my theme because I love ballet and have danced my whole life, but also I think the different poses will strengthen my character development and drawing anatomy, as well as working on different body types, genders, and ethnicities in my characters. 

I am a little nervous, last year inktober was a lot of work and I remember I was very tired after day 31, but I felt like I gained so much from it! I am super excited to see all the ballerinas at the end of the month!

I will be posting each painting everyday on my instagram and each Sunday I will post that weeks paintings here on my blog.

I hope you follow along and good luck to all those artists out there doing inktober!!!

xo Anna

You can read about my first Inktober experience here.