An ink sketch of Sir Gawain’s meeting with the Green Knight from THE GREEN KNIGHT

An ink sketch of Sir Gawain’s meeting with the Green Knight from THE GREEN KNIGHT

Ink, brush pen and white gel pen on paper. 

#JanuaryDechART

Prompts: Botanical, Sprout, Frozen

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Here is an ink sketch of a scene from THE GREEN KNIGHT -- again. Yes, I am currently quite obsessed with this story, and probably will be for a while. 

In this scene, Sir Gawain goes to meet the titular Green Knight at the Green Chapel -- an old ruin covered in creepers and plants -- to fulfil his half of the game, that the Green Knight shall finish the game by loping his head off, which have our hero frozen in fear moments before it is supposed happen. 

Here, I wanted to continue with the ink and yellow/ochre brush pen style that I have been doing, only used in a different way this time -- to suggest illumination. Had some help from the white gel pen too. A fun little piece, and I’m quite happy with the way it turned out. 

(Please ignore the Anglo-Saxon runes. I basically took most of the letters over to runes, with some exceptions depending on the sounds made. Mostly guesses based on my (relatively basic) understanding of runes) 

(By the way, if anyone here wishes to correct me on the runes, I welcome the corrections)

An ink sketch of the countryside landscape as seen in THE GREEN KNIGHT

‘An ink sketch of the countryside landscape as seen in THE GREEN KNIGHT’

Ink and brush pen on paper

#JanuaryDechART

Prompt 9: Healing

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Today was a little bit of a low energy day (mostly a bleed-over from the previous day), and I was feeling the urge to create art as personal therapy. I initially opted to create something original and digital, but after blocking in the colours, I abandoned it. I just wasn’t feeling up to it. I wasn’t in the right mood to work on anything original and I didn’t want to have to look at a phone screen for this, too. 

It was then I decided to pick up my sketchbook and ink pen and just go with a screencap I took from THE GREEN KNIGHT, which is of a breath-taking landscape shot seen when Sir Gawain rides back home after his second encounter with the Green Knight. 

It had been a long while since I last drew a landscape piece with ink, so I thought I’d give this a try. 

I’m still feeling a little low energy, but I feel better now having completed this piece. 

Touched up with a bit of light ochre highlighting there too. 

An Ink Sketch of Dev Patel as Sir Gawain in THE GREEN KNIGHT

‘An ink sketch of Dev Patel as Sir Gawain in THE GREEN KNIGHT’

Ink and brush pen on paper

#JanuaryDechART

Prompt 8: Adventure

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I just finished watching this film today, and I never knew I needed to experience this story so much! It’s soooooooooo interesting, and absolutely riveting! One of those few special movies that really resonated with me, too. 

And after watching that, I couldn’t help myself to a fan art sketch. I needed to. 

And I am now also obsessed with this:

KOHLJIMA

KOHLJIMA

1717 x 2456

Mixed medium (pencil, ink, brush pen, acrylic, SketchBook)

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I am back! And what better way to resume than making a mixed medium fan art of Hideo Kojima and Rahul Kohli together? Seriously, these two have been showing so much love to each other on Twitter lately, but this one took the cake:

https://twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/1466254271704596481

And it was at that point, I knew I needed to just draw something with the two of them finally coming together. 

Here is the original traditional scan:

 

The End of #OctoberDechART 2021!

And so, #OctoberDechART has come to an end, and here is my collage for this event. Big thanks and lots of appreciation to Bryan Dechart and Amelia Rose Blaire for DechartGames for making this possible and lots of love and gratitude to the community for the love and support. I had loads of fun exploring new techniques and looks and themes and media. Looking forward to more in the future.

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❤️💙🤍

And Happy (Belated) Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

#OctoberDechART Day 31: Multiverse

#OctoberDechART 

Day 31

Multiverse

Pencil, ink, brush pen, acrylic & SketchBook

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My final piece! A little self-insert piece, a self-portrait with me as a Bridges Porter and also me as an RK800 Android, using all the media I have used for this event. A tad bit self indulgent, but screw that, I had fun making this!

Also, that is supposed to be me, but as I look at it, it looks more like if Ken Watanabe and Patrick Stewart had a baby and that baby grew up. 😄

Here is the original scan before I added the digital bits.

#OctoberDechART Day 16: Smoke

#OctoberDechART

Day 16

Smoke

Brush pen on paper

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*That* scene from Mike Flanagan’s ‘Midnight Mass’. If you know, you know. 

Anyways, I definitely need more practice on depicting severe facial expressions. I think I have gotten the hang of more tranquil ones already so now this will be a new challenge. It took me a frightening amount of effort to get the eyes aligned and the mouth right. 

 

#OctoberDechART Day 15: Candy

#OctoberDechART

Day 15

Candy

Ink and brush pen on paper

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Here is another old favourite of mine. This is Sam from ‘Trick ‘r Treat’, the keeper of the rules and traditions of Halloween, wielding his candy dagger. 

#OctoberDechART Day 13: Potions/Spells

#OctoberDechART

Day 13

Potions/Spells

Ink and brush pen on paper

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A little portrait of a character from JK Rowling's Wizarding World that I am most endeared to. Newt Scamander, ladies and gentlemen, as seen from the first Fantastic Beasts movie where he was concocting a potion to cure Jacob's murtlap bite. 

#OctoberDechART Day 12: Villain

#OctoberDechART

Day 12

Villain

Pencil and brush pen on paper

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Gonna scoot on back over to ‘Detroit: Become Human’ for a while, because I need to draw this Queen. Simbi Khali as Amanda in DBH is formidable, intimidating and admittedly very scary. Despite her villainy in the game, she is undoubtedly still one fierce Queen.
 

#OctoberDechART Day 11: Costumes

#OctoberDechART

Day 11

Costumes

Ink and brush pen on paper

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I’m very much still deeply obsessed with Death Stranding, and I am in love with the Porter suit! I am in love its entire design, with all of its many intricate details and functionalities.

So I thought I’d draw it, using the photo of Hideo Kojima trying out the suit as reference. 

#OctoberDechART Day 9: Spirituality

#OctoberDechART

Day 9

Spirituality

Brush pen and white ink on paper

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Ladies and gentlemen, here is Einar Selvik, from the Norwegian band Wardruna. For me, their music exudes spirituality. 

Here is the time-lapse video of me working on the piece. 

#OctoberDechART Day 7: Orange

#OctoberDechART

Day 7

Orange

Brush pen on paper

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Sunrise! Or sunset? Magic hour orange! Well, it bore the closest resemblance to what I had in mind to draw when I saw the prompt. More practice with layers of brush pen colours.

#OctoberDechART Day 6: Cats

#OctoberDechART

Day 6

Cats

Brush pen on paper

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Having a little bit of a low vibration day today, so thought I'd go for something a little cozier with the theme. 

I love listening to Camille's 'Le Festin' with this by the way. 

#OctoberDechART Day 5: Powers

#OctoberDechART

Day 5

Powers

Brush pen on paper. 

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This is the first time I have made a portrait with just brush pen (well, pencil for outlining, but otherwise no other medium was involved) and it was a challenging experience. Interesting, though. 

#OctoberDechART Day 4: Forest

#OctoberDechART

Day 4

Forest

Brush pen on paper

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Layers upon layers of brush pen colours. 

#OctoberDechART Day 3: Boop

#OctoberDechART

Day 3

Boop

Pencil and brush pen on paper

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Boop

#OctoberDechART Days 1 & 2: Pumpkin Patch & Illumination

A little late into #OctoberDechART but you know what? Better late than never. 

#OctoberDechART
Day 1

Pumpkin Patch

Brush pen on paper

Starting it off with something spooky, since it is October. Something from 'Over The Garden Wall'.

 

#OctoberDechART

Day 2

Illumination

Pencil and brush pen on paper

Quick tribute to mah DBH home boi, Connor RK800. 

The Strand

"There is something about the beach, that enthralls me. The way the sound of the waves just drowns everything out, and makes one imagine things one would otherwise have no time to imagine. It makes one consider many things, many possibilities. It’s a mysterious place, it’s a wondrous place, it’s a frightening place, where the mind stretches as deep as the ocean, wrought with marvels and terrors. Fascinating.”

Okay, I didn’t really have any other reason for this piece than to test the new Gelly Roll white ink pens that just arrived at my doorstep. I did the picture with brush pen several days back, which had this large patch of dark blue in the lower right corner that just made the picture looked empty. But then I thought: “Wouldn’t it be great it I had white ink to write something there and make it look like one of those beautiful art journaling pages?” That was when I went to Shopee to look for white ink pens. 

And today they arrived, and I went to town with them. I am, admittedly, very happy with the results. I even coloured in the sky with the white ink so that it won’t look all black and flat.

Geirangerfjord, Norway

Geirangerfjord, Norway

Brush pen on paper

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I love fjords, and I am having lots of fun with brush pen, too.