Ideas & Art from Rob Elliott and Christine Cosby
I just finished the Inktober 2020 drawing challenge, posting a drawing each day on my Swizzle’s Instagram account (@swizzlestudio). It’s a good exercise for creative thinking. I mostly draw my Inktobers with Speedball ink and nib pens or Sharpie ultrafine pens, adding the colour digitally.
Thanks to Jake Parker for organizing Inktober!
Here’s the series:
I drew these 31 bird groups for Pittsburgh’s Fun-A-Day project. The idea behind Fun-A-Day is for artists to do something creative (not work-related) every day for a month.
The self-imposed rules of my project, “Telephone Line” were that the wire had to run the entire length on the month, the background could not touch the side edges, the wire could only be used by city birds (sparrows and starlings), the birds could be in peril but not harmed, and the backgrounds should show a lot of variety. I started out with buildings I liked, but soon jokes and surrealism made its way into the project.
You can view the complete “Telephone Line” on Instagram (@swizzlestudio) or at the bottom of this post.
Every summer, I cultivate a dense grove of sunflowers in my backyard. And every September morning, I drop the toothbrush, run down the stairs, and chase the damn squirrels away.
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