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Inktober 2018 #09 – Shasta

Inktober 2018 #09 – Shasta

Shasta is the main character in The Horse and His Boy, my favourite of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia books. I would love to see it on screen as I think this story has so much scope - adventure, horses, battles, an escape across a desert. Now Netflix will be...

Inktober 2018 #08 – Dragon

Inktober 2018 #08 – Dragon

At the end of a bitter battle with a dragon, a knight searched its layer and discovered its egg among the treasures. Feeling its warmth he found himself unwilling to kill an innocent, unknowing creature. Instead the knight wrapped it carefully in his cloak and cradled...

Inktober 2018 #06 – Harry

Inktober 2018 #06 – Harry

These next characters come from Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword, a fantasy novel I adore. As it's set in the desert land of Damar I took inspiration from The Prince of Egypt for design. Harry (full name Angharad) is the heroine, and I show her here near the beginning...

Inktober 2018 #04 – Anne

Inktober 2018 #04 – Anne

Persuasion is one of my favourite Jane Austen novels (I find it hard to choose between it and Pride and Prejudice) so I thought I'd draw Anne Elliot for day four. I wanted to draw her in a style similar to some of the cartoons of that time - lots of lines and hatching.

Inktober 2018 #01 – Elsa

Inktober 2018 #01 – Elsa

Inktober is an annual drawing challenge which I've taken part in before, but this year I've decided to do it a little differently. As the name suggests the drawings are supposed to be in ink, but this year I'm going to cheat and draw digitally. My aim with this...