Best of Inktober 2021

Inktober is a month long challenge through October to create a piece of art a day based on prompts offered to the community. On top of these prompts, I also decided that each work would feature a self portrait, a study that I had been interested in but had also been looking for some way to do differently. The following are a collection of my favorite pieces, and their prompts, that I created throughout Inktober 2021.

Self Portrait in the style of Pokemon Crystal sprites

Self Portrait in the style of playing cards.

An abstract self portrait with my image and demeanor represented as a knot of rope.

One panel self portrait comic depicting myself during a heat wave trying to keep cool

One panel comic using negative space to imply the idea of applying pressure and being crushed.

Self Portrait inspired by the exaggerated style and line use of comics to impart the idea of eating something sour.

Self Portrait with an extreme top down angle that allowed for experimenting with lighting.

Exaggerated Self Portrait depicting the mouth as the hole a cuckoo clock bird might appear from

Self Portrait exploring lighting in a space environment, allowing shadow experimentation.

Self Portrait created with the lines found in maps depicting roads, highways, parks, and rivers.

Self Portrait with face smashed partially into the plane of the image's surface.

Distorted self portrait wrapped onto a mobius strip.

One panel comic depicting a cat person spread out and enjoying the sun during a nap.