Issue 4 - The Real Deal

Maeza Nr. 5 | November

Magazine & Blog about Illustration and Art

Editor and Illustrator Mark Jordanovic-Lewis Jelena Jordanovic-Lewis Fonts:

Flayball by TypeSETit Folkatle by Jake Luedecke Avign on by nick‘s F onts 2

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Content We talked in issue 2 briefly about creative playgrounds, a concept that emphas ises the experimental approach to styles and topics. It can also challenge our habits or skills, as does the Inktober-challenge.

Here you create ink paintings daily for the whole Oktober, which requires a) disciplin every day b) being comfortable with a real medium that both evokes memories of stained fingers and sweaters, as well as beautiful painntings, comicks, calligraphy Editorial

and more . Our newletter (issue 5) promissed to show all pictures of Inktober and here it is! We hope you enjoy it, .

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Title Story: Inktober

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Inktober The challange Inktober was evoked by Jake Parker as an initiative to get into a daily drawing habit. This inspired a lot of artist, both professional and amateurs to pick up that pen and draw. It was my first one-month project, and a first one with global participation. When I heard about it, I was very excited about putting my discipline with drawing to test. I learned a lot!

I chose to develop the story of one of my characters I draw a while ago, a little girl with plaits.

She is shy and I wanted her to learn how to get over it.

The work on the character got stuck and this was a great opportunity push the development forward.

This is the first picture of the cute little girl with plaits. I doodled around and there she was.

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I had already

have a topic and

time to ink it and I

several paintings of

aim, as I didn’t

made a lot of

her and I wanted

“waste� time on

details. Later, I

to bring them

thinking what to do,

focused more on

together in a story.

and just went right

the character itself,

So I decided to

into creating a

and decided to

make a

scene.

allow it to change

cartoon

scene per day. It made the job so much easier to

At the beginning it

in style.

took me a lot of

These doodles are from before the Inktober project. I called her Bernadette Strawberry back then. Later I called her Pippa

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It turned out to be a great idea and I

I ha way

learned what it takes to develop a character

and to

acchieve an individual style.

The first two days my little girl looked

The

more like one from a manga movie. I then tried to change her face and expressions.

The show I gave her big eyebrows to make her look more upset

I played around with the face shape and face, as I like to give my characters a feature that sticks out, like thick eyebrows, or big nose.

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ave her really tiny feet to emphasise how the y to the kindergarden is a long walk for her.

e big rucksack are the heavy feelings

e little black toys: In some scenes they are interacting with her. I wanted to w that her cheerfullness is making a world full of life around her.

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I enjoyed the lunch sceene a lot and it will be part of my other project: messy places!

I could improve my

their hair, clothes,

foods to think

line with each

thinking about what

about and what the

scenery and was

characters they

kids might be doing

having fun creating

could have. The

during lunch.

all the little kids

lunch sceene was

from the kinder

my favourite scene:

garden. Making

All the different

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Day 17! She is hiding behind the tree. The girl on the seesaw aksed her if she wants to play with them, but she was too shy and didn‘t know what to do. I made her still look at the girls, because she wants to engage. You can see the tension in her body . Her retreat, the toys. But then the teacher helps her 10

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The lines were

No wprries, it is going to be a happy end :-)

getting smoother and my strokes quicker, and so I could give her body more dynamic.

On day 17 I finally had the feeling I got it exactely how I wanted it to look like.

In the last few days I decided to try some new techniques.

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For day 25 I experimented with

Day 26

color and dots and for day 26 and 27 I tried the cross-

story finished and

knowledge I got

hatching technique.

for the last days I

through the

With this technique

decided to do

Inktober project. It‘s

you create shading

something for

the skeleton and

by applying a fine

Halloween and

mummy on the

grid of lines. The

applying all the

front page.

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Day 25

Day 27

Day 28

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