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, . Maeza
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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. 4
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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
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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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