Welcome to my In[c]tober page! The aim is to dedicate 10-30mins/day to this challenge, and use it as an opportunity to grow my 2D Drawing Skills as well as understanding of Composition and Value.
*purposefully misspelling the name of something that is so communal and shared, and should have never been trademarked.
while i understand your feeling on trademarking this particular term … there is one benefit: it keeps someone far more nefarious from doing the same. imagine if, say, musk got ahold of it. lol
I googled “Spiders Russia” (cuz that will certainly give me something wacky!) and found a video on a Russian parkour amateur. First one was done on paper.
Then, I searched “Spider” on ArtStation and studied from an artwork (10min):
Thank you for the reply, I appreciate you sharing your perspective!
Imo, there are plenty of other communal artistic things remain in the public domain (Swordtember, Plein Air April…), and it’s this one in particular that got caught by capitalist structures…
Sure, things can always get worse, aaand there has gotta be a universe somewhere… where Inktober remained a word to be used in books free of charge.
the animation below was * scheduled * to have a whole nother 15 seconds that would feature something bouncing, but deadlines matter. Time to move on, glad to have explored more techniques today!