This year, instead of following official Inktober prompts, I decided to go rouge. I wanted to work more quickly in a looser style. Using old magazine pages as my gestural reference, and working in Sharpie and white Uniball jelly pen, I created this series of monstery ladies. Enjoy!

Jean Harlow del Muerte

Boreal bones with Acherontia atropos (female), Catonephele numilia (male) and figs

Deceptive; Drawn in by the promise of sustaining nectar, you slip. He only ever wanted your flesh.

Sailor's Ruin, an unfinished early sketch

Juliette Andromeda Mao. I was listening to The Expanse series on Audible as I worked. This was an early quick sketch.

process shot- blocking out a plan on an old bridal magazine page.