My name is Vanessa, and I’m a self-taught illustrator from the US (and China, and Germany, and, well, all over the place really!). I currently live in Lithuania with my husband and a plant called Spikey (which isn’t actually spikey at all…don’t ask).
I’m hopping mad about bunnies, so when I heard about Inktober, an awesome art challenge where thousands of people around the world spend the month of October making a new ink drawing every day, I already knew exactly what I wanted to draw for it! But shortly before the challenge began, I learned during a late-night trip to the hospital that I had a serious repetitive strain injury in my drawing hand. I’d literally painted myself into a plaster cast!
Still, unable to sit on the sidelines while Inktober continued without me, I cautiously embarked upon the challenge regardless. It wasn’t easy, and it probably wasn’t smart. I even had to take a break in the middle to rest my hand, but I finally got there in the end! I hope you like the results of my first Inktober, and if you’d like to see more of my work, then feel free to follow me @hoppingmadproductions on Instagram and Facebook!
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Day 1 – Swift
Day 2 – Divided
Day 3 – Poison
Day 4 – Underwater
Day 5 – Long (inspired by Wallace & Gromit’s The Wrong Trousers)
Day 6 – Sword
Day 7 – Shy
Day 8 – Crooked
Day 9 – Screech
Day 10 – Gigantic
Day 11 – Run
Day 12 – Shattered
Day 13 – Teeming
Day 14 – Fierce
Hitting Pause – Time to rest my hand!
Ready to restart
Day 15 – Mysterious
Day 16 – Fat
Day 17 – Graceful
Day 18 – Filthy
Day 19 – Cloud
Day 20 – Deep
Day 21 – Furious
Day 22 – Trail
Day 23 – Juicy (inspired by Beetlejuice)
Day 24 – Blind
Day 25 – Ship
Day 26 – Squeak (inspired by the animation Ernest et Celestine)
Day 27 – Climb
Day 28 – Fall
Day 29 – United (my interpretation of my favorite Winnie the Pooh scene)
Day 30 – Found
Day 31 – Mask (Being Chinese, Panda put on his trusty air mask…not realizing that this wasn’t what we meant when we told him not to forget his Halloween mask!)
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