This Is My Day 1 For Inktober—and Like A Total Nerd, I Decided To Draw A Greyscale Alolan Muk For The

So, I have a Tumblr on the side called @dandyreblogs now. I'll probably modify it to look like my current icon, but slightly different. I'm planning on using it as an aesthetic Tumblr exclusively.

Hey, it’s a self portrait based off of fancy clothes and other things!

I’ve officially completed my own logo. Again. For the umpteenth time now. It’s going to have other applications other than this, but I figured that showcasing it on black lace would be nice.

I was in a bit of a nihilistic mood for the past few days, and decided to spit this out.

The edge, I know.

Oh snap. I just realized that the icon client has Pepsi colors because I'm trying to avoid IKEA colors.

Crap.

I’m at the point where I never want to work with this color combo ever again.

Things I should have done in the past 12 hours; sleep.

Things I did in the past 12 hours; worked on something that’s still not done, but oh boy, do I really like fiddling around with halftones to make a minimalistic a e s t h e t i c design composition I wanted to do for a while.

Also, this has been my jam for this. No lie.

This was a quick and dirty typographic design I had in mind years ago, except that it was one of those ideas that I couldn’t execute to my liking at the time.

After a few years and a bit of spare time, and I’m more or less OK with what I can do for the sake of this particular design.

I’m currently on a Gotham kick--the typeface/font, not the Batman universe city.

Anyway, I doodled this in International Macroeconomics after a bit of thinking on my last self-imposed design challenge, because I wanted to make something that would WORK with the grid layout trend I’ve been seeing...

...this more or less came out as expected. I’m pretty content with it. I’d wager I could use this as a base for some sort of project later on if I got the right photographs and fiddled around with the black space. Or the white space. Doesn’t really matter, I guess!

I drew another OC of mine based off of the same general aesthetic I had for this portrait.

I may end up doing a third one in the long run, in order to complete it all.. Who knows?

I learned that Adobe Capture is a thing from one of my classmates. This is probably more useful for custom logo typography (Because my preferred illustration style usually doesn't entail vectors, and I don't like how the nuance of the previous line work is gone now), but I tested it on a sketch I never finished. I may fiddle with it a bit more in the future. It may prove to be a useful tool.