Inktober 52 - 2021 42

I honestly have no idea what they were thinking when they suggested Tick as a prompt. The only half-way flattering thing I could come up with would be something clock-related, and as I'm not too fond of Clockman's design, I had to pivot to something more generally steampunk. I've been a tad tired this week, so I parallelized this prompt with the next one, since pencil undersketches are relatively quickly done and not so demanding that it would exacerbate any low-energy stages of the week. Either way, I went with more fan-art, since I also didn't feel like designing anything myself this week.

I found some advice on dynamic posing and foreshortening I thought I'd try out. It's mainly concerned with the undersketch, which might justify me taking a break after finishing that.

The first ink looks a little bit bare this time around. I was honestly kinda struggling with the angle of the hat and the left foot, but all in all it could have gone worse. This new method lets me technically get the undersketches done more quickly, but my proportions are a little less stable than the ones that come out of the geometric construction I've been favoring so far.

Details really do make all the difference, but the photos have been a little wonky, now that I see them expanded. Oh, well. Let's do the shading and take a picture that's not as blurry or lit weirdly.

Minor details and shading. It didn't make a lot of difference, I don't think, though having the residual pencil sketch cleaned up made this a good bit more presentable. I guess this one could benefit from an elaborate background, but I'll pass on that this time.

The clicks of ratchets finding their place

as the cogs and the sprockets interlace.

Machines build machines build machines in the halls

devoid of factory workers' calls.

At the end of the road stands a small, darkened shop

where an old man is hunched over magnified drop,

slowly piecing together the small and unique

wonders of clockwork, the factories seek.