Inktober day 11 Winding Stairs

[eller]

Again, a fast and scribbly one - but at least I'm up to date again... I drew this at work, while my colleague was making me a friendship bracelet. Yes, we were actually working - except with computational modellers, casual observers don't always notice that. (I'll never forget us being introduced to someone as "those two are our modellers - they're geniuses, which explains a lot". Still waiting for anyone to refer to me as a genius in any other context, though. XD) Anyway - we were discussing Hidden Markov Models, and actually making a lot of progess, but to an unitiated observer, it would have looked like drawing and macrame, respectively. With tea and cookies.

My warm grey watercolor marker finally died completely, and the replacement ones I ordered have not arrived yet. That means I had to use a Faber Castell PITT marker, also in Warm Grey III, for parts of this picture. Which annoys me a lot. Not through any fault of that marker (I was happy to discover that Faber Castell seem to use the same pigments for their PITT markers as for their watercolor markers, so the color is indeed identical) but simply because I wanted to limit myself to one type of marker, and this is the wrong one. :(

Comments

[shadaras]

I love the perspective and the moths! If I don't look too closely, it almost looks like one of those mine-cart sections in an old video-game, with the old wood and the rails. :)

[eller]

Huh... Now there's something I'd also love to draw at some point! I've actually been to old mines (one of the perks of geoscience) and, yes, I'd love to paint that atmosphere at some point... :3

[shadaras]

That would be super cool! When/if you do, I look forward to seeing it. :)

[yhlee]

Oh, that's gorgeous--it's evocative, and the moths' shadows make them "pop" into 3D in a really compelling way.

[eller]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

[leecetheartist]

Gah! My vertigo! *clutches desk to hold on*

[eller]

Heh! XD Of course, the perspective of the observer here is one of falling down...

[mific]

That's a teenage moth skateboarding down! Nice spiral.

[eller]

I like that thought XD

[aliax_alexandre]

Ooooh, ominous! The moths, the endless descent to Who-Knows-Where... I like!

And I'm sorry, but LOL at "and this is the wrong one". You'd set yourself a challenge, something like that?

[eller]

Whatever is down there, it's bright and cheerful, isn't that obvious?

Challenge, perfectionism or Mr. Asperger saying hi - choose one, whatever. XD I'm not quite screaming and writhing on the floor, but... Yeah, uncomfortable to have to work with the wrong Faber Castell Warm Grey III.