I’ve been inking every day now for 23 days straight in a scary attempt to improve my artistic skill. Wonder how long this streak can go on? Will I become the Iron Man of inking? Maybe I’ll create a mini inkroll that has thumbnail versions of the various daily ink drawings and people can put on their blog? Title it something like: crink (CRappy INK). Possible motto: scaring the crap out of real artists!

Here is how something like this — the crinkstrip — might look (without links and colorful borders):

And another:

And finally:

One thing I’m learning from this experiment is to try and let the ink speak for itself. Primarily my crinks (or would it be crinkings?) so far have been about daily events, primarily web/tech-related.

For other artistically challenged tableteers, here is a collection of links for practicing and improving your artistic skills, feel free to share some more for in the comments/trackback section (just be sure to add a few lines of text about why the resource is good, if it’s free/pay, etc):

Uncle Fred walks through several basic cartoons, step-by-step
you draw in black and white via a java program, thin or thick pencil.
various drawing lessons - cityscape, book, road, letters and more

Simpsons (scare the hell out of Matt Groening)
draw Homer Simpson - doh!
draw Lisa Simpson
draw Bart Simpson

Help stave off Christmas With The Crinks: share more drawing resources.