Inktober is a drawing challenge - to draw every day of October, with ink, based on a pre-set list of prompts. In order to challenge myself even more, this year I made it all about the brilliant, multitalented legend, Nick Cave, whose career, spanning more than 4 decades, provided more than sufficient inspiration even connected to the most random prompts.
31 drawings of Nicktober
Day 1: "crystal". Live at Crystal Ballroom, a legendary place in Melbourne, with Boys Next Door.
Day 2: "suit". Always dashing.
Day 3: "vessel". The Ship Song.
Day 4: "knot" (brow and tie)
Day 5: "raven". A concert poster.
Day 6: "spirit" (Ghosts of the Civil Dead)
Day 7: "fan" (Aleksandar Hemon, one of my favorite authors, a fellow Nick Cave fan)
Day 8: "watch" (Nature Boy, my favorite song, starts with "I was just a boy when I set down to watch the news on TV, I saw some ordinary slaughter, I saw some routine atrocity...)
Day 9: "pressure" (this is a cat meme, but it is suitable)
Day 10: "pick" (Nick Cave's portrait of Warren Ellis on a guitar pick)
Day 11: "sour" (expression)
Day 12: "stuck" (Nick Cave quote: "The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me".)
Day 13: "roof" (metaphorical :))
Day 14: "tick" (confirmed)
Day 15: "helmet" (construction)
Day 16: "compass" (this one was super tough, though, but NC makes a reference to compass being an emblem for one of the nine muses, Urania, in his novel "The Sick Bag Song")
Day 17: "collide" (lyrics to "Straight to you" include "and the chariots of angels are colliding...")
Day 18: "Moon" (from "As I sat sadly by her side")
Day 19: "loop" (timeloop, cover of "Stranger than Kindness")
Day 20: "sprout" (with one of his sons)
Day 21: "fuzzy" (the moustache)
Day 22: "open" (sleeve for "Push the Sky Away")
Day 23: "leak" (lyric from "From her to eternity")
Day 24: "extinct" (I felt like including something a bit more personal in this series so here's my special spiraling frame around this quote :))
Day 25: "splat" (shot dead in "Lawless", his film from 2012)
Day 26: "connect" (with Blixa Bargeld)
Day 27: "spark" (lighting up with PJ Harvey)
Day 28: "crispy" (eating a Granny Smith apple).
Day 29: "patch" (by LeighLaLovesYou on Pinterest)
Day 30: "slither" (Where the Wild Roses Grow with Kylie Minogue)
Day 31: "risk" (giving the paparazzi a finger on the red right hand :))
