I managed to get halfway through Inktober submit something everyday on the day it was due. A couple of submissions were late at night. Still I impress myself with staying power. I’m now looking at the prompts and trying not to do the really obvious. Not that there is an obvious illustration for a more conceptual ideas like today’s blunder.
I guess there’s a lot of scope, blundering into something, you don’t want to make a blunder. But then I remember about the old fashion blunderbuss, the 17th century equivalent of a rifle. It could be loaded it with all sorts of things and instead of having a finely machine barrel to keep the bullets on track it had a wide open end. I guess it would have worked a lot more like a shotgun scattering bits and pieces all over the place. I’ve seen a couple of these gun and quite liked the way they were shaped and might be interesting to illustrate.
So I got onto DuckDuckGo and asked for illustrations of blunderbuss’es and I got a lot of cartoon-ish pilgrims carrying the definitive shaped rifle. hunting and bringing back home turkeys. Ahh, It’s about to be Thanksgivingin the USA! Nice Coincidence. We don’t have Thanksgiving in Australia, it’s not a family get together here. I guess we do have the Melbourne Cup about a week later which is a big deal an opportunity for a holiday and party, still I felt bad bets blunders might be a slightly different take on this theme, just a bit harder to draw.
Hope you enjoy my inktober submissions, I post them daily on my Instagram @normhansonart.
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