Inktober 2025 Drawings

Every year, the drawing event of Inktober has me looking forward to the fall as I time when I can re-commit to making creativity and specifically drawing part of my daily life again. This Inktober event was started by Jake Parker years ago, and has a pretty simple set of rules, following the themes set for each day in October. 'Mustache' was the kick-off this year for Day 1, which was a fun way to start...

Day 2 was 'Weave', which honestly was a bit of an early stumper for me, but I thought spiders weave a web, so that could work...

Day 3 was 'Crown', so I did not want to be too obvious, but also not get too complicated on an early day. I have these great little watercolor card that first came in handy for this, with a generous amount of India ink.

Silo to Vizcom alien

A model that I started but felt a bit stalled on, until I took it into Vizcom as a render from Milo...

Open Blocks VR to Silo

Blocks was really clever and powerful 3d content creation tool in VR made by Google some years ago, but then was abandoned along with tools like Tilt Brush...yet they kept the bones of these tools Open Source for others to tinker with, and so, Open Blocks was born a few months ago. This rekindled my interest in content creation in VR, though I did end of modifying the scene somewhat through Silo 3d from Nevercenter. 

Open Blocks_Karl Wants Orange! by Matt Connors on Sketchfab

First update of 2025

It's been way too long since I have posted any of my artwork, and there's not really a good reason, other than life somethimes gets in the way, or priorities of my family and work came in front of updates. But it's definitely not due to being idels, as I have actually found that in the past year I have been fairly prolific with my artwork in a balanced way; tactile drawing and painting, some digital work, VR artworks, and quite a bit of dabbling with AI on my own creations. This video is made using Silo 3d, with Milo for rendering, then further re-render with Vizcom and then some Photoshop compositing. 

New Year, which brings more robots...

Coming back from a short break over the Holidays, and I am digging back into Vizcom as a tool to refine existing drawings, make them fresh again, and in some cases, make them more complete than they were before. In this case, I had an old iPhone drawing that I had done that I was never quite satisfied with, so I re-rendered in Vizcom, and then painted over in SketchbookPro. 

Update on Friday, January 5, 2024 at 2:55PM by Matthew Seydel Connors

Here was the original drawing that I started with, mainly Sketchbook on an iPhone.