Drawing #18 - Inking of Girl with Katana

Hello everyone! 

When I first started inking, I was terrified at the thought of messing up my pencil drawings because sometimes I had spent at least a couple of hours working on them. Just one misplaced stroke... and it's ruined... I don't feel that way anymore about inking now. I definitely make some mistakes with my inking, but I've learned that if I get a little creative, I can just hide the mistake or somehow add it into the picture. 

I also decided to add a few creepy characters to this picture. While I was in my DFQ class, I was showing my classmate my drawing, and he drew a little smiling oval face with a pointed nose, oval eyes, oval ears, and little wisps of curly hair. I thought about how people can turn simple pictures into characters, so I kept his general facial features and gave him a little body with red cheeks and freckles. He didn't have any wrinkles or eyebrows, so I took the liberty of adding those in as well, and made him look a little crazy and mischievous. Otherwise, how would he fit in with the girl holding the katana? Now that I'm looking at him again, I could have made him a little more crazy looking by changing the size of his pupils, but that's okay. I kept his curly hair of course, and although it's sort of strange, I drew some flower stamens coming out of his ears (since there are sakura flowers in the picture). As for the ghost-like character, I just made him up. He sort of reminds me of some kind of ghost Pokemon like haunter. 

In the future I am considering on incorporating a video of my inking, but we'll see. I'm sort of shy on camera, even if I am just talking. On second thought... maybe I can just ink in silence. (#^.^#)

Thanks for joining me! I will post the colored version of this drawing soon.