Katherine Cook organized an archaeology themed edition of the wider #inktober challenge (draw something, every day, for the entire month). Her prompts:
I cannot draw. But I can trace. My hands shake a lot when I try to concentrate on doing fine work. (And yet, when I play piano, they don’t. Go figure). Below are my efforts at #archink. I didn’t hit every day, but I did get a lot of them.
Fragments
It’s been a long month.
Then I was on a plane, so I tried tracing a photo I took in the Museum of London:
Interprets
Builds
Sites
And then I gave Google Storyboard a try, on a video about the University of Reading excavations at Roman Silchester:
…when you’re using the app, you can reload it for different layouts, effects, video stills transformed into sketches of different styles etc.
Conserves
Conceals
Holds
Moves
Writes
Theorizes
Treasures
Colonizes
Decolonizes
Narrates
Collects
It’s been an interesting challenge. I think if I kept it up, I might eventually learn how to actually draw something ex novo. But until then, there is some satisfaction in remediating, tracing, things I find.
