INKtober 2026 - Trophy The Bear

There are various kinds of trophies, and I don’t feel like drawing a cup or a medal. The most obvious trophy is, of course, a hunting trophy. I realised this fits in perfectly with the other prompts. And here it is: the (grizzly) bear. You’ll probably recognise it from some comic or cartoon where it’s used as a rug. Here we see the bear lying on a rug, whilst the weather outside isn’t all that great.

Apparently, bear meat isn’t the tastiest kind of meat, and you have to cook it for a very long time to kill any parasites – something I reckon applies to quite a few types of meat. If you’re planning to eat bear meat, the meat from a bear that eats fruit is reportedly tastier than that from a bear that catches salmon or fish.

It’s quite tiring to draw for a few hours a day and produce a different drawing every day, at least if you don’t have loads of time. I’m a day behind now, I think, but all in all I’m still more or less on schedule, and yes, this drawing also took about four hours; this time I used a dip pen and Chinese ink.
Actually, I used two pens: one to draw those broad lines, and I don’t find that one very easy to work with, because I literally have to dip it in the ink four times for a single line, and even then it isn’t a clean line – unlike the ordinary dip pen (the one we used to use at school)..
I also have no idea whether you’re actually supposed to write with these things, or whether they’ll start to feel natural in your hand like a fountain pen or a ballpoint pen. In any case, this is the second time I’ve used these pens and created a drawing with ink. Best of all, it hasn’t smudged once.

The Process

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Drawing the sketch actually went quite quickly in pencil, or at least that’s how it felt, and then I went over it in more detail with the dip pen. In certain places, I did need to go over it several times, simply because the ink tends to fade a bit.
The nice thing about taking photos is that it makes you look at your drawing from a different perspective, which is also an advantage, because it’s lying flat on the table, under rather poor lamplight, but you can’t have everything, can you?

Issues

• it takes too much time

Materials:

• sketchbook - bamboo paper
• pencil HB
• Dip pen
• Chinese ink

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INKtober prompt: trophy
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