This was my first year doing Inktober! You can find all the art on my Instagram, I am still working on cleaning up the images, but I’ll post them here when I have them. This year I decided to use the overall theme of “raccoons” so that I could improve my raccoon art. I definitely think that my holiday card improved dramatically because of it, and you can see a clear difference between the quality of the early pieces and the later ones.
But here are a few of my favorites:
Finished mid-December 2018.
My holiday card for the year featuring a raccoon in a tree. I drew it in pencil, did a few minor points of inking, watercolored it, used white ink to clean up the eyes, scanned it, and cleaned it up a bit. Most of what you see is the original watercolor painting.
The text I added to most cards:
“On the first day of Holiday,
My True Love gave to me…..
A Raccoon in a pear tree.
WAIT, where did all the fruit go?”
May your holiday and new year be filled with plenty of fruits.
Materials: Watercolor, white ink, India ink pens
Finished November 2017.
My holiday card for the year featuring a raccoon in a blue holiday sweater with three earrings and a white tip on her tail. I drew it in pencil, inked it, then used watercolors to color it. I fixed some lines with a white marker and then uploaded to photoshop and tried to improve on the messy sweater I had painted.
Reference of the blue Playstation themed holiday sweater (which I own)
Materials: Ink, watercolor, paint marker
Finished November 2016
My holiday card for 2016, two raccoons cuddling. I figured after how rough 2016 was we all needed some cuddles. The eyes are done in acrylic paint, I was inspired by Zeus, the blind owl with stars in his eyes. I used this picture as my reference.
Materials: Ink, watercolor, acrylic paint
In the summer of 2006, my friend Melissa went to Venice and brought me back a white plaster cat face mask. This was long before I’d realized my inner raccoon, and I’ve always been a cat lover. The mask hung on my wall for just under ten years, and then I moved around a bit so it got put away for safe keeping. Fast forward to September 2016 when I pulled the mask out, primed it with white Rustoleum and promptly set about stressing myself out that I was going to ruin it a decade after it was gifted to me. I think I did a pretty good job, but I could have done better. I wore it for a vintage themed Halloween party and you can see me wearing it here on my Instagram.
Estimated time to create from sketches to final gloss: 8 hours?
You can find out more about the process of making this mask here where I documented it.
November 2015
My holiday card for 2015! Happy Holidays my friends, may your 2016 be filled with health, wealth, and joy.
The Making Of:
Step One: fav.me/d9isfir
Step Two: fav.me/d9isfpu
Step Three: fav.me/d9isfy4
Sarah of Robinson 
