Portrait of Dolly Parton - pencil and colored pencil

Inktober Days 12 & 13: Forget, Kind

By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 13 Oct 2022


Day 12: Forget

'Forget' is such an abstract prompt that it really requires some sort of symbolic interpretation. It's not like there's a literal image to be drawn of a person forgetting something, at least not where the viewer could tell exactly what the action is. I thought about a picture of a head with the top of the cranium missing and various memories sort of crawling or oozing out. Turns out LOTS of people thought about that, so I tried a different interpretation:

one hand pulling the string to undo a knot tied for remembrance around the finger of another hand - pencil

Heaven knows I can always use more practice drawing hands.

Day 13: Kind

I knew immediately what I wanted to draw for this prompt. Among recognizable people, one stands out for me as incredibly kind:

Portrait of Dolly Parton - pencil and colored pencil

Thanks, Dolly, for all of the good you put into the world. I wish I were a better portraitist, so I could do proper justice to your open and glorious smile. 

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