Month: October 2025
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Inktober Day 31: Award
Well. Made it! I think this one does look better inked, and who doesn’t love a gold star?! I kept the rhythm this year, and the planning definitely helped. There was only one that I rethought, and I do feel like I had stronger compositions across the board this year. It’s still a fair chunk…
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Final prep
The last Inktober prompt is prepped and ready for inking. Huzzah! I’m not sure this is my strongest composition. I got a bit blasé about it, and it looked better at the small size. We’ll see. Inking has helped everything else!
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Inktober Day 29: Lesson
Well, killing a plant is kind of a lesson, right? I couldn’t decide whether to put anything in the window. The light coming in mostly whites out photos, so I haven’t. But it looks kind of blank without it. Not sure. Just one more Inktober image to go.
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Learning From Mistakes
Two more pictures to do. Prepping my dead houseplant for tomorrow. I had a day off today, to recover from the golf weekend (where I do not golf, but socialising is knackering). I’ve learnt that I’m better off taking an extra day! And yet I still left drawing until late.
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Inktober Day 27: Onion
I went with the family portrait. I would have quite liked to put another flower in, but ran out of time. As a bonus, we were away for a golf trip. I was waiting for the golfers to come back in, so I did a picture of the wing of the hotel that I could…
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Inktober Day 25: Inferno
I actually really like how this turned out. Simple, but hopefully effective! If I didn’t have a concert later I’d say this song will be stuck in my head all day, but I’m pretty sure excerpts from Wicked will be taking its place shortly.
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Inktober Day 23: Firefly
I was aiming for a textbook style of illustration here, but it got a bit scratchy. Not sure I quite got the look I was going for. Still, it is a firefly.
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Bug prep
All laid out for tomorrow’s inking. I’m not sure the bug I’m drawing from died well! Whatever that might look like for a beetle with a glowing butt. (I’m not using bug correctly here, I think. Oh well!) I truly have no idea how people do every day of Inktober. I prepped better than ever…
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Inktober Day 21: Blast
I did regret the sky, but I wanted it dark. I like the effect overall. Its definitely better than my other idea.
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A small deviation
Ive deviated from my plan. I went back and I just… Didn’t like it. It was an object, and that’s one of my rules. Clarkie made an off-the-cuff suggestion, and it’s much better. So this gets inked tomorrow.
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Inktober Day 19: Arctic
A mummy bear and her cubs. White bears on a white background, so I tried to keep the inking light too. I think it works.