Here’s the first week of Inktober! I am having so much fun with the prompts, and am discovering lots of great artists on Instagram.
You can follow my Inktober posts daily on Instagram or Facebook.
October starts tomorrow, which means that it is also the beginning of:
1) Inktober
2) Dysautonomia Awareness Month
I’ve wanted to participate in Inktober with Lab Mice for years, and finally decided to go for it. I have a goal to complete all 31 prompts, one each day. Doing this on the heels of finishing Q is for Quarantine probably means that I will be very tired by November 1 (so, probably not doing NaNoWriMo this year).
I will be posting photos of each day’s drawings on Lab Mice’s Facebook and Instagram pages, and will do a weekly post here on the blog.
It’s also Dysautonomia Awareness Month, which will be inspiring a few of my cartoons for the Inktober prompts (like #17, “salty”). I was diagnosed with POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome–a form of dysautonomia) a year-and-a-half ago, and cartooning has helped me keep my spirits up and see the funny side of things while I learn to manage it.
It’s going to be a very busy month!
Q is for Quarantine: a Coronavirus Alphabet
The last letter! It’s done!
Q is for Quarantine: a Coronavirus Alphabet
One more letter to go!
I had no ideas for “Y” until a week ago, when it occurred to me that I’ve drawn two comics on the subject already. This was obviously not a part of the original list, because in April 2020, everyone was talking hopefully in terms of weeks or months. We didn’t know that covid had signed up for a full marathon, and not just a 5k….
Q is for Quarantine: a Coronavirus Alphabet
In an alphabet book, the options for “x” are either “x-ray” or “xylophone.” Though I am sure some ambitious person taught themselves to play the xylophone during lockdown, “x-ray” seemed much more relevant to the pandemic.
This one wins the award for “Struggled Most to Draw.” Be assured that I will not be releasing a Lab Mice anatomy textbook anytime soon.
Not the band, sorry.
Q is for Quarantine: a Coronavirus Alphabet
And “just like that,” it’s done.
Of course, I still have to edit and post the last four letters, and then turn all of them into a book, but…the art is pretty much done.
Although I do need a cover.
Oh, well.
Q is for Quarantine: a Coronavirus Alphabet
This was an easy letter to think of a word (and an illustration) for in April 2020, because it seemed like the general refrain at the time was, “if only we had a vaccine!” The times, they do change….
Q is for Quarantine: a Coronavirus Alphabet
While the U.S. might be having a labor shortage now, this was far from the case in the spring of 2020.
Q is for Quarantine: A Coronavirus Alphabet
Of course it is.
I never thought I would draw a hoard of toilet paper rolls. …Actually, it was quite boring.
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