“Ho-ho–oh no!”
Santa has to be an expert at balance beam one day every year.
This is a prompt from Inktober 2024. I never finished due to getting sick right in the middle of Inktober, so I’m finally re-visiting them. Although it’s a bit ahead of where I left off, this one seemed appropriate for Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas!
As it turns out, I’ve been napping a lot more than drawing over the last few days. This cold has been nasty. I am way behind on Inktober at this point, but I’m just going to pick up where I left off and keep going until I finish. It’s been nice to have everyone else’s Inktober entries to scroll through on Instagram to keep me entertained, and I’ve enjoyed cheering from sidelines. We can do it!
Elephants and spiders and dragons and toads and…Great Old Ones and…fire demons…and horses and hedgehogs, oh my! I drew a lot of creatures that were not mice for Inktober this year. Just to make the challenge extra-challenging, many of them I have not tried to draw in years (horses, dragons), and I’m sure I’ve never tried to draw a cuttlefish before.
Inktober is coming! Inktober is coming!
(Tri-corner hats are harder to draw than I expected.)
Anyway–Inktober is just around the corner! I’m looking forward to drawing (and laughing) my way through October! I have ideas for most of the prompts, including several comic strips, a couple of Dysautonomia awareness comics, and an art parody. And I can’t wait to be inundated with other artist’s amazing work all month!
Two more weeks!
When you have a really great idea for an Inktober prompt, and then…POOF!
The spiffed-up version of this Inktober comic, “Tempting.”
Da-dum…
Da-dum…
Danger lurks below the serving counter of Amity Island’s bakery.
Bless you.
A shined-up version of this Inktober comic.
A spiffed-up version of this Inktober comic.
Da-dum…
Da-dum…
Danger lurks below the serving counter at Amity Island’s bakery.
Inktober artists: we did it!
This challenge was so much fun, I’m glad I finally went for it. It was the highlight of my day to see the unique responses to each prompt, and I found some great artists to follow on Instagram. I plan to do Inktober again next year–this time with more advance planning (like, the entire month of September…).
Between pushing to finish up Q is for Quarantine in September, and spending all month on Inktober…I am tired. I’ll be posting a comic weekly on Fridays during November and December, both brand-new and from the last few years (along with nicely edited versions of three Inktober comic strips), and evaluate how that’s working for me going into the New Year. I want to create and post comics regularly, so I need to find a way sustainably pace myself. Behind the scenes, I’ll be working on publishing Q is for Quarantine, and setting up a Lab Mice Etsy shop.
…Anyone else ready for a long post-Inktober nap?
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Wait–what do you mean, the holidays are coming???
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