Inktober 14-15. Lady Hooray
This combination of prompts made me think of Dolly Parton. I’m actually more familiar with her Imagination Library than her music (former library assistant)! There’s a very happy mouse holding a book in the audience. 😊
Also, in over twenty years of drawing Lab Mice, I think this is the first time I have EVER given a mouse hair!
Inktober 12-13. Toss Flimsy
I drew the saddest-looking frisbee.
Inktober 7-9. Ram Mystical Rescue
Or, “Mystical Ram Rescue”. It took me a while (up to putting pencil to paper) to decide who would be the rescuer and rescuee, but the ram had a flower crown in either scenario. 🌸
Ideally, a rescue attempt does not cause more injuries than what necessitated it in the first place. 😬
Inktober 7-8. Panic Stinky
There’s a lot of tomato juice in Mouse’s future.
Incense Inktober 5. Oak
Calvin and Hobbes’ tree house is under new management. The spyglass is an empty paper-towel roll, of course.
Incense Inktober 3. Troll
“Trip, trap, trip, trap!”
I do feel that I cheated a bit by not actually drawing the troll. 😅
I’ll be skipping prompt four (prepping pencil drawings instead, no doubt), and be back for five on Monday!
“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!
