Someone mentioned seeing, and being perplexed by, a shelf of mousetraps with a sticker saying ‘connect bluetooth’. I felt inspired to draw the only natural conclusion.
Last year I said, “Last year was nice and all, but […] if part of the goal is to practise then next time I should do something more in line with my typical approach.” The same held true this year, so this time I went for full colour and abandoned any remaining semblance of ‘Inktober’ beyond lifting the prompts. Except I didn’t really have time for daily drawings and haven’t generally enjoyed the experience of finding something for prompts that don’t inspire, so this time I decided from the outset that if I didn’t have time or …
It’s no secret that I like and respect horseshoe crabs – for reasons that deserve to elaborated on some time. So when someone shared this CRABTCHA, I had no choice but to respond “Front and centre where it belongs 🧘♂️”
Happy World Ocean Day now prove you are not a robot.
(This CRABTCHA is brought to you by @jopabinia.bsky.social and yours truly.)
Last year was nice and all, but by the end of it I thought, this is nothing like what I ‘usually’ (implies free time) do; if part of the goal is to practise then next time I should do something more in line with my typical approach. So, more about shapes and shading than lines and stark contrast.
Hence were born the RULES:
one hour
one layer
one colour
one scale
one attempt
Basically a bunch of things to focus on streamlining the drawing process and not get hung up on diversions. It’s not really ‘ink’ besides the lack …
Inktober is a thing where anyone interested attempts to make an ink drawing every day of October, or at least a once a week, or anything else in line with the main goal of making good habits. I’m more of the pixeling persuasion, so this year I did indeed produce an assortment of monochromatic pixels for all 31 days, using the Official set of prompts. Observe, should you desire.
