Inktober 2020 #31 – Crawl

October 31, 2020October 31, 20202 Comments

So, since this is posting on Halloween, I thought it should be a Halloween themed image. So, the two things that come to mind with crawl is creepy crawly bugs and crawling babies. Bugs only seem really Halloweeny if it’s a spider or if they’re crawling over a corpse. I already did a spider this month and corpses are gross. Trying to not go for too gross since my target audience are kids.

So, a Halloween-themed baby.

I doodled a baby pumpkin-head, a baby Dracula, a baby Frankenstein’s monster, and a baby zombie. By the way, baby zombie? NO. Not cute. Bad. Very bad.

And I also doodled this baby Death, which is the one I liked best. So, that’s the one I finished off for today.

Whew! This is the last one! I’m done. I hope you enjoyed the month of inktober as much as I did. Thanks for watching!

A black and white cartoon of the personification of Death as a baby skeleton in his traditional robes crawling along with his scythe in one hand.

Inktober 2020 #30 – Ominous

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020Leave a comment

I considered several possibilities to answer this prompt, but you know what? Sometimes the less you know, the worse it could be.

A two panel comic. The first panel shows eyes in the dark, wide open with pupils contracted. A thought bubble reads, "IT'S QUIET..." The second panel shows eyes in the dark, narrowed with suspicion. A thought bubble reads, in smaller text, "TOO QUIET." — \

Inktober 2020 #29 – Shoes

October 29, 2020October 24, 2020Leave a comment

This is about the cutest concept I can think of today.

A cartoon, line drawing of a baby boy who has pulled off one of his shoes and is chewing on it. We can see he has just two front teeth on the top.

Inktober 2020 #28 – Float

October 28, 2020October 8, 2020Leave a comment

When I looked through this year’s Inktober prompt list for the first time, I saw this prompt and I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it. So, I’ve waited all month to do this one, and I finally got to it! Yay!

I may come back to it and add in shadows and maybe colors later. But not today. 🙂

Six girls at a slumber party play light as a feather, stiff as a board. Only, this time it actually works! The middle girl is levitating in the air. The other girls are chanting while the floating girl says, "This feels so weird!"

Inktober 2020 #27 – Music

October 27, 2020October 27, 20202 Comments

Siren song counts as music, right? I hope so, but really… I just felt like drawing a mermaid. 🙂

It seems like every time I draw water, I do it differently. This style seems pretty good for mid-ocean swells.

A mermaid floats in the ocean in the foreground. Under the water, you can see her fishtail. She is singing. In the distance is a sailing ship. It's nighttime and a full moon is in the sky. The image is a black and white ink drawing.

Inktober 2020 #26 – Hide

October 26, 2020October 2, 20204 Comments

I don’t know how that got into his house, but I don’t blame him for hiding.

A boy hides behind a door as a tentacle reaches around it, searching for him.

Inktober 2020 #25 – Buddy

October 25, 2020April 28, 2021Leave a comment

Buddy always seemed like a dog’s name to me. So, here’s a boy playing with his Buddy.

Fast line drawing using fat lines this time.

Illustration for the twenty-fifth day of the 2020 Inktober illustration prompt: Buddy.

Inktober 2020 #24 – Dig

October 24, 2020October 1, 2020Leave a comment

I also considered drawing a pirate digging up buried treasure, but I decided on this puppy instead. I’m a little concerned that the dirt he’s throwing back fades into the dirt in the pile too much. What do you think?

A cartoon of a puppy digging a hole in the ground.

Inktober 2020 #23 – RIP

October 23, 2020September 29, 20204 Comments

RIP, of course, means Rest in Peace. We as a country and as a world have lost so many this year. Rest in Peace to all of them.

Two doves in an overgrown patch of grass and wildflowers. There is a tombstone reading, "REST IN Peace All those lost in 2020."

Inktober 2020 #1 – Fish

October 1, 2020October 1, 20208 Comments

So, I thought I’d see if I can get through an entire Inktober series again this year. Last time I did it was in 2016, but I ignored the official prompts in favor of whatever Halloween ideas came to mind. This time I’m following the official prompts, which means today is: Fish.

I’m not entirely following the official rules because Inktober is really supposed to be ink drawings. But I only draw digital. So… no ink in the house. Instead I’m going to approximate ink drawings by limiting myself to black and white and trying to do mostly ink-style drawings at least. This one isn’t very ink-style, though.

Hey, it’s the best I can do. 🙂