Creative

Inktober 2025: I swear I’ll catch up!

I got into a bad habit of waiting till the end of the day to do the prompts, often leading to brain freeze and nothing to show for it. I’m going to work on them earlier going forward and see if I can catch up.

I make no promises. Mostly because I’m really bad at keeping them. But here’s hoping!

Also, I’m going to try to post more. Cue typing cat!

The hover fly that hoovered up my time

I decided one day to do a doodle of a hover fly I photographed on a flower instead of a bird, as I normally do.

It feels like I spent about 500 hours colouring the flower, and in the end I’m not really that happy with the result. It’s fine. I may go back and tweak it, somehow. But here it is for now.

Note: The gray part of the fly’s abdomen looks unfinished, but that’s actually how it looked in the photo. If I go back, I may use some ol’ artistic licence to address it, because it does look odd.

Update:

I have fixed the fly (please have your fly spayed or neutered) and made the background a bit different. It’s an improvement, I think.