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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 Oatmeal has a very good take on AI art
And you can read it here: A cartoonist’s review of AI art
Inktober Day 7: Starfish
Yes, I missed a few days. I’ll catch up, I swear.
Meanwhile, here’s Day 7’s entry, starfish.
Inktober 2025 Day 2: Weave
I waited too late and did something quick ‘n abstract.
Inktober 2025 Day 1: Mustache
Okay, so I’m doing this. At least for today. I made the mustache fake because I am no good at drawing them.
Will I do Inktober (2025) this year?
And will I keep making post titles that are questions?
The answer to both is maybe!
Here’s the 2025 list in case I do start doodling:
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.
Space face
Drawn on an iPad Pro using Procreate.
Floating man
Continuing my theme of kinda creepy dark figures.
This is what I aspire to
Not to be a weird alien (?) sitting on someone’s back or someone holding a mask because they have no face.
Rather, I aspire to produce the weird, mesmerizing art of someone like Chris Silverman. His use of light and shading is fantastic, and his work–done daily on the iPhone Notes app–is always freaky and delightful.
