Okay, so I’m doing this. At least for today. I made the mustache fake because I am no good at drawing them.
Creative
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.
Flame mail: A drawing
This started as another quick “spooky dark figure” sketch, but I ended up being dissatisfied with nearly every aspect of it, so this is not a quick sketch, it’s about ten different quick sketches all layered on top of each other until I figured I was ready to move on, which I probably should have done about eight layers earlier.
Enjoy!
This was done on my iPad Pro with Procreate. The ground appears much darker on my computer monitors than it does on the iPad. I’m inclined to think the iPad version is closer to correct, so I’m not going to tinker with it again.
Probably.
Kite figures: Another quick(ish) sketch
As before, made in Procreate, with my iPad Pro.
I may do a series with these blobby guys and their glowing red eyes.
SUPER ANTICS
One of my internet pals did an edit of an old Superman comic (or a parody of the same) and made it more modern and better and everything. He is right-handed and did this with a mouse, which makes me jealous because I can’t draw with a mouse due to being caught in a weird limbo between being left and right-handed (when it comes to mice):
Original:
Edited, probably more accurate:
Quick doodle #2: Night bird
I think it’s supposed to be a crow or something. I did it with no reference, so I’m just pleased it doesn’t look like a turkey.
A 20-minute drawing of spooky figures
What the title says. I didn’t plan it out, it just happened while I was experimenting with brushes in Procreate. I am hoping to do more quick sketches like this going forward.
Is everything better with googly eyes?
Here’s a shot of some tree fungus I shot today:
And here it is with googly eyes:
You must decide.