Hello, lovelies! Fall has hit and we're just a few days from October madness. October begins my busy holiday season and believe it or not, it tends to be busier than December for me.
First things first, we've got Inktober!
What is Inktober? Simple:
Inktober (and Drawlloween) are kinda a bit deal in October and is something I'd like to try again this year. I got to Day 18 or 19 last year and was super happy with the progression in my skill as I got use to drawing every day and producing finished pieces. And if you aren't into drawing with ink, there's Drawlloween which is essentially the same thing without the medium limitations.
Here are the official prompts for this year:
I knew I had to get prepared this year. Last year the stress of doing a 3 show weekend, Inktober, Halloween festivities, and being in Seattle for about 5 days completely knocked me on my ass afterwards and I was not okay. This year I am determined to do better.
I've been sketching ideas and figuring out my own prompts. While I like the official ones, I'd prefer to do my own. I find that if I'm not super into the things I'm drawing, I'm less likely to push myself to do them soooooo I made my own prompt list.
Feel free to follow along and share :)
In addition to Inktober we are also attempting our 31 Days of Horror Movies Challenge. Rony and I attempted it last year and no lie, it was hard. You essentially have to set aside up to 2 hours every day. Things crashed and burned when we went to Seattle and had no TV to watch any of the movies.
This year we're also going to Disneyland so we'll see how it works out.
But here is our last for this year!
Rony and I always split up the list between us and choose movies we haven't seen and movies we've seen but the other hasn't. This way we're not just watching the same classics over and over again and get to learn about different horror movies. Rony also does a review on Twitter afterwards if you want to follow him.
So we've got Inktober, Horror Movie Challenge, I have a gallery on Friday the 13th, we're planning Ladies Night, I'm going to attempt National Novel Writing Month again in November so I'm preparing for that, and we're going to try and do daily pet costumes and Halloween posts on our Halloween Instagram.
It's going to be a busy time. I also have to do a couple of paintings for a Museum exhibit and a gallery in November.
Aaaaaaand Disneyland.
So wish me luck! I want to do a few speed process videos of some of my Inktober pieces but we'll see. I'll do a Inktober supplies post next week but I'll be posting them daily on my Instagram or Facebook! Also, if you want to help support me, the blog, my art then you can donate a bit to my Ko-Fi or visit my Etsy shop! This helps me get better art supplies, buy more prints to sell, or do more in general!
If there's anything else you'd like to see me do or write about, let me know!
See you in October!
-Sam <3