After my adventures with getting okay at drawing I decided to have a go at participating in Inktober - one drawing every day for 31 days based on a prompt, the full list of which you can see here.

I did the first two prompts (mustache and weave) and then on the third day I stumbled upon a dinosaur character I quite liked, who I have named Jeff. He appeared in the next few drawings so I went back and redid them to feature Jeff. I love Jeff.

I love all my inky children equally but these are some of my favourites. I find it notable these are all after the halfway point of the month.

My John McClane one for day 15 “ragged” got a lot of traction and birthed this glorious “screenshot” from Die Hard:

Did I learn anything about myself or drawing or whatever? Yeah I did:

• I actually enjoy drawing if I put some effort in
• I need to learn more about perspective
• I prefer Uni Pin over Micron fineliners
• Drawing existing characters is hard. If anything is even slightly off, it looks weird

Now I’ve finished I feel a bit lost because I have no prompts but I have had an idea I want to try - Lost Americana has a logo for each track so I think I’m going to try and do the same thing for a different album, probably Meteora.

This also isn’t the last of Jeff, he’s featured in the November cover page of my journal:

And I’m working on a sticker based on the Sinclair Oil Corporation logo:

You can see all my inktober entries here. I guess I’m somewhat of an artist myself now.