Well under way. As a matter of fact, seeing as how it's October 28th, the dang thing is almost over! However, since technically it's still October, I'm doing a bit better than my last post about it, which was in December. Read it. It's fun! https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-little-backstory-on-inktober.html
Actually, that was my last ACTUAL post on this entire blog. In DECEMBER. Oof.
All I can say is - I did tell you I was lazy. Also pandemic, yadda yadda. The pandemic has kept me from meeting in person with the art group; however, since we also belong to a Facebook group, everyone is sharing their Inktober work, and that spurs me on. I have been participating this year, and will probably continue after the month is over, because you know I won't finish on time. I am already hilariously behind, but that's cool - it's a good excuse for me to not participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, for the uninitiated) for the "however long it's been in existence"th year.
But wait - in my last post, I shared some of my work from Inktobers past, and I shared the prompts for Inktober 2019, should you be interested. But I hadn't yet shared the drawings I did for Inktober 2019. So, um, time to do that now, clearly. I'll get to 2020 when I get to it, okay? Who knows, that might even be before Inktober 2021. One can hope, anyway.
Day 1 - Ring
One of the reasons I like the Inktober prompts is that they are often open-ended, which leads to a lot of creative possibilities. Think of all the different kinds of rings - the kind you wear on your finger, the kind you leave in the tub, a "faerie ring" in the forest, that creepy movie where the little girl crawled out of the TV. There's also the verb form of ring, which reminds me of telephones, church bells, school bells, alarms. You can make conceptual associations, such as "let freedom ring" or "for whom does the bell toll", or even draw the ill-fated Challenger shuttle, downed by a failure of one of the o-rings. I went the predictable route with this one: an engagement ring. But perhaps not the predictable response...
Day 2 - Mindless
It's creepy-looking, I guess. Just a commentary on how everyone is so into what's on their phones that they are often unaware what's happening around them in the real world. Also a bit of social commentary that has been especially on my mind the last few years, about how people are so easily swayed by what they see presented as "facts" online that critical thinking seems to be going very much by the wayside, leaving us without a mind of our own, or so set in our own beliefs that we tune out opposing (or even different) points of view and join those who only want to hear those same views in a "hive mind".
Day 3 - Bait
I follow politics, but it's rare for me to make what might be considered a "political cartoon". I have pretty strong feelings about how funding from NRA lobbyists have allowed our gun culture to run rampant and cause so much heartache. The vast majority of Americans, including gun owners, want reasonable regulation on guns, such as comprehensive background checks. But money talks, right? As our nefarious lobbyist says, "best bait ever."
26. hide
28. float
Thanks for reading! I will share more, hopefully soon!
Yay, here is the next installment: https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2020/11/more-fun-with-inktober.html
All images original art by the author. Use of "Mr. Freeze" character trademarked by DC Comics is not intended to infringe. The NRA can kiss my wazoo.
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