It's only day 6 of Inktober and I'm already drawing tentacles. It would have happened eventually even if there hadn't been a prompt. It's always a soothing art experience for me.
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Inktober, day 5. A jack rabbit is intimidating. Once you see those antlers, though, you do not want a cranky jackalope chasing you!
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Inktober, day 4. Halloween is an easy time for blending in with human kids. Human adults just assume the whole look is costume.
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I knitted a tiny pumpkin.
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Day 3 for Inktober. Today I'm drawing a fantasy grimoire...and adding a little watercolor for splashes of magic.
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Inktober, day 2. I had a different minotaur in mind, but when we hear the call of a Muse...Black Angus Young!

The horns are fake and attached to the hat because Black Angus don't have horns.
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I'm doing a drawing each day for Inktober, but not following the official prompts. This is Jack. Jack's a little disappointed that I don't draw skeletons correctly. On the plus side, the hat makes them feel fabulous!
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It's been a good day for getting pictures of friends! Shai-Hulud let me take one of him at his water bowl.
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In case anybody was wondering what a brine shrimp swimming around with a plump eggsac looks like...

Anybody know frogs and toads? I think my friend here is a Woodhouse toad? I'm in an area where they are abundant. I'm just not sure if I'm correctly identifying.

I complete my trips around the sun in September, and I started making sure I always take a selfie in September when I completed the 40th. My grandmother was 50 when I was born. She was always beautiful to me. I don't buy the idea that beauty has to look young. Sometimes, if I turn my head just the right way, I see a little of my grandmother in myself.

Somebody molted and the exoskeleton came off in almost one whole piece. Now it looks like there's a ghost shrimp haunting the tank.

Spent a big chunk of the morning figuring out how to make a gif from a video of my shrimp. Things that were super easy 10 years ago can become a challenge when you don't keep up with the tools. But I did it!

Shai-Hulud has little desire to come out of the sand. African sand boas spend something like 95% of their life in the sand. He makes a big show of it when he does come out, though!

#snake - I actually got to see Shai-Hulud at his water bowl today! In almost 4 years I've seen him in positions I recognized as "on the way to water" and "on the way back from water", but never "at the water".

I'm still awake at Should-Be-Asleep o'clock. It's been a physically rough week. Decided to play with the digital collage thing again and do a Lake Monster one.

It took me over an hour to do this, and I changed the background four or five times. This would have been a huge mess with magazine cut-outs and glue.

It seems...I don't know, scattered? Sparse? But I'm not experienced with this. I'll be patient with myself.

The past few months have been too busy for me to make much time for art. And I don't have the mental energy for details when I'm worn out. I decided tonight that I don't care and just needed to draw something. The lack of caring shows in the poor shading. I'm glad I gave myself some time to do something I enjoy, though.

#snake - Taking pictures is allowed today. It isn't always. He'll come out for me, but can quickly go into the sand when my phone comes out.

This time, it's a base color of a sort of light to medium purple with a coat of magnetized nail polish on top. The magnetized polish would look like a thin layer of Labradorite on its own. It changes the purple to become ten little clear night skies on my fingers!