Category Archives: Inktober

More INKTOBER 2026

A little out of order from Oct 21, I could have drawn a hero sandwich or a human hero but I chose the Hero brand motocycle as the most challenging!

Another attempt at Anime, I hope this person looks confused!

For the word “lounge” I chose to draw myself lounging on imaginary cushions in front of an imaginary French door!

For Oct 23 and the word Dapper, I drew Dapper Dan a Harlem-based fashion designer and haberdasher. I loved the photo I drew from and would love to paint Dapper Dan later on in color and in oils, but would probably need permission from photographer.

For the word Beacon I drew the Nauset Light on Cape Cod, but using marker pens the sky doesn’t satisfy me nor the trees, for lack of color variation. Oh well, given my supplies and the 5” by 8” sketchbook that I’m doing all these in, I did the best I could!

Self-explanatory I hope!

Alas, this marker-based attempt at a fractured portrait didn’t please me at all. Usually I do them in mixed media, using caran d’ache lumina pencils and matte black paint, and the result is much more pleasing.

Finally a subject more suitable to pen and ink and the grey scale ink markers I have!

And that’s all for today, as I’m one day ahead already.

INKTOBER 2026 CONTINUED

Beanie Baby is a rescue cat and I’m all hers!

The one above Beanie is based on the word “mystical” which I changed to Mystic Al, drawing a picture of Alan Watts who studied mysticism, and may himself have been a mystic.

A coin toss illustrates the word Toss.

I attempted to draw in ink a flimsy card table made more flimsy by a broken part. Alas it didn’t come out as I had hoped!

This was painted with ink markers and alas yet again. Using paint and paint brushes would have been much more successful! Lady is a cocker spaniel, from Lady and the Tramp…

I hope this one is self explanatory!

The original word was gangling. Wonder when it became “gangly”!

See if you can figure out what will happen here!

Tomorrow’s drawing is already finished! An Emperor penguin with its chick.

RECENT ART PLUS INKTOBER SKETCHES

Commissioned for a seasonal present last December 2025

Portrait of the president of Ukraine, Volodomyr Zelenskyy

Fractured torso 2026
Pet portrait done after a local humane society society auction, for which the prospective portrait was offered
Josette, half papier mâché and half soft sculpture, who never sold at the HC gallery now greets people sitting on my stairs!
“Jasmine reads Beloved” at the Harmony Artists Collective gallery, where some of my art is displayed and is for sale.

My hand drawing a picture of my hand, ink sketch in sketchbook

The adult son of a good friend, painted as a surprise birthday present. (The orange background photographed much brighter than the actual painting, due to lighting in my home. )

Below are Inktober sketches, which I hope are self explanatory.

Not quite finished but intended as an encounter between a ram and a Dodge RAM truck..

INKTOBER IS OVER, FOR 2023

The word was Massive…I think this drawing fits the bill! (Even though as a ink drawing it wasn’t very successful.)

The word was Rush and as I said on Facebook I didn’t draw much more than a rush with a burgeoning inflorescence, wanting to spend my time practicing the architectural style lettering I am teaching myself.

Again, as I posted on FB I had lots of fun with the last Inktober word, Fire, but I forgot to light the still life properly, so instead of dramatic darks and lights I had complicated weak shadows from light from multiple sources. Not good! I’d like to draw this again, but with better lighting. Once again however I got to practice my lettering, explaining why my still life fit the word Fire.

CHAINS,SCRATCHY, SHALLOW, DANGEROUS etc INKTOBER CONTINUES

The word was Chains,, so I drew a bank of fast food store chains, all in a row. I could not find any photos for this so I had to imagine it.

The word was Shallow. My cat scratches the word work, and me, when I walk too fast past her, so she’s my Miss Scratchy Baby!

The word was Shallow. Sea turtles are swimming in shallow water when you can see their shadows on the sea floor beneath them.

The word was Dangerous. This drawing depicts a young man singing in the bathtub while radio blasts out music, but little does he know the vibrations threaten to topple the radio into the tub…and we all know what happens then!

The word was Remove, so I drew an eviction as that’s how landlords remove an undesired tenant from their properties.

This time the word Beast suggested a young girl, understood to be beautiful, who looks in the mirror and sees only a beast. I don’t think this beast successfully captured what I wanted to depict, but there you have it.

This time the word was Sparkle, which stumped me until a friend said “eyes sparkle” and suggested I draw a detailed eye. Thank you, Mizzy!

Angel, Demon, Saddle, Plump, Frost— Inktober2023

Destroying Angel is an extremely poisonous mushroom in the Amanita genus.

Demon or Daimon can mean a god or deity so i chose to draw the Venus of Dolni Vestonice found in the Czech Republic and perhaps as old as 29,000 years. One of the oldest ceramic objects ever found.

Saddle shoes are full of nostalgia for me whereas saddles that go in horses etc mean little.

The word Plump brought to mind a plump ripe fig nearly bursting its skin with sweetness.

First frost of the season is coming soon and there are not enough shelters for all of these fellow human beings…

More Inktober 2023

day 14 is Castle. I drew the school in Sançerre, France, where I went in 2019. Cœur de France is actually situated in a small castle.


Monday’s prompt will be Angel, so I drew two Destroying Angel amanita mushrooms. (Below)

day 13 the prompt was Rise…

Day 12 the prompt was Spicy, misspelled as Spicey…I couldn’t think of anything to draw except spicy hot peppers

Tomorrow’s prompt is Dagger.

Inktober 2023 – first week plus

Day 7 prompt is Drip
Day 6 prompt is Golden
Day 8 prompt is Toad
Day 9 prompt is Bounce

prompt on day 5 was Map

prompt was Fortune on day 10

prompt for day 11 tomorrow is Wander, of which I did two versions.