Oh my goodness! Can you believe it’s Wednesday already? Can you believe it’s the 28th of October already? Time is flying by this month!! I keep thinking it’s Tuesday.

This Sunday, I’ll share a final #Inktober post in a gallery format with all the drawings in one place along with final reflections about the experience, and plans for the future

Day 22: I loved this girl’s expression. I think I captured her joy, but the reference photo was even cuter. Filed under “Try, try again.”

Day 23: I LOVE this girl’s ears. This wasn’t a study, but just something I drew from my head. Simple, but direct.

Day 24: Halloween Witches are out! I liked this girl. I noticed this week I got a bit iffy with the feet, so that’s something I’m going to pay closer attention to in the future.

Day 25: Medusa takes a dance class. I LOVE Medusa. I have such a soft spot for her, and loved the idea of her taking a dance class and not having it work out so well.

Day 26 Mom and I met this girl in line at a store, and she was SO friendly, charming and I wish I had all my pens with me. She had on ALL the colors and I think the world is a brighter place with her in it. 🙂

Day 27- My favorite baby. I often draw this little baby or a version of him when I’m feeling a little stressed out. Something about the roundness of him, and all his little shapes and well. I love drawing him!

That’s it for this week! Today through Saturday I’ll post daily updates on Instagram, and then Sunday you’ll see all the drawings. 🙂 Thank you for being here!

Here are all the #inktober drawings from this week:

Day 15: I loved drawing this one! I have naturally straight/wavy hair, so I love drawing curly hair! This was a great opportunity to practice drawing a face in full profile too, something that often leads to my ripping the paper from vigorous erasing.

Day 16: I had a terrific migraine this day. I drew this quickly after the Excedrin had kicked in, posted it and then retreated back into a dim room and rested. Migraines are the pits!

Bonus Inktober: I drew this the next day. My head still ached, but the migraine had passed 🙂 There was much (quiet) celebrating!

Day 17: Decorating Cookies. I don’t know about you, but half the fun of decorating cookies as a kid was trying to eat most of the ingredients. And of course eating the cookies that broke in the oven. “Oh nooo, we can’t give these to company!” Mom would say “I guess we’ll just have to eat them!” Best Mom ever. I “break” cookies coming out of the oven as an adult now. “Oh noooo” 😀

Day 18: This is my friend’s son Wyatt. I really enjoyed sketching him because he looks SO MUCH like my friend. Plus, how cute is his bowtie?

Day 19: This was the only one I forgot to label! Remember what it was like to draw with your face RIGHT UP near the drawing? As a kid, you have to get as close as possible to the paper so the image in your head has a better chance of showing up on the paper. Plus you could smell the crayons on paper and that’s a wonderful smell, right?

Day 20: I was really happy with how this turned out. Its’ not perfect, but I feel like I am getting the hang of blending colors better with the copics. Plus, I just like the way he’s looking at someone off the page.

Day 21: Bubbles in the Wind. I had a lot of fun with this one. There are some proportion issues (I’m looking at you arm!) but I loved drawing bubbles, wind blown hair and getting the expression for blowing bubbles.

That is it for this week! 😀 Thanks for stopping by and checking out my work! See you again next week 😀

Another week of #inktober is gone, and again I’m just delighted with the daily drawing exercise. I feel like I’m getting a lot of experience points in drawing children. I’ve also had more parents send me pictures of their children saying “Would you sketch mine?” I don’t think there’s a nicer compliment. Here are the drawings:

Day 8: This is one of my favorites, not just because of the result, but because of the process in drawing this boy. I loved his pose and expression in the reference photo, and it was an exciting challenge to capture that.

Day 9: I remember wishing I could take a nap, so this image really captured my wish for napping that day 🙂 I also have a soft spot for teddy bears.

Day 10: I was very grouchy on this day, and I had a LOT on my plate that day so this was drawn at breakfast on the back of my grocery list. I made faces while I drew. 😛

Day 11: I almost forgot to draw for inktober on day 11! I was so busy working on Warrior Cat that I drew this at the end of the day. I used 3 different photos of different girls to come up with this one. In the end she reminds me of a friend’s daughter, and I thought “I could’ve just looked at a photo of her!” 😀 Funny how our subconscious minds work!

Day 12: This one is another favorite of mine. Profiles are a challenge for me, so I was really pleased to make progress with this one. Plus the boys are relatives of mine, so I have a little bias when it comes to the warm fuzzies 🙂

Day 13: I loved this photo sent to me. His sippy cup was HUGE and his book is HUGE and he carried them around like a boss.

Day 14: Drawing this girl was a wonderful experience 🙂

I am really having a ball drawing children this week! It’s been such a good exercise to study faces, proportions, and try to figure out markers and pens.  Using a topic theme like “Children” and just drawing every day reminds me how much I enjoy drawing. Even the days when I don’t love the results, I learn a lot, and it unlocks that determination of “I’m gonna keep going until I get it right!” mentality I had when I was a kid drawing horses.

Here’s the week of drawings:

Inktober Day 1: I drew a small boy holding cookies. Using a Micron Pen and Copic Markers.. I don’t have an extensive Copic collection, most of mine are just shades of grey, but even with a few colors, I find I can push it pretty far.

Day 2 Girl looks up. Ah perspective, my old enemy. I really enjoyed drawing this one. Thank heavens for photo references. I’m going to keep practicing this sort of perspective until we’re good friends.

Day 3 Baby wearing Headphones. This one I did in the wee hours of the night. I couldn’t sleep and after staring at my ceiling, I decided to draw. The headphones are wonky in this drawing, but considering the circumstances, I gave myself a pass. If I was drawing this for a client though, I would’ve redrawn this until it was proportionally correct.

Day 4: Girl Running: This one I did have to redraw several times until I got it right. Chins in profile. This poor girl had many, many chins. Not all at once, but oh the sadness of her chins before this one.

Day 5: Boy with screen. This one was fun too. I liked showing him from a different angle and drawing chubby cheeks.

Day 6: Children’s Choir.  This was the one that I wish I had more markers to work with. But I  loved working on this one and showing a group of kids together. I plan on finishing this one in Photoshop and sharing it with you next week here on the blog.

Day 7: Blowing out the candles.

October is “Inktober”

Inktober is a fun time for a lot of artists because it’s an excuse to draw anything every day and share it! How it works is easy! You draw something with pen or ink, share it online with the hashtag #inktober. You can draw everyday, once a week, however often you wish! It’s a great drawing exercise and fun. 

This #inktober, I’ll be drawing children, You don’t have to pick a theme, but for me, drawing children isn’t as easy as I’d like it, and this is a fun opportunity to try on different techniques and get a lot of good practice in. I’ll share my #inktober drawings on Instagram daily, and continue to update weekly* on this blog each Wednesday.

Read about Inktober from the creator, Mr. Jake Parker and download some cool templates and icons like the one you see in this post!

*Provided the internet is working and I am able to post. Apparently country living has some downsides 🙂 I think the cows in the neighboring farm are messing with the Wi-Fi