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| Trick 'R' Treat! |
Like you, I'm hesitantly acclimating to the horrors of the new normal (without pretending there's anything normal about it). I find myself wistfully looking back on a simpler time--
last month-- when I allowed myself the fun of indulging in some
fake horror: the annual Drawlloween & Inktober challenges.
Hurrying to post an ink drawing on an assigned theme every day proved a refresher course in the many ways an image can go south from concept to finish, and in the ways things go wrong at the last minute-- train delays, unresponsive computers, and other interruptions. A few of the pictures posted past midnight into the next day. But it was great for warming up, trying techniques, and developing spontaneity. I surprised myself more than once.
The drawings? There were
weird ones,...
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| Thursday the Thirteenth |
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| They Came from Outer Space! (Inktober: "Box") |
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| Mechanical Monstrosity |
wild ones,...
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| Full Moon! |
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| Superstition Sunday |
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| Demonday |
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| Horses & Headless Men |
sad ones,...
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| Drive-In Creature Feature |
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| Scarecrow Row |
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Black Caturday
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girly ones,...
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| 8 Legs, 1,000 Eggs |
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| Ghosts-A-Go-Go |
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| Witchcraft Wednesday ("flight") |
silly ones,...
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| Slimy Swamps, Foggy Bogs |
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| Call of C'Thursday (Inktober: "Creepy") |
& even a
self-aggrandizing one.
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| Phantom Phriday ("Big") |
But then, god help us, one of these
nightmares came true:
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| Nosfera-Tuesday |
