Inktober 2026 #8: Stinky

Martin · 17 hours (10:59 PM · Oct 8, 2026)
A black and white illustration of an old sneaker with a visible odor wisping out of it. A skunk is standing behind it making a disgusted face. The sneaker is dirty and looks like an old skating shoe with the laces undone. The skunk's mouth is hanging open with his tongue out, and his eyes are clenched shut. The background is a nondescript gray that gets a bit lighter behind the skunk and fades a little darker at the bottom.

For today's Inktober prompt, "stinky", I asked my son what I should draw. He wanted a skunk, and I told him I didn't really want to draw a skunk, so he said a smelly shoe. When it came time to sit down and draw, I had to do both. 😎

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Inka brush for linework, the Old Paint brush and Flicks spray paint brush for texture, and the Gouache brush for shading.

If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:

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