My twenty-third illustration for Inktober 2021, for the prompt "leak", is a trick-or-treater with a little candy problem.

I knew what I wanted to draw as soon as I started, but I struggled to get the pose of the character right. After a few attempts at winging it, I decided to dig into an animation book and get a reference pose. So thanks to The Animator's Survival Kit for saving me on this one.

I also had a hard time decided whether or not it might be better with a little vignette effect at the end, but ultimately decided against it. It's probably fine!

Time-lapse of my struggle below:

I've had to go to the dentist (and periodontist) for a number of reasons lately, and so my twenty-second illustration for Inktober is a dental scene. The prompt for this one is "open".

Time-lapse of me creating this one below!

I'm closing out the third week of Inktober 2021 with a rat eating some cheese, only to find a nasty patch of fuzzy mold on the side. The prompt for this one was "fuzzy".

I feel like I draw a rat or a mouse eating cheese at least once every time I do this project. If that's actually true, I blame all the cartoons I watched as a kid, like Tom & Jerry. So many cat/mouse chases. So many stolen morsels of cheese.

Time-lapse of me creating this drawing below!

For my twentieth illustration for Inktober 2021, I drew a man with a new hair!

Time-lapse below:

Here's my nineteenth Inktober illustration, for the prompt "loop".

I sat down at my iPad not knowing what I might draw. I thought about doing a mobius strip, or a cartoon character running on a conveyor belt. I had an idea about doing an infinite fall through a set of interconnected portals. I thought about somehow drawing the feedback loop you get through a mic and a sound system.

And then, after a moment of thought, a lightbulb appeared above my head. And then I draw this!

Time-lapse video below:

My eighteenth illustration for Inktober 2021 is a moon base - for the prompt "moon".

I almost ended up drawing a little cartoon character pulling his pants down and mooning the viewer. I should have drawn that first as my sketch, then gone over it with the moon base, as a little bonus. Perhaps next time.

This was a complicated one, so here's a rather long time-lapse of its creation:

Here's my seventeenth illustration for Inktober 2021, for the prompt "collide".

After the "compass" prompt, I was really excited to get something a little more open in terms of possibilities, but as the day wore on and I ticked each of my chores off the list, I could feel the time slipping.

So in the end, I sort of phoned it in with this drawing. And I still had trouble getting it done fast, because I had a lot of trouble finding the right balance between black and white. I don't think it's quite there yet, honestly - but I'm done working on it. Time is a thing that you often just can't appreciate until you don't have enough of it.

And speaking of time, here's a time-lapse of me creating this thing:

Here's my sixteenth illustration for Inktober 2021, this one for the prompt "compass", which I've treated quite literally.

It's not my favorite piece of this project, but unfortunately I had a lot of other things to do today, and I didn't have time to do something more creative. I was able to make good use of Procreate's radial drawing guide for this one, however!

You can see how in the time-lapse below:

Here's my fifteenth illustration for Inktober 2021, for the prompt "helmet".

I debated drawing the Soldier from Team Fortress 2 for this one, but ultimately decided against it. I didn't want to spend a lot of time worrying about making it look like something people were already familiar with.

That said, the screaming dude in a helmet is sort of infamous already, but at least I expanded on that a bit!

Time-lapse of the creation process below:

Kaboom! Inktober illustration fourteen is here, for the prompt "tick" - and it's a cartoon bomb!

No disgusting drawings of ticks sucking blood. Not this time, anyway.

Time-lapse video below: