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:

My thirteenth illustration for Inktober 2021, for the prompt "roof", features a cozy dog sleeping in his house on a stormy night.

Originally I was planning on drawing a tiled roof at an isometric perspective, and having it be interesting just by the repetitiveness of it all, but then this idea popped into my head, and I ran with it. It's always nice to have an idea of what I'm doing before I sit down to draw!

Time-lapse video below:

A push-pin is the subject matter for my twelfth Inktober 2021 illustration, for the prompt "stuck"!

And here's a time-lapse of me making this drawing. Check it out:

My eleventh illustration for Inktober 2021 has a witchy witch offering you a very sour apple. Would you like a bite?

I'm always a little hesitant to do drawings that are Halloween-ish just because it's October, and even though I love Halloweed, I don't really want the whole event to be a Halloween art project. One or two can't hurt though!

Time-lapse of the witch and her apple being created below!

Here's my tenth illustration for Inktober 2021, this one for the prompt "pick".

I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do for this prompt, and I got a late start on it, so I ended up leaning on some of my old work and creating another drawing of one of these toy crane games. The last time I did one of these was for Chalk It Up 2014!

The time-lapse for this one is below, and it includes a small bonus sketch at the beginning, from when I didn't know what I wanted to draw.