Here's my twenty-sixth illustration for Inktober 2021, this one for the prompt "connect"!

This was one that I struggled with. Initially, I wanted to draw a man pumping gas into his car, and noticing that both the car and the pump had odd looks on their faces - but it didn't fit well in the square panel, so I quickly changed course to the idea you see above.

As always, there's a time-lapse of me making this below!

For the first drawing of the last week of Inktober 2021, I drew this fly - or what's left of him, anyway. The prompt for this one is "splat".

Originally, I thought I'd make the fly a lot smaller, draw more of the flyswatter, and have the handle of it blur off into the distance. When I actually got started, I decided I wanted to make the splat take up more space, and so this is what that idea turned into.

Time-lapse of this illustration below!

Here's my twenty-fourth illustration for Inktober 2021! This one is for the prompt "extinct", and I've flipped the roles of dinosaur and human.

Should the dinosaur have been in clothes? This was something I thought about while drawing this. I'm still not sure, but I like how it came out nonetheless.

Time-lapse below!

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: