I was looking forward to doing inktober and wanted to try making 31 comic book like ‘frames’ in which a story was told using the prompt. For example for ‘crunch’ I was planning to do a side view of a cyclist looking down on his phone, while in the background you could see the lorry driving up.
Used a great part of september brainstorming the prompts, made almost 31 small scale drawings (and even more miniatures to try different angles etc.).
Then I started thinking “But what will I get from this years inktober?” It’ll cost me a lot of time which I might be better off spending on the foundations courses or trying to further myself in illustrating a short story (for that ambition of one day creating a comic book..). And time-wise I just know I won’t be able to spend the amount of time I want on each illustration and create a number of drawings which could be better with just a bit more time and attention.
At the same time I really enjoy the creative process of inktober and the thrill of creating stuff then seeing how others tackled the prompt.
As a in between solution I opted to only do the four thursday prompts to coincide with Inktober52.
The hard thing though is that with Inktober I have a physical list and goal to work towards which really gets me in the focus mode (31 drawing, in ink done in october and posted on IG). And I know from previous editions this really works for me. And I know the generic ideals of ‘doing more SVScourses’, ‘participate in the monthly challenge’,’illustrate a fable’, ‘do the inktober52 drawings’ lack in this aspect and I find I miss the drive (?) to tackle these.