Here's my July entry: Unforgiving Foliage

An S.O.S. from Saturn's ring:

Did anyone else ever leave a spoon under their pillow to tip the odds of a snow day in their favor? Wearing pajamas inside out also helped

Here's something I threw together quickly today! It's a little sloppy, but I got the idea onto paper, so I'm happy

Maybe not very Halloween-esque, but that wasn't a requirement, right?

Husky:

Enchanted:

Sorry this isn't scanned! I'm working exclusively from my phone right now. The colors stayed true enough to the physical painting I think. . . But here's my entry: Godzilla in Thailand

Swing:

Pattern: (I did not intend this one to take as long as it did )

When the teacher brings a special guest. . .

Here's something I did today for a Julike prompt: your favorite superhero in your childhood dream job. So, Wonder Woman as a botanist/landscaper. I'll work on painting it tomorrow!

I don't know about Arteza ( I've heard of it, but never used it), but I find buying all the premixed colors in a set like that deceptively more difficult than just mixing from a few. Maybe the wide variety is good for some people, but I've heard painters complain that it's simply a marketing ploy to sell more paint. Maybe it depends on style! I don't know. But that's my first thought when it comes to sets of paints. I would lean towards buying a few tubes of the high quality pigments. I feel like in one of the foundation classes Will gave a list of 5 or so pigments that you can mix basically everything else from. Can't remember which class though, sorry I do love gouache though! It's a forgiving medium.

@Coreyartus very true! That's a great way of putting it

I can't say much about the publishing side of things, but as a member of the LGBT community I can say for certain that there is a market for more inclusive children's books. I'm willing to bet it's a growing market too! I know I'll want to read books with my kids someday that have families with two moms.

If you think about Steven Universe or the Lumberjanes series, there ARE examples of popular kids media successfully including LGBT themes. I don't know about more traditional children's books, but I'm sure it's simply a matter of time!

I follow an artist on Instagram who's been doing this kind of stuff (noemie_illustration). Her work is beautiful! I'm not sure if her projects center on the LGBT concept or simply have it present.

I do want to say (perhaps unnecessarily, since this is touched on in other posts about representation) that you do need to be careful if you aren't actually a part of the community. I think it's wonderful (and ideal) that someone wants to depict the existence of families with gay parents as normal. But do your research to make sure you aren't unintentionally promoting harmful stereotypes, or just way off base on something. I guess it doesn't necessarily have to come from personal experience to feel authentic, but I think the more effort you put into knowing the subtle differences, the better your characters will resonate with the audience they're representing. (makes me think of this article I read the other day, as an example of something you might not realize makes a difference https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/upshot/same-sex-couples-divide-chores-much-more-evenly-until-they-become-parents.html).

I hope we do start seeing more representation! And hopefully we can get to the point as a society where we don't need to hesitate and we simply include without thinking about it.

I had this conversation with the doctor just yesterday! I've got a love-hate relationship with my tonsils right now

Maybe not very Halloween-esque, but that wasn't a requirement, right?

These are both from the beginning of the month when I was on top of things I've kept up with Inktober, but I haven't necessarily been making them all story based. . . I'll definitely plan on that for next year though!!

Ring:

Husky:

I'm behind on posting here

Ash:

Overgrown:

Legend:

Wild:

Ornament:

Swing:

Pattern: (I did not intend this one to take as long as it did )

Frail: I keep a lot of plants alive, but I still kill a few here and there

@Aleksey I also drew dead plants!