Inktober 2025, Days 30-31 & October Monthly Check-in…

Hey All!

Happy Halloween!

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I drew that last night while watching October movies.

I wanted to show you the Inktober Bloomtober flowers that I finished. Also several of the things I was able to accomplish now that I am trying to do several things daily. This is a monthly wrap up post with a couple of new images and a quick list of various links to books and classes that I completed or started this month.

Inktober

This morning I finished the Flame Lily and the Hellebore flowers.

October Dailies Experiment

At the beginning of September I decided to try a little experiment. I created a list of things I wanted to accomplish daily to help me succeed at completing my monthly goals. Then I made a little drawing so that I could track the ‘streak’ of doing dailies…

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I may have added a few too many things this month… I added Sketchbook Bootcamp, and a Data Project that I need to work on… some days I had difficulty doing all the dailies. Overall, though, I think I did pretty good!

I was able to:

  • read 2 books
  • read 5 short stories
  • attend 4 live online art workshops
  • finish an online class that I had started some time back
  • start and complete another online class
  • draw and/or paint nearly daily
  • read nearly daily
  • blog nearly daily

Learn daily was more difficult because some days I just ran out of time.

24-hr Comics Day

I sketched out a comic on 24-hr comics day.

Books

A Killing Frost (October Daye, Book 14) – Seanan McGuire

Shine in Pearl (Lorden short story) – Seanan McGuire

Keep Going – Austin Kleon

Poor Fancy’s Followers (Tybalt short story) – Seanan McGuire

Our Trial Patience (Tybalt short story) – Seanan McGuire

Earth for Charity (Tybalt short story) – Seanan McGuire

Mean and Mighty (Tybalt short story) – Seanan McGuire

Currently Reading:

Draw Like a Boss – Ashley Edge

When Sorrows Come (October Daye, Book 15) – Seanan McGuire

Classes

Animals with Human Personalities – Florian Satzinger

Master the Basics/ Paint Cute Animals with Ease – Watercolor for Beginners – Sarah Amijo

✔ Deep Dive – Art Nest – Peggy Dean

✔ Live Make Hour – Art Nest – Peggy Dean

Sketchbook Workshop #1 – Peggy Dean

Sketchbook Workshop #2 – Peggy Dean

Currently Watching:

Digital Illustration, Character Design, & Lighting Techniques – The Art Mother

Other Daily Drawings

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It’s a fun exercise to see just how much I was able to accomplish this month. Wow and Yay me! 🙂

Until next time…

~nic

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