Links - October Posts
Links - October Posts

Links - October Posts

Art

Moving News

I counted and confirmed that I have moved over 25 times in my life, averaging over once every two years. I have had several supposedly-permanent homes in my life, and just now moved into my third purchased "forever" home in my adulthood. No wonder I have developed a strong distaste for moving and a pessimistic outlook on longterm plans.

At least we have fully vacated our rental home of the past two years and have everything out of storage; we have everything we own on the current premises. We need to finish unpacking and find places for what we want to keep and discard what we do not want to keep, but at least everything is in one house again.

Dogtober Results

Prepare yourself for a shock: I actually managed an art goal. o.O

Yes, I managed to sketch 31 canid characters in the month of October, which I dubbed "Dogtober" after completely failing to even start what was meant to be "Dogust." Most sketches are just rough doodles, a form in a bland pose, but I still managed them, and it gave me insights for how I want to approach future art challenges.

The above links go to polls with batches of four sketches per poll, asking you which character sketch of each batch you would like to see inked and colored.

November Art Challenge

On that topic, I decided to continue the daily drawing challenge and looked for November challenges. I found three concepts I liked so much that I decided I would do a mix of them: Grateful November, Novembug, and Posevember.

  • Grateful November: I have been sour and preoccupied with stresses in recent months, and would like to turn around my mood -- even if I cannot turn around my circumstances -- by focusing on the good things in my life, rather than the bad things.
  • Novembug: I never draw insects, so doing so would be a complete change of pace.
  • Posevember: I do need to study figure drawing more than I do and have already been trying to improve the habit.

Questions:

  1. For what things are you grateful?
  2. Do you have an insect that you especially like? Or dislike?

Additional Details:

Category: Sharpclaw Comic

Chapter: Update