Talk About Tuesday 241

Blather commences:

Happy October 1st, everyone! It's the first day of Halloween :P

It's also a gray, drizzly day here at the Blanket Fort. It's 56℉ (~13℃) with 85% humidity. The sky is one solid gray dome against which some very confused trees are waving their branches, dotted hesitantly with fall color. The cat is asleep in a blanket fort of her own. I'm on my second cup of coffee and got my first uninterrupted 6 hours of sleep in over a week! Hooray!

Today being the first of October, it's also a very, very special day, if you're an artist.

It's the first day of Inktober, a month-long art challenge where participants draw one image a day (using ink!) based on a set of prompts!

I participated last year, but I found it difficult to keep things straight in my head because I was also covering previous years' prompts. Not so this year! I'm doing 2019's prompts, and I'm going to do them with an art project I completed this morning.

Meet Inkpad:

That's right, I made my own Inktober Sketchbook!

I've never bound a book before today, and it's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but with a little effort and a lot of wasted string and thread, here it is. I took 20 sheets of legal size printer paper and folded them in half to form 5 different quires (and yes I looked that term up and probably still used it wrong). These were then sewn along their edges and then together to form the actual book itself. The edge was then covered in washi tape because that's what I had.

Here's what the Prompts this year are:

1. Ring
2. Mindless
3. Bait
4. Freeze
5. Build
6. Husky
7. Enchanted
8. Frail
9. Swing
10. Pattern
11. Snow
12. Dragon
13. Ash
14. Overgrown
15. Legend
16. Wild
17. Ornament
18. Misfit
19. Sling
20. Thread
21. Treasure
22. Ghost
23. Ancient
24. Dizzy
25. Tasty
26. Dark
27. Coat
28. Ride
29. Injured
30. Catch
31. Ripe

I have no idea what I'm going to draw for each of these but the plan is that I'll draw each prompt, then post them on my Twitter every day before collecting the ones I've finished so far that week on Thursday (while also updating you on the bubble art!).

Aside from that, however, I'd also like to keep you up-to-date on what I'm doing this week (in addition to Inktober)

• Tomorrow I'll be writing about AEW, the nonsense I'm hearing about with WWE, and my desperate excitement for new wrestling on TV!
• Thursday Art Walk will be more bubbles plus three days of Inktober!
• Filmic Friday will be about Scarface
• Saturday Casual Gaming is proooobably going to be about a very silly Idle game I just played.
• Survival Sunday might be something good - we'll see lol
• Fiber Monday should be the end of our Pumpkin Spice Set, which will be nice. I already have ideas for what to make next, leading into Halloween :)
• Next Tuesday we'll reconvene at the blog for more updates, lol

So that's the next 7 days!

If you guys have any questions or suggestions for things to do on here, please feel free to leave a comment - I promise, I don't bite, and I try very hard not to be a butthead.

Go Enjoy Something!

FC