Be nice to the herbivore hedgehogs!
It took me a while to remember the English word for this animal. In Danish it’s called “pindsvin” which literally translates to “stick pig”. Free random Danish lesson of the day, you’re welcome!
My uniball pen went dry 10 seconds into inking this drawing, so I switched to the Stabilo marker (the orange one in the photo). I definitely need to go pen shopping soon, and what better time for it than the month of Inktober?
It’s cookie o’clock!
For me this is usually around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. I love having homemade cookie dough (chocolate chip and almonds 🤤) in the freezer. Sadly there is none right now, I wonder where it went.
I found this drawing to work best in black and white (I also only used black ink and a grey marker to draw it).
In my other Inktober posts so far, I’ve posted the photo of my drawing with no editing on here, and most days I’ve added a filter in the Instagram version. I use the filters for variation in look, and because it’s hard for me to post on Instagram without filters, because it’s so much fun to play with different colours/lighting.
Snack time for the blue whale:
“Just one more krill and then I’ll put the bag away” said no whale with krill dust around its mouth ever.
I did a bit of research (yes, googling) today about blue whales, and this article by National Geographic explains that blue whales actually don’t waste their energy on small patches of krill. But hey, who says I need to start being accurate about things on here.
A bit about drawing tools:
I always forget to say which drawing tools I use, so here I’ve included them in the photo.
I’ve used the black pen (uniball AIR) for the thin lines in all my Inktober drawings and have been using mainly Stabilo markers for colouring.
Today I switched it up and used these Winsor & Newton water colour markers. I bought them this summer but haven’t used them a lot, because I’ve had trouble getting the technique right. But it worked out allright on the whale, even though my Inktober notepad isn’t water colour paper, yay!
The most cruel thing you can say to a pumpkin this close to Halloween is probably:
People sometimes tell me my drawings are cute. I guess they are, and I mostly don’t mind getting the comment, because I know I like to draw cute and fun things.
However, I don’t necessarily aim for every doodle to turn out cute, it often just happens anyway!
I also draw a lot of ugly, half-finished, abstract, boring and weird doodles that don’t make it to the blog. But I might start sharing some of those, for more artistic diversity.
The creative orange juices are flowing!
I have trouble drawing glass/ transparent objects, so this was mainly an exercise in that. I’m not thrilled with the result, but the point of Inktober is to practice, so that’s what I’ll do.
I got new Stabilo markers for my birthday which I’m using to put a bit of colour on my Inktober doodles.
I also got gouache paint which I’ve never really used before, so I want to get into that soon.
The wonderful, beige, smelly goo that is my sourdough starter is very precious to me.
I haven’t checked yet, but I’m hoping there’ll be lots of Gollums on Inktober today for the prompt “precious”.
If I got the question: “There’s a fire in your house, what do you grab before running out of the building?”, I think I would answer: “My sourdough!”.
If my boyfriend and neighbours were safe, obviously! I’m not Gollum (yet).
I actually had a dream last night that there was a fire and I got out of the house in a non-dramatic way. So I decided to go back in through the window to get my phone.
When I told my boyfriend about the dream this morning, he immediately yelled:
“YOU DON’T GO BACK FOR THE PHONE!”
Like he thought I was going to do that IRL. Which I don’t think I would do. I have a feeling he wouldn’t react well to me running to get my sourdough starter either.
Cats have a way of always becoming the centre of attention.
They literally take centre stage like the stars they are by sleeping on top of boxes and papers and other objects that humans thought they were going to use at that moment.
I wonder who’s more exhausted today: me after a whole weekend of birthday celebrations (yay/yikes, I’m 30!) – or the actor who played Tarzan in the musical that I went to see yesterday.
Probably me, because Tarzan is in a lot better shape than I am. Which justifies me posting this a day late, maybe!
I’m super happy as well, though – about the musical as well as all the birthday fun.
I bake and eat soooo much delicious cake at the moment (partly because it’s my birthday weekend but mainly just because CAKE). I should change my glasses to ones that look like these:
Donut eat your glasses though! Sorry.
This chicken is back! Doing autumn things and keeping its neck warm, of course.
Such a sensible chicken.
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