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InkTober: Day 6 – Hidden

When I was a child, I played a lot of hide-and-seek. Looking back, I think the easier games I played were with my cousins, when we played indoors. Whether they were visiting my house or I was visiting theirs, it was almost guaranteed that the youngest children in the group would be found hidden together in a closet, behind a sofa or whichever rooms had the longest curtains at the windows. I imagine it was scary to hide alone in a dark place when they were so young, but my older cousins and I always took advantage of knowing where to look first and for who.

As an aside, I noticed yesterday that I’ve been drawing things on a slant. I’m not sure if it’s because of the way I’m positioning my sketchbook or holding my pens. Whatever the reason, I made a conscious effort to eliminate the slant today, and then realized while I was doing so that I need to learn how to scale objects better, and draw the angles and correct perspective of things.

InkTober - Day 6 - Hidden

InkTober: Day 5 – Sad

Technically, I’ve never lost a pet. I say that because I don’t think one goldfish eating another is a pet going astray. When I was a little girl, my parents weren’t big on having animals in the house so my pet choices were limited to different varieties of fish that I could watch swimming in a bowl or small aquarium. Sadly, I can remember waking up one morning and there being one less fish in the aquarium. According to my parents it hadn’t died, so the only remaining conclusion was that the smallest fish was eaten by one of the larger fish. Although I wasn’t happy about that loss, I don’t remember being overly sad. I think I was more curious about how or why the poor little thing was gulped up.

I imagine I would have genuinely felt sad if I had lost a bigger pet, like a puppy.

InkTober - Day 5 - Sad

InkTober: Day 4 – Hungry

I know how ‘hungry’ feels, but drawing it is another matter. I looked at the InkTober prompt list before going to bed last night so I could give myself a chance to think of something clever or at least interesting to depict the prompt, however, that might have been a mistake. I’ve had plenty of good ideas, only to realize that the level of difficulty to create any of the images I’ve thought of is beyond what I can successfully, or more importantly, recognizably draw.

So I decided to stop thinking and just let my pencil go where it goes. I’ve been making a pencil sketch then filling in the ink after for my drawings, which is one of the InkTober graces I’m very happy to have while working on this month-long challenge.

Here’s what hungry looks like when I don’t think about it too hard…

InkTober - Day 4 - Hungry