Inktober Day 31 Friend

In keeping the spirit of the Halloween holiday, I give you "friend." 

I did it, peeps!!  All 31 days, woohoo!

Now on to Halloween happenings!

Here's my boss's daughter with her man and their daughter.  Soooo cute!  She found the idea on Pinterest and executed fabulously, I think.

Driving on Halloween, I came across this enormous flying witchipoo!  She's taller than the streetlight on the right.

Inktober Day 30 Wreck

Life as wrecking ball, face as building.  

Life isn't always so rosy, n'est pas?

Inktober Day 29 Surprise

I have to admit, I pondered upon this for awhile.  I figured there would be a lot of people doing a surprise party or a birthday gift, I mean, that was my immediate thought.  All along I have wanted to interpret these words in my own way.  Here's when a surprise might not always be a pleasant one.

Inktober Day 27 Creepy

Ah, this is a personal favorite.  I wasn't quite sure how to convey the word creepy without evoking some haunted house scene.  I think I might have got it...

inktober Day 26 Box

How to elevate a drawing of a box?  Give it the one, two, three treatment by Sammy Hagar.

Sketchbook

Sammy Hagar - Waaaaaaaaaaaay before Van Halen (1982).

"One, Two, Three Lock Box"

Inktober Day 25 Tired

I was going to draw myself for today, but decided I felt like I more represented the word "exhausted."  I have GOT to get some sleep.  However, the World Series is on tonight and that only comes around once a year so my slumber prospects look slim.

I feel this fellow that emerged from my pen is probably way more tired than I.

Inktober Day 24 ONE DOZEN

A juggler and a baker!

Tonight I went to the grocery store determined to buy only the healthiest ingredients possible.  I also ambled over to the magazine section where I always spend way too much money.  Bruce Springsteen was on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine and there was also a great article on Sturgis Simpson in there, but it was $6.99 and yet, contained so few pages.  I already have Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run, so I decided to pass.  But then, what's this?  A new cooking magazine by Chris Kimball called Milk Street Magazine.  Build flavor without searing meat before stewing?  Roast oranges?  Create Asian coleslaw?  What?  I flip to the front--the price is...$6.99.  And I put it into my cart and decide there's so many recipes and different foods in the universe that I just am going to have to die early with a very well-developed palate.  What can I do?  I am helpless in the face of culinary adventure.

Inktober Day 23 SLOW

The slow road up the ladder of success...feels like an eternity sometimes, I think.

Inktober Day 22 SMALL

So small!

Inktober Day 21 Big

I happen to love this chica (Miley Cyrus) and respect her frank honesty and vocal ability (seriously, she can belt Led Zeppelin's, "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"). She also has a seriously big tongue.

Miley Sings Zeppelin:

Inktober Day 20 Squeeze

Inktober Day 19 FLIGHT

Went to see the phenomenal Chris Robinson sing tonight (from Black Crowes and now Chris Robinson Brotherhood), and I'm so committed to getting these days out, that I took my sketchbook into the concert and drew this before the show started and during an intermission!  Super drawing geek!  But I did rock out otherwise!

Inktober Day18 ESCAPE

How many times have I felt this way?

Inktober Day 17 BATTLE

A little inner battle...and a little nod to one of my all-time idols, Keith Richards. You tell it, Keef!

Inktober Day 16 WET

I happen to be a true lover of rainy day...so languid.  Ah...  I belong in Portland, I just know it!

Inktober Day15 RELAX

Relax

Is it only me or does anyone else always hear that Frankie Goes to Hollywood song in their head every time they hear the word "relax?"

Inktober Day14 TREE

"Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf - plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink." 

-- Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

Inktober Day 13 SCARED

Um, I could have down something Halloween-like, or something gory, but why?  This terror is every dieter's nightmare!  (P.S., Don't diet--then this won't be scary.  Life's too short, ya' know?  Just have a few thin mints and skip that scale.  Rake some extra leaves instead, my sweets!)

Girlscout (although the size of that tiny mitten suggests a "Brownie."):  "It's our annual Girl Scout cookie sale, Mrs. Jones.  Two for the price of one!"

Mrs. Jones (on the day of her weigh in):  "Help me!"

Inktober Day12 WORRIED

Just a bit of levity, people! (-;

inktober Day 11 TRANSPORT

I think films, books, music, all can take you to another place, time, emotion, no?  Without even leaving your immediate surroundings, these art forms can take you to heights and depths of the human existence.  With the "inktober" word, transport, I could have been very literal and drawn a car, truck, train, or plane.  I'd rather take flight figuratively to worlds imagined and feelings often unfurled in daily life.