Yay!!!! I have been so excited for this after participating my first time last year. <3 Starting on October 1st, the idea is just making it a point to doodle something every day. It can be as big or small as you want it to be, as long as you're drawing one thing every day for the whole month. It's a fun project!!! I still have my little sketchbook I bought for Inktober last year, and I'm excited to use it again!! I've been going through seeing what I doodled last year, and the majority of my doodles were done backstage in the dark, while I served as stage manager for "The Crucible"... for drawing in the dark, there are actually a few salvageable ones, LOL!! ;-)
I FINALLY finished this piece this week!!! Hmm... Now that I think about it, I'm not sure it qualifies as my biggest marker piece ever... My Charlotte's Web and Rei Hino pieces were about the same size. I guess this one feels bigger because there a lot of little details? Anyway, this was super fun to work on, and I found myself pulling it out when I just felt like I needed to relax a bit. Marker coloring is usually very relaxing to me!!! I think this would be a great picture to offer as print. I don't see myself parting with the original... I love it too much!!! <3
It's no secret to most people that I'm a big history buff. And after touring Colonial Williamsburg during our vacation last week, I've really had history on the brain. And that makes me think of a lot of things I would love to draw that are about history or that might encourage others to become interested in history! I've been brainstorming and I would really love to do little 8-10 page "chapters" of manga about something in history... for example, the fifties housewife (because this is something I've been very interested in lately). However, we all know that I'm pretty ADHD when it comes to sticking with one project in art, so... xD I think this would be my ultimate goal in achieving something with history. A few other ideas I've had are to do sketch cards titled "Humans of History", and give them a bit of narrative like the "Humans of New York" photographs. Also, to make some "Historical Fun Fact" note cards that you can buy in a set and then send the historical fun to your friends. Anyway, those are just some ideas... they sound a bit scatterbrained, even to me! I'd really love to make this happen in the future though, and so I'm always researching and writing down ideas... I think I hold myself back a lot of times. I think I have a good idea, but then I talk myself out of it because I think that it sounds silly to share with others. I'm not good at getting people interested in my art because I'm shy and just hold back in advertising to people what I'm doing most of the time... I know I need to put myself out there more!!
It's a busy weekend for us here, so I'm even more excited about Inktober, because this will keep me doing some art every day, even on the busy ones!!!
-Stasia-Chan '15
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