Yesterday, while reading one of the art blogs I subscribe to, I saw that there's an art project that is similar to NaNoWriMo, the writing challenge that many published & unpublished authors take part in every November, where the goal is to write so many words per day, with the object of having written most of a novel by month's end. The one for artists began in 2009 and focuses on creating a certain number of ink drawings during the month of October and is called INKtober. There are several speeds one can do according to the official rules, which are based on running terms. The top category is to do a drawing every day, which is way out of my league. The half marathon is to do a drawing every other day, which is still more than I can handle with my arthritis and stamina. The 5K is more my speed, which is to do a drawing every week, ending up with 5 at the end of the month. I decided to try doing that and will be posting my projects every weekend until the deadline. All of my drawings will be small, 5" x 7", larger sizes would take me much longer, so this is more practical.
This is the drawing for Week #1, a young polar bear done in Micron pens, with the background design, which is intended to resemble wind whisps, made of grey felt tip art markers. It's done on Bristol board, a thick drawing paper that is my favorite surface for ink and mixed media.