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INKTOBER 2023 Day #18: SADDLE. “I seem to be finding a lot of excuses to incorporate elements from my graphic-novel-in-the-works, ‘Revery’, into these prompts. It’s obviously a sign I need to spend more time working on it, but in the meantime, I can do a little world building and play around with some visuals

INKTOBER 2023 Day #17: DEMON. “…I may have gotten a little carried away with this one. It clocks in at just about eight hours over a few sessions. So many fun details and textures, plus drawing samurai stuff is just cool (says the martial artist of several decades…). It also sparks yet another idea

INKTOBER 2023 Day #16: (SNOW) ANGEL. “I love the snow. I love ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. Any time I draw snow, I try to channel Bill Watterson, so here’s PMD making a Calvin-esque snow angel. Also, I kinda want PMD’s snowpants: purple with yellow flowers. They’d be great when I go snowboarding.” Are you enjoying

INKTOBER 2023 Day #15: DAGGER. “’Thunder! Thunder! Thunder Monkey, HOOO!’ I watched a lot of cartoons in the 80s that not only shaped my youth but influenced me as an artist and creator in big and small ways. I have probably forgotten more shows and intellectual properties than I can remember, and to be

INKTOBER 2023 Day #14: CASTLE. “By the power of Plunger Skull… This was time consuming, but I had to do it. The focus is obviously the castle, but I wanted to throw He-Monkey in there. I drew once before in an Inktober 52 2023 prompt, which I guess means he may become a regular

INKTOBER 2023 Day #13: RISE. “In all the years I have participated in Inktober to date, I have somehow neglected to pay homage to one of my all-time favorite graphic novels: ‘Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind’. It’s a captivating, epic story set in a war-ravaged, post-apocalytic-ish, ecological disaster where giant fungal forests and

INKTOBER 2023 Day #12: SPICEY. “This pretty sums up my reaction to spicey anything. I just can’t handle it. Even food that is hot in temperature will cause my face to sweat buckets, eyes to water, nose to run…it’s not fun. Mild salsa is a bit too much for me sometimes depending on the

INKTOBER 2023 Day #11: WANDER. “This prompt was really just an excuse for me to do some fun character designing. I’ve always been fascinated with the wanderer-type character in the fantasy novels I’ve read. I have a very romanticized vision of it, and it’s very appealing. Traveling the land with minimal possessions (there’s a

INKTOBER 2023 Day #10: FORTUNE. “New merch idea: Magic Monkey Ball. Like everyone's favorite fortune-telling device the Magic 8 Ball, but better because it’s filled with random Plunger Monkey pearls of wisdom, which I refer to as ‘PMD Brainisms’. My Brain frequently tells me strange things, weird word pairings, nonsensical new words, and wacky

INKTOBER 2023 Day #9: BOUNCE. “I don’t care what anyone else thinks, I find this absurdity hilarious. My first ideas were literal, focusing on things that bounce and whatnot, but that didn’t make me excited. Then I read the slang part of the definition and I immediately knew I had to head in that

INKTOBER 2023 Day #8: TOAD. “Plunger Monkey asking the important questions, as always. One of the first things I thought of for this prompt was the sort of B-list Marvel character, and member of Magneto’s ‘Brotherhood of Evil Mutants’, Toad. He may not actually be considered B-list, but he always felt like it to

INKTOBER 2023 Day #7: DRIP. “I don’t know if anyone will get ‘drip’ from looking at this. ‘Candle’, ‘light’, maybe some emotional state, but probably not ‘drip’. This is what came to mind, though, and it offered me some fun technical and creative opportunities (as well as yet another future merch idea: plunger candles…scent