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INKTOBER 2022 Day #26: (ALTER) EGO. PMD is my alter ego. Or maybe I'm his alter ego. That's become a bit of a grey area... I had zero ideas for the prompt. The definition conjured nothing. Doing image searches was uninspiring. Then I decided to search for phrases with the word ego in it.

INKTOBER 2022 Day #25: TEMPTING. At long last, a Star Wars reference! When I saw this prompt, I figured I had to relate it to being tempted by the dark side of the Force. I went through a few different iterations in my Brain, including having Squid Vader standing (...does a squid stand?) on

INKTOBER 2022 Day #24: FAIRY. When the Tooth Fairy gets a visit from the Plunger Fairy. I had no idea what I was going to do with this prompt. All I could think of was making PMD a fairy of some kind, but that just seemed too on the nose and boring. I tried

Inktober 2022 Day #23: BOOGER. I can't believe I made it to prompt 23 before making a Calvin and Hobbes reference. There is a classic strip of Calvin exiting his house, dressed for the snow. He makes it one step before making a crazy face, covers his nose, and asks "don't you hate it

INKTOBER 2022 Day #22: HEIST. It belongs in a museum! When I saw this prompt, my initial thought was that seen from the first Mission Impossible movie, where Ethan Hunt is dangling from the ceiling, trying not to trigger the alarms as he makes his digital heist. But it ultimately just didn't resonate with

INKTOBER 2022 Day #21: BAD DOG. Okay, I'm not saying a squid wouldn't be an awesome pet, I'm just saying a squid would be a bad dog. Probably. This is another one that amuses me. The dog treat, the leash and collar, and of course the irony of PMD "telling" his squid to speak.

INKTOBER 2022 Day #20: BLUFF. I was originally trying to think of a cliff-based take on this prompt, because I couldn't figure out how to do a card theme for bluffing. Then I thought about just the close up of PMD's hand with an obvious fake card, and then I wondered who he'd be

INKTOBER Day #19: PONYTAIL. Get it? What? I did have a few other boring ideas before this one hit me, but there was no way I could pass on this one. It makes me chuckle, there's absolutely no other reason behind it.

INKTOBER 2022 Day #18: SCRAPE. This was yet another prompt I struggled with. There were a lot of different directions I could have gone in, and more came to mind as I was working on this one. But, at the end of the day, I had to pick one and go with it. I'm

INKTOBER 2022 Day #17: SALTY. Who doesn't salt their bananas (...does anyone salt their bananas?)? I have found the prompts for this year to be particularly challenging. It's taking me longer to come up with ideas that I find acceptable, and I have yet to reference or pay homage to Calvin and Hobbes or

INKTOBER 2022 Day #16: FOWL. If you know, you know. And if you don't know, I decided to reference my favorite little tongue twister again: 10 Things, also known as The Announcer's Test or One Hen, Two Ducks. The next line should be "three squawking geese", but PMD is doing it his way, of

INKTOBER 2022 Day #15: ARMADILLO. Here we see the rare plungerdillo making friends with it's close evolutionary cousin...Okay, I really wanted to come up with a unique and novel take on this prompt, but couldn't come up with anything, so I just had fun with it (meaning PMD puts a plunger on the thing).