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The last Inktober prompt and illustration for 2019. "Ripe" was a tough one to come up with a decent idea for. I didn't want to go with bananas again. Eventually, I returned to one of my biggest artistic inspirations, especially when it comes to inking and comic-style work: Bill Watterson. I thought it was

I knew what PMD was going to be doing for "catch", but I wasn't sure what he was going to be catching. So, I asked my kids, one of which said "he should be catching a squid using a plunger". That's honestly where I was leaning, but I wanted another opinion. I guess my

I'm not sure if this reads as "injured" or not, but it's where my brain went. I'm trying to avoid the literal and obvious, and one of the definitions has to do with having injured pride or being upset and offended. Hopefully this reads as that, at least. I'm pretty happy with PMD's dejected

Maybe someday everyone will be waiting in a line to get on a Plunger Monkey "ride"? I've always entertained the notion that my comic book and fantasy ideas and creations would one day result theme parks, I hadn't really considered PMD as a feature, though. I think I can blame a childhood admiration for

I had to go literal again for "coat", I just couldn't resist putting PMD in the wool Tabbard Coat that I made. It was tough to capture the details of the coat and imply that wool blanket texture. I'm not sure how well I pulled it off, but it involved a lot of stippling

I didn't go super creative for "dark", but, I thought it would be fun to draw PMD with some drastically different lighting than anything I've done with him before. There are bits that I like, but overall I'm kind of "meh" about this one. I got very impatient with the cross hatching, and in

"Tasty" was a difficult one. But, it was an opportunity to draw PMD with yet another new expression so I went with the literal again. I was reluctant to use the banana as a prop yet again, so I added a little twist to it: it's wrapped in bacon. Because bacon. Bacon is actually

I've been trying to avoid the literal, but for "dizzy", I couldn't escape another Calvin and Hobbes reference. Have I mentioned how much I loved that strip and Bill Watterson? Well, I do. This was a scene of Hobbes stumbling around as Calvin watches, and in the last panel Calvin comments that Hobbes has

Another prompt that took some thinking to come up with an idea, though I honestly don't remember the flow of thoughts that settled on hieroglyphics for "ancient". This looks really simple, but it was incredibly difficult for me force myself to stick to this "style" with the limited details and uniform line weight. I

This one was a struggle. I thought of various ways PMD could BE a ghost, but I didn't like the notion of his being dead. Then I thought about him reacting to a ghost, and the potential for a new expression/posture got me excited. I realize now that this is fairly similar to what