The official results are in and you want more images. So more images it is.
It’s Inktober! Not sure I will finish in the actual month of October but I made a special little sketchbook for it with nice paper. I combined three prompt lists: the official Inktober list, an animal list, and an emoji list.
I swapped pens for this and day 6. Unfortunately. I forgot that the pen I switched to was filled with non-waterproof ink.
Well, look at that. I finally figured out how to draw cars. Hide it behind someone!
Jumbo threw me for a bit of a loop but then I saw the emoji for the prompt and instantly thought of the corpse flower.
Can you believe that the above trail is an Actual Trail?! Modern times, you have to at least wear a safety rope. But I would never, ever, ever do this trail. Nope.
This is the sketchbook I made. I am going to need to resew the binding, though. I rushed too much at the end and don’t like how I sewed the signatures together.
Whatcom County Library System is having an event on Sunday, November 3: Open Book. And I will be there as a vendor! I checked it out last year and it was adorable. Just like a good book celebration. I will obviously have a bunch of mini comics etc. But I will also have some felt crafts, like bookmarks. And I literally as I am typing this, thought I should make some teeny tiny book earrings! So keep an eye out.
Also, it’s official. I will be teaching classes at Jansen next quarter (winter 2025, that is), too. So keep an eye out if you will be in Whatcom County this coming February/March. I’m teaching a zine workshop (one day, four hours), a kid’s comic class (four days, two hours each), and four themed classes about making your own fake curios (four days, two hours each)! I am very excited for that last one. You will get to see pictures here as I figure out exactly how I want to teach it all and of the examples I make.
I haven’t even finished this, but I cannot recommend enough OMFG, Bees! by Matt Kratch, the guy who also did the Dumb Birds field guides. What a delight! If you don’t mind swear words. Which I don’t. Here’s some of my favorite lines:
Regarding yellowjackets: “They also like meat and will openly fight with you over that last bite of hot dog on your plate…. I suggest you just slide that plate as far from you as you can…and let them take what they want. It’s kind of like being mugged.”
Bee wings beating 200 times per minute “…makes the hummingbird’s average of about fifty-five beats per second seem pretty goddamn lazy by comparison.”
Regarding Wallace’s giant bee and how rare they are (one seen in 1981 and one in 2019): “No one is 100 percent certain if they can really sting. [One] biologist…was quoted as saying, ‘We were all keen to get stung to see how bad it was, but because we only found the one we treated it very carefully.’”
(The Dumb Birds guides are about North America, the Whole Stupid World, and the Worst Birds Ever.)
I hope your day gets better from here!
-Angela
P.S. Wally was so sleepy he couldn’t look up to say hello.
💙 all the animalz & process pics!
Esp. Narwhal & Hiking Horse Girl.