October's come and gone, by far my favourite time of year, I love Halloween, it's my birthday, there's Inktober and Comic Con so lots of nice things. Time of year that really makes me want to indulge in horror games & movies and gets some of the creativity flowing. Thought I'd do a look back over some of what I did this month and what I wanted to accomplish and how well I did that.

Artwork.

Inktober not going as well as I would have liked, I never expected to do 31 in 31 days, I'm not a partially fast drawer and I got a full time job, plus other things I wanted to do so it was never going to be a full one a day. I did a few in September to get a head start and was hoping to get around 10 a month but I fell short on that as well. I think part of the issue is once I've already fallen off the daily posting that dose then set the bar lower and it's easy to keep putting it off. My initial goal was to finish by end of November but I think I've fallen off track to achieve that as well unless I really kick it up with drawing output.

I'm thinking I may need to scale it back, someone suggested to me that in September perhaps just pick my 10 favourite drawings from the list, in whatever order they come in and just do those ones and upload on there retrospective days, maybe pick up more if I have time so will give that a go. But who knows perhaps I'll learn to manage my time better and/or learn to draw faster so I can actually meet all of them, will need to see where I am next year.

Collab project

I like monster and creature design, so I gave a shot at managing a collaborative creature design project, advertising on Jamriot's discord I put together a rough theme and collected artwork and a music theme for the piece.

I enjoyed doing it, there some problems I did not think off in advance and got fewer entries than I would have liked, but I'm trying to look at it as a learning experience. There are some things I would look to do differently should I attempt this again and I think I would like too. I enjoy projects where there's multiple artists work on display, and again fan of creature design so this is the sort of project I'm interested in.

ComicCon!

October ComicCon in London, third year running, I really enjoy getting to meet creators first hand to discuss there works, mainly graphic novels, some game developers as well and between that and my birthday I got a lot of new reading material. Admittedly I am a slow reader so this will keep me busy for a while, one goal was to stock up on decent reading material and I think I've successfully done that, as well as support indie creators with books and other artwork.

Overall good month, sort of wish I'd gotten more done with Inktober and maybe some other creative projects but there's only so much I can fit in with my work, and going to ComicCon is a couple whole days in of itself.

I would like next year to get some more creative projects done, perhaps not all in October itself, but get some things planned, started and maybe finished in time for that, such as artwork, maybe even a horror comic. For now my goal is too finish my Inktober's, I would like to see the full 31 prompt list though to the end.