My Drawtober 2016 Journey

allenthomas 2016-11-04 01:11:14 UTC #1

I recently participated in Drawtober. I posted all of my drawings on twitter @shadosassins. I feel proud that I was able to successfully get a drawing done everyday for the second year in a row. I now hope that my improvements, however great or small, start to translate to my comics. (Though next year I might try only environments and backgrounds since it is an area I can greatly improve at. Anyways I wanted to share my journey with you here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3y-MjTxbnGgwLx49zFFXMT3s-cmBJe6d

If participated in Drawtober, Inktober, or whatever October-themed drawing challenge I'd be interested to know how you did.

dojo 2016-11-04 02:23:10 UTC #2

I was doing really well, but then got swamped with job hunting, birthday happening, and parental visitation. For mine I wasn't really focusing on anything in particular, I was just trying to get myself to get back to drawing daily again. Here's a couple of the things I did for it:

allenthomas 2016-11-05 00:40:32 UTC #3

I understand what you mean. It's amazing how something that sounds so simple as drawing daily can be difficult when life calls.

dojo 2016-11-05 00:45:36 UTC #4

Right?? You're like hey this drawing only took an hour or so, I can totally find an hour to do this stuff every day, but then nope. At least I was drawing stuff most days it just wasn't for the monthly thing so I guess it's not a complete loss.

thatphilippekid 2016-11-05 20:35:19 UTC #5

I love drawing challenges! This year has been full of them. In May, I participated In Wizard War 2016. Later, In September, I participated in the Dungeon Degenerates Monster Drawing Club. I had a lot of fun with both of those but I had, by the end of each month, fallen off shedule. October was a success, however. I used Craig Gleason's Season of the Bad Guys Club list, and was able to finish every drawing on time with no buffer! For November, I'll be participating in the Goblyns Grotto challenge, but I haven't started yet. Oh well.
You can click on any of those links to see what I drew in that month! My favorite from last month was this one: