I wonder if this says something in some other language...

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First of October!
Cyberdevil bout to just smolder.
I'ma record something every day!
When I'm sober,
And I never drink, so we go yeah?
Sounds my ticket,
For me to get away!
And I write these with regular ink,
Another page in my sink-
ing ship, rickety dink tin I'm in.
But I'm the... captain!
And I gather my crew, so we can... rap then!
If only for me and you.
Whatever... happens!
I might go toodlelou,
I'm the shit, Winnie the Pooh,
I might go to the loo,
Sip some Caribou Lou,
While I do what I do,
Maybe write up a tune,
Maybe doodle or haiku while I do doo doo quite smooth,
Got to prove I'm better than most.
This is competitive prose.
Lit every letter to roast.
Thought I would never just boast,
But I feel I'm eloquent no?
So I'd like to welcome y'all to one hell of a show!
I'm your rebel and host! Forever def like I'm old!
D Jazzy Jeff set the mold, and it holds, it'll hold till
Hotel Hell's frozen over.

I wrote this with regular Ink, get the hint?
It begins. I'm all in. It's Inktober.

( One page a day till it strays away! Hey, here we go yeah. )

This is how it begins. Badly. But not baldly. I call him Scratch Man. Tried going all experimental with outlines but that didn't get much better! Maybe you get a bit rusty if you don't draw anything in ~11 months...

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So once again, this thing is done! I made it. I strayed a day while away in Lithuania during the middle of month, but caught up the next. Hope that's OK - I didn't want to compromise my one day of pure vacation.

This year I've been drawing my doodles via this, instead of Flash 8 as I've done the previous two, and I've been using the Wacom only with some of the latter pieces, since basically... I forgot about it.

But then when I remembered, and started using it again, I realized that without the smoothing function that professional programs like Flash (now Animate) or Photoshop so gallantly provide you with, it was actually harder to make the lines go the way I wanted to with a pen than with the mouse.

Blame habit. Blame an old tablet. I don't know. I ended up using the pen mostly for line-intensive work for this reason, and the mouse for everything else: mainly single dots (the pen has a tendency to stray) and smoother forms.

Not sure what tools I'll go with next year, but if opportunity allows it's always fun to try something different! Cheers to this years great collective; all the creativity it spawned, and looking forward to the next.

Inktober 2018 over and out.

And thus Inktober has passed us by! Alas the time.

It's been a good run. Good fun with the Drawing Grounds. Good rounds that kept pouring down. You'd think I might gripe about boring, yet I'd rise up early morning to chalk allegory clowns when I could've been snoring sound. Or on great days late nights - with demons and dormant hounds.

So I guess the story stores a little mourning now that doors go round and yore us out... but as with every lore the shore that bore a tide comes tilting by, the waves are filled and rise, and the skies form warning clouds. It seems a dawn draws forth with torment now... with yet new doodles and deliberations every day like magical dandruff off a fallen crown!

So there you have it! I think I'll keep rolling with the drawing ground rounds madness for a bit yet. Less I misstep therein stress. Looking forward to next year's Inktober now that this one's over! And back at all that's been.

Happy Halloween.