Inktober 2024 - 10/08/24 - "Hike"

Inktober 2024: 10/08 - "Hike"

"Upon being found, Waldo realized his hike

would be drastically curtailed."

 

Inktober 2024 - 10/05/24 - "Binoculars"

 

The Coming Rain - Hurricane Helene Tribute

 

Drawn in empathy for the victims of Hurricane Helene. Feeling especially heartbroken today for those suffering from Hurricane Helene -- especially friends and family in Western North Carolina, where I grew up and spent my childhood years (through college), now dealing with flooding on a catastrophic scale never before seen.

So many old and familiar places in the Blue Ridge Mountains -- Asheville, Chimney Rock, Black Mountain -- now devastated and laid to waste. Ways to help.

Path to Adventure

 

Butterfly

 

"Ride The Lightning" [Metallica Tribute]

 

"apparition"

 

"Goblins, Gnomes and Gremlins!"

 

Wolverine (Tribute)

 

Xenomorph

xenomorph / aliens / romulus tribute

Drawn in celebration of the release of "Alien: Romulus",

the latest in my favorite 45 year old sci-fi horror franchise.

 

under the willow tree

 

cute cthulhu

 

where is my mind?

 

[T-Shirt / Prints / Stickers]

shrooms, shrooms, shrooms!

 

Stephen King, "Night Shift" [tribute]

"And the rats - huge ones that made those on third look like dwarfs. God knew what they were eating down here. They were continually overturning boards and bags to reveal huge nests of shredded newspaper, watching with atavistic loathing as the pups fled into the cracks and crannies, their eyes huge and blind with the continuous darkness..."

- #stephenking, "Graveyard Shift"

 

Star Wars - Battle of Hoth

I have only very vague recollections of seeing the first Star Wars film in the theater; 

it was “The Empire Strikes Back” that had a significant impression on me, 

especially the "battle of Hoth". I'll never forget the first time I saw 

those towering AT-AT walkers appear on the horizon, and the chill of fear. 

(Now THOSE were some FX, before the age of CGI ...)

I devoted many a moment recreating that scene as a kid -- it's been a few decades, 

but thought I'd try it again. Of course, I had to throw in the Imperial Droid as well. 

 

"every walk with nature..."

“In every walk with Nature 

one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir, 1877. 

 

hidden history of the hills

 

beach vibes

 

"I went out for a walk..."

“I only went out for a walk,

and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,

for going out, I found,

was really going in.”

— John Muir, 1938

 

the poetry of the sea

"But where, after all, 

would be the poetry of the sea 

were there no wild waves?” 

— Joshua Slocum

 

courage

 

"Where Nature May Heal and Give Strength"

verybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in,

where nature may heal and give strength

to body and soul alike. - John Muir, The Yosemite (1912).

[Available as a Print / Poster]

 

prospecting

 

morphing chaotic

 

"Lovecraftian"

 

mountain giant

 

lord of the sith vs xenomorph

 

"yum yum yum yum"

 

mad martian

 

waterfall

 

melvins - "evil new war god" [tribute]

 

"behind you!"

 

dragon's lair

 

franken-mouse

 

bloodflowers

'bloodflowers' 8.5x11" pen and ink. “Bloodflowers” - loosely motivated by memories of a certain infamous conversation between a Ukrainian civilian and a Russian soldier during the early days of the 2022 invasion and a welcome gift of sunflower seeds…

 

dark mage

 

Wolverine vs Xenomorph

 

aaaaaand ... FIGHT!!!

 

the hills have eyes

 

fun fair

Doodle word-prompt: “funfair”,

(with a little dark twist of my own,

creatively speaking)

 

dragon rider

 

Shai Hulud

 

"content creator"

(a wry reflection on how participating in social media 

can devolve into an  obsession/compulsion to produce “content” 

in a perpetual, if fleeting, search for attention … 

and not without some irony, sharing on social media. go figure!)

 

Scruffy Nerf Herder

 

Back to the Primitive

 

"Rest is not idleness..." -- John Lubbock

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

"On The Hunt"

 

"Pit Stop at Zaphod's"