daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
I’m giving Inktober a shot this year! I decided to keep it simple and small, drawing directly in the October calendar of my Hobonichi Cousin. I’ve been practicing sketching every day for about half of September, so Inktober feels like a natural extension of my new routine. Wish me luck sticking with it all month! ✒️📖
Filling up my Hobonichi with map icons has been so much fun! It’s a great way to add some color to the page, and it gives me plenty of good practice, too. 🗺️✒️✨
I’ve recently started getting into drawing maps. After watching a few videos by JP Coovert and picking up a couple of his PDFs, I’ve been learning how to draw the kind of maps you see at the beginning of fantasy novels. Today’s photo shows a continent I drew. I still need to fill in all the terrain and landmarks, but I think it’s a pretty nice start for my first world map. It’s been lots of fun! 🎨📜
I’ve been doing small sketches for fun recently. Seeing so many cool illustrations on my social media feeds makes me want to improve my skills, which aren’t great. But even if they’re mostly just doodles, every drawing is fun to do! 🖊️📖
One of the habits that has fallen off my daily activity list has been drawing and I would like to fix that. It’s something that I’ve done daily before, but my schedule is just a little too busy and I have prioritized other things ahead of it, such as reading, playing ukulele, and watching YouTube.
So now I just need to decide on a set time within my day to devote to this. It’s actually kind of fun to try to figure out when this time will be. And will I have to drop one of my other daily activities?
Right now, I am just drawing before I go to sleep. Literally in bed. But I also like to read at that time, so I need to find a better time to draw. I hope to have this figured out. Fun fun fun.
From a photo I took in Morocco a few years ago.
Feeling a bit melancholy and sad due to recent events. 😢
