From Worst to Wonder- what Inktober shows me
Ornament For a couple of years, I'd scroll past Inktober drawings on social media. Eventually, in 2019, I decided to try it myself. Ornament is not my first one. My first prompt was ring . I tried to twist it into something spooky, appropriate for October. It ended up being a rough sketch of a woman forced to wear a wedding ring, the band scraping her skin until blood welled up. An evil laughing man hovered in the background. Maybe even a haunted house on a hill. Messy, crude, melodramatic and currently misplaced. I can’t find the original hard copy nor the digital versions anywhere. It seems I deleted the drawing both on my Google photos and social media. Why did I delete it? Was I embarrassed by it? Probably.… But if my first Inktober taught me anything, it’s that the first bad one (or any one for that matter) isn’t the end. It’s just a steppingstone you encounter before things get good. The “worst” day is often just the beginning of something better. If you stay with it, th...