So, I’m pretty excited about making it through the Inktober Challenge. For some reason, I found 31 days of drawing and inking easier than 28 days of Thing-A-Day in February. If I haven’t mentioned it before, Thing-A-Day is another creativity challenge that used to take place every February in order to brighten up one of the coldest/darkest months of the year. I say “used to take place” because last I checked, the official site organizing the challenge was no longer.

I would always hit the middle of the month and just fizzle out on finishing the challenge so I was afraid the same thing would happen with Inktober. I’m not sure what was different, though. Maybe it was just my own willpower?

Maybe it was the timing? Even though February shouldn’t be a busy month for me, it seems like something always happened to throw me off schedule. Time management is and has always been a struggle for me. It took me a long time to admit to myself that I didn’t/don’t really know how to best manage my time and it’s something that I’ve really only recognized as a problem in the past few years. I actually used to think I was fairly good at it–and I am under certain situations. But this topic should probably be a whole other future blog post. So I’m going to stop right here.

The point is Inktober is over and now I have the odd sensation of freedom followed by anxiety because there are no more constraints. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want! And I’m not sure what I want to do now…

It does seem like I have a bunch of drawings just asking to be colored in though…