I did a quick sketch to get my bearings around where each of these should go for Inktober. (It’s on the video.) I tend to layer my drawings starting with what’s in the background and moving to the foreground. I may trace my first drawing and draw the second on the tracing, or I may cut out the second and attach it to the first. You don’t have to do either. This is all about exercising your ability to be creative and to draw. Your finished drawing(s) should look different from mine.
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Pre-order ‘The Monster in Blackwood Forest’ for 31 Days of Halloween
Tomorrow, Drue M. Scott releases the first book in his trilogy “Mortal Choice.” You can pre-order “The Monster in Blackwood Forest” (affiliate link), which focuses on Jinx, her pack, and her human friend, Christian. You can hear Drue read a story from Blackwood Forest accompanied with visuals in the video below.
Continue readingSpeakers’ Club October 2019: Halloween
Rules:
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers:
The History of Halloween:
Costumes
Trick-or-Treat: 1930s – Give us candy or we play a trick on you.
Candy: Candy Corn, Candy Bars, Coins, Popcorn Balls, Apples, Toothbrushes, Comic Books.
Bobbing for apples, apple on a string
Lollipop ghosts
Pumpkins as jack-o-lanterns
Horror films
Haunted Houses
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
The Skeleton Dance:
Donald Duck Trick or Treat:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Monster Mash
Nightmare on My Street
War of the Worlds:
Penguin of the Month: Penny and the Pumpkins
My wife’s parents grew a lot of pumpkins in their garden. Penny helped harvest them!
What’s your favorite pumpkin food? Penny likes pumpkin pie and pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting.
