Inktober52 - 2026- One Sketch a Week

[yazeh]

That's lovely. Wolf is taking himself for a walk?

 

[catbert]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

That's lovely. 

 

Thank you. 🙏

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Wolf is taking himself for a walk?

 

Just getting his steps in?

[yazeh]

18 minutes ago, catbert said:

Just getting his steps in?

He should get a leash for his highness Porky Pie. Otherwise we’ll have another João VI on our hands.  

What I love in your sketch is that Wolf looks cozily warm outdoors  compared to Piggy.  

[catbert]

27 minutes ago, yazeh said:

He should get a leash for his highness Porky Pie. Otherwise we’ll have another João VI on our hands.  

😄

 

27 minutes ago, yazeh said:

What I love in your sketch is that Wolf looks cozily warm outdoors  compared to Piggy.  

Thank you! (It's kind of the opposite of what I was going for — but, absent a João/Dom Lobo-style narration, interpretation is up for grabs. 😁)

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, catbert said:

Thank you! (It's kind of the opposite of what I was going for — but, absent a João/Dom Lobo-style narration, interpretation is up for grabs. 😁)

Isn't funny. We aim for something, something else emerges. I remember one of my drawings, I thought it was awful, and nearly chucked it. Ironically it was one of my most "liked" drawings. Go figure.

 

[catbert]

9 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Isn't funny. We aim for something, something else emerges. I remember one of my drawings, I thought it was awful, and nearly chucked it. Ironically it was one of my most "liked" drawings. Go figure.

 

Yes, I've had the exact same experience. 😀

[inkstainedruth]

IME, the person who creates something almost always has a lower opinion than the "audience" does.  I think it's because the creator always is going, "Oh, I should have done *that* instead of _this_...."  And if the creator goes, "Oh this is PERFECT the way it is?"  I'm immediately suspicious....

Being happy with the result isn't the same thing -- I have stuff I've done over the years where I'm satisfied with how it turned out -- but STILL know where the flaws and mistakes are.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[catbert]

04 (tea) cozy

 

Pilot Kakuno/Platinum carbon black, Atoma, digital colour

 

Wolfie sings: I'm a little teapot ...

[yazeh]

@catbert I was planning a variant of that.  I didn't know that nursery rhyme. Why did I have to listen to it? Why?  

 

@inkstainedruth I agree about what you said. However, the reverse has happened too. I have a work that I'm very proud of, but no one seems to agree with me.  

[inkstainedruth]

In my case, it was a piece of embroidery based on an Icelandic altar frontal, where there were interlaced patterns of diamonds (the technique is known as pattern darning).  And I entered it into a competition and got all these "ooh, aah" comments from the judges -- but then got a really crummy score.  And the piece *I* thought should have won was entered by a friend of mine in the Baltimore area (she won the overall competition, entering five major categories, including cooking -- my husband was helping to judge that one and said that she'd entered a fish pie that got perfect scores, even from two other judges who didn't like fish!); her counted-thread piece was a bargello sampler on 40 count silk mesh with silk thread....  The piece that won counted thread was some blackwork piece on cheap cross-stitch fabric known as Aida cloth.  And that summer, I ran into my friend at something and said, "Hi!  How are you?"  And LITERALLY the first thing she did was to point at me and say, "You got robbed at Ice Dragon!  You should have won counted thread!"  And I was sort of blinking and told her that I thought SHE should have won that category and she told me that that piece got NO scores at all -- the pieces that were considered for the needlework stuff overall were apparently on a different table, because they were cross-entered in two different categories.

But of course, every person that went "ooh, ah" over my entry, when I say that there was a mistake in the pattern, look at me like I'd just sprouted a second head.  And go, "There's a mistake?  WHERE?!"  And I show them because I know exactly where it is, so my eye goes RIGHT TO IT....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

Inktober52: Day 4: Cozy

 

Inspired by a still from Tokyo Story by Yasujirō Ozu, transposed to winter.

 

Note: At times some inks have been deliberately mixed together. 

 

Hosia Ink Studio An Nang (grey, background), Tintenlabor Tannenwald (dark green-black), Sailor Shikiori Sasabune (green),Tintenlabor Lärchengold (brown), Jacques Herbin Gris Galet (cat and cushions), Uni-ball Signo White Gel Pen, Talens Mixed Media Notebook.

 

[yazeh]

@inkstainedruth For me imperfection is the most beautiful part of any work. I know that some carpet-weavers, weave them in their work, as perfection for them, belongs to  G-O-D only. It took me sometime to accept the concept.  I read a story by the Buddhist monk, Ajahn Brahm and his fixation on an imperfect wall he had constructed [the first few bricks were a bit wonky]. Each time he showed off the wall to visitors, he pointed to the imperfect bricks, which no one saw but him.

As for me, if I wanted to attain perfection, I would never have drawn or posted my "imperfect" drawings. If my imperfections bring joy to others, it's a plus. The importance is that I enjoy the process. Now if I could apply that to my writing and not have every single sentence triple checked, I would achieve enlightenment.  

[inkstainedruth]

Oh and love today's artwork as well!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

On 1/25/2026 at 4:41 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Oh and love today's artwork as well!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

🙏

[yazeh]

[yazeh]

This was one was tough one to crack

INKTOBER52 PROMPT NO. 5: Crunch

Was it the constant cracking and crunching of walnuts by Mr. Squirrel that turned their date with Miss Kitty into a disaster and made Mr. Mouse lucky?

Materials: Jacques Herbin Iris Sagesse, Fanyantan Sakura Blizzard (tan), Tintenlabor Lärchengold (brown), Talens Mixed Media Paper.

[catbert]

This took a while to hatch, literally and figuratively.

 

05 crunch (crunch ... crunch ... crunch)

 

Geha 605/Platinum carbon black, Atoma, digital colour

 

Inspired in part by the moviegoers' code of conduct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-KV_xkrnc

 

[inkstainedruth]

Love this one!  

Of course, when I saw the prompt, my mind went into a completely different direction....  More like the dinged up abandoned vehicle which has been parked in front of our yard down near the corner of the road we live off of for something like a month or so -- it had a parking ticket stuck in one of the windshield wiper blades at one point (but which disappeared a week or two later) and then more recently had red-orange stickers on the windshield and driver's side door window).  When I went past it driving home yesterday from running errands after getting my allergy shots, I noticed that the left front tire looked pretty flat as well (but there were still so much snow on it that I don't know if the stickers were still on the windows).  Didn't notice whether it was still too close to the fire hydrant, though (the road and our driveway were still a bit too slick to pay attention to anything other than getting up the hill and then MAYBE into the driveway....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[catbert]

@inkstainedruth 🙏

[yazeh]