October Critters on Bikes Drawing Challenge!?

I initially posted this just on Facebook, but haven't been getting quite the response I'd hoped… So I thought I'd post it here as well, just in case either of you want to join in... I had this idea for an October Drawing Challenge... 

I like drawing critters. And bicycles. And critters ON bicycles. 

People often do drawing challenges through October (Inktober, etc) - sometimes working from a prompt list… 

So, I thought I might make my own prompt list this year. 31 Day of Critters on Bikes!? But what critters to draw? What bikes are they riding? What are they all wearing? These are the decisions that often just grind things to a halt. 

So that is where you come in! I thought I would draw 31 bicycle-riding-friends as critters on bikes! 

If you were a critter of some sort, what would you be? 

What is your favourite bike to ride? 

What do you wear while out riding it?  

More specific details are better - otherwise I have to just make shit up.  If you have pictures feel free to forward them to me in messenger or email. I will try to do the first 31 suggestions I get (there are NO GUARANTEES IN LIFE, however!). 

Just to be clear - these are, for the most part, going to be anthropomorphic animals, like the others I've been drawing recently - basically a clothed human body with an animal head (may or may not have tail) - unless you wish to be illustrated as a participant in World Naked Bike Ride Day!?

Fine print: 

You absolutely can use the image I post based on your suggestion (for non-commercial purposes- i.e. like, you can go ahead use it as a profile pic on social media, but not as a logo or in an ad for a business, without my permission.), but I would appreciate if you would link said image back to me (either my instagram or twitter accounts, or my art blog) 

I’m probably going to do these all in a sketchbook (I like keeping these things all together in one place!) so originals will not be for sale. 

A Day in the Life (sort of)

 I did a thing the other day....

Usually I like to just let art (especially comics) speak for themselves, but I felt like this might need a little context. The therapist I’m currently seeing (because, y’know, I’m working through some shit and apparently it’s okay to admit that these days…?)… suggested I keep track of everything I do in a day - making note of what I was doing every 15 minutes. He suggested making an arty thing of it, because he knows I do art. I’ve incorporated art into other homework-things I’ve done for him. 

Immediately my mind went to the Hourly Comics Day challenge (which I think is in February…? ), where you stop every hour on the hour and do a quick comic of what you did the last hour…? And post it on some social media…? Yeah, I thought I’d do the same thing… but EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES!? It’ll be a super-fun-slice-of-life-day-in-the-life-of-Tim comic! I could probably fill and entire sketchbook in a day! Somewhere in the back of my head, I KNEW that would basically mean I’d spend the day drawing pictures of me drawing pictures of me doing what I’d done 15 minutes earlier… which would be me, drawing pictures of me drawing pictures of me 15 minutes earlier… but sometimes when you get a shit idea in your head and you just got to see it through. 

So this is actually NOTHING like what I usually do in a day… For one, I was FAR MORE PRODUCTIVE (artistically speaking). Also, I usually go out and do errands and a bike ride and… y’know… OTHER STUFF… But hey… 

I did this all in a 6"x6" Speedball Coil-Bound Watercolour Sketchbook.

A few other notes that might make a few things make more sense... 

Amanda had the day off. She was supposed to go to a physio appointment for 8am - but on the other side of town.... and she was riding her bike. She's practicing for her performance in the Saskatoon International Burlesque Festival - NEXT WEEK! 

Maybe I'll leave other notes until after... 

A few notes... 

6:00 - What was stressing me out was Amanda not getting up when her alarm goes off, which she sometimes has a habit of doing, and then gets furiously angry about being late and having to rush to get to an appointment!

4:30 - on Mondays we started taking a ballroom dance class. I was actually looking forward to going to it and drawing us riding bikes to it and dancing at the class and riding home... but I was just feeling so tired and ill by 4:30... 

5:30-6:00 - we're watching RuPaul's Drag Race: Season Nine. 

6:30 - I wasn't tired of RuPaul - we were finished watching it, I was just TIRED and feeling a bit sick again. 

7:30 - The show we watched was Fate: The Winx Saga

10:00 - I wasn't really WANTING to watch more of it. I was just too tired to think of something else to do... and not loving the show... and didn't want to waste ANOTHER evening to finish it up and I knew Amanda would want to finish it. 

11:30 - Amanda points out that if we were 16 we'd probably think it was awesome. 

12:30-1:00 - I should have coloured Quordle and Tetris... but I just got tired of it all... Also it's mostly Tetris Gems.

1:30 - I'd probably be lying if I said I didn't stay up a bit longer than I should have just to COMPLETELY FILL the sketchbook.