Slightly Off Center

One thing that doesn't rely on relative humidity, fortunately, is my Inktober drawing. I'm still setting aside 15 minutes after breakfast every morning to do a little drawing. It's a surprisingly refreshing way to start my creative day.

I've come to the end of the month, but once again have extra pages left over, so I'll be continuing until sometime in mid-November. Meanwhile, here's the rest of October.

It's ten days into October, and I'm keeping my drawing-a-day challenge.

Here are the first fruits of Inktober.

...for once.

Last week's book arts group meeting featured a demonstration on insetting a small piece of artwork into a book cover. Didn't have anything in particular I wanted to use, so I made up a little 2" square drawing, ink and colored pencil, to practice on. I wanted to actually use the resulting cover on a book, which meant I needed to also stitch up a text block, so I'd know how wide the spine needed to be. What could I use for pages?

How about drawing paper, for next fall's Inktober sketchbook?

Here she is, ready to go. I discovered that the faux-finished painter's kraft paper is both tough and flexible enough to burnish down into the inset, and I had a small scrap of paper batik, also on the painter's kraft, that made a nice spine. I managed to mount the cover board upside down, so what was meant to be an upper-right image is actually lower-left, but it's kinda growing on me.

And it mean's I'm not throwing together a sketchbook at midnight September 30!