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Ah, October. The month of drawing challenges. I have never managed to complete Inktober—I am always pumped at the beginning of the month and then fail in the second week or so. I last made an attempt in 2022, and my intention had been to do an ink drawing every day, and then after October was over, go back and see if there were any drawings I'd like to make relief prints out of. I did get a relief print or two out of the endeavor, but I utterly failed at drawing every day.

This year, I've decided to adjust my goal. It's not Inktober, but Bugtober—I'm drawing bugs. Mostly insects, probably, because I got some encyclopedias out of the library and one is of insects and the other is of moths. I do not have a goal to draw every day. Rather, my goal is simply to draw as many or as few bugs as I please, just to focus on drawing bugs this month. Additionally, all the bugs should be drawn on a black background, which is how I like to do my sketches for relief printing, so that—again—after the month is over, I might look back and find some drawings I'd like to turn into prints. Thus, I have already succeeded: I drew some bugs. October could end now and I will have succeeded at Bugtober.

So please enjoy some bugs that I drew in the first week of Bugtober, from October 1-6.

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