Inktober 2026 1, Apple

Mission Log, Day 1: Last Fresh Fruit

One apple, already bitten, sits on the console beside the launch checklist. It’s the last fresh fruit aboard before we leave the ground behind. After launch it’s freeze-dried and foil pouches for the duration. The cables are strapped down, the gauges are alive, and the ship is ready. I’m giving the apple a few more minutes.

Our two dogs, Sidney and Betty.

Finally got round to inking the sketches in one of my sketchbooks.

I really need to draw more, but it’s hard finding the time with all my other hobbies and work.

Took this walking to the swimming pool this morning. The fog was sitting low over the field, backlit by the rising sun and cutting the trees off at the knees. Found it very atmospheric, almost other worldly.

Inktober starts next month, and this year’s prompt list is out! Very excited to get started on this year’s topics.

I’ve got a small repo, ContextFree, that I keep coming back to whenever I want the specific kind of fun that comes from writing a handful of lines of code and having something unexpectedly pretty fall out the other end. It’s a collection of Context Free Art scripts — a tiny grammar for describing images as recursive drawing rules — plus a Docker image wrapping the cfdg renderer so I can run them without installing anything locally.

Squid doodles.

Sidney feeling the heat today, he has melted.

Started a new doodle sketchbook with some sticker inspired doodles.

Some robot sketches I’ve been working on in my sketchbook.