Allow me to take a moment to make a retrospective of the past month as inspired by thoughts and ideas that Inktober helped to bring out for me. It's a combination of me being able to accomplish what seemed nigh impossible to do (I mean really, 31 fully realized pictures?!) and also looking at all of the wonderful art that was created from other artists.

I'm going to try triply hard to keep the outpouring of creativity and motivation that I experienced during Inktober, for one. Ideas beget ideas so I have a ton of ideas from all of that work, such as making more art that is marketable and desirable (like those T-shirt concepts for one). And also not being afraid of doing what I really want to do and silence the nagging, naysaying voices like "you're not skilled enough to do that" (I'm specifically referring to those pieces I did for Inktober that were illustrative scenes or more architecture or scenery-heavy). And not be afraid bring to light some of the darker inspiration for my art.

Most importantly, I hope you all enjoyed this flood of collective madness, as I think better than most times it gives a proper cross-section and glimpse into just what exactly inspires me to create and continue to create. Wild, whimsical, dark, sensual, mechanical, conceptual, horrifying, beautiful, ugly, strange and occult. And to those that joined in during it, welcome to my gallery and thank you very much for the watch, all of you! I hope that even though Inktober is done I can continue to create and inspire for you guys. I'm also closing up commissions for the month so I can catch up with some bigger projects and obligations, and I'll open them up again sometime near the end of November or the first of December, depending.

With all due respect,
~C.M.H.