so i'm actually doing inktober this year for once. my personal stylistic limitations:
1. brush or brush pen only. going back to my roots
2. each drawing should be about four inches square
3. no erasing or correcting mistakes. scan at 600dpi and post as-is.
4. follow the inktober prompt list, but just free-associate whatever comes to mind

let's see how far we get

#inktober #inktober2018

fun fact, this is based on a blood draw i did earlier this week where they couldn't find a juicy enough vein inside my elbow. it felt Weird
@irisjaycomics i wondered but thought it would be weird to ask. at least you got a butterfly instead of a big straight needle
@bea yeah i think i would've flat-out fainted

@irisjaycomics don't blame you. i'm totally fucking over straight needles at this point unless the nurse/tech is Really good

like i've done this a zillion times and it'll be a zillion more just gimme a butterfly

@irisjaycomics i have to do this pretty often, my veins aren’t juicy enough :(((
15: weak/light #inktober #inktober2018
16 : build/angular #inktober #inktober2018
17: swollen/connect #inktober #inktober2018
@irisjaycomics That is a good looking molten marshmallow. You could get an ancient civilization to start a religion with that.
@BestGirlGrace i mean it IS the only correct way to cook marshmallows
@irisjaycomics I really like how this battery seems like it's going to immediately kill me. It's honestly awakening the optimal fear we all have of batteries.
@BestGirlGrace batteries are just lightning that mankind, in its hubris, has attempted to trap
@irisjaycomics Don't mind me, just using lead and acid to trap lightning and using it to start my dinosaur-powered climate change machine. Hope it doesn't explode!

@irisjaycomics
@BestGirlGrace

batteries are just bdsm for lightning girls

@fluxom_alt @irisjaycomics @BestGirlGrace hey that vaguely reminds me i have a Thing to link when i’m home
@irisjaycomics wow this brought up some Indiana Feelings
@irisjaycomics Somethin' about those feet are making me feel like if the camera were panned up we'd see someone's fursona cast in marble
@irisjaycomics something about the lines and colors on this one makes me want to see a deck of cards using this style. Thanks for posting!
@irisjaycomics I've had to get so many goddamn blood draws that this one is really really hitting me
@fluxom_alt you ever think about what all the blood drawn out of your body would ever look like if it was in one place? how much would there be? what size container would it fill? i think about this shit all the time
@irisjaycomics WELL! One vial is about 10ml, which makes a rough estimate average of 0.2% of a person's blood. So 10 vials would make about 2% of a person's blood, which goes up to 500 vials to make a full person's blood pile. While I haven't personally had 500 draws, most draws I've had have involved three vials. I've also had at least one blood draw every three months for the last seven years of my life (cont)
@irisjaycomics So three vials taken at four blood draws over seven years is 3x4x7 for 84 vials of blood, but I'd estimate another twelve on top for other occasions bringing the total up to 96 vials.19.2% of my blood total (assuming I have the average amount of blood) has been drawn from my body. With some rough math we're looking at 960ml of blood, which translates to 0.256306 US liquid gallons

@irisjaycomics SO!!! With that in mind, next time you go to the grocery store and pass by the milk aisle be sure to pick up one of those quarts of milk and just hold it in your hand. Think of that, but full of blood.

Happy Halloween

@fluxom_alt @irisjaycomics great now I wanna chug a quart of blood and/or milk.
Those flavors don't even mix very well. There's a reason that's not kosher.

@Balina @irisjaycomics Balina if you chug a quart of milk I'll draw you as vampire chugging a quart of my blood

Don't actually do that, though.

@fluxom_alt @irisjaycomics Please don't ask me to do stupid things.
You know I have no self-control.
@Balina @fluxom_alt what about: milk vampires
@irisjaycomics @Balina There's a porny webcomic of that

@irisjaycomics @Balina I'm not proud of knowing exactly what it is but I do and it's relevant knowledge so

yeah that's a thing that exists

@Balina
@irisjaycomics
I'm not sure if this is body horror or whatever the exact opposite is.
@fluxom_alt @Balina i mean it's BODY and it's technically HORROR so
@Balina @fluxom_alt this thread is going in an unexpected direction

@fluxom_alt wow, t-thanks for the

for

thanks.

@irisjaycomics tl:dr yeah I think about that a lot too
@fluxom_alt I MEAN I WASN'T EXPECTING AN ANSWER AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THAT ANSWER
@irisjaycomics Almost surprised they don't put that near the end of the month.