I wanted to write this one since long, but something or the other came up, and I couldn't write it.Finally, I skipped a few office calls to get through with this.

My Inktober Stories:Many of you in the art domain celebrate the month of October as #inktober. Well, I, only looking at art from a distance, never knew about Inktober until a few years back. And to make it simple for other newbies like me out there, Inktober is a 30 day festival for art lovers, who doodle, sketch, and color, to make random things and maintain a 30 day streak with this.

So, this 30th September, I took a pledge to try and maintain a 30day streak throughout this October. Unlike a few others who I follow on the web, I had no plans about what to start with or what theme to stick to. With no clue how to swim, I had jumped into the sea, with great desires to swim across and be proud of myself. At around 8 in the morning, I got a package delivered to my doorstep, from an anonymous sender!! It was a big box. Not so easy to judge what's inside just by looking at the packaging. After about 2 hours of leaving it aside, unattended, I finally decided to open it. I thought, may be it will give me some ideas for my first day!

I opened it, only to find that 90% of it was filled with paper grass! And right in the center was placed a cute little dolphin made of glass, placed on another small flat box. I opened that and found a fine set of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.creativehands.in/product/brustro-professional-pigment-based-fineliner-set-of-6-black/" target="_blank">FineLiner pens from Brustro</a>.I was super excited to receive this gift, but simultaneously, I was stressed out thinking who would it be to know that I had longed for this very set of pens since like forever.

Early in the morning I was planning to use some resin work and then club it with some colorful inks to create some decorative pieces of art. But now that I had this wonderful set, I decided to scrap all my old thoughts and start afresh with this new set of tools and experiment it.It could go to waste as I had no prior experience with these pens, I know. But well, I mean, it could even go to Instagram stories and Facebook pages and what not, right!? And to a medium article, too! What 'ya say?

I started with rudimentary floral designs, borders, and bouquets.from single flower, to a scattered set of 4-5 of them, to wreath, to bouquets and vines.

I knew I would be bad at it in the beginning. But I had made up my mind and nothing can crush my desires to excel at this. I never stopped making attempts. Often, they were enough to get me a scolding from my mum for those garbage bins - fully loaded with paper balls from wasted attempts.Seldom I could work out an extraordinary piece of line-drawing and the satisfaction would drive me forward for days together. It is that satisfaction for which I am ready to fail and cry and get all worked out on the rest of the days 😇

But soon after a couple of days, as it seemed next to impossible to manage alongside kitchen and office work, I silently changed my pledge to sketch/doodle at least thrice a week for the rest of October 😛

As I was about to complete week 1, I decided that I'll have a theme for every week.With drastic improvement in my designs and line-art, I started feeling confident. I planned out the following themes for the upcoming weeks -

I knew week 4 is going to be a challenging one as succulents and cactus look so cute when you see them, but drawing them out with the same beautiful and tender looks could be difficult. So, I started with small, warm up drawings of individual succulents and cacti and gradually composed them together.

I opened it, only to find that 90% of it was filled with paper grass! And right in the center was placed a cute little dolphin made of glass, placed on another small flat box. I opened that and found a fine set of 

.I was super excited to receive this gift, but simultaneously, I was stressed out thinking who would it be to know that I had longed for this very set of pens since like forever.

Inktober Sketches