Happy Halloween!  And with it, sadly, comes the end of the Mockinktober challenge Myla and I did, where we completed a spooky drawing each day, for the month of October.  But we can call it a success!

I won’t post them all–you can see them on my instagram page @busymockingbird, in the hashtag #mockinktober, or on our facebook page.

Our goal was to complete all 31 days, and we did it!  Myla’s goal was to try to make all of hers be original characters, and–whenever possible–make them female.  She’s only 8 years old, but the expression she gets in her drawings and the unique ideas she has are already so amazing to see!

We jumped around a bit from our initial list, and bounced around (as I predicted) with our friend Mab’s Drawlloween list.  Near the end, though, we chose a few categories of our own.

We had goofy ones…

We had a bunch of spooky teenagers…

And even some creepy kids…

We had “the Ghost with the Most…”

As well as a few gremlins…

And we even did a few extra ones, just for fun!

The Kid blew me away with this drawing of The Bride (not Frankenstein’s Bride–the Bride from Kill Bill).  She’s never seen it–it’s WAY too violent–but she knows the story of the Bride as a ninja mama bear, fighting to avenge her daughter.  One day while I was drawing Jules from Pulp Fiction, she asked to draw the Bride, and it was too good a category to pass up (and she couldn’t help but add some goofiness to it…hence the chicken and the tiny head-person in the Crazy 88 gang..).

As for Frankenstein brides, we covered those, too…

And we had such a great time doing it!  Here’s hope you all have a safe and spooky Halloween!

(If you’re interested, most of my versions from this set are available in my Etsy shop online as small prints–you can go have a look here! )