The idea behind Inktober is each year, during October, artists all around the world create art based on certain prompts. There are official prompts, or people can create their own. I wasn’t a fan of the official prompts, so I decided to draw different cryptids as I saw this as a great way to practise my drawing. The last time I took part in Inktober I found it incredibly hard to do a different drawing each day so this time I focused on creating 9.
🐙 The Kraken
Fun fact: Unlike today's representations, early descriptions of the Kraken featured crab-like, spindly appendages.
🌲 Wendigo
Fun fact: Wendigos mimic human voices to lure people away from safety to consume or possess them.
🌕🌲 Fresno Nightcrawler
Fun fact: Some Fresno Nightcrawler sightings are simply just a pair of white trousers being puppeteered.
🌵 Cactus Cat
Fun fact: Described as a bobcat-like animal, when they rest, they curl up to look like barrel cacti, with their spines sticking out.
🦋 Mothman
Fun fact: There were reported sightings of the Mothman before the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986.
🐴 Kelpie
Fun fact: The water horse is a common form of the kelpie, said to lure humans into the water to drown them.
🪱 Mongolian Death Worm
Fun fact: Rumoured to live in the southern Gobi Desert, it kills its victims with electric shocks or corrosive venom.
🌲 Hidebehind
Fun fact: Hidebehinds are credited for the disappearances of early colonial loggers when they failed to return to camp.
🎃 Pumpkin
Fun fact: Halloween is older than Christianity and its roots lead back to the pre-Christian Celtic or Pagan celebration of Samhain.
