YoinkTober 2020 - Prompts & Grossling Challenge

[wavewright62]

Attention all!  As mentioned in the Mini-Break and 6th Anniversary thread:  October is coming, and with it the drawing tradition of In*record scratch*      
The originator of the term "InkTober" has disgraced himself, being caught red-handed committing plagiarism in lifting the tutorials of another artist and passing it off as his own.  So, we shan't use his term.
*ahem*

Herewith are 31 prompts to use throughout the month of October to inspire you to meet the challenge of a fanwork every day.  The original concept specified ink-based drawings, from as simple as a ballpoint doodle in the margins of your work to as elaborate as a colour-registered series of prints.  While you can certainly do ink (I plan to), I reckon we needn't be so limited.  With so many gifted wordsmiths, we could have those as well.  Up to you. 
Many thanks to thegreyarea for contributing evocative prompts! 
Many thanks also to JoB for contributing the name YoinkTober.  It may have been sarcastic, but I love it and am running with it. 

SSSS, ARtD, CoH fanworks October Prompts

1. Do what cat
2. Return
3. Wings
4. Hunted
5. Tapio and/or Mielikki
6. Shelter in the rain
7. Sigrun (for this is her canon birthday)
8. Mask
9.  Food
10.  Guardian
11.  Improvising
12.  Sauna
13.  Bargain
14.  Character: Your Choice (canon, AU, OC, self-insert...)
15.  All I Wanted was a....
16.  Annoying
17.  Hannu and/or Ville
18.  Useful
19.  Bridge
20.  Cat Hat
21.  Ice
22.  Breath
23.  Emil and/or Lalli
24.  Paper, Rock, Scissors, Sheep, Gun
25.  Contact
26.  Umbrella
27.  Poke
28.  Childhood
29.  Empty roads
30.  Whole family / crew
31.  Onni and/or Tuuri

I also posit a separate challenge:  31 Days of Grosslings!  For those who prefer a tribute to the weird wacky world of what a hypothetical global pandemic can do way too many teeth and torn body parts! 

1. Handsy Moose
2. Tuomas the Tank Engine
3. Cer-baaa-rus
4. Chthulhund (pretty much most of Adv. 1 chap 7)
5. Dream Sea Serpent
6. SSSS - the First Troll
7. Kalma
8. Summon Bigger Fish
9. Trollyota
10. Hipposhrimp
11. Rune-Fried Doggo
12. Vaettur / Maahinen
13. Hukka (aka Was-wolves)
14. Clusterface Skullduggery
15. Floffy, or just general Sjødraug
16. Dolphin-Beasts
17. Poo-dile
18. Ceiling Face
19. Tribute to somebody's else's OC grossling that you admired in a fanwork somewhere
20. Hearty Jane on the Train
21. Sleipnope (the Origin)
22. Speedy McSplorp
23. Bladder-Barbies
24. Ghosts on a Bus
25. Black Hole and the Three Bears
26. House Troll
27. Lake Cows
28. Tooth Scary
29. Hilja
30. Your own OC (Original Character) grossling
31. Notoros
 
For better or for *shudder* worse, there are more grosslings and skeletons rattling around in Minna's oeuvre, so treat this as a guideline, feeling free to substitute as your little black heart commands.

[wavewright62]

It's 1 October where I am, so let's get this party started! 
Reynir follows the prompt "Do What Cat":

[Grade E cat]

Just out of frame, Lalli is "doing what cat" also, e.g. rolling his eyes at the stupid humans. If I did that right now, I'd be having a nap on my mother's side of the couch and getting dislodged in about half an hour.

[Mirasol]

*blows dust off of Copic markers* So the time has come again...

Lovely Reynir! I wonder what Kitty´s reaction wold be upon seeing this...
Let me join you, Wave! Today I actually went with the grossling-prompt. (I just really wanted to draw those drapey-things on handsy-moose!)



My old problem of working late in the evening and daylight disappearing too fast has hit again, but the darker photo actually adds to this motive this time, I think, so I´m uploading it anyway.
But for the following days I´ll probably send the drawings (at least the ones fitting the prompts here) in chunks, as I´m not home much and will probably do them somewhere on the go or very late at night... But I promise I´m not cheating!

[wavewright62]

Re: sending drawings in chunks - i am also considering doing that. It's not cheating at all - a little easier to deal with that way.

Spoiler: show

Also less noticeable when I miss a day.  I haven't managed a full 31 days yet, and honestly don't expect to this time either.

Now, let me rave about this drawing, Mirasol!  You are correct that the darker photograph helps the atmospherics a bit, but holy frijoles it has plenty of atmposphere anyway!  I love the rhythm of the piece, I love the bubble motif, I adore the skulls and the draperies! 
What a splendid kickoff.  May you have plenty of inspiration but no nightmares this month (at least until you get to Sleipnope, then may that night-mare run free).

[Lallicat]

Mirasol your moose is lovely! And I love Reynir Wave!

 Now, I'm not a great artist but there's nothing like practice to improve. So here is my doodley "Do What Cat"!

[Jitter]

Do what cat

“Lalli, please come down!”
“Mrrrh”
“Lalli, I’m serious. It’s time for supper.”
“...”
“I understand why you got upset. I’m sure they understand too and will make sure to not do that any more”
Again the only answer Onni received was a rustling of the branches. The little critter was climbing higher, not back down!
“Lalli, come down this instant! You have training tomorrow, you can’t stay up late!”
“Shhhhhshshshsss”
*sigh* “I hope you are happy when I carry you inside. You’ve been there for over two hours now.”
“...”
“All right. I’m coming for you!l”
Still receiving no answer, Onni started up the tree. He wasn’t as agile as Lalli, but had longer reach than the child and he was reasonably sure he could wrestle his cousin down. Surely Lalli would be a bit tired too after this charade? Onni grabbed his foot, but Lalli wriggled out of his grasp and yet higher.

Onni eyed the higher branches suspiciously, but they’d been here before. And he really couldn’t leave Lalli outside again, or the authorities would take the kid from him again. Try to at least. Lalli always got extremely upset, when there was any hint of such plans. However, by now Onni knew better than try to use the threat as leverage to bring the boy down. He’d tried that once, and Lalli had bolted and actually tried to run out of the compound.

He really had to get Lalli down. If he had to climb down without his cousin, he would have made a fool of himself in addition to upsetting Lalli further. But now the child was almost at the top branch and couldn’t climb higher. Just reach a bit further...
“Auugh! What in the name of Mielikki! Lalli, you cannot bite meee-
                                                                                                        —eeee”
Lying on the ground, Onni heard a whisper: “Just did”
“Ok, fine. Stay all night. Starve if you want. I’m done!”

Onni stormed off into their housing unit. Tuuri was trying to look nonchalant, but she had clear difficulty holding laughter at bay. Of course she had seen Onni fall.
“You! Shut up and look smart*! Suppertime, and no talking!”
Just as Onni had finished ladling soup on his and Tuuri’s plates, the door opened. Lalli walked in, sat in his chair and grabbed his spoon expectantly.


* naama näkkärille

[Jitter]

Lallicat, your doodle doesn’t show at least for me. Often this is caused by the fact that the url doesn’t point at the picture itself but to a page with the picture. EDIT: it does now! Cool cat telling us how we can be cool too!

Mirasol, your handsy moose is horrific! Very good!

Wave, bless his silly heart

[Lallicat]

Jitter, yes I noticed that and I think it's fixed. Can you see it now?

[Jitter]

Yes, it’s good now!

[Annuil]

Hello, everyone! Haven’t been here for a while, school took all of my time but now the “Yoinktober” starts and I had to find some time

Wave, that is an adorable Reynir! I’m joining Mirasol, what will Kitty do?..  :'D

Also, Mirasol, that moose looks so cool! (Yeah, tha darkness of photo is matching the drawing itself )

Lallicat, great face! I like the dark glasses

Haha, Jitter, I love your story! It’s just great, such a typical Lalli...

Okey, here is my “Do what cat”, OneDrive link, as usual:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsSnHPIBASO_skgoFTTw9p1i_oxA

You know how cats can fit everywhere, even in a jar? :'D

[Lallicat]

Annuil that looks so good! 

Who's in the jar?

[Jitter]

Haa, Annuil, this is hilarious! Being a cat says Lalli, also the boots say Lalli, so, is it Lalli?

[Mirasol]

Thank you all! And so many more cool contributions!

Lallicat, I can imagine this just as an advertisement on a poster in Iceland. :'D I agree with everyone else, the sunglasses are great!

Jitter, what a cute and funny scene! Though certainly less so for Onni... (naama näkkärille... duely noted in my book.)

Aaah Annuil, the reflexions on the jar, I can´t even! So beautiful!

[Alkia]

aaa wow only a day into October and so many amazing artworks!!!!!!

Wave, Reynir's hair is so swooshy!!!! nice dance
Mirasol, just...woW!!!!! I am a gray enthusiast, it might be my favorite color other than yellow, and what you are doing with grays there is amazing
Lallicat, your Do What Cat cat is adorable!!! it looks like it would make a really good sticker
Aww, Jitter, another adorable lalli-being-lalli story :-)
Annuil, woah, I agree with Mirasol, the reflections on that jar are so cool :0!!!

I think I'll post my yoinktober arts in chunks too, maybe 4 or 5 at a time