Inktober day 10 Winter in a Bottle

With a prompt like that, what else could I draw but a mermaid in a tropical reef? This tiny mermaid is surprised and amazed to find an icy landscape in a bottle thrown from a ship. Also, I wonder what will happen to that ecosystem if she opens the bottle...

Inktober day 11 Winding Stairs

Again, a fast and scribbly one - but at least I'm up to date again... I drew this at work, while my colleague was making me a friendship bracelet. Yes, we were actually working - except with computational modellers, casual observers don't always notice that. (I'll never forget us being introduced to someone as "those two are our modellers - they're geniuses, which explains a lot". Still waiting for anyone to refer to me as a genius in any other context, though. XD) Anyway - we were discussing Hidden Markov Models, and actually making a lot of progess, but to an unitiated observer, it would have looked like drawing and macrame, respectively. With tea and cookies.

My warm grey watercolor marker finally died completely, and the replacement ones I ordered have not arrived yet. That means I had to use a Faber Castell PITT marker, also in Warm Grey III, for parts of this picture. Which annoys me a lot. Not through any fault of that marker (I was happy to discover that Faber Castell seem to use the same pigments for their PITT markers as for their watercolor markers, so the color is indeed identical) but simply because I wanted to limit myself to one type of marker, and this is the wrong one. :(