It’s the most wonderful time of the year again! My Inktober theme this year is Child Ballads: Monsters, Maidens, and Murder. Here are my sketches so far:

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Come back here through October to see new drawings added to the list below! And you can listen along to the series with this playlist I made: https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/1232271124/playlist/4s2cfFeRAWQyYLdqX1u0OO

1. The Devil’s Nine Questions/Riddles Wisely Expounded (#1)
2. The Elfin Knight (#2)
3. The Three Ravens/Twa Corbies (#26)
4. The Mermaid (#289)
5. Sheath and Knife (#16)
6. King Orfeo (#19)
7. The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea (#36)
8. Edward (#13)
9. Sweet William’s Ghost (#77)
10. The Holland Handkerchief/The Suffolk Miracle (#272)
11. Cockle Shells/Waly Waly (#204)
12. False Knight on the Road (#3)
13. Thomas the Rhymer (#37)
14. The Farmer’s Curst Wife (#278)
15. took a sick day, no drawing
16. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (#113)
17. skull-heart thingy (took a break from drawing ballads)
18. Barbara Allen (#84)
19. another sick day
20. The Unquiet Grave (#78)
21. The Wife of Usher’s Well (#79)
22. sick day
23. sick day (rrgh)
24. The Cruel Mother (#20)
25. The Twa Sisters (#10)