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Inktober 2017 Week One

I realized putting 31 pictures in a post might be a little excessive, so thought I might as well post my inklings weekly. This was a great plan halfway through last week, when I was on top of things. Today, I'm at least three days behind and not likely to catch up just yet (but I'm going to try!).

In that spirit, here are the first five inklings:

A black-and-white ink drawing of a wolf leaping from right to left, with all four paws in the air and mouth slightly open for the tongue to loll out. The snout is oddly flat, and the tail long and exaggerated. Most of the lines are brief ess-curves, delineating the wolf without enclosing its outline. In the upper right corner, curling cursive letters write "swift the wolf."
Aka Sabine is allergic to reference images.
Day one: swift/the wolf.

A black and white ink drawing of a baobab tree with gnarled, stubby limbs and small leaves, and a black girl crouched upright to the right of the tree, with her hair done up in puffball pigtails. A skeleton leans forward inside the tree, seeming to grin and beckon to the girl from inside its deep black surrounding cavity.
There's something wrong about that tree...
Day two: divided/the lost children.

A black and white ink drawing of a horned humanoid creature with long, lean arms, recurved rams' horns, a long, narrow face, and pendant corkscrewed ears, leaning over a ladleful of dark liquid from a bubbling, steaming cauldron. She's lit from beneath, and the cauldron is defined by spaced, wide marks with a few deeper smudges where the ink bled from mark to mark at the left and right edges.
Inconsistent lighting yaaaaaaaaaaay!
Day three: poison/the ogre.

A black and white ink drawing of two Inuit women, one lounging under a pile of furs with her feet kicked up and her cheek propped on her folded hand, with her dark, shining hair failling forward over the side of her head and into the hands of the second woman, who is sitting sideways, intently braiding the first woman's hair. The second woman's hair is braided and tucked high on the back of her head, and she's wearing a fur-lined parka and breeches, with soft shoes.
#SednaGetsAGirlfriend
Day four: underwater/the witch.

A black and white ink drawing with very fine lines, of a sitting polar bear-like creature with a coiled proboscis and down-folded, much-divided insect wings sprouting from its shoulders. It has a long, thickly furred tail, with small much-divided insect wings sprouting at random intervals along the length of it.
The Long Bugbear (Insectiarctos longus) was first described in 1876 by eminent natural philosopher Akshara Banerjee, on the first of her fourteen journeys to the North Pole in search of a swifter sea route to the Nordic countries.
Day five: long/the bugbear.

Why yes, I have always been bad at following directions, how could you tell? Also, part of the fun of the prompts for me is finding ways to challenge the initial image they suggest.

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