In Via – On The Way

Maybe I should start with saying that I am really looking forward this InkTober and I must say that this year’s prompts look amazing!

Here they are:

I’m excited to see what adventures will my favourite mouse will go on to. Let’s have a look.

I hope you enjoy this journey with me and Laki. Thank you.

1. Dream

I was always jealous of how easy it is for Laki to live his best life! Look at him getting his dream of publishing a book becoming reality!

Of course it’s about cheese!

On the picture he is presented with a big plate of “casçaval pane” in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by one of the youngest member of local cheese enthusiasts. It’s not a surprise fried cheese is his favourite.

Well played Laki!

2. Spiders

Laki is a bit nervous as his two pet spiders somehow escaped from the terrarium. Well, I think he didn’t close it properly.

He found a fresh exoskeleton of one that was molting. It would be good to find the spiders thought. Seems like he won’t be sleeping until he finds them. Good luck Laki 🙈

3. Path

Laki is a very indecisive person so he often cannot choose the right path, but luckily, he has two trustworthy advisors. But I think he likes one of them more.

4. Dodge

Laki was a bit careless and signed up for a dating site and soon started talking with someone. It wasn’t the best thing and he wasn’t sure how to go about it all, but the female he was talking to soon revealed her true colours and so he dodged a bullet there. Well, I must add that it was his brave and vigilant “Little Broken Heart” that took care of that bullet. Well done LBH!

5. Map

Gosh! Laki seems so much more adventurous than last year! Or is LBH more reckless? 🙈 I just hope they won’t get lost. They seem to know where they are going. Well, they have a map. That’s better than no map. But still, Laki wasn’t the best when it came to cartography in school. Good luck guys 🙂

6. Golden

This is a funny story! Once upon a time Laki entered World Championship in making fried cheese in Romania. Goal was to make 100 pieces first and he won with record of 33:17. As he was seen using his favourite brand of golden breadcrumbs “Golden Dream” he became the face of their advert in Romania. For a few years almost every household was using Golden Dream breadcrumbs for casçaval pane.

7. Drip

There is another thing that Laki loves a lot and that is coffee. He still gets excited to see the black magic potion dripping into the pot and sometimes he wonders if he actually could live in the world without the coffee.

I feel you Laki. I don’t think I would last long.

8. Toad

I mean seriously, wizards now? Well, the guy is on fire it seems!

Laki was supposed to prepare a love potion for his final exam of advanced wizardry, but given that it required a live toad to be boiled alive he decided to not do it and was expelled. Somehow he still gained some magic powers as one of the toads he rescued in his rebellious mission was a Toad Queen. That guy is lucky beyond imaginable!

Well, what can I add, radical kindness, rebellious generosity.

9. Bounce

I swear Laki lives the best life! Not only he is friends with The Interrupters, now he is also a face of Dr. Martens in Romania! It might not be the biggest market in the world, but he seems to like it there. Well I don’t blame him. I hope I visit one day.

10. Fortune

I’m a little bit surprised to see Laki visiting a Fortune Teller, but I’m not judging hey!

I’m surprised even more about finding out what she has seen in his future! Though he seems surprised himself 🙈

I’d seriously love to know how he’s gonna pull this one off, but Laki is always full of ridiculous ideas and with LBH as his trusty sidekick, what can go wrong, right?

Right? 😅🙈

11. Wander

I think I’ll introduce a new super hero here (from my upcoming comic, be patient though it’s in early design) and that is CZ, aka Comfort Zone.

Laki and LBH are wandering through Romania and it seems they aren’t where they wanted to be. But are they lost? Aren’t we all a little lost?

Poor CZ is wondering how the hell they ended up in the middle of nowhere and wishes they never went on this adventure, but he’s doing all he can to overcome the need to complain too much.

12. Spicey

Well, it only took one day in Vaslui and look at our heroes!

Little Broken Heart is burning from the inside, Comfort Zone zoned out from not digesting tobă and Laki, what’s with Laki? Is he high?!

OMG!

They really need to get their act together!

13. Rise

After their defeat in Vaslui, Laki, LBH and CZ are back on track!

It doesn’t matter how many times we fall, if we can rise one more time. And you know, as The Interrupters sing, sometimes when you’re low, you gotta kiss the ground.

14. Castle

I must say, I’m seriously impressed by the courage (let’s call it that for now) of LBH. He led them to Romania based on some gut feeling and perhaps some adventurous impulse and upon presenting Laki and CZ with the true design of his Castle, you can almost see where the phrase “don’t build castles in the air” comes from. I really hope this journey doesn’t end in complete disaster, but it won’t be the first time LBH got hurt a little so nothing new there.

Still rooting for you guys though!

15. Dagger

I must say LBH is one of my most favourite heroes on this journey and it was sad to see him down after he had his worst nightmare again. It’s not nice to be pierced through by a dagger is it? Even if it gave you wings. LBH is quite happy with his tiny legs, no wings needed.

It was sad yes, but I loved seeing Laki and CZ coming to him and consoling him, because even if they know LBH can be reckless and naive, it is because of him they have visited some amazing places, met amazing people and ultimately, grew.

Don’t worry LBH, we’re here for you!

16. Angel

I always link some prompts to my favourite artist / art and as I couldn’t really visualise Laki as angel, but I wanted to keep the theme I’ve chosen a bit of a tribute to one of my most favourite bands, Anathema. And the album I will never get tired of, Eternity. I don’t think my version is as solemn as the art by Mez Meredith, but I like how it turned up.

Day 17. Demon

Oh no! It’s getting a bit dark here, is LBH seriously going to fall for it? How the hell did the Inner Demon appear in this story? Was he following them all along, waiting for his opportunity to get someone to accept one of his “mega” deals?

Gosh!

LBH noooooooooooo!!! 😭😭😭

18. Saddle

Thank God for this!

Just when everything deemed lost Conscience is coming to the rescue with his one and only magic enhanced mare, which is a unicorn and a pegasus (don’t ask my how!) called Shadowchaser!

If I was gonna bet they could bring down a balrog, but luckily it’s just one annoying Inner Demon to take care of. Should be a piece of cake for them.

19. Plump

It turns out the prompt I disliked the most became my most favourite drawing so far, because how can I not like all our heroes united all together after such horrible incident!

Omg the Shadowchaser and Conscience totally rule and LBH finally plumped for his best friends despite being offered a very tempting deal!

I mean if I someone came to my rescue on unicorn pegasus I wouldn’t hesitate a second!

So happy for you guys!

20. Frost

OMG no flipping way! Is Laki a guardian now?!

Well, I suppose he deserves it. Laki Frost.

Though I think it might be that when the Moon called him he thought it’s the Cheese calling!

21. Chains

LBH wasn’t listening to Slowdive and it occurred to him to chain himself to a cloud of sadness. He felt disappointed in himself and thought it’s a good idea to chain himself to the sad part of outcome, even though there were many other aspect of his brave journey that he could have chosen.

Luckily Laki and CZ are absolutely proud of their dangerously brave friend without whom they wouldn’t have done many amazing things. After all, when all is said and done, what matters most is that we all tried our best. And LBH did!

Please unchain yourself LBH. Pretty pleeeeease. ♥️

22. Scratchy

OMG! He even makes appearance in The Simpsons now? Wow! I seriously need to review my life as I’m beginning to be seriously jealous of this guy! Actually, let me take that back, good for you Laki! Enjoy the show! Just don’t be too brutal!

23. Celestial

It seems that even celestial bodies have to endure their share of pain. Most of the time they will spread their pain across the universe in uncontrollable rage, but in this case poor Little Falling Star seems to hold it all in. LBH can’t help but sympathise with her fate and even when he barely know how to heal from his own heartbreak, he’s ready to help her.

Laki would normally wish for a lifetime supply of his favourite cheese or something similar, but to see a celestial body in such distress and from such close proximity, made him dedicate his wish to the poor little lost star.

PS – I dedicate this piece to Logan.

24. Shallow

LBH had enough of intense over-analysis of his poor decision making and decided to unwind with some shallow literally entertainment, luxurious ice cream and some gala apples.

And since he’s not a huge fan of deep water, he’s water level is also shallow. I mean, yeah, I get you LBH, sometimes you can’t take your suffering too seriously.

This drawing is for Martina ❤️

25. Dangerous

Laki, LBH and CZ are going to a fancy dress party where the theme is “dangerous” and as they are all pacifists and don’t like anything even slightly dangerous, the only thing they could come up with was to put on the dangerously good 80’s bands t-shirts. Though I must say LBH looks dangerously cute in The Cure outfit and make up. I think they will pass as dangerously creative.

26. Remove

OMG! How long it has been since the last heartbreak and LBH is at it again with his undying affinity for romance. If at least he wasn’t so reckless. 🙈

I can’t decide whether it’s ridiculous courage or ridiculous stupidity. Either way, it never gets boring with LBH. At the end of the day, what’s one more heartbreak anyway?

27. Beast

Laki is a huge fan of anime and his favourite anime movie is Princess Mononoke. He still can’t believe that San (サン) was able to befriend such beautiful beast. Sometimes he wishes he’d meet similar princess, or that he could at least have such majestic beast.

Dedicated to Barbora. Thank you for being here. 🖤

28. Sparkle

LBH seems to have gone a bit overboard after reading a few self help books and somehow he found himself on a pedestal built to keep his self esteem high. He now throws sparkles at all his followers which he precisely two and neither Laki nor CZ are keen on this version of LBH. I must say though it find him hilarious up there buzzing 😂

29. Massive

Oh god, Laki, LBH and CZ have been attacked by a massive stag beetle! Suddenly the troubles they’ve experienced in Romania don’t seem that bad! It’s ironic how we find things bad until something worse happens 😅. Well, let’s hope they will survive!

Tribute to Massive Attack – Mezzanine

30. Rush

Laki, LBH and CZ once upon the time in the West during gold rush. I can’t imagine how they managed to to survive and get rich, but it seems they did! The sheer amount of luck these guys get is insane! If only I could get some of their luck.

31. Fire

For Mia ❤️

It seems that all the adventures costed Laki a fortune and he had no other choice than to try to recover some money via modelling on infamous site Only Mouse. I’m not sure how many fans he has, but I’ve got a feeling that it might take him a while to build a solid fanbase.

And I also want to finish this InkTober with a picture of LBH cos he was on fire for the last 31 days! See you all next year!