UPDATE: Hello, all!  Over the new year, I had to transfer schools and get a new semester going.  Now that I have a major contest all finished up at the other club I moderate, I'm back.    Would you like me to give you some more monthly art challenges?  It's been super-quiet here for the last few months, and I'd love for us to get some interaction going.  I'll leave this challenge up probably thru March, so if you are interested in doing it, send in your submissions and show us what you've got!  Let me know what kinds of activities and blog posts you'd like to see in this group, and I'll see what I can do!  Cheers!

(This journal was previously released on October 31, 2015.  The original text is below.)

Hello all, and happy Halloween! This month marks the beginning of our new monthly art prompt schedule. The Halloween spirit hasn't quite died down, but we're moving into autumn and, for those of you in the USA, Thanksgiving is headed your way. We haven't gotten a big list of themes yet from you all, so here's one of mine that I think will be fun.

November's art prompt is "The Ancient". As always, you can work this theme into your submissions however you want. Perhaps you like drawing characters, and you'd like to draw an ancient god or a member of an old civilization. Perhaps you're more into landscapes or buildings, and you want to illustrate the great cities, wonders, and countrysides of a rich and long-lost culture, in ruins or in its glory days. Or maybe you'd like to draw inspiration from ancient ruins like Stonehenge, Chichen Itza, or the Nazca Lines. (These are just some ideas to get you going; do whatever you feel would be cool.)

Deadline is November 30th. As always, I will feature our submissions in a journal at the end of the month.

Happy drawing!