November has always felt like a deep exhale. After the rush of Inktober sketches and the thrill (and exhaustion) of the 31 Days of Horror challenge, there’s finally… silence. The studio is calmer. The tea cup lingers a little longer in my hands. The to-do lists start to shrink—if only for a moment. This is the quiet between. Between autumn’s chaos and winter’s calm. Between finishing and beginning. And in that quiet, I always find myself asking: What now? That lull between pr