My habit of drawing in a sketchbook is always somewhat improved after Inktober, though it always feels like I need a bit of a break in November after making nearly a drawing every day. The conscious effort to draw and complete on ideas is great practice, though I often find that looking at other artists afterwards helps me to relax a bit, and focus on other's approach to artistic challenges. I came across a book on Claude Lorrain, whome I have always appreciated as a painter, but often the individual paintings I don't really relate to. Claude Lorrain paintings But this book featured many drawings that I was unaware of, and the pen and wash handling is really extraordinary, inspiring some of my own drawings.