I typically don't get involved in monthly challenges but Inktober sounded like a good idea.  I sketch almost daily anyway and so I silently took it on head first.  Inspiration might have come from some amazing ballpoint pen work from the likes of Guno Park and Nicolas Sanchez and I just didn't know how to handle a ballpoint pen in that manner.  I started the month trying to figure out what I was going to draw but wildlife ended up being the theme.  I'm comfortable in that subject matter.  What follows is what I learned from a month's worth of ink drawings.