Inktober 2024

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What is Inktober?

Inktober is a yearly art event intended to improve your inking skills. Every day, there's a prompt which everyone will draw with either ink on paper or digital inking

From the main site:

Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.

What to do

The main two ways to participate are to draw daily like a marathon or every second day like a semi-marathon. The operative word being marathon. It doesn't have to be your best piece of art or even something you're proud of in any way. As the creator of this community, I know quite a bit of what I create will be absolute trash. I'm ok with this though.

This community

A daily post will be pinned at the top to round up each days work. One may either make a post to the community, or comment on the pinned post.

Want to mod?

Feel free to contact me if you're up to help mod this community.

Rules

  1. Be kind Constructive criticism at most. This is a strictly positive community meant to keep a habit for a period of time. If you don't enjoy someones art and can't phrase any advice in a supportive way don't speak up. This will be strongly enforced with bans if need be. A dictatorship of kindness. You may, however, ignore this rule for any post made by @[email protected]. Please, feel free to insult me so terribly that I'll think about your takedown on my deathbed

  2. No AI-Generated work

  3. Submissions must meet the theme of this community Whether on paper or digital the creation must be inked. This means black and white with an ink pen or ink pen digital brush

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October is over, and the main Inktober challenge is done. Thank you to everyone that participated, and congrats to everyone that made it through the entire 31 days!

Many of you will be taking a well-deserved break, but for those of us looking to continue or join in on the fun, we will continue to post prompts from the weekly Inktober52 challenges.

As always, these are the rules:

  1. Please remember to be kind. All skill levels are welcome here.
  2. AI art is not allowed.
  3. Submissions must be based on the given prompt, but either traditional or digital mediums are welcome.

Thank you! :)

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Day 31! The last day of Inktober! Thanks to everyone who participated and made this possible! Congrats to those of you that made it through the entire 31 days!

I understand that many of you will be looking forward to taking a break after a month of daily drawings, but for those of you looking to either continue or join in, we will be posting weekly prompts from the year-long Inktober52 list.

You’re free to create a separate post for your own stuff if you wish, or you can post it as a comment in the weekly prompt post. I will corral any individual posts and post them there as a comment.

Rules:

  1. Please remember to be kind. All skill levels are welcome here.
  2. AI art is not allowed.
  3. Submissions must be based on the given prompt, but either traditional or digital mediums are welcome.

Sincere thanks to all of you, and I hope you had fun. :)

Previous Inktober threads:
Inktober Day 1 - Backpack
Inktober Day 2 - Discover
Inktober Day 3 - Boots
Inktober Day 4 - Exotic
Inktober Day 5 - Binoculars
Inktober Day 6 - Trek
Inktober Day 7 - Passport
Inktober Day 8 - Hike
Inktober Day 9 - Sun
Inktober Day 10 - Nomadic
Inktober Day 11 - Snacks
Inktober Day 12 - Remote
Inktober Day 13 - Horizon
Inktober Day 14 - "Roam"
Inktober Day 15 - "Guidebook"
Inktober Day 16 - "Grungy"
Inktober Day 17 - "Journal"
Inktober Day 18 - "Drive"
Inktober Day 19 - "Ridge"
Inktober Day 20 - "Uncharted"
Inktober Day 21 - "Rhinoceros"
Inktober Day 22 - "Camp"
Inktober Day 23 - "Rust"
Inktober Day 24 - "Expedition"
Inktober Day 25 - "Scarecrow"
Inktober Day 26 - "Camera"
Inktober Day 27 - "Road"
Inktober Day 28 - "Jumbo"
Inktober Day 29 - "Navigator"
Inktober Day 30 - "Violin"

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Here is this year's prompt list for easy reference for those who need it. Only a few days to go! :)

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31 Landmark (programming.dev)
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Finishing up with my favorite monument in Colombia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vargas_Swamp_Lancers

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Huge thanks to the mods for hosting inktober on lemmy and for approving this post. Also thanks to everyone who participated. I loved seeing everyone's art.

I want to keep using prompts, but in a broader way than ink52. So I'm starting [email protected]. We'll begin the first week of January. For now, if you visit the community, I'm soliciting ideas for prompts. That can include a subject, but it can also be a technique, medium, color, or any other kind of inspiration. All types of visual art are welcome. Hope to see you there.

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30 Violin (programming.dev)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by hjm to c/[email protected]
 
 

Based on a picture of Lindsay Stirling performing at the opening ceremony of the international 2016's Dota 2 tournament. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dota2ti/28595885170/in/photostream/

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#31 Landmark (sh.itjust.works)
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#31 Landmark (sh.itjust.works)
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Yay, my final entry!
I wasn’t sure if I would make it, but I’m happy I stuck with it until the end.

Thank you to the mods for hosting this challenge, I had a lot of fun!

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Well, future landmark. This was fun, kudos to those who did it the whole month.

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the last of 31 pictures this October

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29 Navigator (programming.dev)
submitted 2 weeks ago by hjm to c/[email protected]
 
 

This one is inspired by the song ghost of the navigator by iron maiden

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#30 Violin (sh.itjust.works)
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A Chicago landmark
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/shit-fountain
#scoopDaPoop

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#30 Violin (sh.itjust.works)
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This is really neat. I'm sad I just found this at the end of the month. Could we continue this beyond this month if there is interest?

Also it occurs to me it might be fun to hide the prompts and allow people to look at all the drawings and then try to guess the prompt. Though I would like to be both a drawer and a guesser, so not sure how that would work. Maybe split the prompts into groups. Not sure if there is currently enough participation for that though.

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October 30th - "Violin" (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Day 30!

You’re free to create a separate post for your own stuff if you wish, or you can post it as a comment below. I will corral any individual posts and post them here as a comment by Day 31. Rinse and repeat.

Rules:

  1. Please remember to be kind. All skill levels are welcome here.
  2. AI art is not allowed.
  3. Submissions must be based on the daily prompt, but either traditional or digital mediums are welcome.

Thank you in advance, and let’s have fun! :)

Previous Inktober threads:
Inktober Day 1 - Backpack
Inktober Day 2 - Discover
Inktober Day 3 - Boots
Inktober Day 4 - Exotic
Inktober Day 5 - Binoculars
Inktober Day 6 - Trek
Inktober Day 7 - Passport
Inktober Day 8 - Hike
Inktober Day 9 - Sun
Inktober Day 10 - Nomadic
Inktober Day 11 - Snacks
Inktober Day 12 - Remote
Inktober Day 13 - Horizon
Inktober Day 14 - "Roam"
Inktober Day 15 - "Guidebook"
Inktober Day 16 - "Grungy"
Inktober Day 17 - "Journal"
Inktober Day 18 - "Drive"
Inktober Day 19 - "Ridge"
Inktober Day 20 - "Uncharted"
Inktober Day 21 - "Rhinoceros"
Inktober Day 22 - "Camp"
Inktober Day 23 - "Rust"
Inktober Day 24 - "Expedition"
Inktober Day 25 - "Scarecrow"
Inktober Day 26 - "Camera"
Inktober Day 27 - "Road"
Inktober Day 28 - "Jumbo"
Inktober Day 29 - "Navigator"

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