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.

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Rules

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
No AI-Generated work
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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[Meta] Some questions and comments on this community (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I just want to say to everyone that posted how amazed I am by your work!! Absolutely fantastic, and I am jealous of every single one of you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi, and welcome!

The plan after October is done is to continue on with the Inktober52 challenges, which involves a weekly prompt, rather than a daily one. I've signed up for the Inktober newsletter via which they propagate the prompts, but haven't received an emails yet, so I'm not entirely sure when exactly the prompts will go up, but that is the plan.

So, post-October we will continue with the last weekly prompts of 2024, and then begin with the new 2025 Inktober52 list as the prompts are revealed weekly. The hiding the prompt and guessing sound a bit difficult to pull off as it would put up extra obstacles to participating, and would presumably quash participation, but it's a decent suggestion that we can keep in mind for when we've grown more active as a community. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Great news!