Who's doing Inktober 2020, and what are your plans?

Mary Toth

I'm doing thumbnail ink paintings on scrap paper this year (like 2x2 inches or smaller prob). It's the first year I plan to fully commit to inktober so I'm excited! I'm making pieces ahead of time that don't follow the prompts (just rando illustrations)but I might try to make extra images to go with the prompts too. I might just have to post twice a day, we'll see.

Dima Eichhorn

I am making another story with my inktober cat. Already have an idea about it and I am even making some sketches. It will be my 3th year drawing this character. And I will use as always the official list.
This is my inktober from 2019

Kevin Wilkins

@ajillustrates said in Who's doing Inktober 2020, and what are your plans?:

planning/sketching ahead

Good luck to everyone doing Inktober this year. I will be doing daily pieces and staying with the prompt list. Last year was my first year posting any of my artwork online and I started with Inktober. It was a great Art stimulus. I am hoping to make all 31 days again this year. Here is the cover I did and the first prompt.

Lovsey

@Dima-Eichhorn That’s so funny, my chosen theme for Inktober is also based around cats (to explore a storyline concept I have: ‘Cat’s are always right’ ), and from my research it seems to be a common focal topic!

Rachel Horne

@ajillustrates I'm going to take part this year. I don't think I'll be doing all the prompts though, I'm just going to pick and choose the ones that appeal to me the most. I don't really work in black and white so it's a nice opportunity to try something different. I'll be creating my pieces in traditional media, last year I did inking with a paintbrush.

Georgios Christopoulos

@ajillustrates I am doing it. As I have it in mind now,I am going for the prompt list and I will probably draw/combine 3-4 prompts in a larger piece.
My goal as I think about it is to have 8 to 10 smaller pieces by the end of the month, each containing 3 to 4 prompts.
Also I m going for character design and props, with some background elements that will suit them

Oh and I ll be going digital inks, because that is the main thing I do when I work,and I want to see some results there.

I ll definately do some traditional inks through the month though.

Cheers fellas!!

Ghadeer Nemer

Hello,
Can someone explain to me what is inktober . I know it has something to do with making ink illustrations, but is it only for svs ? Or is it something more general. And who makes the prompts list, also, how can I participate.
Sorry for my lack of knowledge haha.

ajillustrates

@Rachel-Horne Excited to see which prompts you tackle!

ajillustrates

@Georgios-Christopoulos What program do you use for digital inking, and do you have a go-to digital brush?

ajillustrates

@ghadeer-nimer Inktober was created by Jake Parker over a decade ago as a way to challenge himself to become a more skillful artist when working with ink. Since then it's grown into an annual, world-wide, social media art challenge where anyone can take part, create ink drawings (traditional and digital), and share them online during the month of October. Jake releases the prompt list, and you can find this year's here: https://inktober.com/rules

Georgios Christopoulos

@ajillustrates photoshop and right now, standard round brush.opacity and softness is something that changes depending on the desired effect.But 90% of the time, its 100%opacity and solid hard.
Always keen to try more brushes, but I ve felt that having less "weapons" always makes me concentrate best.

Do you have a suggestion mate?

ajillustrates

@Georgios-Christopoulos I too try to keep my PSD brushes limited, partly for consistency, and partly because so many of them just don't get me effects I like. I have a few Kyle Webster ink brushes I use, but nearly all the time I use his Classic Cartoonist brush. I find that it gives the closest look to my traditional brush pen work, so I can scan in the hand drawn stuff, then fix/add stuff in Photoshop.

Georgios Christopoulos

@ajillustrates said in Who's doing Inktober 2020, and what are your plans?:

Kyle Webster ink brushes

can you point me in the direction of where I can find them?
thanks!

Heather Boyd

@ajillustrates I had never considered doing one large piece. However I am not taking part this year. Thanks

Ghadeer Nemer

@ajillustrates ooh okay! Thanks a lot
TI will definitely be participating. My goal is to make a minimum of 2 drawings per week.

Dima Eichhorn

@Lovsey That sounds so much fun. Can you send me your Instagram so I can follow you.

ajillustrates

@Georgios-Christopoulos This will get you there: https://helpx.adobe.com/mobile-apps/how-to/kyles-brushes-in-sketch.html

braden H

I'm in for 2020. I'm gonna try and do them all.

At my SCBWI meeting yesterday someone mentioned last year they did calendar sized doodles.

Small, square-sized illustrations triggered a similarity flash for squares on a dnd map, so my theme is gonna be Dungeons and Dragons map markers. I've been wanting to do some black and white maps, so this'll be a nice kick start

ajillustrates

@Braden-Hallett That's a great idea on how to use Inktober as the catalyst to create a project/product.

Lovsey

@Dima-Eichhorn Thanks for your interest but I don’t have an artist instagram profile yet.. I’m still in the early exploration stage of defining my digital art style so I don’t feel ready to curate a consistent feed yet, it is a long term goal at the moment. I’ll likely post on an Inktober thread on this forum though