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

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

Katherine

It's so validating and inspiring to see most people making it their own in some way. I don't think I've ever done Inktober or any other Insta art challenge for that matter. This year I'm choosing three prompts from different October art challenges and combing them into one piece. So for example for one of the weeks I'll be taking a prompt from Mab's Drawlloween, #hexoween, and Inktober - Vampire bat + Yokai + Sleep - to create one illustration.

Scharon

@ajillustrates Might I ask how you plan on getting a 100 new followers? I really am curious about the subject. I try to post regulary but it's a slow climb at this point on my social media game. Not sure if I should be implementing different tactics to increase the exposure/awarness of my art...

I am defs doing Inktober this year! I've been looking forward to it the whole year haha
I have'nt planned anything around it. I just figured I will jump in with a sketch each day. I will be following the prompt list (I'm not very good at generating my own prompts). I do want to make it into a little zen at the end of the month and maybe sell it if the sketches are good enough. We will see ^^

You guys can keep an eye on my work on IG @Bezalel_Studio if you're interested

jimsz

I was planning on participating but was so turned off by the legal issues last year that inktober has simply left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not looking for a discussion and Jake was well within his rights to trademark what he created I however found the entire thing distasteful.

EliaMurrayArt

I plan on participating in Mab Graves - Drawloween! (mostly because I like her prompts a lot) and she has a "reduced" list which I appreciate and feels more digestible. So I'll be doing one of the shorter lists - and my hopes is that I'll create a couple dimensional pieces for it!

SorbetDraws

Hi everyone! I'm preparing to take part in inktober this year for the first time.

1. Are you going to do one large piece, or multiple/daily pieces?
I'll be doing daily pieces.
2. Will you be sticking to the prompt list?
I'm combining the prompt list with a list of my own for Bugtober. I picked 31 bugs that I'd like to design characters of and associated each one to a prompt that made sense (even if only just vaguely lol)
3. Will you be planning/sketching ahead of time, or will you be winging it daily?
I've started sketching out the characters. Some of the sketches are a lot clearer than others at the moment, and I'm not sure if all my sketches will be done by the time that October comes around, so I'll probably wing it a little bit.
4. What is the main thing you want to take away from the experience?
My goal is firstly to build exposure on my socials, but I'm also excited to make a habit of drawing every day.

I've had this idea for a couple years to do a boardgame set in a world like A Bug's Life. When the month is over I'm hoping to have 31 characters that I'll then colour and then develop the game around.

Lovsey

@SorbetDraws Sounds like a solid plan to help you work towards that bug board game goal, I’m intrigued!

ajillustrates

@Scharon I'm hoping to get 100 new followers by posting quality drawings each day of October. I'm starting to get followers who are finding me even between posts, so I'm thinking the daily consistency and exposure bump of Inktober will boost that further.

Blitz55

Oh I'll probably do it, I've been doing it every year for a while now, though only fully finished a few times. I've never worked off the prompt list though, I've always given myself my own theme or constraint to work with. I'll see what I come up with this year, may do it all with brush pen and or brush and ink. I'd like to get better working with the brush and I could see this even benefiting my watercolor.

Scharon

@ajillustrates Oh I see! That sounds like a plan good luck may it go well.

TamaraDomuzin

I will be doing Tim Burton characters . I never actually follow the promt list, I just want do to something I would really enjoy, as I don't think I make enough illustrations, so making 31 little ones just encourages me for ahead. I already started sketching them (here's a little sneak peek), and I'll be colouring them as the pumpkins illo on the right.

Meta

I'm tuning into inktober again, but differently this year. It has been quite productive, but so exhaustive last year that I feel an inner resistance in following the prompt list again. I actually wanted to draw a little story with two characters, which advances with each day's prompt ... but - it won't make so much sense from a certain point. Now after breeding over the list with no more idaes, I decided to check out what you guys are doing and found Josh's approach quite helpful:

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

I think I'll be doing it this year, but I'm not planning on following the prompt list. I found it a bit of a slog last year, so I think what I'm going to do instead is break it down into 4 weeks, pick what appeals most from the prompt list or just use a project subject I've been thinking about doing it, then spend a week at a time doing each one.

Thanks Josh, this helped me coming up with this:

Are you going to do one large piece, or multiple/daily pieces?
one a day or one in each five days - still to be decided.

Will you be sticking to the prompt list?
I'll stay with the official prompt list, but separate it into bundles of five days and pick the one that attracts me most of each bundle. Then I'll be working on this prompt for five days (six days for the last bundle).

Will you be planning/sketching ahead of time, or will you be winging it daily?
I'll collect ideas within the next days and will try to sketch some of them. But I'll certainly not have a finished sketch for each day when october comes

What is the main thing you want to take away from the experience ?
Good you're asking, because I think it's helpful to know what I'm creating for. I'd like to some visibility. And I want some pieces for my portfolio OR pieces I can use as a base for doing some coloured versions of for my portfolio.

Kyle Tobey

This is my first year taking it seriously. I started last year but teetered off. I’m currently stuck on “Throw.” I’d like to be totally done with the ink part be October first, so on the day of I can color before posting.

I didn’t want to do a lot of characters at first, but I ended up doing a lot of characters.

erinrew

This will be my first year and I’m curious, I had hoped to use inktober as a practice and growing month to develop my digital art skills and abilities as I’m just starting out using the iPad Pro and Procreate and I know inktober is about inking and breaking away from digital, but does anyone else use a digital approach or is this strictly taboo for inktober?

I had planned to follow the prompt list and work digitally in a black and white, ink-like approach, but now I’m not so sure.