My Inktober 2020: Inking Fantasy!

Oriana Fernandez

Hi guys! This is my second Inktober. I took part for the first time last year and managed to complete all the 31 prompts!

I will be doing daily prompts, aiming for one a day!

I am working with the official prompt list this year, but with a running theme focused on fantasy and magical creatures. So, by the end of Inktober, I will have 31 new characters! I took the whole of September to get the ideas in place. All my characters have been penciled out already.

Since I have finished penciling in my characters, I just spend some time at night inking. It is the best time to illustrate, as no one can disturb me. I find the whole inking process very soothing and therapeutic, to be quite honest! A real stress buster!

Last year, I did Inktober to get some of my ideas fleshed out, for a book I'm writing. The book is something of a personal project/ hobby that I do from time to time when I feel like escaping reality, and just want to unwind. Inktober helps me practise and improve on my story-telling, conceptualisation, line work and hatching techniques. I also have been working with different materials and mediums now, to get more experience in that sense. This year, I will colour in these new 31 characters for Slowvember and create a collage of all 31 characters together.