Anyone planning to do Inktober this year?

carriecopadraws

@longjeff Analog inking has no "undo" button! But it can build confidence in your work so I think it's worth a shot even if you feel rusty. My goal is to be "braver with black" and fill in big shadow areas and dark-colored objects instead of just drawing the outlines. It could fail spectacularly!

burvantill

@carriecopa I love that! Failing spectacularly, because at least it will be spectacular.

Jon Anderson

I'll definitely do some of it. My wife and I are expecting our third child the beginning of November so I anticipate being even more cramped for time. I thought of lumping together a week's worth into a single illustration and posting weekly. Then I saw the comment of working small and now I wonder if I should use that as a daily character design/spot illustration exercise instead.

Chip Valecek

@jon-anderson congrats on the new soon to be new addition to the family!

MissMushy

@jon-anderson Congrats on the new baby! We have a new granddaughter (6 months now) and she is lighting up our world

Jon Anderson

@Chip-Valecek & @MissMushy Thank you! They are indeed a treasure from God.

adc

Man, I almost forgot what happened Inktober 2017.
So, I got super fired up last year - did my first drawing...

...and was promptly decimated by the flu. Quarantined myself in the home office for a week and a half (didn't want to get the fam sick).

Sounds ideal for drawing though, right?

Could have been except I basically had to lay flat the whole week, or insta-headache and other things. No joke, it sucked.

So this year...perhaps that won't happen. haha. XD

MissMushy

@adc hopefully it won’t be the same this year for you.

jaepereira

@lollyw You can do it!!

HeidiGFX

yep! just need to find ideas for the prompts...preferably a theme.

Lewbotart

I will deffo be doing it. Last year was the first time I've ever completed it and it was so fulfilling! I actually did inktober and Drawlloween at the same time so I was making myself do 2 drawings a day for the whole month. This year ill just be doing inktober. I would recommend it. It helped me grow my art style and I gained alot of new followers plus I found some new amazing artists to follow!

lady chamomile

So pumped hearing so many people here are doing inktober!
This will be my third attempt at completing inktober... hopefully third time's a charm lol.

Things I'm doing to prepare:

Practicing waking up early (5:45am) to give myself an hour of distraction free drawing time in the morning
Coming up with a theme in addition to the prompts (maybe people and pets? Or girls and flowers?)
Have my supplies ready

I might be doing my version of inktober this year and include watercolor, but I'm not sure yet

Best of luck to everyone!

robgale

Indeed. I haven't done it at all in years past, but would love to jump in this year. Hopefully this community can help motivate and keep us going! I know showing up every single day can be so hard, but worth it.

@lady-chamomile I like your list of preparations, good solid ideas to help get past the resistance!

If anyone has any tips on getting through it, I'd love to hear them.

lady chamomile

@robgale oooooh! Glad it's helpful ^_^

I've also heard making extra drawings whenever possible would help if some unforeseen occurrence prevents you from doing that day's drawing... but I don't know if people would consider that cheating lol.

burvantill

@lady-chamomile I will totally be cheating!

lady chamomile

OMG guys! I saw the coolest inked horse with gold accents on Drawing wiff Waffles' youtube channel. I'll be incorporating gold ink for sure! Here's the one I'm getting -> https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0069EYIYA/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2IWCJ0AJPPRJZ

MissMushy

Sooo how's the sketching/practice going? I have been trying to do some brainstorming using the prompt list as a starting point while also thinking about a common theme to work on. Themes under consideration : wacky pets ( gives me chance to practice drawing animals inspired by prompts), Myth or fairytales (might be good for future children's book portfolio pieces),
Drawing in style of (to help me incorporate learning from others techniques)
I am finding generating ideas based on the the prompt list challenging though but it could just be me.

Heather Boyd

@missmushy I plan to use the September prompt "fall" as a starter to help create my character and story that will unfold for Inktober. It is a stretch for me, but I have one in progress idea for "fall" and story scenes for each October day reasonably laid out (writing and imagination) lols. I just don't want to give myself too much. So I am going to work on the major stable elements in September for "fall" that would bleed into Inktober.

lady chamomile

@missmushy Seems like you've got some good ideas for a theme! I always love fairytale themes but that's just me.

As for myself I'm going to try a dream theme and it will hopefully have a story it will build on. I always overestimate how much I can do though... I hope I can actually finish it this year. I do have a class starting on the 14th, so I'll be super happy if I can at least do 15 drawings. I have my notebook picked out and I will do thumbnail sketches / warmups on the "back" of each page and the full drawing on the "front" that way I don't worry about bleedthrough

I agree that following the prompt list is challenging... but it does push me to think outside my comfort zone. I don't know if I'll stick to it a 100%, we'll see.

Good luck!

MissMushy

Thanks @lady-chamomile! Looking forward to seeing the dream theme - sounds interesting. Good luck to you too!