Who is doing INKTOBER this year?

keithryanstudio

@chrisaakins That's a great idea. I was thinking about doing all the prompts and putting them into one big poster. Maybe a fall theme

chrisaakins

@keithryanstudio Great idea! At one point I was thinking about doing a giant Halloween spread in which a set of parents or grandparents open their door for trick-or-treaters to see thirty-one kiddos dressed in each of the prompts. I scrapped it because I wanted to focus on drawing kiddos and I figured drawing costumes and masks might hinder that process. Feel free to steal the idea though. I would love to see someone do it.

Frogpunzel

@chrisaakins I am planning on it! I'll be working on the prompt list... It's already out so I can start brainstorming 🥳

braden H

@chrisaakins said in Who is doing INKTOBER this year?:

I am going to try to channel my inner @Braden-Hallett

Dude, I'm trying my best to NOT channel my inner Braden. He's TERRIBLE.

@chrisaakins said in Who is doing INKTOBER this year?:

see thirty-one kiddos dressed in each of the prompts.

I may borrow this

Laurasketches

Yup...I'm joining as I can. Working on a web comic about "She & Me," the joys/challenges of single-parenthood.
Best of luck to all that are drawing...

Laurasketches

@Braden-Hallett I LOVE the idea of kiddos in prompt costumes....do it!

Katie Carling

Yes! This will be my first time and I want to do it to learn how to draw. I need to get the bad drawings out of me to get to the good ones, like they say on 3PP, lol. I don't even care if they are awesome or awful, I just want to skill up. And it sounds fun!

chrisaakins

@Braden-Hallett please do! I bet it would be hilarious. I want a cut of all your kudos though. like 30%.

baileyvidler

Thirty-one kiddos in costume is a really cute idea! I love it!

My inktober is going to be 31 character designs from a setting that I've had floating vaguely around my head for a while. It's about a tiny village surrounded by wilderness with some very peculiar inhabitants in it.

I'm trying to focus on pushing my character designs as well as becoming more comfortable with traditional mediums. (Going to the art store this weekend!)

Pamela Fraley

@chrisaakins such a good idea!! Can’t wait to see it.

jdubz

The CBP course was a grind and I needed a long break after that lol. I'm finally getting my head above water with all the projects we've been doing and I was planning on breaking back into it for Inktober so I'll definitely be participating.

I'm still not sure if I'm going to go traditional or digital this year. Last year I had a bunch of 4x6 cardstock sheets lying around that I used until I was out and I really liked that, so I might do the same thing this year and buy a stack of those and get enough for the whole month this time.

Nyrryl Cadiz

@chrisaakins I AM!!!! I’m doing it the conventional way this year. I need black and white pieces for my Middle Grade portfolio. I’m only aiming for 1 piece per week.

Judy Elizabeth Wilson

Yes! I am joining in with 4 illustrations and will colour each one for Slowvember. Last year my theme was 'little witches'. This year I am illustrating some whimsical scenes inside woodland homes thinking about creating the art for a board book. Looking forward to see your alphabet @chrisaakins !!!

jaepereira

I will participate this year. I do every year. The key is that I finish. I still haven’t finished last year’s project/comic. Now I’m really trying to prep this month to make October easier.

As for a theme: before the SVS contest theme came out, I considered doing a month of Imaginary Friends. I have a story bouncing around in my head where it’s this agency of imaginary friends who interact with children around the world. They can be as wacky as can be and not relate to the prompt at all, or be a direct derivation of the prompt. Either way they’d be through a child’s perspective.

After the September contest announcement, I started thinking that i needed to just stick with one character design and follow them through a loose story throughout the month. It’d be like the Little Bot drawings Jake did a few years back.

jaepereira

@chrisaakins said in Who is doing INKTOBER this year?:

@Braden-Hallett please do! I bet it would be hilarious. I want a cut of all your kudos though. like 30%.

I love this idea. It’d be an amazing single sheet fold out. You could show the homeowners at the beginning or the end too.

ruth

I'm going to give it go! It was my first year last year and I didn't quite get to the end, so this year I'm going to try to be a bit more prepared I like the idea of taking the character we're doing for this month's prompt and creating a story for them using the Inktober prompts.
Loving your idea of the alphabet poster @chrisaakins!