What is Inktober? - Auxane B. Have you ever seen some drawings on social more confident about your art! media with the hashtags #inktober or #inkto- Although Inktober is over, you can still check ber2021 and wondered what it was? out the website inktober.com and look at the prompts from past years if you ever want to Jake Parker invented Inktober in 2009 with the start a drawing based on a prompt. So get your goal of using it as a means to improve his draw- pens, ink, or whatever material you want and ing skills. Through the use of prompts, partic- start creating! ipants are required to produce one drawing per day, to get into a routine of artistic expres- Below is an example that I made from this sion. Today, the popularity of this challenge year’s prompts. Drawing 1 used the prompt has grown, and takes place every year from ‘spirit’, drawing 2 ‘fan’, and 3 ‘watch’. Recurring the 1st to the 31st of October, with artists from themes of mine were the three characters that I all around the world taking a moment of their invented, a pigeon, a calamar and a chameleon. day to create a drawing based on the assigned prompt. Other than the list posted on the official Inktober website (inktober.com), many other prompts have been invented, based on different themes, book characters, movies, etc... Inktober takes place during the whole month of October, but for people who want to take the challenge further, Inktober 52 has been invented. This challenge consists in doing one drawing per week throughout the whole year. Of course, even if Inktober is seen as a challenge with artists encouraged to post their art on social media with the hashtag #inktober, you are not pressured at all to post it or do it every single day of the month, or even to use ink as the media. Inktober is just an excuse to challenge yourself to create a healthy drawing habit and improve your art skills, all to feel
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