Who's doing Inktober 2020, and what are your plans?
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@Molambo Awesome! What kind of brush is it that you'll be using for the traditional work?
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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.
For me at least, doing the one-drawing-a-day-prompt forced me to be creative coming up with solutions, but didn't really produce any outstanding pieces. Family and work just don't make dedicating much time each day possible.
My hope is that I'll end up with 4 portfolio pieces that I could also color down the road.
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The Raphael 8404. Next to the Winsor and Newton it got recommended a lot of times in - The Art of Comic Book Inking by Gary Martin - and i could get it in a Local Store which wasn't the case with the Winsor.
A good example of a Skilled Inker at work with it.
https://youtu.be/CbooAu3Ly0E
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I'm always so excited to see what my fellow SVS friends are doing for inktober! I am penciling a short comic that will be a dark twist on Alice in wonderland. I will ink a page each day of October. I'm really excited about it.
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I'll be following up last year's project with my kitty characters!
Last year I did all 31 prompts with them with the intention of self-publishing a little book with their story, but there were a lot of pieces I wasn't happy with/life got in the way and I didn't publish last year. This year I'll be going in and doing some new pieces to firm up the story and replace the ones that I don't think are up to my usual quality and will be doing my first ever kickstarter to get it printed!
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It will be my 3rd year doing Inktober this year. The first year I followed the prompts and my inking was to take one of my kids' markers and outline my drawing. Last year, I planned and got myself some micron pens, and ended up doing a bear theme through the whole month. This year, I'm sticking to the prompts since it frees my mind up as to what I need to draw, and turns it all into how can I draw it. But I am branching out to include washes and brush pen as well as technical pens. I'm going for a more consistent style with each drawing.
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Interesting! I'll be watching for your piece. This is my first time doing Inktober. I'm sketching daily in September and posting my sketches to #fauxinktober2020. Then in Oct I plan to ink them daily. I am following the prompts. I can't really say what my goal was, except to practice my skills and discipline myself to complete a little drawing daily. I am using photo references from Google as studies and I'm liking the challenge of the different surfaces. Doing one each day presents different issues to overcome. I might paint them digitally in November as you suggested. I did ink my first one just to try it. I am really happy with it and it was fun! I think I can do this.
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Ahhhhh! I so want to do Inktober but I am really conflicted. I have done Inktober for the last two years and REALLY grew as an artist. I even developed a little following of some characters I created last year. I really need to be concentrating on building portfolio pieces and inking is not an issue for me but rather a relative strength. I also am moving away from inking in my children's illustration and moving more to a painterly approach. I also need much more help with storytelling and design in characters, vehicles, buildings, etc than inking.
I may need to join @Nyrryl-Cadiz in the faux Inktober (even if the purist in me rebels because it's not "official" How stupid is that? I am such a rule follower. ugh.) I could do these as spot illustrations. My problem is that I want to create more portfolio pieces with more storytelling and the daily drawings will not give me time to do that. Perhaps I will pick a few of the prompts and just do those.
Does this even answer any of the questions? It did help me clarify things a bit to write this out. Thank you @ajillustrates for asking the question.
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I'm using the official prompts combined with a more magical prompt list. I've had this idea for a children's book in my head for ages but I can't work out the specific details, so I'm using the inktober prompts to create something connected to the story as a sort of brainstorming experiment to build out the world (if any of that made sense). I'm not looking to do any breath taking work, more like tidy sketches with a little story
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I'm doing a 1920s theme...at the time I came up with it I thought 2020 was going to be a fun year (oh, to be that simple again
)I was a bit hesitant to post work on social media, given the controversy and the fact that I know a lot of my former college classmates think Jake plagarized and so they're trying to cancel Inktober. But you know what, I love the challenge, I love the community, so post I shall!
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@chrisaakins JOIN US!....
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@Molambo That brush looks great!
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Yes, I'd love to.
Probably multiple pieces, and hopefully do them all.
Yes, that is part of the challenge and goal for me.
I'll be winging it daily. Since I am an event artist and do live drawing and painting(when there's no pandemic), I want to practise winging it, and doing the best I can with the prompt, and in a short time. And with no sketch.
Mainly practise. And level up my skill set.Looking forward to seeing lotsa cool inked art.
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- Are you going to do one large piece, or multiple/daily pieces?
I was planning on drawing all the prompts but now it looks like my schedule may only accommodate a few. Would be cool to do one large piece covering all the prompts! Would make a great game, actually. Find all the pieces in the drawings that correspond to each prompt.
- Will you be sticking to the prompt list?
Yes.
- Will you be planning/sketching ahead of time, or will you be winging it daily (I think both approaches have their value, depending on your immediate goals)?
This year I’ve decided to plan ahead but as per #1 above, my schedule got in the way of that, too! However, I did manage to plan out two drawings so I hope to at the very least, have them inked and posted.
- What is the main thing you want to take away from the experience (practice, project, increased exposure, etc.)?
Nice finished drawings that I can be proud about
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this is my 2nd year, finished all 31 prompt list in 2019.
- Are you going to do one large piece, or multiple/daily pieces?
daily pieces. i find it much more interesting to come up with ideas, although it can be very harsh and hard, when you don't feel connected to a word, and then you just improvise. but that's fine too. the idea part is very important to me, like what can you create with a single word, what does it mean to me? what does it evoke? and if it doesn't, why? also it keeps my mind very very busy on the creative part.
and a great composition exercise to think about the different ways to deliver the idea.- Will you be sticking to the prompt list?
yes. because i think its harder. sometimes it can take away the fun-but not take away the challenge. which is important to me, since it is kind of an exercise. besides, i am much more experienced than my first inktober. i gathered alot more experience in almost every field.
not that its any good yet. but its better.- Will you be planning/sketching ahead of time, or will you be winging it daily ?
winging it daily. since that is part of the challenge. i mean if i had like a sudden emergency which my time was taken from me,
then i might compensate on later days. if I finish the daily before the end of the day, it also means i am free for the rest of the day, to think about other stuff
4.What is the main thing you want to take away from the experience
just practice basically. its such a hard combo this competition. the ideating, thinking over it, the composition, what will work, what will not, next there's perspective, figure, proportion, anything else, and how to shadow in ink, which i also improved a bit there, so its going to be fun-practice wise.but also, i would want to see how and if my drawings and thinking have improved from last year. see my progress there.
and also i post in DA so it will be interesting to see, what pieces are more likeable, or more easier to understand. which is like getting sort of a feedback, I used to do it on facebook which was very time consuming. but i quit facebook. so only on DA.
also i found that smaller sketchbooks are much faster, and somewhat easier in certain fields. so i moved from the a4 to a like 3rd of that size, so in that manner, it will also be interesting to see how i deal with this.
excited...
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My plan was to participate in Inktober this year for the first time ever but I’m having serious second thoughts after brainstorming the prompt list realising just how much of a commitment it will be! I have plenty of ideas and have begun thumbnails but feel limited by my inexperience vs. my perfectionism. Composition is such a struggle for me right now that I think I’m going to have to compromise quantity for the sake of quality or I’ll go loco
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I'm doing thumbnail ink paintings on scrap paper this year (like 2x2 inches or smaller prob). It's the first year I plan to fully commit to inktober so I'm excited! I'm making pieces ahead of time that don't follow the prompts (just rando illustrations)but I might try to make extra images to go with the prompts too. I might just have to post twice a day, we'll see.
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I am making another story with my inktober cat. Already have an idea about it and I am even making some sketches. It will be my 3th year drawing this character. And I will use as always the official list.
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@ajillustrates said in Who's doing Inktober 2020, and what are your plans?:
planning/sketching ahead
Good luck to everyone doing Inktober this year. I will be doing daily pieces and staying with the prompt list. Last year was my first year posting any of my artwork online and I started with Inktober. It was a great Art stimulus. I am hoping to make all 31 days again this year. Here is the cover I did and the first prompt.
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@Dima-Eichhorn That’s so funny, my chosen theme for Inktober is also based around cats (to explore a storyline concept I have: ‘Cat’s are always right’
), and from my research it seems to be a common focal topic!
