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Inktober 2024
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What is Inktober?
Inktober is a yearly art event intended to improve your inking skills. Every day, there's a prompt which everyone will draw with either ink on paper or digital inking
From the main site:
Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.
What to do
The main two ways to participate are to draw daily like a marathon or every second day like a semi-marathon. The operative word being marathon. It doesn't have to be your best piece of art or even something you're proud of in any way. As the creator of this community, I know quite a bit of what I create will be absolute trash. I'm ok with this though.
This community
A daily post will be pinned at the top to round up each days work. One may either make a post to the community, or comment on the pinned post.
Want to mod?
Feel free to contact me if you're up to help mod this community.
Rules
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Be kind Constructive criticism at most. This is a strictly positive community meant to keep a habit for a period of time. If you don't enjoy someones art and can't phrase any advice in a supportive way don't speak up. This will be strongly enforced with bans if need be. A dictatorship of kindness. You may, however, ignore this rule for any post made by @[email protected]. Please, feel free to insult me so terribly that I'll think about your takedown on my deathbed
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No AI-Generated work
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Submissions must meet the theme of this community Whether on paper or digital the creation must be inked. This means black and white with an ink pen or ink pen digital brush
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"Artists, sharpen your nibs and adjust your sundials — this week, we’re heading straight into the cosmic tug-of-war that is the SOLSTICE! Whether you're basking in the endless daylight of summer or brooding through the mysterious gloom of winter, this prompt invites you to explore the extremes. It’s the moment when the sun shows off (or totally ghosts us), and nature leans into its dramatic flair. Perfect inspiration, if you ask us.
Think ancient rituals, celestial alignments, seasonal transformations, or that one crow who definitely knows too much. Want to ink a snow-drenched forest at midnight? Go for it. Prefer a sun-drenched stone circle with suspiciously symmetrical shadows? We’re here for that, too. Whether you gravitate toward the mystical, the natural, or the just plain weird, solstice is your chance to let light and darkness battle it out on the page.
Remember, Inktober 52 is all about returning to the basics: ink, paper, and pure creative energy. No pressure to go digital or fancy — just you, your pen, and the vast universe doing something cool twice a year. So tilt that metaphorical Earth of yours and get drawing — because the solstice waits for no one."
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As always, you’re free to create a separate post for your own stuff if you wish, or you can post it as a comment in this weekly prompt post. I will corral any individual posts and post them here as a comment.
Rules:
- Please remember to be kind. All skill levels are welcome here.
- AI art is not allowed.
- Submissions must be based on the given prompt, but either traditional or digital mediums are welcome.
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If following the Inktober prompt isn't your style but you would still like to do a weekly prompt with a community here on Lemmy, please check out and support [email protected] by @[email protected]
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