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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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"That’s right—time to embrace the weird, wonderful world of mushrooms, molds, spores, and all the other squishy, shadow-dwelling lifeforms that pop up when you least expect them. Whether you're sketching a fairytale toadstool, a moody shelf fungus, or just a mushroom with a great personality, this is your sign to let loose and get a little spore-tastic.
Inktober is all about returning to the roots—ink, paper, and the kind of quiet focus that doesn’t come with an undo button. So put the tablet down, shake out your pens, and get weird with it. Try some hatching, cross-hatching, maybe even… stippling (we see you overachievers). There’s something deeply satisfying about coaxing a whole little ecosystem out of black ink and white space.
Let your lines meander like roots underground, or stand bold like a lone chanterelle in a sea of leaf litter. Just don’t be afraid to lean into the strange—fungi are nature’s original oddballs, after all. Go forth, draw boldly, and remember: if someone says your art looks like mold, you’re probably on the right track."
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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]
