Inktober – Miss Escapist Art

Once again, I decided to give Inktober a try. I didn’t really know how to do it, though, as October was quite packed with moving around and traveling a lot. So I certainly wouldn’t be able to do it the traditional way. Instead, I decided to train my digital drawing skills a bit and draw in Autodesk Sketchbook on my tablet. Which didn’t turn out quite as easy as I had hoped – still very unfamiliar with drawing digitally it took me ages to finish the artworks and therefore I wasn’t able to create a drawing for every prompt. In addition to that, I got sick in the middle of October and had to take a break from drawing.

But I definitely learned and improved and that’s the most important part of Inktober, right?

01.10.2019

“ring”

02.10.2019

“mindless”

03.10.2019

“bait”

04.10.2019

“freeze”

05.10.2019

“build”

06.10.2019

“husky”

07.10.2019

“enchanted”

08.10.2019

“frail”

09.10.2019

“swing”

10.10.2019

“pattern”

11.10.2019

“snow”

12.10.2019

“dragon”

13.10.2019

“ash”

17.10.2019

“ornament”

30.10.2019

“catch”

Materials: Autodesk Sketchbook

Time: approx. 2-3 hours per drawing

Inktober – what’s that? And why participate? Inktober is a drawing challenge that takes place in – yes, October, you guessed it. The goal is to create 31 ink drawings in 31 days, inspired by an official prompt list (though you can of course choose your own prompts as well). This means that there’s a keyword for each day and you try to come up with a sketch matching that keyword. How you interpret the prompt is up to yourself and you can let your imagination flow. For me, this seemed to be a good opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and try something new. I’m so focussed on drawing (pencil) portraits that I rarely create anything else. Time to change that! I didn’t draw every day, though, as I was quite busy with other things as well. But when I had the time to do so I got out my sketchbook and started creating.