I haven't written about Inktober in a
while, and it's under way again, so first things first: There is the
prompt list, above. Yes, I know they release it in September, and I
know it's already the second week of Inktober, but...you know how I
am. By the way, if you follow my Facebook page (
https://www.facebook.com/allsortsofart
), you will note that I shared the prompt list when it was released,
so this is just kind of, let's say, reinforcement.
The last time I blogged about Inktober
was in 2022, when I was writing about Inktober 2021 (again,
completely on brand), right here
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2022/09/inktober-2021-thrilling-conclusion-kind.html
. I'd actually had a cracking good year, producing well more of the
prompts than usual, owing a lot to the fact that I ended up doing a
few drawings later in the month that combined three prompts each.
Inktober 2021, Day 9, “Pressure” -
I mentioned this one at the end of the last Inktober article as
having been pencilled (believe it or not, prior to the start of
Inktober that year) but not inked. Happily, I did manage to finish
the inks on it – this year!!!
I wasn't very gung-ho about Inktober
2022 (still tired from the prior year? Anybody's guess), but I did
produce work for the first two prompts, “Gargoyle” and “Scurry”,
but, uh...not in that order. Really very much not. Not even in the
same year, actually. I produced “Scurry”, a cute sketch of
a stressed-out businessrodent, running (literally) late for an
important meeting. Scurry, cute lil dude! You'll make it!
The Day 1 prompt, “Gargoyle”, was a
classic example of my shooting myself in the foot by deciding that I
was going to do a portrait (nooooo!) of one of Notre Dame's
famous beasties, from photo reference. This is as far as I got that
year:
Decent start, but whew, look – I
shouldn't try that nonsense on Day 1. So when did I finish? I'll get
back to that.
That was it for 2022, but I managed to
do even less for 2023. This time I changed things up by mostly
ignoring that it was happening at all, until I happened to notice
that the Day 19 prompt was “Plump”, and I got inspired to
scribble this cute gal:
And that was all of Inktober 2023 for
me. I mean, so far, at least. I do have the idea that someday, I will
actually go back and complete every single one of the prompts I
missed. I mean, I have many months during which it is not actually
Inktober, for corn's sake. At least I scored one, which is one more
than the Australian women's Olympic breakdancer scored. I didn't even have
to fly to Paris on anyone's dime.
Oh yeah – here's my drawing for
“Gargoyle”, which I finished THIS YEAR. And upon posting it, I
found out it's not even a gargoyle, dang it. It's a grotesque
(they're to scare demons away – the gargoyles are downspouts, to
drain the water away). So anyway, tune in next time or sometime to
find out how I'm doing with this year's prompts. Spoiler: I am
participating again, so there's that.
Here are the other Inktober articles,
if you would like the full coverage:
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-little-backstory-on-inktober.html
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2020/10/inktober-2020-is-under-way.html
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2020/11/more-fun-with-inktober.html
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2021/03/another-shot-of-inktober-so-what-if-its.html
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2022/04/inktober-restrospective-2020-part-two.html
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2022/08/inktober-2021-starting-off-with-bang.html
https://allsortsartbyali.blogspot.com/2022/09/inktober-2021-did-i-start-unraveling.html
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images are my original art