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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 @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works. 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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"Time to embrace your inner twin, double your ideas, and maybe argue with yourself about what to draw first. This prompt is all about duality—the cosmic kind, the human kind, or the kind that happens when you sketch something, hate it, and immediately start over.
For the zodiac fans, Gemini is the sign of the twins, full of curiosity, contradictions, and conversations (with yourself or others). It’s a symbol of dual perspectives, shifting identities, and seeing both sides of the story. So whether you go with mystical mirror images, doppelgängers, or two-headed creatures with attitude, there’s a lot to explore here.
And for the space nerds (we see you), Gemini was also the name of NASA’s pre-Apollo missions. Two astronauts squeezed into a capsule the size of a compact car, orbiting Earth and testing out the skills that would eventually land us on the Moon. It’s a beautiful metaphor for collaboration, tension, and trust—which also sounds a lot like trying to finish an Inktober prompt before midnight.
Remember, this challenge is about getting back to the roots of drawing: ink on paper, no fuss. It’s not about perfection. It’s about process, play, and giving yourself permission to try something bold (or strange… or both).
So go ahead—draw the stars, the astronauts, the mischief-makers, or that bizarre idea that only makes sense to you and your sketchbook. Just make sure you’ve got a pen in hand and some paper nearby. Gemini's calling, and it's got twice the inspiration.
Let’s get inky."
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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 !52WeeksofArt@lemmy.world by @Okokimup@lemmy.world
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