To Inktober or not Inktober

Inktober 2021 starts mere hours from now, 31 days of prompts that are meant to be done in ink or ink-like media. I have participated the last two years, but strangely am still uncertain whether I want to take part again this year.

Part of my ambivalence is the first few prompts are rather uninspiring to me. Another part is feeling I should be devoting more time to structured learning on my drawing instead of doing a bunch of goofy prompts, which can help, but are maybe a better way to “cut loose” than to hone my skills.

Anyway, we’ll see what happens tomorrow!

Here’s the list for 2021:

Inktober 2020 #24: Dig

Technically I started this on time, but finished after midnight. I continue to move away from the pure black ink line art approach that Inktober exemplifies but I’m still not actually cheating, as I’m sticking to ink brushes. The ones used for this prompt were:

  • studio pen
  • brush pen
  • dry ink
  • marker
  • one other whose name I forget and will edit in later

I am not crazy about how the dirt turned out. Dirt is hard.