inktober

Revisiting an old Inktober prompt

I was poking through some of my old Inktober prompts in Procreate and came across the one for Wild (original post). I discovered I had botched a lot of the technical aspects of it (layers are a complete mess, for one thing), and always thought the hills and mountains in the background looked more like a cave entrance.

I duplicated the prompt, fixed the technical bits, then added some muted colours and shading. I like how it turned out! It was fun and enlightening to go back and repair my original slapdash behind-the-scenes stuff.

Here’s a before and after.

Before:

After:

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: