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#Inktober2023 week 1

inktober2023 prompt list

It’s the 8th year in a row I’m participating in Inktober. The rules are simple: A different prompt every day. Use ink. Enjoy. Learn new techniques, or not.

Some choose to not use the prompt list, or create their own, or follow a different list. I prefer to stick to those proposed by Inktober creator Jake Parker, because I find it easier, even though some prompts are less inspiring than others!

Day 1: “dream”

Black ink drawing of a dream catcher against a grey background

A dream catcher. I used my beloved light grey Kuretake BrushWriter because if I’m fast enough to beat the air or warmth and the ink is still wet enough, there are very few layer marks. The grey is also beautiful. I also used a micron 003 black pen and Pentel black ink Brushpen for the fine feathers.

Day 2: “spider(s)”

Black and grey ink drawing of the “Maman” sculpture by Louise Bourgeois which is a giant metallic spider. Someone is standing up under it and someone else is crouching to take a picture.

This is after a photo I took in Bilbao: the “Maman” sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, near the Guggenheim museum. Micron 003, light grey BrushWriter, black Pentel Brushpen.

Day 3: “path”

Black and grey ink drawing of a character seen from behind, wearing a helmet and carrying a long staff whose top is shining. The man climbs up a ridge from which a cluster of tall crystals are visible. The sky is clear, dark and starry.

Moebius-inspired drawing. I used the black micron 003 fineliner, and three Kuretake BrushWriters: light grey, white and grey. The latter turned out to be too blue-indigo for a grey. The way the ink behaves is also different between the light grey and the grey, so I will not mix them anymore.

Day 4: “dodge”

Black ink drawing of a sports car

The prompt didn’t inspire my very much. I love the look of the Dodge Viper, though. Again I used the micron 003 black fineliner, Kuretake light grey & grey BrushWriters, as well as a staedtler black 0.3-2.0 mm pen for thin to thicker lines.

Day 5: “map”

Black outline of Antarctica and a compass all showing the north

This is after a funny meme from “Terrible Maps”: a map of Antarctica showing “south” near the middle and “north” everywhere else. The compass too shows the north everywhere. I used a black Kuretake fudegocochi pen, which sometimes drips black drops (but didn’t this time) because I can achieve some thicker lines depending on how I tilt the pen.

Day 6: “golden”

Black ink drawing of a Japanese woman in traditional outfit and hair style. A large golden circle is around her head.

Based on a doodle I made a fee years ago to test a black brushpen (but less well done, *sigh*) I used a Pentel black ink Brushpen, and gold paint from Pebeo moon fantasy, which creates some hammered effect (except the paint wasn’t thin enough and the effect isn’t obvious).

Day 7: “drip”

Black and golden ink simple outline of a drip and golden drop

The drawing I spent the least time on (maybe ever): a stylized medical drip filled with golden content and a big golden drop at the end of the tube. I used the Staedtler 0.3-2.0 mm black pen, and a gold metallic felt tip pen from Stabilo.

(See the posts for week 2, week 3, week 4-5)

Art: inktober2022

I drew again in my small sketchbook Canson art book universal (14×21 cm / 4×6 in), using individually or together a black Pentel brushpen, Kuretake fudegokochi black pen, Sakura Pigma Micron 003 black fine liner (very very fine), Kuretake light grey Brush Writer, and a white brush pen which doesn’t work too well anymore.

For the first time since I started doing the challenge every year in 2016, I have missed days because I didn’t like these prompts. In fact it’s the first time in those seven years that I found the list mostly terrible.

Yet I was able to draw three of them in tribute to Moebius, one to Ghibli, one to “Money Heist” (La casa de papel), and one to “Arcane, League of Legends”.

inktober 2022 prompt list
inktober 2022 prompt list
Grey ink drawing of a gargoyle seen from below
Day 1 – Gargoyle
Grey ink drawing of a running happy-looking rodent being chased by a bird of prey
Day 2 – Scurry
Black ink drawing of several silhouettes of the batman iconic shape in various sizes and positions
Day 3 – Bat
Black and gold ink drawing of a scallop shell
Day 4 – Scallop
Black and grey ink drawing of a dragon emerging from a flame
Day 5 – Flame
Black and grey ink drawing of two roses
Day 6 – Bouquet
Black and grey ink drawing of a long straight road in a deserted area with mountains on the horizon
Day 7 – Trip
Black and grey ink drawing of silhouettes of two men in a standoff from the point of view right behind the closest person. The furthest person is just a black silhouette.
Day 8 – Match
Black and grey ink drawing of the face of a woman whose hair holds a nest with a family of birds
Day 9 – Nest
Black and grey ink drawing of a simple crab
Day 10 – Crabby
Black and grey ink drawing of a statue of an American bald eagle with spread wings perched on a text box that reads 'never forget' on top of a Svastika with a sword and an ear of wheat
Day 11 – Eagle
Black ink drawing of a peace sign in a circle of flowers and which centers has the silhouette of a soldier in front of a grave topped with a soldier's helmet. The top of the drawing has in hand-lettering 'lest we forget'
Day 12 – Forget
Grey ink drawing of Totoro under an umbrella in the rain. The umbrella is illustrated by Totoro extending the umbrella over a child.
Day 13 – Kind
Black ink drawing of an empty chair in a museum room with artworks of various sizes on the wall, all representing artworks by Moebius
Day 14 – Empty
Grey ink drawing of several times the same very simple outline of armadillos. One of them in the center is black.
Day 15 – Armadillo
Black ink drawing of a creature standing up on two large chicken feet, a black head with large eyes at each side, with long arms, holding a baby version of itself
Day 16 – Fowl
Day 20 – Bluff
Black ink drawing of a yellow labrador hiding its face under a paw
Day 21 – Bad dog
Black ink drawing of a figure in overall wearing a Dali face mask and a hoodie
Day 22 – Heist
Black ink drawing of the silhouette of the Tinkerbell fairy with stars
Day 24 – Fairy
Black ink drawing of a hand reaching out for an apple
Day 25 – Tempting
Grey ink drawing of a naked young boy kneeling by water looking at his reflection
Day 26 – Ego
Black ink drawing of a lion lazily playing with a mouse under his front paw
Day 27 – Snack
Black ink drawing of a simple landscape with a fire, a tent, a line of pine trees and mountains in the background
Day 28 – Camping
Black ink drawing of a woman who looks a bit like Audrey Hepburn looking surprised
Day 29 – Uh-oh!
Black ink drawing of an anime female character with a long braid carrying a large firearm and looking like she's mid-flight
Day 30 – Gear

Drawvember 2020 days 16-20

This year for Drawvember, I compiled my own list of prompts, to ensure that I wasn’t going to use “not inspired” as an excuse for skipping days. Drawing actually brings me joy and satisfaction, and as it’s in rather short supply at this time of year for me, I have much at stake.

I picked words that appealed to me, rather randomly, without any clear idea how I was going to develop each prompt. So far, I’m having fun.

Day 16: “Cougar”

Gouache painting of a cougar walking on snow

My favourite so far!

I was really pleased with the pencil sketch and found myself in a double-bind: it was perfect to me and I could consider it finished but, I wanted to add colour but was afraid to mess it up.

I am glad I tried, because I find the final result stunning!

I used only four of the five tubes of Holbein Artists’s gouache I received in a Sketchbox: yellow ochre, burnt sienna, leaf green and Prussian blue (the fifth one is ivory black, which I chose not to use, using blue instead, given that blue is ideal when there is snow.)

Day 17: “Boat”

Gouache painting of a cruise ship at night

A stylised oversized cruise ship sailing at night. I used gouache again, honouring my desire to experiment outside the black and grey ink brush pens that I love so much.

I used the tubes of Holbein Artists’s gouache I received in a Sketchbox: Prussian blue, burnt sienna, and ivory black. I used some titanium white watercolor from a tube to get the shades of blue and the grey. I wasn’t happy with the blue background. This has to do with the paper of my artbook which does not play well when too wet (96g/m2, 65 lb per sq. m.)

Day 18: “Planet”

Ink drawing of a man mounting an oversized pelican flying over a forest in a canyon, under a giant Jupiter.

This is an ink brush pens drawing of a man mounting an oversized pelican flying over a forest in a canyon, under a giant Jupiter. This is inspired from work by Moebius.

I used some of the November 2020 Sketchbox materials that I received just today: sepia ink Brush Writer from Kuretake, blue and green Twin Brushes from Monami. I also used a light grey ink and geranium red ink Brush Writer from Kuretake (the latter I found way too dark), and a pale rose water colour marker from Winsor and Newton.

Day 19: “Sullen”

Grey ink drawing of a woman in kimono sitting and holding a fan.

This is my interpretation of “Woman Sitting on Edge of Veranda”, a work of Kitagawa Utamaro from 1798.

I used a black ink 0.05 mm line maker from Derwent and a light grey Brush Writer by Kuretake.

I drew it before, four years ago and I looked up that page in my artbook at the time: wow, unbelievable how much I have progressed since then! Everything is so much better in this version: proportions, line work, hues.

Day 20: “Jellyfish”

Metallic paint depicting a large jelly fish against a black square

I went into Drawvember thinking I should experiment with new techniques or medium I don’t use often. Today’s prompt lended itself well to that. There is a shiny quality to jellyfish that I wanted to try to render using metallic paint. I have just one pan of such paint and it is blue. I also used black sumi ink in a rectangle background so that it would bring out the blue. It does achieve that, although I am not enamoured with the result. Perhaps had I used a bit of white paint for highlights and a bit of non metallic blue to bring out the shine I might have liked it more.

Art: inktober2020

This year again, I had a blast this month! I am pleased with almost all of the pieces I drew. I really like ink, turns out. I have the distinct impression that I have improved last year and this year.

The tools I used are: Kuretake Brush Writer (light grey), water brush pen, Pentel Brushpen (black), mechanical pencil, white Posca 0.7 mm, black 0.05 mm Graphik line maker from Derwent.

Here’s a gallery of all of the drawings and the prompt list is at the bottom.

Cartoon drawing of a little blond girl dressed in pink standing on a fish and surrounded by lost of other fish looking at her.
Black and grey ink drawing of the Disney movie character Hades smiling and burning.
Black and sepia ink drawing of an elephant sitting on a boulder
Black ink drawing of a vintage radio
Black ink drawing of two skates shaving ice
Black ink drawing of a saddled squirrel at the edge of rocks, mounted by a tiny character wearing a helmet.
Black ink drawing of Audrey Hepburn wearing a flowery white dress and black high-heel shoes
Black ink drawing of a screaming gorilla
Black ink drawing of two judokas, one in black and the other in white. The one in white is throwing the other one to the ground.
Black ink drawing of a dandelion shedding its seeds in the wind, which turn into birds the farther they get from the flower.
Black ink drawing of the face of a man whose eyes are covered, wearing a helmet from the top of which are short tentacles
Black ink drawing of a series of penguins gliding on their bellies
Black ink drawing of a man wearing a pointy helmet, seen from behind next to his leather case, standing in front of a levitating crystal within which is an odd smiling creature with the lower body of a worm. The scene is at the foot of a large dune.
Very detailed black ink drawing of a Japanese warrior in armor carrying a sword and wearing a war helmet and metallic face mask.
Black ink drawing of the great wall of China slithering in the distance, with three outposts.
Black and grey pointy shuttle soaring diagonally in the black sky
Black and grey ink drawing of a ship in a storm near rocks
Black ink drawing of a masked cowboy in large brim hat aiming a rifle.
Black and grey ink drawing of a trumpet play seen from behind.
Black and grey ink drawing of a clown fish and coral
Black ink drawing of a smiling young man propped against a pillow, looking tired, with a newborn asleep on him.
Black and grey ink drawing in cartoon style of a chef with a long thin curly moustache and a huge chef hat that looks like a cloud and covers his eyes, holding a small platter with a tiny pastry on it.
Black and grey ink drawing of superman tearing open his shirt and revealing the capital S of his superhero costume.
Black and grey ink drawing of a goofy t-rex holding a spade and digging a hole.
Black and grey ink drawing of my dog Gizmo, a labrador, munching on a bone on his cushion.
Black and grey ink drawing of a tabby cat partially hiding in a basket
Black and grey ink drawing of an Indian young woman holding a sitar, and their reflection on a shiny floor.
Black ink drawing of a group of people on a boat approaching a giant woman asleep in shallow water. This is in Venice. There are a couple of sea gulls.
Black and grey ink drawing of the feet, legs and dress of tango dancers.
Black and grey ink drawing of a desert scene where a levitating object looking like a giant egg or thick immense petal, being approached by a tiny-looking helicopter.
Black and grey ink drawing of a leopard climbing up a tree trunk.
prompt list for Inktober 2020
Inktober 2020 prompt list