Have you heard of inktober? It’s a month-long challenge that was started by illustrator and cartoonist Jake Parker. In essentials, you are encouraged to create an ink drawing each day in October. Here's a video about it that he put together:
Each year he releases a series of prompts, which you are welcome to adhere to or not. This is the list of prompts for this year:
I’ve participated in the #inktober challenge twice before – both times focusing on lettering and not adhering to any prompts. See a blog post about it from 2014, and from 2015.
I even made a little book of my 2014 inktober experience.
I like to use challenges to help me towards personal art goals. At the time, I wanted to improve my lettering skills. Creating a piece of lettering every single day for 31 days definitely made me faster and better at lettering.
This year I was thinking of a new spin on the challenge. It’s called "Print Inktober." I’ll be using printing ink and stamping ink rather than drawing ink, but my goal is to create a stamped print every day of October. I want to get my stamps out of storage and into play!
I’ll be posting under the hashtag #printinktober and if you’d like to play along, you are welcome to!
GUIDELINES:
- Create and post one print each day in October.
- Use the hashtag #printinktober when you post.
- Any stamp can be used – foam, silicone, rubber, hand carved, lino, whatever you want!
- Any ink can be used – screenprinting ink, marker ink, stamping ink, printing ink, etc.
- You can use the official inktober prompts, if you'd like. Or not.
- Have fun and don’t worry if you miss a day (or more). The point of the challenge is to get those stamps out of storage and into use!!
Thanks for stopping by!
Excellente idée! My stamps are just gathering dust right now, so it will be a good excuse to take them out, even if it’s just for 5 min.
Excellente idée! My stamps are just gathering dust right now, so it will be a good excuse to take them out, even if it’s just for 5 min.
Excellente idée! My stamps are just gathering dust right now, so it will be a good excuse to take them out, even if it’s just for 5 min.
Excellente idée! My stamps are just gathering dust right now, so it will be a good excuse to take them out, even if it’s just for 5 min.
Excellente idée! My stamps are just gathering dust right now, so it will be a good excuse to take them out, even if it’s just for 5 min.
Excellente idée! My stamps are just gathering dust right now, so it will be a good excuse to take them out, even if it’s just for 5 min.
Excellente idée! My stamps are just gathering dust right now, so it will be a good excuse to take them out, even if it’s just for 5 min.
Your little book link did not work. Really enjoyed the others.
Your little book link did not work. Really enjoyed the others.
Your little book link did not work. Really enjoyed the others.
Your little book link did not work. Really enjoyed the others.
Your little book link did not work. Really enjoyed the others.
Your little book link did not work. Really enjoyed the others.
Your little book link did not work. Really enjoyed the others.
Super nice idea. I don’t if I will get to participate, but like you said it doesn’t have to be everyday; just a chance to use those stamps and be creative even for a few minutes. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration to do so!
Super nice idea. I don’t if I will get to participate, but like you said it doesn’t have to be everyday; just a chance to use those stamps and be creative even for a few minutes. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration to do so!
Super nice idea. I don’t if I will get to participate, but like you said it doesn’t have to be everyday; just a chance to use those stamps and be creative even for a few minutes. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration to do so!
Super nice idea. I don’t if I will get to participate, but like you said it doesn’t have to be everyday; just a chance to use those stamps and be creative even for a few minutes. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration to do so!
Super nice idea. I don’t if I will get to participate, but like you said it doesn’t have to be everyday; just a chance to use those stamps and be creative even for a few minutes. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration to do so!
Super nice idea. I don’t if I will get to participate, but like you said it doesn’t have to be everyday; just a chance to use those stamps and be creative even for a few minutes. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration to do so!
Super nice idea. I don’t if I will get to participate, but like you said it doesn’t have to be everyday; just a chance to use those stamps and be creative even for a few minutes. Thanks for the encouragement and inspiration to do so!