#Drawtober 2019

[eveshmeve]

wolf’s bane

#wolfsbane #wolf skull #drawtober #Drawtober 2019 #artists on tumblr #queer artist #nb artist #digital art #procreate #full moon #stippling #my art

[eszart]

day 13 - guitar

#the blue witch #eszart oc #drawtober 2019 #webtoon #tapas

[catbatart]

I've had a hankering to do my own take on TTRPG creatures again, so I made a PART 2 to my 2019 RPG Monster Art Challenge! Because 31 monsters just wasn't enough.

Even though it's labeled as Inktober, it's absolutely a Non-Denominational October Art Challenge! Drawtober, Arttober, whatever you wanna use it for!

Credit is not necessary, but I do try to reblog folks who are participating in my prompt lists!

+Other RPG themed Art Challenge Prompt Lists I've made: TTRPG Character Prompts Encountober (Maps/Encounters/Art Prompts) RPG Monsters Part 1

#dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #pathfinder #inktober #art challenge #october art challenge #drawtober

[peppermintbubble]

Videogame Drawtober 2019, day 25

A small illustration of Klonoa 2, my favorite videogame, for my birthday.

#drawtober #klonoa #leorina #traditional art #pep art

[doorbloggr]

What is Inktober?

And what's the controversy?

Sunday 23/19/22

So in 2009, a concept artist and creator named Jake Parker started a challenge, mostly for himself, to complete a hand-drawn art piece for every day of October. In subsequent years, other artists worldwide joined in on the challenge, and from 2015(sic), Parker has posted a list of prompts prior to October for artists to inspire what they'd draw each day.

Originally, as the name suggests, Inktober participation would only count if you completed ink-drawn pieces on paper, often with a fountain pen, but it has since grown to a challenge incorporating all artistic mediums, include paints, music, writing, and even digital art.

But in 2019, Jake Parker made the decision to copyright the term "Inktober", meaning that artists trying to sell art under the "Inktober" title were receiving cease and desist notices or legal action would be threatened. Parker has given several reasons for the decision, including protecting his own work; books of his own art, and about doing ink art; and to not allow predatory profiting off the brand; people using the Inktober name of discriminatory tshirts or posters, selling merchandise using the brand name without permission from Jake Parker and his team.

He has assured artists that it is not his intention to scare artists away from participating in Inktober, or selling their own art made during the challenge. But there are guidelines on how to avoid action from his team. Artbooks must use Inktober as a subtitle and not as the main title, ideally, together with the year of the challenge (e.g. Doorbloggr: Inktober 2022), and avoid using the official Inktober Logo in any merchandising.

In August 2019, it came out that Parker may have plagiarised most of the content for his book "Inktober All Year Long" from an artist named Alphonso Dunn, and their book "Pen & Ink Drawing".

Rightfully so, this brutal stance and the controversy around it scared away a lot of artists from participating in the Official Inktober challenge. But luckily, the variety of artists that this original challenge brought in gave rise to iteration and elaboration on the idea. And so the Inktober spin-off was born.

October: A Month of Art

In the same way that Parker made prompt lists for each new October, many different communities made their own challenges with their own names and flavours. Many still have prompts for 31 days, while others ease it down to 16 days, or even once a week.

One of the first offshoots was Drawlloween in 2012. And from my own limited research, it may have not even been inspired by Inktober. It just so happened to also take place in October. Since October is Spooky Month, Drawlloween prompts are all based on Halloween, many very specific to pieces of spooky media and horror stories. In a similar vein, other Halloween themed challenges are Witchtober, Spooktober, Drawtober, and Goretober.

INKTtober is a spin-off I've seen on a couple different social media's I'm on that focuses specifically on Tattoo art. OCtober or OC October is a common one I see on Tumblr where each day is about an artist's Original Characters or OCs.

Other artists have grown the idea of a monthly challenge beyond October. And I wanna specifically shout out @regal-bones for their beautiful work on Swordtember (Sword designs in September) this year. Amazing work.

Day 2: Candle, Day 25: Spider

And finally, the one that I have been partaking in, Linktober. Linktober is a celebration of the Legend of Zelda series. The challenge began in 2015 as a spin-off of Drawlloween, and in 2016, the team created their first full month calender of prompts.

Each year of Linktober has brought a new calender of prompts and in some years, they even introduced alternate challenges that spice it up beyond just Legend of Zelda art. 2018 introduced Linktober Chance, where the prompt is only half finished and you roll a d6 dice to generate a more specific prompt. 2019 introduced Linktober Quest, where each day is part of a story about a Zelda OC you make and the adventure they go on to save the world. Linktober 2020 introduced Linktober Shadow, a counterpart to the regular challenge where every day is spooky, or about the villainous side of the Zelda series.

I want to talk more about my experience with Linktober, but I fear this post may be getting too long. So I will talk more about Art and Deadlines in a Part 2(?) to this post.

Thanks for Reading

A lot of the information I wrote in this blogpost I sourced from the following article, so I implore you to read it too if you want to gain more insight:

The Controversy with Inktober, Alexis Epinoza (September 2020) The Telescope

Also, if you don't already, please follow the tags #drawlloween #witchtober #linktober #swordtember or any other drawing challenges promoted across this and other sites. Artists love reblogs and if there's a fandom you like, there's likely to be creative people making things for you. So show them some love.

#blog #blogpost #inktober #linktober #jake parker #alphonso dunn #drawlloween #witchtober #spooktober #drawtober #goretober #inkttober #swordtember

[gyorslab]

Drawtober day 3, Moonboots wanted Starscream receiving his pilot’s license from the Rocketeer (2019) ft Olimar so uh… here’s… that

#art #Drawtober #Starscream #rocketeer

[bigmammallama5]

I finally photographed and uploaded my previous drawtober of Marigold and her boys! You can check out the full series on my artstation.

#arting #soul train #miss marigold the necromancer witch and her two undead boyfriends #this set only took me like 2 years #oh well #i have this year's photographed already i just need to do minor tweaks digitally and ill get those up soon

[bombawife]

#cats the musical #my polls #cats drawtober list

[sn1p1ng888]

the REAL Tankgoretober day 6

yippee !!!

todays prompt was ‘draw any or all of the thugmen’ and ‘too much blood’ so I did indeed draw too much blood, so obvs warnin for that yes yes

i thought drawing ALL the thugmen was a lil ambitious (yes ik there’s only 3 i am just one man who is very tired) so I just did the leader and an oc of mine, Chuck, designed by the wonderful tankman slimehound themselves @/tankmenslimehound

it took me 47 minutes but it was worth it to me because i think this is the best day 6 of drawtober I’ve ever done :D been doin it since 2019 !!

anyway sorry rambling i needed to get a ‘see all’ so that the drawing is censored bc blood

murber

#newgrounds #tankman #tankmen #digital art #tanksona #fan character #Thugmen #tanktober #goretober #goretober 2023

[serenefig]

New pfp, a Torchic I did for drawtober 2019.

Coloured it in with highlighter cos that was all I had when I drew this 😅

Absolutely adore how much they look like they are a single second away from cutting a bitch.

#my art #pokemon art #torchic #pokemon

[shop5]

Drawtober 24/31 I haven’t my OC drawn Fortes since 2019 figured it was time it’s kinda wild to see how my style and his design changed over time. 

#OC #original character #Fortes #shop5 art #inktober #drawtober

[morgenlich]

What art program do you use and can you tell us a little about your art journey? If you don't mind me asking.

I use Clip Studio Paint and love it! The 3D models are great, it's so helpful not only for pose references and the like, but i also have custom models saved of the characters i draw the most so i have consistent body type + height reference (this is especially helpful wrt ivan lol), also clip studio assets is just. a fantastic resource to have

i was always an artsy kid, i took art all 4 years in high school which at my school meant taking ap 2D studio art senior year (got a 4/5 on my portfolio which i'm still pretty proud of ngl). at my first college, i minored in studio art (it was actually taking an art history survey class for this minor that resulted in me switching from studying graphic design to studying art history which is a whole other story lmao) so i got to continue taking art classes in college. i won't post my favorite pieces on tumblr directly bc they're from a life drawing class lmao so they feature explicit (artistic) nudity, but here's a tweet i made sharing them if you're curious

i fell out of art a bit when i dropped out back in early 2019, because i suddenly lost any motivation or inspiration to do anything in general (this was easily the lowest point in my life and that's including when my mom died in 2015 lmao), and then later felt only inspired to do fanart but traditionally drawn fanart has never been popular unless you're really good lmao so i was intimidated. then a couple years ago i broke down and got an ipad and i love drawing on it tbh, i'm so glad that i did. (it's also great if you like mobile stardew valley btw).

very very slowly i've been trying to get back into traditional art too, because for one i like it, but for another thing, i very firmly believe you should have hobbies that don't require looking at a screen. i actually have plans for doing a little drawtober kind of thing though we'll see if it actually pans out lmao, in general i am hoping that moving to berlin will help reignite some more inspiration even if it's just in the form of going around making sketches of buildings lol

#q&a #Anonymous

[eszart]

day 31 - thank you! 

and the last day drawing I just drew myself as a witch.

it’s been 3 years since I did this challenge and it’s really cool to see how the story and my art grew over the years, to this day I still look back at those drawings and am really happy with them all. I believe this is the one drawtober that I actually finished, I’m not sure how or why. I was still in the army at the time I draw it all but somehow I did all the days even though I was a bit late not finishing all of them in the month of October.

even though I don't always finish I do like doing those challenges because I do feel it really helps with getting better with my art and also I get to explore more the characters and story I want.

thank you for all the support on those drawings, I know some of you must have seen them already on my old Instagram or comic but it's fun to share them again, and see you with a new challenge! (pray I will finish it this year *sobs*) 

#the blue witch #eszart oc #drawtober 2019 #webtoon #tapas

[galvanized-art]

Not really a redraw per-se, but I reworked one of my Drawtober pieces, The Witch's Garden, from 2019. The witch herself is the same (although I shrunk her head slightly lol), and the background is entirely new!

#drawtober #the witchs garden #witchs garden #witch #botanical #pencil drawing #drawing #clip studio paint #csp #halloween

[peppermintbubble]

Videogame Drawtober 2019, days 17 - 20

Featured game series are Rayman, Subnautica, Shantae and Hollow Knight!

I really should draw more Subnautica and Hollow Knight stuff. (Also my commissions are open!)

#drawtober #rayman #subnautica #shantae #hollow knight #traditional art #pep art

[peppermintkamz]

This was from Drawtober 2019 and I think it still looks pretty neat

#digital art #portrait #drawtober #inktober #artists on tumblr #illustration #KamzArt