Here's the official unofficial prompt list for this year's Merlinktober!
The prompts are based on the official Inktober prompts for 2023, which you can find here. You can combine them for inspiration as well.
You’re welcome to tag/follow/submit a link to this blog if you’re doing Merlin fanart (or other fanworks) this October, regardless of what prompt list you’re following!
I’m tracking the #merlinktober2023 and #merlinktober tags
Happy creating!
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vision
balorian spider
trail
evade
chart
gold
drop
toad
impudence
destiny
vagrant
steamy
resurrection
castle of camelot
morgana's dagger
diamair
fomorroh
horse
chubby
dorocha
stocks
irritating
cloud
vain
perilous lands
remove
beast
glowing eyes
bulky
haste
candle
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Darksiders Inktober 2022 - Day 15, Survival.
No, but just imagine for a moment, if you will, that so far as you're aware, you're the last surviving member of the human race. Your family is... gone, along with the rest, ripped from their weary existences by creatures that can only have been dreamt up by a cruel and unforgiving god.
You're given no time to come to terms with the loss of the life you knew. The end of the world has begun.
Somehow, through sheer luck, you manage to survive the first day. And then you make it through the next, and the next... Armed with nothing but a .223 bolt action rifle, you start making a slow, nerve-wracking trek across the city, hoping that if you leave a densely populated area, you might stand half a chance of making it out of this nightmare alive, sanity notwithstanding.
You're exhausted, and it's bone-deep. Nights are spent wide-awake in utmost terror as you listen to monsters prowl close to your chosen hiding place. You're hungry. Food is scarce, you pick up what you find, but often, you're too afraid to eat. Stress leaves your stomach roiling and you feel as if you're always one breath away from throwing up all over yourself.
As you travel West, you come upon the roots of some impossibly vast tree that stretches higher than the highest skyscrapers, its branches spreading out in a canopy large enough to swallow entire city blocks in its shadow. The roots have burst through buildings and torn up roads, and you quickly find them thick enough to serve as alternate pathways. You can't be sure whether its safer to take the high road, or stick low, but after realising that the largest and fiercest of the monsters tend to lurk closer to the ground, you opt for the tree roots.
It's only when you find yourself treading apprehensively along one such root, stretching between two buildings hundreds of metres off the ground, that you realise you may have made a mistake.
Exposed in the centre of the tree's twisting limb, you suddenly feel the wood beneath your feet tremble with the approach of something massive. Sure enough, before you can scramble back along the root to find cover, a figure emerges from the other end.
It's a giant. A man of colossal proportions, easily standing four times as tall as you and packed solid with bulky muscle. He spots you from across the branch and his face - terrifyingly human despite its size - falls slack with disbelief.
You know at once that you can't outrun him, not when each of his strides looks like it spans the length of a car.
It's a standoff.
Slack-jawed, he takes a hurried step in your direction, and all at once, you fling your rifle up against your shoulder and bark at him to stop where he is, your finger hovering over the trigger...
The giant starts talking to you, his voice low and resonant and recognisable, hands held up placatingly as if you're the threat in this situation, not him.
He's telling you softly that you'll be okay, that you can come with him to someplace safe where he can take care of you, and you're so, hatefully tired, you want to believe him. You want to believe him so badly it aches.
Tears have begun to stream down your face, which you find odd, given that you couldn't pinpoint the exact moment you started to cry. Perhaps you must be more sleep-deprived than you thought.
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inktober 7: trip
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i realize i cant draw cars, sorry. i also realize that Four is kind of a way for me to channel a lot of my negative emotions, but i had an idea for a music video a long time ago with a girl sticking her head out of the window of a car, feeling the breeze in her hair, seeing the rhythmic patterns of power lines dotting the road like a metronome. and that girl was also Four, so i thought ppl would appreciate me drawing her happy for once.
this is a bit too subtle to notice right away, but this is the first drawing ive made in several weeks with a 1.0mm pen nib. for a while i tried experimenting with a bunch of 0.7mm pens, and i definitely see the pros and cons of each. i think ill try using both kinds in future drawings, to make it not so bulky as a 1.0 mm, but also not so light and sketchy as a 0.7mm.
hey thx for reading!
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these were my attempts for inktober 2020.
i suck at commitment, i've tried for YEARS to complete inktober 😭 this was my final huzzah. in order to give myself a fighting chance, i was going to combine and condense the prompts so i would have less drawing to do. i gave up mid third drawing - though not because i decided to stipple the whole thing (like a fool) but because i literally ran out of time with high school.
try to spot all the bits!!
drawing 1, prompts 1-5; fish, wisp, bulky, radio, blade.
d2.p6-10; rodent, fancy, teeth, throw, hope.
d3.p11-15; disgusting, slippery, dune, armor, outpost.
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Art & Good News 10-21-2023
Weekly roundup for October 21st, 2023 with art and uplifting stories
Job-sharing is eliminating the dreaded work gap for working parents. A judge in Galveston struck down a discriminatory electoral map. Scientists are looking for creative solutions to eliminating forever chemicals. Read all about the good news this week.
#Art #Illustration #ArtShare #GoodNews #UpliftingStories #PositiveNews
Starting with some art…
Bulky
When you’re drawing animals as often as I do, you start to see prompts in a whole new light. For this inktober prompt I had the word bulky and for some reason my head immediately went to what would Bugs Bunny look like in a puffer jacket. Which then became generic rabbit wearing a puffy or bulky coat. Thank you so much for joining me for my weekly jaunt into the…
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