October is Inktober month! What is Inktober?
Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.
Jared Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits.
I normally draw in ink without using pencil first, but I decided to participate in Inktober this year to work on my hatching skills and drawing without always adding watercolor.
There are prompts for each Inktober day, but I don't always use them.
Here are my first few Inktober attempts.
This one was before October started
A Sktchy portrait
Another Sktchy portrait
For the Inktober "collect" prompt
A Sktchy portrait of one of my greatest supporters, Carl Forrest! I used an ink wash here.
Practicing my hatching skills with a drawing of my dog, Coco
A Sktchy portrait and more practice with hatching
Are you participating in Inktober? The "rules" are simple:
1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).
2) Post it online
3) Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2016
4) Repeat