shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 10 flowing

A Non-Artist’s First Inktober: 2018 Drawing Compilation

If by some chance you haven’t been introduced to Inktober as the images begin flowing all over social media each year, here’s the elevator pitch from the Inktober website:

“Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month… post it on any social media account you want or just post it on your refrigerator. The point is to share your art with someone. :)”

I genuinely don’t consider myself much of an artist, however there’s a large part of me that always wanted to be a cartoonist. So I found myself, without really planning to, jumping in spur of the moment this year.

Overall it was pretty fun and yesterday (the first day of November) I felt itchy to draw something after thirty one days of doing so, and somewhat incomplete that I hadn’t.

I’ve also gained a greater apprecation for creators who have to create constant output… there were days when, even though it was fun, I had a hard time thinking something up. There were also a couple of instances where just due to life I didn’t have time and ended up drawing two sketches the next day to make up.

So here are my 31 drawings. I should note that the last few drawings were done on a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (I recently upgraded my phone) which occurred to me later was probably cheating since it’s not actually ink and I can undo, redo, use layers, etc. 

I followed the “prompt” Inktober method where you use a list of prompt words for a drawing theme for each day.

(Again, please remember I don’t actually consider myself an artist so have mercy on a poor geek who is maybe, hopefully?, a cartoonist is a parallel dimension!)

Day 1: Poisonous
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 1 poisonous
Day 2: Tranquil
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 2 tranquil

Day 3: Roasted
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 3 roasted


Day 4: Spell
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 4 spell


Day 5: Chicken
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 5 chicken


Day 6: Drooling

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 6 drooling


Day 7: Exhausted
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 7 exhausted


Day 8: Star

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 8 star


Day 9: Precious

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 9 precious


Day 10: Flowing
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 10 flowing


Day 11: Cruel

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 11 cruel


Day 12: Whale
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 12 whale

Day 13: Guarded
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 13 guarded


Day 14: Clock

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 14 clock


Day 15: Weak

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 15 weak


Day 16: Angular

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 16 angular


Day 17: Swollen

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 17 swollen


Day 18: Bottle

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 18 bottle


Day 19: Scorched

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 19 scorched


Day 20: Breakable

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 20 breakable


Day 21: Drain

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 21 drain


Day 22: Expensive

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 22 expensive


Day 23: Muddy

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 23 muddy


Day 24: Chop

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 24 chop


Day 25: Prickly

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 25 prickly


Day 26: Stretch
(Samsung Galaxy Note 9 drawings using ArtFlow app start here)
shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 26 stretch


Day 27: Thunder

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 27 thunder


Day 28: Gift

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 28 gift


Day 29: Double

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 29 double


Day 30: Jolt

shane plays inktober 2018 ink drawing day 30 jolt


Day 31: Slice

 

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