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Inktober

Inktober is a challenge where you are supposed to do a drawing in ink every day in October. You can find everything about it on inktober.com. There you'll also find a list of prompts for every day. Some people make their own lists for the month.

I've been using ink a lot lately, so this challenge has caught my interest. Though, I don't like the very vague list of prompts and I am not up to the task of doing a drawing every day. But if I don't follow the official rules, I think it's not Inktober, so the challenge has to do without me.

There are more challenges like this over the year, like Every Day in May or World Watercolour Month in summer. What is nice about them is that lots of people draw or paint about the same topic and share what they produce online. It's interesting to see what everyone has done and compare it to what you've come up with - just for fun.

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