/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

*vietnam PTSD flashbacks*

>>4095887
Yeah but I'll probably make my own. All the premade ones are faggot shit

>>4095887
Yep sure, I already know what to draw on the 31st.

>>4095907
Get your hot takes ready!

>>4095907
>it ain't me, it ain't me

>>4095921
>t I'll probably make my own
make sure two prompts are
blackjack
and
hookers

>>4095887
>>4095932
>drawing what some faggots on the internet want the way they want
why not just taking commissions and making money in the process?

>>4095932

>>4095950

>>4095953

>>4095939
putting art on social media with the inktober tags gets you more exposure

>>4095887
Only 3 of these are robot masters this time

>>4095950
>>4095953
>>4095957

>>4095990
All my yikes

>>4095887
why is he dropping the list a whole month before october? It defeats the purpouse of the challenge and lets you prepare a month in advance

>>4095990
>dancer, disabled
>honest to god wheelchair icon in its username
>jewish queer trans Latino

>>4095990
memes

>>4095887
I'm excited for some comfy inktober threads, though it's a bit sad seeing how inactive they get towards the end of the month. Not sure if I want to try and outdo myself this year or stick to comfort-zone drawings so I can keep up the endurance to make a finished ink drawing everyday.

>>4095990
i dont know if its a coping mechanism, but i feel like all those accounts are on several layers of irony and are in on the joke. I mean disabled jewish and queer in the same bio, the stereotype writes itself

>>4095990
I love the wheelchair emoji, gotta go fast

>>4095928
“Ripe” is the one prompt that I can’t come up with anything creative for besides something fruit related.

>>4095928
"bottomless" girls or girls flashing only their privates activates something primal in me, god tier if they are fully clothet with everything on buyt their pants

>>4096039
October’s a busy month for me, so I think having the extra month to prepare to ink something each day makes it a lot more likely that I’ll finish.

>>4095990
I see no art from this guy.

How do you even draw from prompts? I don't understand how to work from a word to a concept without being super literal.

>>4095887
September already?

>>4095932
Surprised at the lack of whining right now.

>>4095939
>”drawing for fun and to be part of a community? I’ll do it for money”

>>4096131
Anything goes. You don't even have to strictly follow the prompt.

>>4095887
I want to do my own that's space themed. : > Either that or drawtober, which is 6 prompts and you spend more time on them studying different art concepts.

>>4095953
you can buy a fucking 1$ pen which is enough and tards call it elitism

>>4095932
All these tablet fuckers could stand to use traditional media. I bet most couldn't even draw on paper because they're used to crutches. Ink is a wonderful thing to work with if you're used to only digital and you can take back what you learned and apply it to digital. Being a well rounded artist is great because you never really forget how trad or digital works once you get past a certain low threshold. More experiences make you a better artist.

>>4096131
Uncreative ngmi

>>4095932

>>4096259

>>4096136
i mean, it is a job

>>4096049
full moon? flower in bloom? demeter before she's kidnapped? a perfectly baked cake?

>>4095887
I wasn't but I am now. I don't have any social media or site or anything though, maybe I should make one

>>4095950
Hideously disingenuous. They know they can't find fault with the actual argument, so they accuse their opponent of ableism. Why would a disabled person even be able to draw digitally but not traditionally anyway? Is it some kind of ctrl+z thing, and digital is just easier for them?
I did Inktober last year when I was drawing almost exclusively in pencil and ink. This year I'm focusing on my digital skills, so I won't be doing it. It's called INKtober for fuck's sake, who wants to see your digital crap, that's for the other 11 months out of the year. For being so open minded and inclusive, these people are shockingly resistant to broadening their experiences. Yeah just keep doing only what been able to do for the past 20 years, forget trying out the same tools that worked for fucking cave men thousands of years ago.

>>4096263
>the average sheet of paper costs .06 cents
>a 3000 dollar digital workspace is the equivalent of 50000 sheets of paper
>even over the course of 5 years that's 26 pages front and back a day
look out crabs, she's gmi

>>4096300
People with poor motor skills say they use ctrl+z to fix their problems, which is fair.
All the other whiny faggots don't seem to understand that the point of this challenge is to live with your mistakes and not obsess over perfection.

Shit yeah Inktober! I barely finished it last year, but I enjoyed the hell out of it.

>>4095932
Is traditional ink for INKtober really controversial? Of course you draw with ink and paper. That's like the whole point with doing this "special" month. Digital artists draw digitally all year round.

>>4096315
some people just enjoy complaining

>>4096408
some people use it as a 'challenge' month in general

>>4095939
inktober can get you a giant fuckin exposure boost which means more potential commisioners

>>4095887
F-fuck its so soon already?

>>4096796
Who the fuck even commissions ink illustrations? You guys are confusing exposure to normies with exposure to potential clients, theyre not the same

>>4096811
It isn't even nofap november yet.

>>4096796
I hope I actually get an exposure boost this time around, I did all 31 days last year and posted to Tumblr, Insta, and Twitter, and only got a boost on Tumblr. And after the Tumblr purge happened all the viewers I gained essentially vanished, even despite my art account being sfw.

>>4096263
The only thing you need for inktober is a dollar set of bic pens and a 4 dollar pack of computer paper. Even if you dont have 5 bucks you can probably knock on 3 peoples doors and get all those supplies for free just to get the fuck off their door step.

>>4095887
I did all 31 last year. It was a good exercise I guess but not sure if I’ll put in the same effort this year.

>>4096891
but anon, he has disabilities. i don't know which ones because they never specify, but you got to believe him.

These people are lucky that nowadays families won't lock their cripples on the basement and pretend they just have one son
>I have a disability, I can't use real ink );
I want to create a race up a flight of stair just to spite this kind of faggot

>>4096267
>demeter before she's kidnapped

>probably won't get any inking pens until my birthday next month
>stuck with a shitty ballpoint pen and 4 copics
shit sucks

>>4096049
a 13 year old girl.

>>4096946
Ballpoint pens are great honestly. They feel a bit like pencil but are more permanent, they're super comfy and fun to use. You can make great stuff in ballpoint so long as you put in the effort

>>4095990
Why is "historian" the word that pisses me off the most

>>4096313
>3000
imagine being so rich you think this is the average price of a computer and a tablet. and you only factor in paper?
retard

>>4095887
I would rather do this

>>4096946
You have to be 18 yadda yadda

>>4097122
Because they are most likely not an actual professional historian, just someone who browses Wikipedia and thinks they're an expert.

>>4097128
> what is hyperbole

>>4097246
he was doing an equation. what is the point of doing that i
fuck off shut your idiot mouth.

I failed everytime I tried, but yes, I'm going to try again. Is the OP the official list? I'm probably not going to follow it but I'll take some ideas in case my mind gets bored of comfort zoning

>>4096946
Cant you just buy yourself a few dip pens and if you really tight on budget some self made holders.

And if you really tight on budget buy yourself a bottle of hero ink and some Arabic gum, mix it with ink Ink:Arabic gum 4:1 and you can use it instead of a much expensive ink for dip pens without ink feathering on even cheap, printer paper.

Cost more initially than just a small $1 bottle of regular ink or even tus but its like 280ml of a dip pen ink for the cost of 4 hero ink 70ml bottles and one 75ml winstor and newton Arabic gum in the long run.

>>4096912
It's very likely that person isn't even disabled.

>>4095887
Yeah nah.

>>4096946
Ballpoint pen is great.
Ironically the first image I found is inktober

Maybe. Actually I'm being a lazy fuck with lots of free time right now, so maybe I'll challenge myself to start an art steak today.
>>4096946
You could find normal pen or bottle of ink for less than a dollar and paint with your brushes or make a pen from bamboo stick.

>>4095887
>You ARE doing Inktober this year... right /ic/?
I'm planning to! I'll even sign up on DAD again.
Though I'll probably make sketches for it before it will start: for me Inktober isn't about becoming a better artist, it's about getting more followers for my furry porn blog.

And official prompts aren't that bad honestly - most of those easily could be pornified, especially things like "husky", "dragon", "ride", "overgrown"...
Though I'm not sure how to make porn out of "pattern", "sling" and "tread" yet.

>>4096816
>Who the fuck even commissions ink illustrations?
Digital ink is allowed. In some styles lineart is really important. And last time I checked, there was nothing in the rules against colouring those ink illustrations later. Maybe I am bending the rules a bit, but I don't think it matters that much.
>You guys are confusing exposure to normies with exposure to potential clients
I want to get customers that browse normie sites as well - people like that are easier to deal with than people who browse porn and only porn.

>>4097055
>When your favourite pen is shitty Corvina
>It goes smooth and gives really great line weight
>It also leaks constantly

what is the fucking point when half people submit digital shit and the prompts are given 1 month earlier

>>4097438
Self improvement?
Watching how your fav artists will interpret those prompts?

>>4097406
My dude, I still haven't found a pen better than a cheap Corvina, I love how smooth they are. Also, mine doesn't leak much, a lot of other pens I've tried leak way more.

>>4097406
>>4097449
Do they leak less than Bic? First time hearing of this brand

>>4096946
Only bad and mediocre artists complain about the tools.A good artist can make something decent with any tool.

>>4097471
Don't know. I didn't use Bic for years. With Corvina the less ink is left the more it leaks. At around one half you need to wipe the tip periodically on a page - like each 5-7 minutes or you'll get splotches due to ink gathering on it.

>>4097484
>Only bad and mediocre artists complain about the tools
Wrong.
>A good artist can make something decent with any tool.
True, but it takes so much more time and effort to get the same quality that no pro artist wouldn't waste his time with subpar tools.

>>4097496
elaborate?

pretty sure it costs more in electricity to run their pc for the month than it would to just buy some fucking pens and a stack of paper

>>4097496
no pro artist *would waste his time with subpar tools.
>>4097515
You can do a lot with shitty tools. You can use a cheap ballpoint pen and carefully draw with it in a way that would look like using brush and ink. But with a brush you can do your job quicker: completely filling out dragon from >>4097345 would take you a few minutes with a brush, but an hour with a ballpoint pen (if you didn't want to leave any white spots).
The same could be said about paints (cheap paints have less pigment than expensive ones, so you would need many layers of them to get the same effect), about graphic tablets (it takes more time to draw accurately on a tablet without a build in screen), software (I've seen photorealistic digital paintings made in MS Paint) and so on.

Generally speaking: better tools = you can work faster.

Since good artists are busy people, who actually get paid for it, they would want to be efficient. That's why good artists would try to get the best tools available.
Saying that they wouldn't complain or care about tools is wrong.

>>4097496
Yes, but a ballpoint pen is not a subpar tool, and requires no additional learning to produce good art with. In fact, it is easier to use than a dip pen or fountain pen. Professional designers use ballpoint pens all the time, and a lot of artists use them too.

all these digital fags trying to appropriate traditional art culture

>>4097484
>A good artist can make something decent with any tool.
This is true, but I was making drawings with my nephews yesterday and I tried using their kids watercolor kit, it was impossible to use like watercolor. I had to 'learn' the tools to draw something passable.

That said ink and pencil are the most accessible mediums, you could probably draw all your life using only those free promo pens.

>>4095887
As /beg/gar I'll try, we just have to interpred the hemes each day right?

>>4097547
Cheap ballpoints like BIC develop excess ink on the tip, but if you have the habit of cleaning up on a piece of paper it's a non-issue.

I think ink might be even cheaper than pencil. You probably get more mileage out of a BIC pen than the equivalent cost in pencil, I bought a single BIC that cost me 30 cents the other day, if you buy a large pack it's even less. It's probably the medium with the highest performance to cost ratio.

>>4096946
If you live in the US, dollar tree sells felt tip pens that can be used for inking in a pinch

Also their scented felt tip pens are nice for coloring too

https://www.dollartree.com/color-scents-medium-felt-tip-pens-2ct-packs/252494

>>4097553
My friend made a pretty fucking good drawing with kids watercolor, though it was monochrome black, I don't think you'd be able to actually paint with it. Yeah you can work with subpar tools but it's frustrating.
>>4097560
You can interpret the theme if you want/need ideas, but I believe the original challenge was to make a finished drawing with ink every day of October. That said I'm starting to challenge myself today just because I want and have the time and I'm gonna try to grind it out as fast as I can. I think most important is that it motivates you to draw, not some rules. Good luck

I did 2 in a row now, but this year I'm gonna skip it. I fell i get nothing out of it anymore. Yeah its great having filled so many pages and brainstorming what you have to draw that day, but you dont get any traction on social media with everyone just spaming everything at once. I've decided to do my own challange making 1 concept art a week and doing 3 drawings per concept all in color. But im gonna do this all year if this gets me more traction. Hopefully i can manage the workload. Wish me luck

>>4096796
see
>>4096831
i mean, how come every artist complains about the "working for exposure" meme, but when it comes to inktober it's fine? it's the exact same thing. they're the ones who get exposure, and people who seek for potential clients get fucked in the ass unless they're already popular.

>>4097645
it's basically machinima 2.0

>>4095887
WILL DOING INKTOBER GET ME A GF THIS YEAR? I DID ALL 31 LAST YEAR BUT I DIDN'T GET A GF!!!! I DESERVE A GF NOW NOW NOW NOW I HAVE BEEN A VERY PATIENT BOY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH I AM SO LONELY AND HORNY AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH GODDAMMIT

>>4097645
Not the exact same thing. "Working for exposure" is just when someone tricks you into doing work for them for free.

Making inktober drawings is just smart social media marketing. Far more people who don't typically browse artwork do so in inktober, thus expanding your audience to the people who are looking at the stuff tagged as inktober. You can potentially sell the drawings you make if there's a way for people to buy them.

>>4097685
>is just when someone tricks you into doing work for them for free.
Like Jake Parker getting you to draw his meme challenge every year?
Do you realize that "draw my OC in your style" is also the same thing?

Of course, I have been preparing sketches since 2017 for this very moment and finally produced 31 ones worth posting.

Free followers, here I come.

>>4095950
>saying disabled people can't do everything normal people can is offensive
HAHAHAHAHA, time to hammer down all accessibility ramps around my town.

>>4097662
Not him but how does the guy who started inktober monetize your drawings? Surely you don't seriously think it's all a scam to sell a piddling amount of shirts from his website. By that logic are all the people drawing towergirls, fan art of shows they like, and croquis cafe's figuary also all being taken advantage of? And you think the artists don't get anything out of it?

>>4097708
Retard, you draw whatever you want, you don't do Jake Parker's work for him, he doesn't trick you into drawing his OCs or anything.

>>4097725
this post was meant for >>4097708

>>4097306
Ok here's the first one, let's see how far I will go

>>4097788
>not doing each the day of
NGMI

>>4097247
no u

>>4095887

>>4098534
Anyone who isn't a serious headcase knows that, and does it because they like it. You'd have to be a failure in the first place to think about ''warning'' people about these non-existent problems. But apparently the existence of some yearly meme drawing exercise is enough pressure to give some people a mental breakdown, probably same kind of people complaining it's discriminatory or some shit

>>4097715
>I have been preparing sketches
I discovered this hack in 2017 when I couldn't keep up with new content everyday so I just pulled old digital drawings, printed as a sketch, and inked them

Do you think anyone will notice if I repost the same drawings from last year?

What can I do to get inspiration for the prompts? Like wtf is ring lotr is too obvious

>>4097788
Not proud of this, and not looking for feedback either because I see the flaws myself, just posting because it makes me feel kind of accountable. Didn't get invested in the idea, the next one gonna be fun tho.
>>4098883
Jeez why do you care if you miss a day, it's not like you get a reward for finishing this challenge. I'd repost with a commentary that it's from the last year, don't be ridiculous

>>4098929
ring
>dick ring
>nipple ring
>clit ring
>bukkake ring

>>4098929
My first thought was lotr, but even then it can differ. I was thinking of Gollum scrambling for the ring in his cave with a panicked face, with the silhouette of a Hobbit in the background. So the ring is just context.

>>4095953
The tranny at the bottom is right

>>4098951
3rd one, a nice b8. I made a sketch for the next one but I don't like it, will do some freestyle instead.

Can I do digital? I don't have much space nor monies atm

>>4099425
You don't have enough money to buy a ballpoint pen?

>>4099425
sell your tablet and buy some paper and pens

>>4099426
Scanner

>>4099441
do you have a phone from the last decade? most of them have cameras on them and can connect to wifi.

Some of them have even apps and web browsers

>>4095887
yes but holy shit I need like a month to prepare.

>>4099449
just fucking DO IT LIVE

>>4099472
>when every prompt is a kangaroo

>>4098929
The Ring
A Boxing Ring
A bell
Circus

>>4095887
Is an under drawing in pencil allowed?

>>4099934
Yes

>>4099937
Great. Thanks anon.

>>4096263
>being able to afford a tablet for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars
>unable to buy a pack of bic pens for $2.17

I’ve never done it before, even though I’ve been drawing on ink for 7 years and knew about inktober since it started. Is it fun?

>>4100944
it is fun to try to follow the prompts from start to finish and create something that isn't so obvious/surface level for them. there are alternate prompt lists too you can find. some people try to make a connected story for each illustration, like a sort of mini comic run for the month. if you already work mostly with ink, you can use the month to experiment with styles or attempt more difficult methods you've been meaning to practice.

>>4095887
Is it bad if I have a teme for most of the prompts, but some will be just random?

>>4095887
Inktober is for attention whores

>>4102295
dont u want followers silly anon?

>>4102295
When will crabs stop justifying their lack of success for ‘dignity’ and calling those who know how to market themselves attention whores?

>>4102426
No, don't look at me ever.

>>4102441
i bet you never finish your work and your work is all just anatomy studies or something. dream higher

>>4095887
No as I have no scanner with me at my dorm so I'm gonna be doing another challenge similar to inktober. I'll still draw some of those ideas I'm just not gonna tag them.

>all these luddites trying to justify why they bought their $10 pens and $30 ink

>>4103035
I refuse to buy any ink that doesn't come in at least 250ml format

>>4095950
literally a disabled kike jew too lmao. needs to be gassed

>>4096131
ngmi

>>4103057
Disabled queer Jewish trans latino is such a sick combo it earned my respect desu

>>4103035
NGMI

>>4103131
>not black
into the lion pit

These prompts are shit but I've gotta do what I've gotta do

>>4103195
still a solid silver medal at the oppression olympics

>>4103197
You can just not do the prompts are draw your own things in ink, if you want.

>>4103197
Make your own prompts, they're just there as a guideline not a rule list. Why do people take this so seriously?

Is inking something fine underneath in pencil cheating, ic?

>>4103225
Done underneath *

>phoneposting

>>4103035
> Crutchrl+Z

>>4095887

yes and no... I'm making my own challenge based off the inktober prompt with nsfw drawings instead.

probably do digital this time though.

For less than $10, you can get a 12 pack of pens at the dollar store and a ream of paper at walmart, then book bind

>>4103225
No, but you can sketch with a light gray marker to feel even more superior to plebs who use pencils or d*gital.

>>4105394
4 Centropen fineliners cost 3-4$. 5$ if the owner of the shop is a greedy bastard.

>>4105339
>nsfw
Link?

>>4103035
>t.digitalcuck
What's the matter, fag? Afraid to go without Ctrl+z?

>>4096408
Digitalfags are afraid to touch ink. The fact that an event called INKtober uses ink (a traditional, physical, aka real medium) cuts deep for them. Also add on the faggy all-inclusive attitude soft faggots have nowadays.
>alright guys, it's Inktober. Make a new ink art piece each day of the month
>digitalfag: "b-but what about meeee?"

CHANGES OF PLANS (in jsut gonna practice my inking skills)

>>4106097
what better way to practice than doing a drawing a day following the prompts

>>4095957
>I'm kind of butthurt over you characterization of disabled ppl speaking up for inclusivity as "butthurt."
Does this person get mad that paraplegics aren't able to compete in the 100 meter dash? Also, how could a person be disabled in such a way that they can't do trad, but they can still use a stylus and tablet? Problems with fine-motor control? They can just draw bigger and it's no longer a problem.

I'm gonna do it this year. I swear.

>>4096900
I've got attention/focus problems and it takes me fucking forever to finish a piece. Can I get an extra month to finish all 31 pieces?

>>4097345
Post your blog.

>>4095950

>disabled people who can't do traditional

>>4106361
Will these help?
https://youtu.be/qipf4-k6AOo
https://youtu.be/emV9oznuGt4
https://youtu.be/0_Blg6iSlIM

I'm really going to go for it this year.

>>4106381
You know what anon. It did. I don't think I'll scan my shit and post it, but I wanna try.

>>4106358
That's what they're arguing, that ctrl+z helps them fix wobbly lines due to motor skill related disabilities.

What boggles me is there are conservative anti-tumblr types getting just as assblasted over this imagined "elitism".

>>4095887
How much attention does inktober really get people anyway? I keep hearing how it is some amazing way to be seen by industry people, but I have not heard of anyone getting a job by doing inktober drawings.

>>4096263
So not being good with a pen equals disability to these people?

has anyone started it yet?

>>4105416

https://twitter.com/ali_tears_/status/1170485105007005696

>>4095950
>disabled
>faggot
>kike
go figure

Will inktober help me get followers if all I draw is pokemon fucking each other

>>4107097
Nah mate, I think I have a better interpretation of bait.

>>4107167
if you drew 31 Pokemon fucking each other in ink, I am pretty sure you will get at least 1 additional follower

fuck I'd probably follow you just for the sheer dedication to the motif

>>4095887
fuck yes I am. I missed it last year because of work, so I quit my job. Now I have nothing but time.

>>4095932
>>4095950
>>4095953
>>4095957
>>4096259
How hard is it to pick up a ballpoint and put it on paper compared to putting a stylus on a tablet? It's like I'm reading a boomer humor comic strip where kids confuse books for smart phones.

>>4107226
I'm sure you can ;p

Inktober is fun as fuck, but I’m never able to see it through because of confounding circumstances. I probably won’t do inktober proper this year, even though I’ll be drawing most days for another project. I did buy a tiny pad of Stonehenge paper to doodle on in-between classes, so maybe I’ll do the bare minimum instead of hour long drawings for each day.
Also:
>that rush of illusionary productive feels you get while buying new trad supplies for inktober
Absolutely COMFY.

>>4107820
You just don't understand you abelist fucking nazi

>>4108145
that seratonin release when you finally get your jetpens order

>>4107097
>Consensual nonconsent
Isn't that just dubious contsent? Like playrape?

>>4109580

I guess so, yeah

I was planning to post my Inktober art on my Deviant Art page, but should I post it to instagram or other sites? My only social media for art is my Deviant Art page, I never have done instagram or tumblr or anthing else.

>>4098929
Ring of flowers, a hand wearing lots of rings, a lion jumping though rings, hell you could probably get away with drawing bells, it’s all about trying to think about the less obvious choice sometimes

I’ve been using this inktober prompt, I like that it’s mainly ideas involving background heavy stuff which is something I need to work on anyways

>>4095887
FUCCCCCCCK inktober is so close, my body isn't ready yet

is anyone going to do it live? or did all you little shits just do it earlier this year?

>>4110558
I’m doing all my sketches now but I’ll be inking mine the day of

>>4110552
Where did this one come from? I didn't know there was different prompts

>>4110628
do you do your sketches digi and then print them? or do you just have a big sketchbook of pencil sketches?

>>4110629
I got it from someone I follow on twitter, but yeah you can find other prompts if you look up inktober prompts. One of my favorites was the monstergirl prompt even though I don’t finish it all

>>4110631
I used to do it on random loose sheets I’d sketch on but this year I have a dedicated sketchbook for it

>>4103341
exactly this

>>4111360
I did a few of those but alas life kicked me in the balls and skipped at lot of days...

>>4096240
pyw
lets see those crayola doodles

>>4111721
it's kind of true though, one of the things you learn from using trad materials is the viscosity and friction of the surface and materials it allows you develop greater muscle memory for the tools, this is very limited in digital

>>4097122
Because with that combo of other shit in the profile you know it's not going to be objective history but revisionism and agenda.

>>4095887
I've been waiting all the year for this inktober, this one will be my third one and the second i complete according to the list.

>>4095887
the first 7 days look boring, but then it starts to get good.

Anyone doing a themed Inktober? I'm thinking of going Kaiju based, this year.

>>4112480
I only draw mechs, so i guess that is a theme...

>>4095932
based and TRADpilled

>>4112480
I was thinking about doing a videogame characters themed one, but your ideas sounds more interesting.

Instead of inktober I'm just going to draw a skeleton every day.
It's Halloween-y and also better for lernding amatomy gud

>>4113473
Draw a skeleton in ink everyday
By the end of the month you'll be able to draw a skeleton flawlessly

>>4110552
Gosh i'm so bad at backgrounds, I should try this one.
But i won't.

>>4095887
do you guys know of any raffles or contests for inktober where you tag your shit with something and enter the contest?

>>4113574
try doing more simple vignettes first instead of full backgrounds

>>4113644
>vignettes
Fuck me - is that what these things are called??

>>4095887
Is there gonna be a daily thread showcase each day of Inktober here, that would be kinda interesting, as long as its actual traditional.

>>4113796
Ic is too slow to make new threads every day. Usually we just have a single thread
>post your daily ink with the day number
>>quote your previous day
>>post an uber collage when you finish all 31

>new thread when we hit bump limit
>>quote the last thread if you make the new thread
>>use a generic inktober logo so we can find it in the catalog (and to avoid drama)

Only a handful of people made it to 31, but we had the thread until mid-nov

Any good alternative prompt lists out there like >>4110552 ?

>>4112480
I'm planning on doing mine based on Ars Goetia, but as cute monster boys. I did monster girls and boys last year too. Doing simple hyper self-indulgent art is the only way I can keep myself going through inktober desu

>>4096897
Gmi

>>4095932
that certainly is a... opinion, why is everyone so mad ?

>>4113886
Sweet, gonna see about doing it, now, I am not too familiar with the rules, can you pre-plan/draw your work in pencil then ink it, or is it straight inking, nothing else?

>>4112480
I want to do a short 31 page comic for inktober, but I've got to do a lot of prep work before then.

>>4114321
No real rules - it’s like a fun run where everyone just happens to be doing the same thing at the same time

https://inktober.com/rules
1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).
2) Post it*
3) Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2019
4) Repeat

Just draw some shit on paper everyday for a month.

>>4113920

>>4107097

>>4111724
You have to lose the mentality that one medium is better than the other, Some people that have done oil painting and are great at it have switched to digital simply because they enjoy it more. I bought a cintiq pro 24, because at its price, I will spend about the same amount in materials if did traditional. It just has a different set of uses.

>>4114620
no one in the chain talked about one being better than the other. they're different and different sets of skills that at a higher level are related.

>>4114558
Almost wish I could start early.

>>4096240
I'm used to watercolor and even the most realistic digital brushes look like pure shit to me. I hate painting digitally.

>>4114701
I can relate. Nothing comes close and don't even bother with watercolor brushes. Some painterly textred brushes can be nice but I get the best bet painting opaque tiles like gouache with no pressure jitter then going to blending/soft airbrush at the end.
Bought a tablet but didn't know much about painting. Got a cheap Cotman set, got really into watercolor eventually getting artist paints, dip pen inking, brush pen inking, and gouache. Then knew enough about painting to try digital again. You can get by glazing like with watercolor but you have to get comfortable enough with using the tool and the color wheel without getting out of the flow. I find opaque first then soft brushes over helps solve some modeling problems that don't exist with watercolor. I have much more building up of the painting in digital than watercolor. Watercolor I might be able to do in only 1 or 2 washes, digital is more like 3-4.

>>4114697
then do it fren

>>4096142
if you do that space prompt then post it please friend

>>4114606

>>4097139
This is something I can get behind.

>>4096408
Some people want to fit in without doing any extra work. There'll always be the fags who say "d-digital counts too, right?" for things that literally demand trad in their names, I.E. INKtober and SKETCHBOOK thread on here

>>4115205
>and SKETCHBOOK thread on here
I always saw the sketchbook thread as just sketches and sometimes I posted digital as well
I'll go on a tangent here but I see no real difference between "drawthread" and "sketchbook", "drawthread" and "alt", "beg" and "drawthread", "traditional thread" and "sketchbook", there are intermediate artists in /beg/, people posting sketches in traditional, it doesn't make any fucking sense.

I think there should be generals set into categories based on jobs/industries instead
>/conceptart/
>/animation/
>/illustration/
>/fineart/
>/practice & studies/
>/comics & manga/ including webcomics, it's ok to merge since there are few anons doing this
>/porn/ I guess

This would be better in every possible way, having categories geared on what you actually want to do with your art is much more goal oriented than just posting random drawings for anons to give random comments on, /beg/s who stray from /practice & studies/ to post finished work will be spread out across a threads and they might actually get feedback on their progress, you have similar artists doing similar things and giving actual constructive comments that make sense, concept artists can discuss photobashing all they want without other anons bickering about how fair it is, etc.
This board needs structure. Even if this plan is flawed it's still way better than the shit we have right now.

>>4097139
>frog bath

>>4113935
>cute monster boys

BLOG NOW!

>>4115338
https://twitter.com/NessieFynn
Here's one from last year that I still like I guess, I wanna try doing a slightly "fancier" and more more polished version of this aesthetic this year

>>4115404
>amateur artist

anon....your art is lit. shit you do trad stuff better than me lol.

Where is a good place to start with inking pens and grey scale markers? I want to use something other than cheap ballpoint pens this year and I also wanna start playing with markers for values. I was looking at maybe Micron pens but as for markers it seems like everyone shits on every brand that isn't Copic

>>4116105
Look up different supplies of art you like. Fineliners aren't magic, I actually dislike working with them although they have a purpose when you want uniform lines. You've got fineliners, dip pens, brushes, and many kinds of brush pens. Dip pens and brushes both use an ink bottle and aren't portable/something you take outside the house to work. Brush pen is my favorite for sketching with, check Pentel brush pens like the Pocket Brush, Color Brush, or the lettering brush. Kuretake and Tombow Fudenosuke are also decent. Depending on the type of cartridge you can look up how you can refill the ink with some type of fountain pen/technical pen ink. For variety of line width, from least to most is fineliner, dip pen, brush pen, brush. For consistency of linework fineliner and dip pen are the best.

For markers, Copic really are the best. You're buying into a system where you can replace the ink many times with the refill for the same price you bought the marker for. Something like cool or warm grey and then 3/5/7/9 or 2/4/6/8. Don't bother with neutral or toners because if you ever go to color you'll want the tinted greys.

>>4116247
based inkposter. this guy knows

I feel the same. Fineliners don't really feel great to draw with, I think they're more useful for specific rendering techniques. Using brush pens like the Pentels was like a revelation after all I've been using were fineliners, gel pens and ballpoints. They're exceptional because they have a really fine tip that allow you to have really nice subtle and organic line variation if you use them with finesse.

>>4113920

>>4095953
Andrew's got a point

>>4114356
That’s pretty ambitious. I’ve done comic elements in the past, but usually stick to telling narratives through single images during Inktober.
Be sure to share it.

>>4116430
Interesting

>>4096816
>potential clients won't browse one of the most prolific art hashtags of the year
I mean you'll definitely have to stand out from the rest, whether with your style, skill or whatever but it's not some impossible hypothetical

>>4096831
pyw

>>4106958
>I have not heard of anyone getting a job by doing a stupid fuckin social media event
yea go figure... a semi-big exposure boost is what people are usually hoping for with this challange, not a fuckin job

>>4095950
>implying disabled people cant do traditional too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FHllrGEGoo

heres a video of someone with no fucking arms who is still able to use traditional media because they are not a fucking whiny crybaby who wants the world handed to them on a silver platter

>>4118164
that's impressive tho

>>4096142
Oh nice, I wanted to go with the space theme too.

>>4097052
the only right answer

goddamn it I hate being from a third world shithole. I could only find action lines screen tones, normal screen tones are R$100! Imagine paying U$100 for screen tones, holy shit. I need to get better to move away from this country legally

>>4097139
I might do this with cats. I only did 8 days last year shamefully, but 3 of them ended up being fully/partially cat themed. I like cats.

I did it for the first time last year, I want to do it this year again so hopefully I have the time and focus to finish on a second run.

>>4115272
categorically it makes sense to go to the thread that you want to see, but for participation, I think it's better to match the persona of the anons posting

/beg/s would be too shy or shoo'd away from the categories

/sketchbook/ is nice for people to just post and walk away.

/alt/ and /porn/ are containment since most anons are doing porn and alt studies anyways and like to be surrounded by other degenerates

/asg/ is retarded I'm waiting for it to die on its own when they give up drawing

>>4095887
Any of you guys going a buffer of a few drawings in advance?
As much as I'd like there are days I don't get to draw. I feel a little guilty "cheating" like this but I'd like to consistently upload

>>4122902
yeah I was almost going to just do it now, since I have some spare cycles, then I can get a running start into it, but that also means I will probably just get lazy and not draw for like 2w


Usually around day 12-13 and day 24 it gets brutal to keep pumping out content.

Plus I am out of town several weekends in between...

>>4121119
If it helps you finish all 31 go for it anon

>>4116265
FiIneliners seem to be ok for comic like styles. Especially if you want to add colour digitally later. Hatching works pretty good too by doing it with a smaller diameter pen.

>>4095974
Ah, good old Exposure Bucks.

I've tried inktober for the past 2 years but I always give up early because I feel like I'm not good enough. I'm not going to do that this year, I'm determined.

>>4110552
I like this one a lot, might do this one this year.
Guess I should start preparing, this one will need some pre-planning.

>>4124915
people can't buy your artwork if they never see it or know it exists faggot

>>4124915
I don't think you understand how any of this works. We're doing this for ourselves not someone else too cheap to pay for work.

>want to do inktober but already committed to a huge project with a deadline

I don't have the time, life is suffering. the prompts are great this year too.

I've been trying to get into traditional inking and bought several pen nibs to try them out.
it's fun, but also frustrating, because I don't know which mistakes I am making.
is it the poor paper quality? I cannot afford to buy bristol board right now. or maybe the pen nibs are broken, but both the hunt 102 pen nibs and especially the G-pens are ripping the paper. and how the hell am I supposed to draw circles without completely shredding the paper?
do you guys know any tutorials for beginners on how to ink with pens?

Do you have to follow the prompts for each day? I mean, do people get pissy if you tag a post and it has nothing to do with the official prompt?

>>4125865
Absolutely not.

>>4097547
> easier than dip pen or fountain pen
A dip pen can be a a hassle, but if you're too dumb to be able to fill a fountain pen with ink you should just give up now. Once a fountain pen is inked it's virtually no different than any other pen.

>>4125799
Read and work through Alphonso Dunn's books, the exercises help a lot. Maybe you are pressing too hard because you have problems with the pen's ink flow, or you are not used to it, or you're using inappropriate paper. I use g-nibs and even on relatively cheap paper I can twist and turn with just indentations on the surface. Tearing occurs when I fuck around too much on places moistened by ink. Go down a check list of possible causes: see if you cleaned your nib right, whether your ink is too viscous, whether you have the same problem on different paper types etc. You do want heavier paper that doesn't soak up your ink, ink type also affects this. I can use pilot ink on my ordinary throwaway paper just fine, but when using india ink it bleeds everywhere. However india ink is waterproof and my other dip pen ink isn't, so when I want to use watercolor I gotta use a paper type that works with the india ink. Experiment and you will figure it out

I've not ever heard of this. So do you only use ink on paper? Or can I draw pencil construction lines and ink on top?

>>4125799
You should be using at least card stock/cartridge paper. Anything less will be prone to ripping or not taking the ink.

>>4126416
That's fine too.

I've never been aware of this "Digital vs Traditional" shit during Inktober. When the fuck did this autistic argument even come from? And people are talking about the disabled and shit? What the hell is even matter with this rejects???

>>4112480
prompt list?

>>4095990
seeing this made my day worse, fuck you anon.
Jesus fuck what an idiot.

>>4110552
>>4116430
>>4107097
>>4095887
>>4097139

There are many interesting prompt lists, i think ill make it Elder Scrolls themed since last year i did it with Soulsborne. Idk if im making a prompt list or just adapting the concepts from the original or the scenery ones tho. Also will probably do some of the porn ones because traction.

>>4106958
to get an exposure boost in inktober you have to start preparing the year before, following the prompts doesn't matter anyway
people who get exposure from inktober post ridiculously good illustrations

>>4126550
"I want to use the tag and have attention even though I do digital"
"I want to complain about the tag for attention even though I won't do the challenge"
"I want attention"

>>4126637
>start preparing the year before
Now that sounds a bit much.

I'm an average artist with 0 followers on instagram and haven't started preparing for inktober yet. I'm curious about the exposure aspect myself, so I'll keep track of the growth during inktober, so you guys get an idea.

>>4125865
No. You don't have to follow anything. It's not like there is an inktober police.
Personally I'm using an inofficial prompt list, ink digitally and probably will miss a day or two. Who cares.

Do the superior october theme instead.

I think I'll go with digital.

>>4127632
Reeeeee you are banned from the event.

>>4098929
Why not look up the definitions? Some give pretty good ideas

>>4098929
Use associations.
Rings are associated with all sorts of stuff. Maybe you could draw a marriage proposal, or a wedding. Or you could draw pirates rolling in treasure, with their crown jewel being a fancy ring, or a thief trying to steal a ring from a jeweler store. Maybe you could draw a wizard with ring-shaped magic tattoos all over his body, or some sort of sci-fi space ship shaped like a ring. Maybe you could even draw some kids doing a ring-a-round the rosy, or a boxing ring. Use your imagination, anon.

>>4098929
a secret Hollywood CP ring

I started practicing with the old Pen & Ink book from Watson-Guptill but I was wondering, how big do inkers usually go on their drawings? I draw on small notepads around a6 size unless I had to do figure drawing or a painting. Is going bigger better?

>>4128292
it's not about how small you draw as much as the level of detail you should expect to pull off. A6 is too small for anything but sketches, you're handicapping yourself. You should draw at at least double that size.
Also if you are scanning your drawings and putting them on the web, the final drawing should always be downscaled compared to actual size.
If the drawing looks larger on screen than it looks IRL you are drawing too small.

>>4128109
jeffrey epstein & jimmy savile going bowling and some kids, just having a good time sweet

>>4095928
a full-mast cock? i too will draw one, indeed i will.

>>4113621
>contests
Anyone? It’s like bonus meta exposure

the prompts seem pretty uninteresting to me

so, since I want to practice landscape/architecture type stuff, but also not go anywhere, so my plan is to use this to randomly get a location for each day

https://randomstreetview.com/

posting this for accountability so I don't waste time deciding what to draw or what tools to use

>>4128398
>asking 4chan users how to get extra social media clout

>>4095887
I'm going to do it, but fuck prompt lists. I draw what the fuck I want.

>>4103225
You're allowed to ink over pencil drawings if you want.

>>4131221
there might as well be no rules at this point

>>4131390
perfect, then I'll be finishing 2 digital pieces before October and the other in early Nov.

>>4125799
You gotta think about which direction your stroke will go. While you can use a pen backward carefully for a thin line, you don't want it going sideways. Work on your piece in a direction so you won't be smearing sections with your palm. If smearing still happens, consider a glove so it's not smeared across the page from ink on your skin the entire time. Laser copy paper can be Bristol smooth and cheap. Card stock maybe, but it might feather depending on how watery the ink is. I learned from YouTube, but it wasn't any one guy, I want to say mind of watercolour had a video on it but not sure. Illustrators on there tend to have dip pens but comic artists tend to have brushes.

>>4128754
Some of the following may be more to your tastes?

>>4095932
this is completely fair and reasonable. it's one of the main points of the event, hell he even says you can still do it digitally you'll just be missing out on the main experience
encouraging digital artists to draw traditionally is good and very beneficial in the long-run. i'm honestly reliant as fuck off stabilisers myself since i've got retard hands, but i still try to do some traditional every once in a while. i really don't understand why people got so assmad over this

>>4095887
i'm not even going to say i'll do it this year because i never end up committing to it, sure as fuck won't be able to this time since october's going to be super busy for me. i really will try and finally do it next year though

>>4095953
based tranny

>>4095950
>>4095957
>>4096263
seriously what disability prevents someone from drawing traditionally if they can draw digitally? i'm a dyspraxic fucktard and draw like shit on paper because my hands are fucked, but i can still fucking do it

>>4131612
Hobonichis are too small to do this in

>>4131978
Well, I never follow 'the rules' of any of these 1 for 1 anyway unless I'm doing them with friends who all agree on the same rules.

>>4131647
the disability is ctrl+z addiction and the liquify/warp tool

>>4095887
Fuck guys - less than a week left, I’ll make a real thread Monday if I don’t see one up >>4113886

>>4126358
>>4126417
>>4131427

thank you for the advice