For a couple of years now people have been using social media to showcase original artwork during the month of October. It started as ink drawings, but people now use various methods to create and share the art under the hashtag #inktober.
For some reason, I decided to do it myself this year on twitter.
For the last 31 days, every day, I tweeted a drawing I’d made that day on my phone using the app ‘Sketches’. There was no real theme and little forethought put into the pictures, I just made them up as I went along!
My talent – or lack thereof – often got in the way, and rarely did the final picture match the one in my mind.
Furthermore the app itself was maddeningly frustrating to use because the terrible UI overlaps the canvas. Thank god for the liberal undo function, else many of these would have been utterly ruined.
Often the influence was the news of the day, such as one of the members of Babymetal leaving, or reading an article about Kit Kat candies (guess which one that influenced?), or illustrating the protagonist of a story Adam wrote on his blog.
Looking back this made the month seem longer! I can remember the days looking at the pictures, such as KLS’s birthday, Yossie being sick and going to the vet or me myself struggling with a respiratory illness for almost two weeks. Even in the midst of this I did one every day.
Many of you encouraged me, either directly or via your likes on twitter. When I started it was a lark and I didn’t think I’d actually finish. Not that it’s a great life achievement or anything, but I’m glad I did.
There are 31 drawings in total, and I asked many of you your favorites to illustrate this post. Funnily there was very little consensus and all sorts of images were liked by different people. I posted the images that at least two people listed.
You can see them all on my twitter if you’re interested. And no, I’m not going to do ‘Inkvember’ or anything (two of you have asked)! Maybe next year I’ll revisit this, but for now I’ll limit my art to cards and postcards 🙂
