Inktober 2020- Part 1.
Every October, the drawing/sketching/designing community embarks on a challenge called the Inktober challenge. A set of prompts for 31 days is announced on the Inktober Instagram page, and individuals are free to interpret and draw pictures based on these prompts in any manner they choose. The challenge itself was started in 2009 by illustrator and artist Jake Parker, and has since garnered hundreds of thousands of followers around the world. I've been following these Inktober challenges for a few years now. This year, I said to myself, why not try to take part. So, 2020 marks my first Inktober-October. Most illustrations that are uploaded to social media under the #inktober2020 are.. what's the word... fantastic. It's so great to see how people interpret the same word in different ways and then go on to picturise them so. The influences of this community's art are many: classical art, anime and manga, video games, Disney, Harry Potter, and good old-fashioned imaginat...
