I’d not heard of “Inktober” before, but after a few recommendations, one of them from everyone’s favourite anthropologist @DrAliceRoberts I thought I’d give it a go this year. The idea is to post on social media an ink sketch every day throughout October and tag it with #inktober2016 and #inktober. I wasn’t sure at first whether the sketches have to be created the same day you post them or can be older, for the first five days of October it overlapped my series on Archives, which included ink drawings, so I just tagged those posts, but this week from 6th October onwards I’ve been tweeting fresh sketchbook doodles.
Day 6
Looking at the splendorous work from other artists tagged with Inktober some has clearly been laboured over for several hours, but I’m keeping very much within the spirit of the idea and just posting coffee-break doodles, and other down-times grabbed during the day, so these are very rough around the edges.
Day 7
In case you don’t follow me on Twitter (@StudioNIB) here’s a summary of the last few days worth of Inktober sketches. Anyone can join in, and it’s not too late to start now… here’s more information
I was offline on Day 8, but this for Day 9…. feeling somewhat adrift perhaps
Day 10. In retrospect I think I might have been subconsciously channelling Mervyn Peake’s Captain Slaughterboard
Day 11 – messing about with faces on the TV last night
I’m thinking, well, if I’m going to do it I shouldn’t just limit to Twitter, let’s put them on my blog, so for the remainder of the month I’ll post one a day. Provided I can keep up that is …. lots to do, so few hours in the day….