Inktober 2023 Prompt List
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Dream — Day 1
Starting out with my way-below-novice drawing skills, I depicted a bicycle dreaming about being a fast motorcycle.
Spiders — Day 2
Spiders on a spiderweb.
Path — Day 3
Bezier curve handles for an Adobe Illustrator path.
Dodge — Day 4
Playing dodgeball.
Map — Day 5
A treasure map—X marks the spot!
Golden — Day 6
A golden first-place medallion.
Drip — Day 7
Liquid dripping down the side of a can.
Toad — Day 8
Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Bounce — Day 9
A bouncing beach ball.
Fortune — Day 10
A Last WIll & Testament leaving someone a fortune.
Wander — Day 11
Wander character from the Disney show, Wander Over Yonder.
Spic(e)y — Day 12
MIssiles destroying the letter E to correctly spell the word "spicy."
Rise — Day 13
The stone has been rolled away and Christ is about to rise.
Castle — Day 14
A simple, twin-turret castle.
Castle Timelapse
The first time I decided to show my work with a timelapse recording.
Dagger — Day 15
A dagger with wooden, leather-wrapped handle.
Dagger Timelapse
Yes, I used a photo as a tracing guide, but I still like how the timelapse came out.
Angel — Day 16
Angel wings and halo.
Demon — Day 17
Pixel art of a giant red demon with horns and wings.
Saddle — Day 18
A folded and stapled booklet titled, "A Saddle Stitch In Time."
Saddle Timelapse
Timelapse of drawing the saddle stitch booklet.
Plump — Day 19
Plump character Wimpy from Popeye is depicted with his trademark phrase, "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Plump Timelapse
Timelapse drawing of WImpy.
Frost — Day 20
A frosty snowflake.
Frost Timelapse
Timelapse of the snowflake drawing.
Chains — Day 21
Five links of a chain.
Chains Timelapse
Timelapse reveals how I created one chain link, duplicated and rotated them all, cut away the link overlaps, and added shadowing.
Scratchy — Day 22
Leonard Hofstadter's itchy red sweater he had to wear atop bare skin until he could return a long-overdue DVD.
Celestial — Day 23
A lone satellite probe explores a colorful nebula—V'Ger, perhaps?
Celestial Timelapse
Timelapse of drawing the nebula and satellite probe.
Shallow — Day 24
A beach with a signing warning swimmers to stay out of the deep water.
Shallow Timelapse
Timelapse of the beach drawing.
Dangerous — Day 25
A dangerous green bottle of poison with skull and crossbones on the front.
Dangerous Timelapse
Timelapse of the poison bottle drawing.
Remove — Day 26
A simple boxy gangster-style car above a white and light gray checkerboard pattern, indicating the background has been removed with a photo editor.
Remove Timelapse
Timelapse of drawing the car.
Beast — Day 27
666—The Mark of the Beast.
Beast Timelapse
Fast timelapse of the 666 drawing.
Sparkle — Day 28
An emerald gem with sparkly bursts.
Sparkle Timelapse
TImelapse of the emerald gem drawing.
Massive — Day 29
The massive UY Scuti, the largest known star in the observable universe, dwarfs our solar system’s sun (Sol).
Massive Timelapse
Short timelapse of the UY Scuti drawing.
Rush — Day 30
A line art drawing of Captain Hector Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean, portrayed by Geoffrey Rush. He is quoted as saying, "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request."
Rush Timelapse
Timelapse of the Hector Barbossa drawing, revealing how I began with my general intent for this series to draw with light colors on top of black, but changed my mind at the end and reversed everything.
Fire — Day 31
A blazing campfire.
Fire Timelapse
Timelapse of the campfire drawing.
