Inktober 2024 Plan

I've lost count now of how many Inktober challenges I've participated in (recent ones linked below) so I guess it's no surprise to anyone when I say I'll be joining in again this year. I'm hoping to make it successful by preparing for it well in advance and sharing my plans here to help keep me accountable. Posting my progress on my website is especially important as a social accountability tool, considering I am no longer using Instagram due to Meta's policy of scraping images to train their AI.

Once again I won't be following the official prompt list but rather working on my own project. This time it will be to create line art drawings of 29 Australian emblems. I have an ongoing project to nature journal them all, and this will work alongside that project:

Australian State and Territory emblems series

In this series I plan to go out and find the state and territory emblems of Australia and spend some time nature journaling them.

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Materials

I'll be using the same materials as last year for the inking - a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and bleed-proof marker paper. My plan is to draw each emblem on watercolour paper first and then trace with the pen over the top on marker paper (that is thin enough to see through) to create separate line art. After Inktober I will paint the drawings (aiming for November) and upload the line art as resources for my Ko-fi members.

Progress

During September I've been preparing by finding suitably-licenced reference photos (mostly CC-BY) for each emblem and considering my materials and process so I can jump straight in on Day 1, full of motivation.

Check back throughout October to follow my progress! 😄

Previous Inktober posts:

Inktober 2023

The illustrations and a colouring-in sheet from their website was what ultimately guided my decision for Inktober.

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Inktober 2022

Updated 5th November Inktober is over for another year. This year I did struggle a bit more motivationally but managed to keep up by shifting the rhythm from a daily drawing to chunking two or three every few days. I realised that the pressure of completing a “good” (polished) drawing

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Inktober 2021

October is here, and the annual drawing with ink challenge is back. Will I succeed this year in completing all 31 drawings in 31 days? Follow my progress below! Or jump to the materials I’m using. What is Inktober? In 2009 Jake Parker created what is now a global drawing

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