Hi, I'm your host, Xavi, also known as the Raging Spaniard (follow me on twitter pls) and I used to work on Star Wars! That's how I introduce myself to everyone now, including my parents
This is our 4th year of a ... um, inking related yearly event on ResetEra! Check out our archive!
He is very active on Youtube, this is just one random video I picked, no other reason
He also has two fantastic inking books available on Amazon which you can find here. I would HIGHLY recommend purchasing them and for you to use them throughout the month as a handy guide, you wont regret it.
For them kids, he is also on the gram
Pentober rules:
1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).
2) Post it
3) Hashtag it with #pentober or #pentober2020 or do whatever the fuck you want, this shit aint owned by anybody, fuck them cops
4) Repeat
Shameless Self Promoting:
Since I made the thread I'm going to be a total dick and sneak in my Twitter and Tumblr pages where you'll be able to find my entries (as well as this thread, obviously) Last year I had a Fire Emblem: Three Houses theme! I am currently undecided about this years theme, better hurry the fuck up, I guess
Prompts:
Mysteriously enough, there are NO OFFICIAL PROMPTS this year! I think there used to be some in previous year but I dunno, nothing came out for 2020, blame the pandemic, It was probably some white dudes fault though, tbh
In case you need some though, I used my complete brain in order to come up with some prompts. I am a professional in the industry of videogames, I am extremely creative, how dare you, look at that beautiful logo
Its important to remember that this is ALL OPTIONAL. If you want to skip a day, that's fine! If you want to do something non-traditional, that's great! This is all just an excuse for our little artist community to grown and thrive, we can get to know each other better and help each other fulfill our artistic goals. Do not take this too seriously, the rules are there to help you along the way, not to restrain you!
Other #tobers:
Surely you have noticed a ... variety of October themed drawing prompts. Mysterious! Feel free to use this thread to share your work from those other hashtags or even better, cross them with pentober! Heres some examples
- #drawtober
- #OC_tober
- #monstober
- #soulstober
- #witchtober
Also check out some other hashtags such as #DrawingWhileBlack, #VisibleWomen, #LatinxCreate and others. Amplify minority voices as often as you can!
I think that's all the hashtags I've seen related to October, cant think of another one ...
F.A.Q
Mailbox said:
Absolutely! In this day and age there are a million ways to create art! Pen, Tablet, Cintiq, whatever way you want to participate is fine :)
Hell no! Even if you only make one drawing, that's way better than zero drawings. We all have lives and cant always afford the time. Keep your own pace, there's no pressure here.
Pretty much anything ink based, even a ball point pen can give you some amazing results. For covering BIG areas with black I personally use a brush pen (this is my favorite and a bargain at that price) or even leave it blank and fill it in Photoshop (not too much to learn from filling darks, its a personal preference)
As is our custom, here are some highlights from the 2019 thread! Fantastic work by all involved and sorry I can't show everyone's work, a lot of you only link through media posts and I cant show them all in the OP
Day 28 - Ride
Day 1 :D
Too broke to fix my scanner atm, but I still wanted to take part this year, it'll be my first inktober.
Hopefully I'll get to use traditional media during the month though.
Let's do it. I decided I'm going to try and draw baseball players by jersey number to correspond with the day of the month. Hopefully I'm able to make some progress by end of the month as this drawing shows I'm terrible with value in general, especially with pure black and white.
As it works out, up first is #1 Ozzie Smith, my childhood hero. The first Cardinals game I went to I was able to get his autograph. I was in awe.
Posting the full un-cropped image as promised. Inktober no.3 , you know who.
I doubt I'll be able to keep up with Inktober this year, but here are my Day 1 and Day 2 entries (and yeah, Day 2 is just Day 1 colored, but it was for a commission for my friend's son, so I couldn't do more!) Teostra from Monster Hunter World:
Day 6 -no prompt.
An ink drawing I tried to salvage in Photoshop and just ended up painting over.
Days 5 and 6 - Fjord and Beau from Critical Role
Other resourceful Era Art threads:
PhotoEra - One photo per day
Drawing a Day
The Art Pub
Thats all! Good luck and HAVE FUN!
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