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Inktober 2024

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What is Inktober?

Inktober is a yearly art event intended to improve your inking skills. Every day, there's a prompt which everyone will draw with either ink on paper or digital inking

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Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.

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The main two ways to participate are to draw daily like a marathon or every second day like a semi-marathon. The operative word being marathon. It doesn't have to be your best piece of art or even something you're proud of in any way. As the creator of this community, I know quite a bit of what I create will be absolute trash. I'm ok with this though.

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Day 17 - Journal (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by Pencilnoob@lemmy.world to c/inktober@sh.itjust.works
 

I tried to have him sit apart from the men, based on how he felt separated from the enlisted men. Also no, he didn't write it the trenches, just some artistic liberty.

Edit, updated with the marker version

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[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I like this better, went back over with marker

[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

This is really fantastic. Definitely saving it!

[–] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

(This is not to nitpick your drawing, just personally curious) - is it known that Tolkien wrote drafts of the Hobbit/LotR during the war? That'd be an interesting tidbit.

Even if it's not 100% accurate, the war certainly stuck with him deeply through the rest of his life and obviously had large influences on his world building and writing.

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I took artistic liberty

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I believe he either stated or wrote in letters that he imagined with world of the Hobbit during World War 1, but I do not believe he drafted it outright during wartime.

So it depends, mostly, on how we define 'wrote' to be accurate.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

That's interesting! Puts some perspective on the stories.

[–] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit, man. Thats powerful

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Aww thanks ♥️