New Challenge: #printinktober

Have you heard of inktober? It’s a month-long challenge that was started by illustrator and cartoonist Jake Parker. In essentials, you are encouraged to create an ink drawing each day in October. Here's a video about it that he put together:

Each year he releases a series of prompts, which you are welcome to adhere to or not.  This is the list of prompts for this year:

I’ve participated in the #inktober challenge twice before – both times focusing on lettering and not adhering to any prompts.  See a blog post about it from 2014, and from 2015.

I even made a little book of my 2014 inktober experience. 

I like to use challenges to help me towards personal art goals. At the time, I wanted to improve my lettering skills. Creating a piece of lettering every single day for 31 days definitely made me faster and better at lettering.

This year I was thinking of a new spin on the challenge. It’s called "Print Inktober." I’ll be using printing ink and stamping ink rather than drawing ink, but my goal is to create a stamped print every day of October. I want to get my stamps out of storage and into play!

I’ll be posting under the hashtag #printinktober and if you’d like to play along, you are welcome to!

GUIDELINES:

• Create and post one print each day in October.
• Use the hashtag #printinktober when you post.
• Any stamp can be used – foam, silicone, rubber, hand carved, lino, whatever you want!
• Any ink can be used – screenprinting ink, marker ink, stamping ink, printing ink, etc.
• You can use the official inktober prompts, if you'd like.  Or not.
• Have fun and don’t worry if you miss a day (or more). The point of the challenge is to get those stamps out of storage and into use!!

Thanks for stopping by!