Inktober 2025

 

Prompts 16 - 20

The biggest blunder in this group is Artic. It looked better in my head than on paper.

Inktober 2025

 

Prompts 11 - 15

Inktober 2025

 

This year, I'm using the Inktober challenge words to practice the Charles Rennie Mackintosh lettering I learned in the class with Kathy Milici.

I went ahead a couple of days so I could show one full column of words.

Lettering done with Micron Pigma pen .08

Inktober 2023 - Finally Finished

A few days late with the last few prompts, but I finally finished Inktober

10/29 Challenge prompt: Massive

Micron Pigma pen

10/30 Challenge prompt: Rush

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Markers

10/31 Challenge prompt: Fire

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Brush Markers

Inktober 2023

 Almost finished. I was not inspired by the last few words of the challenge prompts.

10/28 Challenge prompt: Sparkle

Gelly Sparkle pen

The last three prompts have been thumbnailed, but not drawn into the Inktober journal.

Inktober 2023

10/25 Challenge prompt: Dangerous

Micron Pigma pen

10/26 Challenge prompt: Remove

Sumi ink, Nikko G nib, Tombow marker

10/27 Challenge prompt: Beast

Micron Pigma Pen

Inktober 2023

I'm not very inspired by this year's challenge prompts

10/16 Challenge prompt: Angel

Sumi ink, Nikko G nib, Metallic Gold Gelly Roll

10/17 Challenge prompt: Demon

Sumi ink, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma Pen

10/18 Challenge prompt: Saddle

Another one that looked better in my head

Micron Pigma pen

10/19 Challenge prompt: Plump

Micron Pigma Pen, Tombow markers

10/20 Challenge prompt: Frost

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow markers

10/21 Challenge prompt: Chains

Micron Pigma Pen

10/22 Challenge prompt: scratchy

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow markers

Inktober 2023

10/12 Challenge prompt: Spicy

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow marker, watercolor pencil

10/13 Challenge prompt: rise

Sumi ink, Nikko G nib

10/14 Challenge prompt: castle

Micron Pigma pen, Sumi ink, Nikko G nib, Tombow markers

10/15 (uninspired) challenge prompt: dagger

It looked better in my head

Micron Pigma pen

Whatcha Doin?

 

I'm catching up with the Inktober challenge. Whatcha doin?

Inktober 2023

10/04 Challenge prompt: Dodge

The first car my dad owned, a green Dodge given to him by his Uncle Joe when my parents moved to the house where I grew up. I don't know what year or model. A 1950 something built like a tank

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow markers

10/05 Challenge prompt: Map

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Markers

10/06 Challenge prompt: Golden

Gold leaf on Jerry's Pink Stuff, Nikko G nib

10/07, Challenge prompt: Drip

Micron Pigma pen, Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Glitter

10/08, Challenge prompt: Toad

Toad, from the video game Mario Brothers

Micron Pigma pen, watercolor pencil, Tombow markers, Moon Palace Sumi ink, Nikko G nib

Inktober 2023

Another Inktober creeped up on me so fast. With all the traveling I've been doing, I didn't have time to make a journal for the Inktober challenge. The very first Coptic Stitch book I made was sitting empty because at the time, I was too timid to write in it. No More.

10/01 Challenge prompt: Dream

A versal letter featuring Dream (Tom Sturridge) from The Sandman

Sumi ink, watercolor, Micron Pigma pen on Arches Text Wove

10/02 Challenge prompt: Spiders

Micron Pigma pen, Towbow Markers

10/03 Challenge prompt: Path

Sumi ink, Micron Pigma pen, Towbow Markers

Whatcha Doin?

10/27 Challenge prompt: snack

One, two! one tow and

through and through

the vorpal blade went

snicker snack - Lewis Carroll

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers

10/28 Challenge prompt: camping

Micron Pigma pen

10/29 Challenge prompt: uh-oh

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen

10/30 Challenge prompt: gears

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. - Charles M. Schulz

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Gelly Roll pen

10/31 Challenge prompt: farm

Old MacDonald had a farm

e i e i o

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers

The farm was a little rushed, but I finished the Inktober 2022 Challenge and I'm all caught up posting my Inktobers.

Whatcha doin?

Inktober 2022

10/24 Challenge prompt: fairy

First, rehearse your song by rote/

To each word a warbling note

Hand in hand with fairy grace

We will sing, and bless this place. - Shakespeare

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Prismacolor Watercolor pencils, Gelly roll pen.

10/25 Challenge prompt: tempting

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Prismacolor Watercolor pencils, Gelly roll pen.

10/26 Challenge prompt: Ego

Ego. Let it go

Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush marker

Inktober 2022

10/20 Challenge prompt:  bluff

Christmas was close at hand in all his bluff and hearty honesty, it was the season of hospitality - Charles Dickens

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Towbow Dual Brush markers, Mircon Pigma pen, Gelly Roll pen

10/21 Challenge prompt: bad dog

Quill makes a bad dog, but he's a good boy

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Micron Pigma pen,  Prismacolor Watercolor pencil

10/22 Challenge prompt: heist

"Poultry heist? Someone stealing chickens?" I asked.

Maya nudged me. "He means poltergeists." Janel Burkwell

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Micron Pigma pen,  Tombow Dual Brush marker

10/23 The challenge prompt "booger" did nothing to inspire me. I chose to use pumpkin.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin alone and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Thoreau

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Micron Pigma pen,  Tombow Dual Brush marker.

Inktober 2022

10/13 Challenge prompt: kind

Always try to be nice

But never fail to be kind - The Twelfth Doctor 

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers, Gelly Roll pen

10/14 Challenge prompt: empty

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space;

everything else is opinion - Democritus

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers

10/15 Challenge prompt: armadillo

Micron Pigma Pen

10/16 Challenge prompt: fowl

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. - Abraham Lincoln

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers, White Gelly Roll pen.

10/17 Challenge prompt: salty

Salty Girl

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers, Clear Gelly Roll pen.

10/18 Challenge prompt: scraped

"I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers, 

10/19 Challenge prompt: ponytail

Chantilly Lace had a pretty face

And a ponytail hanging down

a wiggle in her walk

a giggle in her talk...J. P. Richardson

Winsor Newton Ivory Black gouache, Nikko G nib, Micron Pigma pen, Tombow Dual Brush markers,