Ancient Princces // OC ( Lineart ) (Patreon)

Unpopular opinion: Inktober sucks, don't do it... (╯°益°)╯彡┻━┻ 

For those who do not know "Inktober" is a tradition / challenge very popular among artists of all genres and media.( Digital/ traditional)

It consists of creating a full finished inked sketch every day  of October (31 inks in total)

And it sucks a lot... (¬_¬ ) 

I know that this may sound a little bit salty coming from someone like me, who has a rather flat and boring inking style, but I have very good reasons to not recommend anyone to participate in Inktober. (Especially to beginning artists)

Listen to this, because this argument has made me lose friends and gain followers a the same time.

- "Inkers are the bass players of the graphic media".

Pleaso don't get me wrong, I know, appreciate and respect multiple artists who are geniuses in these fields.

Inks:  Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Takehiko Inoue.

Bass: Peter Balzary,  Paul Samwell-Smith, Lemmy Kilmister .

But being honest nobody is appreciated just for being a god with the pens and inks. Normally only people interested in the most technical aspects of a drawing stop to look at the quality of the inking, all the other people only concentrate on the content, design, colors and composition, the inking comes last as a point of interest .

But anyway, my problem is not that currently good artists want to polish their ability with inks, my problem begins when beginner artists join the frenzy of poorly made linearts.

Inktober forces these poor souls to spit half-assed drawings at a rate that does not help at all to improve the artistic quality of those who participate in it.

The only thing I can apreciate from Inktober is that it serves as a test of resistance that forces you to maintain an accelerated production rate, which is good from a commercial point of view, but at the end of the month is when Inktober shows its real face with a lot of uninspired, rushed, random linearts...

If I had to recommend a much more produtive challenge or exercise that actually helps to expand the skills of any beginner and expert artist, this would be 1 page of rough sketches a day or an original character design a day.

(Challenge extends pretty much over the rest of your lives)

Although I think this is much less likely to be pupular since it is what is called daily practice for an artist.

So it is not something that can be unified under a popular #hashtag and be exposed on social media.

So yeah, in conclusion. If you are still at an early stage of learning as an artist, Inktober is not something really good for you, it is rather a social activity for artists, not a productive exercise... (・∀・)ノ