Inktober with me? Last year when I did Inktober the results were really weird. But it’s a case of garbage in garbage out. I wanted to do the official Inktober prompts because I wanted to be official. But they were lazy and uninteresting, so at the same time I did the mythology prompts. My boyfriend said I should do legitimately Halloweenish content, and helped me generate a much better list of prompts for this year.
So, anybody interested? You do a drawing a day. Traditionally that was ink, but I really don’t care. You can do cosplay photography if you like. Each day of October there’s an iconic horror movie monster to draw. And below that list, a cloud of art styles you can use to spice up the image. One plus one. Will you draw Jason Voorhees in a rococo style? Dracula as a dog playing poker?
THE INSTRUCTIONS:
Take the iconic horror movie character and render them in an art style you choose from the Style Cloud! When an iconic monster has a group (such as Lost Boys), you can choose your fave. When there are multiple movie depictions, you can choose your fave.
- 01 Jason Voorhees – Friday the 13th
- 02 Nosferatu – Nosferatu
- 03 Carrie White – Carrie
- 04 Beetlejuice – Beetlejuice – Beetlejuice
- 05 Jigsaw – Saw
- 06 Chucky – Child’s Play
- 07 Godzilla – Godzilla
- 08 The Children – Village of the Damned
- 09 Pennywise – It
- 10 The Tethered – Us
- 11 Freddy Krueger – Nightmare on Elm Street
- 12 Erik – The Phantom of the Opera
- 13 Candyman – Candyman – Candyman – Candyman – Candyman
- 14 The Saeki Family – Ju-on
- 15 Michael Myers – Halloween
- 16 The Wolfman – The Wolfman
- 17 The Xenomorph – Alien
- 18 Pinhead – Hellraiser
- 19 The Nun – The Conjuring 2
- 20 Ghostface – Scream
- 21 The Creature from the Black Lagoon
- 22 Audrey II – Little Shop of Horrors
- 23 The Lost Boys – The Lost Boys
- 24 Gorilla Wolf Mofos – Attack the Block
- 25 Leatherface – Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- 26 The Mummy – The Mummy
- 27 Regan MacNeil – The Exorcist
- 28 Hannibal Lecter – Silence of the Lambs
- 29 Bride of Frankenstein – Bride of Frankenstein
- 30 Frankenstein’s Monster – Frankenstein
- 31 Dracula – Dracula
the Style Cloud
When a certain artist is named, they are just a stand-in for their style or spirit. You can make take Kazuo Umezzu for Junji Ito, Lucian Freud for Egon Schiele. Some categories are inclusive enough, you could range Hannah Barbera from Scooby Doo to the Flintstones. Or choose a style not on the list.
Ghanaian Poster Art Urban Art Rap CD Art Outsider Art Looney Tunes Rococo Roman Dirge Robert Crumb Hernandez Brothers Daniel Clowes Saul Bass Gibson Girl Winsor McCay Popeye Stoner Art Hanna Barbera Caricaturist Tumblrized Furry Art Disney Art Mascot Pee-Chee Harry Clarke Dictionnaire Infernal John Tenniel Struwwelpeter Klasky Csupo Max Fleischer Spongebob Squarepants Tim Burton Batman: The Animated Series Cartoon Network Stevens Universe Rage Comics Egon Schiele Surrealism Chuck Tingle Cover Romance Novel Cover Jack Kirby Rob Liefeld Garfield Strip Comics The Far Side Sailor Moon Pokemon Alfonse Mucha Yoshitaka Amano Cave Art GrecoRoman Statuary Faerie Art Pop Art Kitsch Cubism Mannerism Impressionism German Expressionism Americana Hieroglyphics Ukiyo-e Hindu Art Mesoamerican Art Paracas Art Bayeux Tapestry Illuminated Saint Art High Renaissance Noir Comics Dr. Seuss Little Golden Book Patrick Nagel Lisa Frank Airbrushed Van Goosebumps Cover Jack Chick Audrey Kawasaki Junko Mizuno Junji Ito Keith Haring Louis Wain James Audubon Mad Magazine Rumiko Takahashi Nintendo Castlevania Joshua Timbrook Jhonen Vasquez
If you want to participate, link to your art below!
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Drawing isn’t my thing (I only do stick figures) but it’s nice to see someone else views Hallowe’en as more than a single day event. I’ve been posting daily pics on my facebook page since September 22, the Salem Witch Trials anniversary. Forty days and forty frights.
Most LGBTQIA people I know enjoy or enjoyed Hallowe’en for the costumes and not the spooky stuff, but for the same reason I do. It is/was the one day of the year when people could express themselves honestly without fearing judgement or harassment.
There’s a Ministry song about that I think.
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You’re not the only person who’s done Inktober before who decided that this year’s prompts were boring. I’ve got two friends who have been pretty regular about it, one of whom just decided not to do it at all this year, and one who decided to get people to sign up and supply a character to draw and a single inspirational word and he’d work from that.
So much for Official ™ Things. Do you do art?
Me? I write stories. (And have actually been paid for publication for two of them.) Visual art I leave to (or commission from) other folks. Sadly, I only have so much time to practice and get good at things, so need to pick and choose which ones.
That’s legit. You gonna do NaNoWriMo in a month?
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I may try. I failed pretty spectacularly the last time I tried. I’m a bit too much of a compulsive tweaker and self-editor to easily do the ‘rapid first draft’ for NaNoWriMo. And that’s on top of the fact that my main writing time is while in transit.
Granted, I tried last time because the story I was writing was sort of a sort of a future cyberpunk survival horror (main characters are expendable flunkies that get dropped on a planet to establish a claim, and have to find out what killed the previous set of flunkies sent by the rival corporation that they’re trying to claim jump on) that I’d been working on previously serialized in an Amateur Press Association… unfortunately, survival horror requires a fairly specific ratcheting up of tension that is difficult to serialize. It really needs to be completely plotted in your head at once to write.
Maybe I’ll try something different next time. On the other hand, I’ve also got something near novel length already that I need to do a full editing pass on…