I know Inktober is a massive one, but I wanted some alternatives if anyone follows the 30 days of art challenge in October! I would absolutely love to try it out since I have heard that inktober isn’t really digital artist friendly.
I don’t have a list, but I found this… just use the Inktober prompts and don’t worry about it imo. 
To anyone reading that, I wouldn’t worry about the tisk-tisking to use a trad. ink medium. Someone can just as easily choose not to undo while they draw digitally; use whatever tools you like to. It’s your art afterall
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Now I want to make the whole inktober using AI just to piss off the Inktober Twitter page. No Crtl+Z on an AI. 
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Maybe I’m reading the post differently than everybody else.
They say that you can use any tool you like but they recommend physical paper and ink.
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well basically the issue is OP wants to do inktober, but can they? And that twitter post softly disapproves. So I say the twitter post is trash entirely because you can indeed avoid Ctrl+Z while doing digital art. They have no other validation for their standpoint. It’s just a garbage take
So my answer to the OP is go ahead, draw digitally and participate in inktober. I’ve seen the official prompt list, and it’s just as doable digitally as it would be traditionally. Have fun!
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So they are trash for thinking that people would be better off doing it one way while saying it’s ok to do it other ways? Wow.
I don’t even know what this is about.
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Well, this’s not just October but full year daily challenge. If you have Facebook, there’s a public group called Daily Drawing Challenge. They post an image every day (mostly human poses and portraits but also animals, objects…) an you have to drawing it or make an interpretation in your style. It is open to all medias, traditional or digital, and styles: drawing, sketching, digital painting, inking, painting
It’s a good place to force you to practice every day.
It’s a friendly place. I’m there and it’s fun.
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There’s also a facebook group called Daily Spit Paint. It’s a speed painting group. You are given four prompts and you choose one (or multiple) to do a thirty-minute speed paint. You can keep working after the thirty minutes are up, but you need to submit the image at the thirty-minute mark.
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there are also plenty of prompt generators available on the web. you hit a button and it will give you a prompt to draw.
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Haven’t been to facebook in ages, but I would be glad to check it out!
oh thanks for both suggestions, I found a prompt list called Magictober however I will check the FB group out
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I personally think it’s their backhand method which made people stop wanting to do Inktober, they only share traditional illustrations on their Instagram and tend to disregard the actual criticism. I have tried both methods for a week (drawing traditionally and digitally) both are equally fulfilling.
Control Z argument is so stupid I feel like I shouldn’t explain it, also it’s not a safety net if you don’t use it like one.
“No one is going to stop you BUT YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE FULL EXPERIENCE” is very weird and alienating thing to say. I just don’t agree with the wordings and “acceptance” they hesitantly gave us. If I use the tag of Inktober, I would have to deal with people going on and on about how it isn’t really Inktober (I think someone made a video about it recently) and I don’t want to deal with it.
What they said can be taken differently, but I just don’t feel comfortable using Inktober prompts or tagging it accordingly! Thank you for your words though!
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Fair enough. But Krita Artists is just as excluding, if not more. Try posting images made in Photoshop or CSP here, there would be pestering to no end. And rightly so, since Krita Artists is meant to promote Krita. Just as Inktober was made to promote drawing traditionally with ink and paper.
That’s also because:
- KA is hosted by volunteers and they support costs for data storage (now around 150GB disk if I understood)
- KA provide the possibility to post art, but the primary function I think is to get a friendly community able to provide help
You can participate to the monthly art contest
It’s only one painting per month so it give you time to participate to some other challenges
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Yeah… What blows my mind is that people are angry at Inktober for being semi-gated while they have no problem engaging in a fully gated community where they happen to be on the right side of the fence.
I am sorry but the main focus as I understood it was to promote drawing one piece a day and improving. Rules come second, and please keep in mind that it is a challenge, not a contest. People from all walks of life can take part in it. It’s especially frustrating when Inktober first softly disapproves digital art and then turns around and launch a collaboration with AutoDesk SketchBook. If Inktober is all about ink, then why promote digital brushes of autodesk’s digital inks?
I personally don’t want to use their prompts since again the social media isn’t friendly with digital artists chiming in on Inktober and I would like to post them. However everyone is free to use them and I am not going to judge anyone doing so. I specifically asked the question to get some alternatives of Inktober.
Also would like to push back on the Krita thing, it’s not the same. This whole forum is made for Krita exclusively, to discuss everything from art to code. Inktober however CAN potentially refer to both traditional and digital inks, and as an amateur digital artist it’s what I had assumed initially. It was my mistake upon further researching and hence why I asked this question.
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thanks! I would be sure to check it out!
I won’t deny that the guy is a pretty dodgy fellow, but still, he came up with the Inktober thing and got it started. It’s you know… his. So he gets to set the rules, which imo are pretty reasonable. Anyone can join and use the hashtag but the gallery is reserved for the purpose it was initially intended.
Not much different than Krita Artists where you can upload traditional art but it will never appear in the gallery.
Sorry about all of this, but double standards needs to be argued against. Especially when they appear in groups I consider myself to be part of.
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