Do you scribble absentmindedly with a pen on the edges of a scrap of paper? In the art world, that’s called inking and there’s an entire month dedicated to it online. Social media users transform ...

This month, hundreds of thousands of artists are picking up their pens to draw and share their skills all thanks to a challenge started in Provo. Inktober is a month-long drawing challenge intended to ...

As a girl who loves to draw and doodle, I feel so glad to live in a world where there are Inktobers. Online art community gets active during the month of October for the Inktober Challenge that ...

FROM A single nib, thousands upon thousands of artists can be drawn into the fold. That nib, as it began, belonged to Jake Parker, a Utah-based artist who said he “created InkTober in 2009 as a ...

Lavanya Venkateswaran religiously started following Inktober in 2018 after she learned about the art challenge from her friends, and came across the artworks of several artists who she was following ...

Let your mind, heart, and art tools wander, with the Drawtober 2025 Challenge, which brings daily prompts under the theme of ‘Dark Fairytale’, evoking fairies, goblins, and everything in between. Get ...

Get your pens out kids, Inktober is upon us! Inktober was started in 2009 by artist and illustrator Jake Parker. He wanted to “improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits.” So he ...

We often hear people say that art begins where words end. Whether it’s the soft whisper of pencil on paper or the glowing touch of a digital pen on screen, every stroke, every colour, and every line ...

Inktober is a massive collaborative event and it is the first time I am attempting to work with ink in such an intensive way,” Diez told CNN. The artist hopes that by the end of the month, the pages ...