Hey guys and thanks for all your feedback and questions on the last video.
If you haven't yet, feel free to leave a video topic in the comments below for something
you'd like me to talk about in one of this months videos.
If I don't manage to cover it this inktober, it could still be a great video topic for
me to do in the future.
Before we get to todays question, day 3's house is haunted by a lagoon creature.
I've been really inspired by the inktober pieces I've been seeing on instagram and
it made me want to introduce a bit more depth and detail to my drawing today, give it a
bit more context and give myself a chance to have fun with the tonal values of the ink,
the atmosphere and also different ways I could use the ink, so for example wet-in-wet and
with negative space.
I'm really happy with this one and I'm starting to feel like I'm getting into my
stride with this challenge.
I've already beaten my all time record of inktober drawings done in a row, so that's
worth giving myself a pat on the back for.
Same goes for you guys if you've made it to day 3, remember to give yourself credit
for that.
And even if you haven't there's still time to catch up, and you can really do as
many or as few drawings as you like, as long as you don't give up.
Today's question kind of relates to that anyway.
It's actually a few questions that I've kind of combined into one; Is this cheating?
First off, people want to know about if it's okay to sketch your drawing with pencil first,
before inking.
Since the idea of using ink is the permanence of it, inktober forces you to be brave and
considered with your mark-making, because there's no erasing.
Which leads some people to think that using pencil at any stage shouldn't be allowed.
I mean, I have an issue with the whole 'cheating' idea anyway.
If it were a competition then fine, but the main idea, as outlined by Jake Parker himself,
the creator of inktober- who by the way, uses pencil to map out his inktober drawings too-
the whole point of inktober in his own words is self-improvement.
Building a drawing habit, pushing your boundaries, creating consistently and learning as you
go.
So do that however you do it best.
Don't go to easy on yourself, remember you have to push yourself out of your comfort
zone if you really want to come out of this having learned something, but don't set
the conditions so high that you can barely create anything without filling yourself with
doubt and feelings of inadequacy.
Help yourself to help yourself.
Another issue of cheating is to do more than one drawing a day, or catch up if you've
missed one.
I have a comment here from Paula, who wants to know if for personal reasons like sickness
or work or anything else, someone has to skip a day and catch up with two drawings the next-
since the challenge is meant to force you to draw every day- is it cheating?
And again, I think it really depends on how you look at the point of the challenge.
Forcing yourself to draw every day isn't gonna be useful to you if that doesn't fit
into your daily life.
You'll end the 31 days and then go right back to not drawing so often, because you
don't have to anymore.
It would make a lot more sense to use the challenge to see how much drawing you can
fit into your daily life, to start a habit that you can follow through with even when
inktober is over.
I don't think inktober is about forcing yourself to draw every day at all, I don't
even think you have to end the month with 31-drawings.
The guidelines on Jake Parker's website even give ideas of doing the half marathon
route where you post every other day, or the 5k where you post once a week.
They key, again, is consistency and commitment.
So if there's something you're doing and you're wondering if it counts, if you're
cheating, all I can say is try to focus more on what you're achieving.
Anyway, that's all for today.
Happy day 3 and I'll see you tomorrow for the next one.
Bye!
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