My Third Inktober: 31 Days of Ink, Imagination & Discovery
This year, I decided to take part once again in the famous Inktober challenge, held every October and created in 2009 by artist Jake Parker. I first joined in 2023, returned in 2025, and now, for the third time, I am challenging myself to create a new ink drawing every day, guided only by the daily prompt.
Explore my Inktober 2025 Recap →
For me, Inktober is much more than a daily drawing challenge: it brings discipline, helps me develop my gel pen and ink drawing technique, keeps my imagination moving, and may even reveal new artistic directions. As always, I deliberately avoid looking at the full prompt list in advance—I prefer to discover each theme on the day and see where my imagination takes me.
I work on a small format and usually spend between 1-3 hours on each sketch. I see these drawings as spontaneous visual experiments rather than finished artworks—a chance to explore an idea without the pressure of getting every line and shape perfect. When I work on a larger piece, I become much more meticulous and invest far more time, precision into every detail. With Inktober, I can simply let the line flow, play with an idea and see where it takes me—and sometimes, a spontaneous sketch becomes the first spark for something much bigger.
Inktober 2026: Days 1–4 — Apple | Relic | Miniature | Cactus
Day 1. #Apple 🪱🍎 – The first day of the challenge! I created this apple drawing in my studio, where I had a little more time to work on the piece. Besides the gel pen, I also used ink for the black part of the apple on the right. It’s an apple that is being peeled from the bottom, while the worm looks panicked because it is no longer in its comfort zone.
Day 2. #Relic – The idea of a relic immediately brought to my mind an old wooden chest, the kind that opens with a key and seems to hold stories from another time. For me, the idea of inheritance took on a more imaginative meaning. I pictured a cat with nine lives, surrounded by human skulls from different generations of the same family — as if the cat itself were a living relic, carrying memories and stories through time.
Day 3. #Miniature – For this Inktober drawing, I explored the idea of the cycle of life and the emergence of human life from a microscopic universe. A new life begins in a parallel world — a life that starts at an almost invisible scale, emerging from a miniature. I enjoy using symbols in my art, and in this piece I imagined a universe filled with constellations, the Moon, and the energies of the feminine and masculine.
Day 4. #Cactus 🌵 – Here, my imagination became a little more playful. The word Cactus made me imagine a macho cactus in a flower pot — a hot Latin American cowboy with a hat, sunglasses, self-confident and a mysterious attitude, his hair blowing in the wind. But don’t get too close… he also has some seriously long spines. His love might just burn! 😂
*Many of these original drawings are or will be available for purchase.
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