Happy Thursday, Inkineers-

We’re so close to Go-time for Inktober! I hope the Inktober52 challenge has helped to keep you in fighting form.

We’re up to our eyeballs in happenings over here in Inktoberland; all of it good in some way or another but even with a plethora of good things, they all come with extra effort, work, stress, and management. I find the best way to shake off a rough or exhausting day is to crank up the tunes in the kitchen and have a dinner-making DANCE party. We do this a lot in the Parker house, somebody is cutting veggies, somebody else is stirring the rice, and somebody (ok fine, it’s usually me) is dusting off those amazing dance moves that made us all look so cool in the 80’s and 90’s. Of course the teenagers are never embarrassed or horrified as The Running Man and I are proving who’s still got it while MC Hammer reminds us not to touch this. You can’t keep having a bad day with Vanilla Ice or Run-D.M.C., it would just be too tricky.

For our prompt this week, show us what DANCE inspires for you, and for bonus points, maybe share a video of your own dinner-time dance party as you get jiggy with it. It’s guaranteed to lift your spirits.

Wishing you all the boogie-down best,

-Alison

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3. Submissions must be based on the given prompt, but either traditional or digital mediums are welcome.

Happy Thursday, Inkstigaters-

Hope your day is going well and you’re ready for the inking-sprint (Inktober) in just 2 weeks!

Two more prompts for Inktober52 before the craziness starts and this week, we want to see what you’re made of. It might mean being brave, plated, the edge of a book, or the actual backbone of an animal, but whether you lean realistic or representational, show us your best SPINE.

Best of luck and happy inking!

-Alison

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Rules:

1. Please remember to be kind. All skill levels are welcome here.
2. AI art is not allowed.
3. Submissions must be based on the given prompt, but either traditional or digital mediums are welcome.

Happy Thursday, Ink slingers-

I hope you’re all getting warmed up for traditional Inktober, coming in only 21 days! Thank you for all your wonky art last week, and a special thanks to all of you who exercised the patience of a communion of saints as you kindly explained 437 times in the comments on social media what Inktober52 is all about. Our Inktoberers are awesome (and I’m coming to realize the 52ers are extraordinary.) Thank you for making this community so helpful and supportive, especially for all the new and unsure artists.

This week, I’m remembering that time I was on a field trip for 8th grade choir and as I found myself sitting in a hotel hallway late at night, surrounded by a horde of giggling 13-year old girls, I came to the unsettling realization that my family was not like everyone else’s. Our packing list for the 3 day trip had included “games for down time” and I was excited because somehow I’d ended up in a small group of really nice girls. There I was, rocking a new home-perm, with more braces than teeth in my mouth, and hoping to make a new friend. One of the girls pulled out a set of dice and suggested some game I can’t remember and a hush fell over the group. “Oh, we don’t play with those”, came quietly from a girl with an oversized neon-pink smiley face t-shirt. “Yeah,” said another girl, “dice and cards are so bad.” I sat there in our collective cloud of Aquanet hairspray and Debbie Gibbson’s Electric Youth and reconsidered the face cards and m&m’s I’d brought for a round or two of candy poker. I come from a long line of non-gambling, sometimes-cheating, card-flinging, game-playing women. We had ALWAYS played card games and dice games and my mom could shuffle and deal like she was born in Vegas! Family reunions, camping trips, rainy Sunday afternoons: we played these (shocking) games. And you know what? New friends are overrated.

For this week, if your upbringing was as edgy as mine, show me what DICE brings to your pen. And if you’re playing games together later, deal me in.

Best of luck!

-Alison

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To participate, please create a separate post for your submission, and a moderator will add it to the weekly prompt post.

Rules:

1. Please remember to be kind. All skill levels are welcome here.
2. AI art is not allowed.
3. Submissions must be based on the given prompt, but either traditional or digital mediums are welcome.

01 - N/A
02 - N/A
03 - Glide
04 - Cozy
05 - Crunch
06 - Granny
07 - Trapped
08 - Pretend
09 - Horse
10 - Lift
11 - Bloom
12 - Covered
13 - Window
14 - Sniff
15 - Hoop
16 - Critter
17 - Greasy
18 - Airplane
19 - Posture
20 - Proud
21 - Bald
22 - Bedraggled
23 - Flip
24 - Beach
25 - Father
26 - Wind
27 - Mangled
28 - Bug
29 - Elegant
30 - Wagon
31 - Simple
32 - Banjo
33 - Dive
34 - Goldfish
35 - Cinch
36 - Wonky
37 - Dice
38 - Spine
39 - Dance

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