Inktober52 - 2026- One Sketch a Week

[yazeh]

Inktober 52 -2026

This year Inktober went through a few hiccups and was slow to begin. 

 

Prompts are posted once a week, every Thursday.

Feel free to join in, whether you sketch, doodle, or experiment, everyone’s welcome. 

 

Use your many Ink bottles/samples in a creative manner and use your forgotten pens. 

 

 

 

 

[yazeh]

Week 1 & Week 2 was Free Time. Here are a few sketches: 

 

Coucou!

I love revisiting draft sketches and turning them into something whimsical.

 

Octopus Write & Draw Orange Skunk, Tintenlabor Basalt (black), Tannenwald (dark green), Noodler's General of the Armies (blue-green), Hosia Ink Studio An Nang.

 

Here is another piece done for an ink review: 

 

Where Does the Wind Begin?

 

Inspired by a poem by the Vietnamese poet Xuân Quỳnh and the Citadel of Thăng Long .

 

Mouse immortalized his beloved Cat on the wall by surreptitiously moving the lichen about.

 

 

Hosia Ink Studio, An Nang fountain pen ink, Talens Mixed Media Notebook.

 

 

 

INKTOBER52 PROMPT NO.3: Glide

 

Sailor Manyo Ukikusa, Uniball Signo White, Tintenlabor Tannenwald, Talens Mixed Media Sketchbook.

[catbert]

I spent my Inktober 'free time' colouring in some late 2024 prompts that were more than usually unfinished — a strangely soothing exercise.

 

Anyway, here's the first new Pig and Wolf of 2026.

 

03 glide

 

Pilot Kakuno/R&K Lotte, Atoma, digital colour

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, catbert said:

I spent my Inktober 'free time' colouring in some late 2024 prompts that were more than usually unfinished — a strangely soothing exercise.

It's fun to take time and review old works and make them work.  

[catbert]

8 minutes ago, yazeh said:

It's fun to take time and review old works and make them work.  

It really is.

 

I was tempted to use one for 'glide', but a completely digital reworking of a pencil sketch for 2024 Inktober52 prompt 41 'nomadic' didn't quite seem in the spirit of Inktober. (I'll put them all on Deviant Art to satisfy the inner completist.)

 

 

 

 

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, catbert said:

It really is.

 

I was tempted to use one for 'glide', but a completely digital reworking of a pencil sketch for 2024 Inktober52 prompt 41 'nomadic' didn't quite seem in the spirit of Inktober. (I'll put them all on Deviant Art to satisfy the inner completist.)

Lovely resuscitation.

Part of me is still battling between traditional and digital art. If I were a professional, I would probably embrace it. 

It's ironic as I would never write a first draft with a fountain pen. And while I enjoyed all types of music, at one point I got disillusioned (to be polite or measured  ) at a contemporary classical music concert, where a huge console was needed to create the most atrocious sounds emitted by a violin to satisfy the ego and whims of a composer. 

Then if one is a true artist, one's art shouldn't depend on the medium.  And you've proven it regularly.

 

[catbert]

@yazeh Thank you! Too kind. 🙏
 
Digital has its place but I think I will always prefer to start with ink on paper. 

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, catbert said:

@yazeh Thank you! Too kind. 🙏

Noblesse oblige or as Dom Lobo would've said: "A nobreza obriga."  🐺

 

2 hours ago, catbert said:

Digital has its place but I think I will always prefer to start with ink on paper. 

Me too! I should make it habit to start drawing with a pencil though.  

[yazeh]

Where the brush reveals the heart

INKTOBER52: PROMPT 3: GLIDE

Inspired by Sailor Shikiori Sasabune, "Bamboo boat" and Japanese artistry. 

Sailor Shikiori Sasabune, Lamy Safari, Talens Square Sketchbook.

 

[inkstainedruth]

OOOOOH!  Love this one!  The green ink works very well for the piece. 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

OOOOOH!  Love this one!  The green ink works very well for the piece. 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Thanks. It's fun exploring/ experiencing with ink. But so much more difficult that watercolor.

 

[yazeh]

Take 3

 

For Watching the Moon!

 

INKTOBER52: PROMPT 3: GLIDE

 

Title was inspired by a poem by Matsuo Bashō. 

 

“Planting bamboo —
it becomes a garden
for watching the moon.”

 

Sailor Shikiori Sasabune, Lamy Safari, Fabriano Watercolor paper. 

[inkstainedruth]

Nice!

And the haiku you quoted is lovely!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Nice!

🙏 

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

And the haiku you quoted is lovely!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Isn't it? I came upon it by chance.

 

[inkstainedruth]

That's often the best way to get inspiration!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

On 1/20/2026 at 9:49 PM, inkstainedruth said:

That's often the best way to get inspiration!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[yazeh]

Hello Inkers!

Hope you’ve had a beautifully art-full week wherever you are. Over here in Virginia, USA, we’re prepping for a storm. I’ve overheard snippets of conversations over the last day or two but it wasn’t until I heard the school receptionist reference “the blizzard of 1996” in a comment to her coworker (that I was totally eavesdropping on,) that I started to get that oh-dear feeling. Apparently, there’s a gully-whopper headed our way and since our county doesn’t plow the roads, this place is about to come to a standstill for a week or more. Being an emergency-preparedness junkie, I’m like a giant squirrel, making sure our nest is ready and full of snacks. My teenagers, who are anticipating a those snow-days off school, are preparing very differently. While I’m making sure the cars have gas, and the gutters are cleaned, they’ve got a full list of movies and piles of craft supplies on stand-by. 

Even though I don’t love the face-stinging temperatures we’re headed for, I have to say I’m fully stoked for a few days filled with soup and sweatpants and fireplace smore’s and of course lots and lots of drawing (them, not me) in our cozy home. I hope it stays cozy for all of us. I hope the medical professionals and firefighters and linemen and all those other helpful souls stay safe and can find moments of cozy while they keep us all going. So, show us what cozy looks like to you. It might be a Lord of the Rings movie marathon in your Cookie Monster onsie or maybe you’ll be sipping cocoa while happily creating a masterpiece to gift to a friend. Whatever it means to you, I can’t wait to see what you do!

[knarflj]

Oh gosh, I remember that blizzard of 1996--back when we were on the east coast.  LOTS of snow (at least by the standards of the mid-Atlantic states)! 

 

Looking forward to all the "cozy" drawings.  Not too much snow here, but plenty of cold (at least by Michigan standards).

[yazeh]

5 hours ago, knarflj said:

Oh gosh, I remember that blizzard of 1996--back when we were on the east coast.  LOTS of snow (at least by the standards of the mid-Atlantic states)! 

I prefer snow to ice. And cold weather to heat waves.

 

5 hours ago, knarflj said:

Looking forward to all the "cozy" drawings.  Not too much snow here, but plenty of cold (at least by Michigan standards).

We'll be having that too this weekend. Lovely frigid weather. I'm looking forward to draw some cozy drawings too. Nothing better to beat the blues away.

 

[catbert]

04 cozy

 

Pilot Kakuno/Platinum carbon black, Atoma, digital colour