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About Inktober
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Ends: Oct 31, 2025
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Inktober is an annual event that encourages artists worldwide to engage in the art of drawing with ink during October. Jake Parker initiated the event in 2009 to improve his inking skills and drawing habits. It has since gone global, with thousands of artists participating annually.
The year's topics post on September 1, and the rules of Inktober are straightforward:
1. Make a drawing in ink.
2. Post it online on any social media platform, blog, or website.
3. Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2023 (or whatever the current year is).
4. Repeat this every day of October.
Topics for ink drawings change daily throughout the month. Each is a single word that participants can interpret however they like.
Inktober helps artists to develop positive drawing habits, improve their inking skills, and create a body of work. It also fosters community as artists share their work, engage with each other, and gain exposure.
THE INKTOBER COPYRIGHT AND PLAGIARISM SCANDALS
In 2017, due to a scandal surrounding the trademarking of the name Inktober by Parker and the artwork produced by participants in the month, the month fell out of favor with artists. Artists started receiving cease and desist letters dating back to 2013 using "Inktober" in the title of their works for sale. The legal team behind the strategy sought to retroactively "clear the market" for Parker's upcoming art instruction book—Inktober All Year Long, due for release in 2020. The artists targeted took it as a legal shakedown, as the letters asked for compensation for their original artworks. Parker insists his lawyers acted overzealously, and Amazon and Etsy were responsible for the cease and desist letters that intimated compensation was owed him due to the new trademark. Ultimately, the trademark controversy alienated the art community, and by 2019 Inktober fell out of favor.
Then, Parker found himself roiled in a second scandal that year over his book when Youtuber and author of the "Pen and Ink Drawing, a Simple Guide," instructional drawing series, Alfonso Dunn, accused Parker of plagiarism after seeing that a number of the drawings in his books were suspiciously similar to his own. Parker's book followed his using parallel presentations, layouts, and descriptions, as well as similar images, to teach artists to draw in ink, which is highly unusual as each artist has his or her creative process and style. Dunn posted his suspicions and examples on social media, and the global artist community quickly engaged, becoming amateur sleuths and testing the thesis. Social media exploded with examples and tutorials arguing for and against plagiarism. Ultimately, the publisher pulled the book from its 2020 release, and Deviant Art pulled out of hosting the awards.
As of this writing, Parker's book has yet to be published. In 2023, the event is coming back with new partners and a professional PR firm behind the event.
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