Build your commercial illustration portfolio with Inktober 2024. I brainstormed every illustration prompt from this year’s Inktober challenge, and turned most of them into project ideas for your illustration portfolio.
In case you’re wondering, i cut the music from most of the video so you can watch at faster speeds if you want without it sounding weird – i do a lot of thinking in this video, so feel free to go x2
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00:00 Inktober 2024
01:24 Backpack
05:25 Discover
09:46 Boots
13:18 Exotic
16:09 Binoculars
19:21 Trek
20:40 Passport
22:58 Hike
24:56 Sun
28:12 Nomadic
29:46 Snack
30:42 Remote
33:00 Horizon
35:06 Roam
36:12 Guidebook
38:12 Grungy
38:48 Journal
40:11 Drive
41:27 Ridge
42:45 Uncharted
44:08 Rhinoceros
46:08 Camp
48:52 Rust
49:43 Expedition
50:38 Scarecrow
51:35 Camera
54:33 Road
56:35 Jumbo
57:26 Navigator
58:21 Violin
01:00:12 Landmark
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Personally, I've heard a lot of complaining about the prompts, but I see them as a door to imagination. You'd don't need to see them as literal. Take backpack for instance… When I w the first prompt, the song "He ain't heavy, He's my brother" came to mind and I thought of someone carrying someone else upon their back… maybe a soldier carrying an injured soldier. Something like that.
ooh this will be the first time ever i'm going to try inktober!! i hope i can get a lot of the prompts done but i get easily distracted.
Omgggg James you are a freaking genius 😅 I started to sketch the peachtober, and I feel pretty bad because I was doing it for fun. But if I can match every prompt with a client at the end of October I’m going to have 31 projects or all the ones I’m able to create ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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Love this spontaneous brainstorming! What a great way to improve the English language skills too. I’ll be doing this with my ESL friends, we’ll take turns and see what comes up :)
😂 This anecdote about your grandparents spying on cars passing on their street killed me, thank you. I hope some illustrators will turns it on greats coverbook
Violin also makes me think of the spider that has the violin shape on it as an identifying mark, brown recluse maybe? but it's what separates it from its 'similar but non poisonous arachnid. (That would put it into the same travel / exploration/ hiking vibe!)
Oh man I get all different ideas, as an African in Africa. Your ideas sound so weird to me LOL.
I really liked what I saw in the video, I saved it to keep watching it. Thanks from a Colombian drawer!!!