Welcome to Inktober 2025
It’s October, the beginning of the season of “mists and mellow fruitfulness”, and also, traditionally, the beginning of Inktober.
This is a project started in 2009 to encourage and improve inking skills and develop good drawing habits. The idea is simple - for every day of October you create a simple image in ink (nothing digital!) based on a one-word prompt and then share this to your social media account of choice with the hashtags #inktober and #inktober2025.
Rivals
And previously in Inktober 2025…
Long-time followers of our blog will remember I attempted this some years ago . This work was on shared on Twitter, which we’ve long since ceased to use, so any existing links there won’t work now. However, this year, both of us at Drawnalism will be doing Inktober, drawing on alternating days and sharing the artwork on this page, and to our personal BlueSky and LinkedIn accounts.
Tools of the trade
At Drawnalism, we’ve been working primarily digitally for many years, and prior to that, working with marker pens, but we started life as cartoonists drawing with traditional pen and ink tools - my personal preference, the Gillott 1290 dip-nib along with Indian ink. We remember these nibs fondly (although perhaps less to the indelible mess they can create), and have reflected this in our tiered pricing structure of Copper, Steel and Gold nibs.
And Drawnalism
You may remember that we specialise in helping organisations capture ideas and conversations in real time, bringing clarity to events, projects and making information accessible.
We've had the pleasure of supporting clients at various many conferences since we started life in 2009.
We’ve developed our services too, so we can support you online or in person at conferences, meetings and events.
Each and every project is tailored to the needs of the client. You can learn more about this here: https://drawnalism.com/overview.