So I want to try practicing with quantity over quality for a bit. September and August were dedicated toward spending time to practice every stage of the process to I could get better at rendering

But this time I want to mostly focus on getting sketches out, and try rendering in a black-and-white style (on the tan paper background. I really like that aesthetic)

I understand that Inktober is intended to ink a drawing every day, but there really isn't an "inking" stage to digital art. The closest you can get is lineart

That's not what I'll be doing. Instaed, I want to do something a little different:
* sketch to the prompt for every day. If life/work makes me miss a day, I will continue the prompts in order without skipping, even if I have to finish in November
* No working ahead. I can work to catch up on missed sketches if I have the time, but I can't work past the prompt for the current day
* I am going to do my best to limit myself to 1 hour. I hate disrupting the flow state, but I'm kinda sick of spending 4 hours making a sketch. I want to get better at just getting my ideas onto the canvas more efficiently. That is the point of this exercise for me
* I am allowing myself to erase during the sketching stage and the thumbnailing stage, but I am restricting myself to one layer, trying to stay true to traditional artwork
* Once all 31 prompts have sketches, I will select 10 (or more) to take to the next stage. This will be a mix of my favorites and the ones that got the most favorites when posted
* I will make a journal with the 10 selected and the order they will be worked on
* The 10 selected to continue will get an "inked render". What this means is that I will put one layer on top of the sketch, solid black G-Pen brush, no erase, no undo, one layer, no transformation tools. Once a line goes down, it stays. Only exception is when Clip studio freaks out and puts a random line down I didn't draw (it happens sometimes). I will have to use line weight variation and hatching to depict shading (this used to be my traditional art style, but I've never tried it digitally, so I hope it works out).
* it may take more than 1 day to do an inked render. I won't be rushing myself on this, but I'll aim to be efficient (since I don't have undo. I won't post WIPs during the inking process, only showing the render once it's finished. I will create a new Inktober folder in my gallery that will include both the sketches and inks. They will still be named differently than my usual "(date) [title]" format in order to be better searchable in the future if I want to look back or participate again in future years
* After all 10 of them are "inked", if there are any that I simply adore, I will let myself try a full lineless render. I'm not committing to a specific number for these. I just think it'll be fun to compare the drawing in to styles if there's any I actually like at the end.
* After all the sketches for the prompts are finished, I'll allow myself to take breaks if I get inspired, but I really want to stick to the 10 inks

I'll post a sample of one of my favorite inked renders I did on the back of my calculus notes between classes during college. I hope I'll be able to recreate the style. It'll go into my scraps folder before the end of the month (gotta figure out which bucket I stored that drawing in)

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Prompts & Brief Summary for each. If you are unsure which character I'm referencing, please check my main gallery for art I've ordered in the past of them. Usually I explain characters that don't have art yet in descriptions of their ref sheets.   Ask_Derpy_Cat1 . Feel free to ask about specific lore if a prompt intrigues you. Happy to share what I've got in my head, since I doubt I'll do many of them justice (this will be my first experience with drawing landscapes)

1. Backpack - Aurora packing for a quest
2. Discover - Stormy finding a magic temple ruin
3. Boots - Low angle shot of a captured Stormy viewed between the boots of the capturer
4. Exotic - “exotic dancing” of a luxury fur. Maybe tethered to the stage or pole to show the lore
5. Binoculars - Aurora using them to look into the distance (toward the viewer)
6. Trek - Stormy approaching a magicpunk tree while crossing "The Scar"
7. Passport - stormy undercover using paperwork to get into the human city
8. Hike - Aurora with her backpack hiking up a mountain trail
9. Sun - one of our girls traveling through the desert. Either from a bazaar or toward a ruins. Or both if I'm feeling ballsy
10. Nomadic - stormy and a Bear shaman walking together in the mountains
11. Snacks - Rora (and Sylva?) on a snack break during the quest, eating junk food from Otherworld
12. Remote - main Orycal cave and Orion overlooking the viewer
13 Horizon - maybe a scene of “The Scar” as seen from the temple ruins in prompt 2
14. Roam - Stormy “roaming” around a Springvale market
15. Guidebook - Back in the Orycal cave from 12, focusing on a celestial map where Orion was in the first piece
16 Grungy - encounter between Stormy and an ally who uses the sewers as a hideout
17. Journal - Stormy writing in one at a table by the candlelight. Inside a typical tavern's rented room
18. Drive - Dusk and her motorcycle
19. Ridge - Stormy overlooking a cliff
20. Uncharted - pirate Rora
21. Rhinoceros - Rora vs rhino guard
22. Camp - one of the girls by a campfire. Maybe in a hammock
23. Rust - Stormy’s magic rusting armor on a guard
24. Expedition - Rora (and Sylvie) getting ready to enter the underground ruins of some ancient structure
25. Scarecrow - Rora practicing her swordplay against a scarecrow
26. Camera - Rora brought a Polaroid camera into the mirror. Shes using it to take a picture of a defeated foe
27. Road - stormy and/or Rora about to ambush a slaver caravan
28. Jumbo - Stormy’s magic avatar (or Werewolf Stormy. TBD)
29. Navigator - Rora going one way while Sylvie and the map go another
30. Violin - Sylvie playing it in the tavern by the mantle
31. Landmark - Stormy approaching a sacred tree