InkTober and Drawlloween!
Call us slow on the draw (ha! Draw! Get it?), but there are not one, but two really cool web-wide Halloween-themed art challenges happening right now, and it’s still early enough to get in on them – #InkTober and #Drawlloween! Basic info below, but click on the linked names for additional information and whatnot.
From InkTober.com:
31 Days 31 Drawings
Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month. I created InkTober in 2009 as a challenge to improve my inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.
Anyone can do InkTober, just pick up a pen and start drawing.
- Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).
- Post it on your blog (or tumblr, instagram, twitter, facebook, flickr, Pinterest or just pin it on your wall.)
- Hashtag it with #inktober
- Repeat
Note: you can do it daily, or go the half-marathon route and post every other day, or just do the 5K and post once a week. What ever you decide, just be consistent with it. INKtober is about growing and improving and forming positive habits, so the more you’re consistent the better.
That’s it! Now go make something beautiful.
From Kevin Luong
Drawlloween started off as the “October Halloween Drawing Challenge”, a daily, topic-based challenge used to promote productivity as well as strengthen skills through consistency, and concept development based on working within/pushing and expanding upon boundaries. The challenge was introduced and started by Thirteen Paradox Design on the Mintees message boards in 2012. I enjoyed the challenge so much, that when I noticed that Thirteen Paradox Design didn’t start up the challenge again in 2013, I took the opportunity to keep it going. My brother Brian helped me sort out last year’s and this year’s topic lists.
The challenge was named “Drawlloween”, chosen due to the absence of matching hashtags in social medial, during the beginning of the second annual challenge in 2013. During this time, we were unaware of another daily drawing challenge with the same name (however, a different approach), which was created in 2012 by Brian Soria, but sparingly documented. The Drawlloween you are referring to is unaffiliated with Brian’s particular “Drawlloween”.
From Drawlloween.com
31 Creatures, 31 Days
Drawlloween is a concept I came up with a few years ago in which I wanted to draw a monster a day for the month of October. I will say Inktober probably outdates Drawlloween, but I swear I did not model it after Jake Parker’s initiative. It was inspired by Jonathan Coulton’s “Thing A Week”. (Found my first posting on my old blog here)
Regardless, #Drawlloween is about drawing creepy, spooky, weird things all month long. Tell your friends, and spread the word!
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Sinister Sonics
I thought we’d mix it up a little bit today and offer something from this century. Sinister Sonics started out as a side project of dark artist, designer and entrepreneur Chad Savage in 2003. The Challenge: Create some sound loops that (a) would create a genuinely creepy atmosphere in a haunted house, (b) looped seamlessly and were long enough not to get repetitive, and (c) didn’t utilize the same 20 sound effects that every haunted house/Halloween tape/CD had been using for the preceding 3 decades.
Sinister Sonics are audio collages that pull from a variety of sources: Sound FX, movies, TV, music, you name it. You might recognize something, but most of it has been mutated and twisted out of true (as much to avoid copyright infringement lawsuits as anything else!).
Each track is designed to work as a self-sustaining loop that can be used in a room at a haunted house or Hallowe’en party. They can also be played end-to-end to create a sort of audio journey through a nightmare soundscape.
Download and use them as you like – haunt your house, your party, your neighbors, whatever!
Click the 
button in the SoundCloud box to download the files!
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A companion piece to yesterday’s post Haunted House, Haunted House Music Co’s “Night in a Graveyard: Recorded Live on the Estate of Castle Dracula” continues your oddly-retro-even-though-it-was-1985 sound story as you walk through a windy, haunted cemetery. This is another October favorite around the pumpkin patch and might easily have been released on the same album as Haunted House.
SoundCloud.com incorrectly flagged the final track “Midnight Music” as belonging to another band, so it’s missing here, but you can still download the entire album from the Mostly Ghostly Music Sharing BLAAAHHGGG!!! HERE.
Special thanks again to Scar Stuff and the Mostly Ghostly Music Sharing BLAAAHHGGG!!! for the images and information!
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Please Note: This album is offered under the belief that it is (a) not legally for sale anywhere by its creators and (b) the copyrights to it have effectively expired. If you have knowledge to the contrary, please contact us and let us know!
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