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Bookish Drawing Prompts for Inktober 2018

Want to show off your artistic skills and participate in this year's Inktober? Why not try these bookish prompts.

Patricia Elzie-Tuttle

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Patricia Elzie-Tuttle is a writer, podcaster, librarian, and information fanatic who appreciates potatoes in every single one of their beautiful iterations. Patricia earned a B.A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern California and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice, essays, and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. She is also doing the same on the Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice Podcast. More of her written work can also be found in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia has been a Book Riot contributor since 2016 and is currently co-host of the All the Books! podcast and one of the weekly writers of the Read This Book newsletter. She lives in Oakland, CA on unceded Ohlone land with her wife and a positively alarming amount of books. Find her on her Instagram, Bluesky, and LinkTree.

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Sep 7, 2018

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Inktober is almost upon us. What is Inktober, you ask? Inktober is an art event that happens online every October: 31 drawings, in ink, in 31 days. The idea is to grow and improve as an artist. Once you have your daily drawing, post it online with the hashtags #inktober and #inktober2018. You can see the official 2018 prompt list here, but we thought it would be fun to make some bookish prompts for those of our readers who are also artists, or just want to have a little extra fun during October.

Even if you decide to not take part, it’s such a fun hashtag to follow and a great way to discover new artists. Check out comic cover artist Kevin Wada’s rendition of Karolina Dean from Runaways during last year’s Inktober:

Karolina for @kristaferanka. Also it’s for #inktober. It’s for a lot of things. ✌🏽

A post shared by Kevin Wada (@kevinwada) on Oct 18, 2017 at 9:26am PDT

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