Drawing with Pen&Ink

Inktober is a global art challenge launched in 2009 by illustrator Jake Parker. Every October, artists create an ink drawing every day for 31 days to practise their skills or try out new techniques. The campaign went viral and is now used by thousands of artists internationally. After years of working digitally, I wanted to draw more traditionally again, so I decided to take part in the challenge in 2021.

To this end, I studied scenes by Hieronymus Bosch, as well as the way landscapes were placed upright on top of each other in medieval triptychs. 
In the end, I came up with a plan that would result in a very narrow, tall-format puzzle.



So every day I drew a small picture that told a story in itself, and at the same time, at the end, many individual pictures came together to form a large panorama. This panorama grew more and more over the course of the month, and seeing how the picture was created was an incentive and motivation. At the same time, I shared the ongoing progress on Instagram, where (in the square grid at the time) the picture was also taking shape.



At the end of the month, I digitally assembled all the individual parts and was able to have the image printed as a whole as a giclée print.