Anyone can do the Inktober house competition...

Just pick up a black pen and start drawing!

The Inktober competition follows the prompts that have been released for the official Inktober 2024 event. You can find out more about the official event here.

How it works:

Make a drawing in black ink on the white squared paper provided in response to the prompts for each day

Use your fine line pen or any other black ink pen to do your drawing. You can do a pencil 'under-drawing' if you want. There is a new prompt to inspire you for every day in October.

Place your work in the 'hand-in' tray each day

There will be a submission box and display boards at the entrance to school. Place your entries into the box so they can be mounted on the display.

Repeat for all of the 31 prompts throughout October

You get 1 point for your house for every prompt that you complete a drawing for. You can get double points if you complete all 31!

10 drawings earns you a TRY for your house.

Full Inktober house competition RULES

Only use the paper provided

Use any black pen

Your work must be on the square paper provided ONLY. This will be provided by the beauclerc house captains.
Your work must be in ink (any black pen)
Write on the back of your drawing your NAME, FORM, HOUSE and PROMPT WORD

Eg. Dave, 5G, Webb Ellis, Fire.

You can draw digitally, but you must print it in the correct size 120mm x 120mm
Place your work in the tray at the prep school entrance to hand it in.
Every entry receives 1 point.
If you complete all 31 drawings, you get double points!
10 drawings earns you a TRY for your house.

VERY IMPORTANT 👆You must write your name, form, house and prompt word on the back

You can draw on Procreate but then you need to print it the corract size - 120mm x 120mm

Hand in your work to the tray at prep entrance

1 drawing = 1 point

31 drawings = 62 points

10 drawings = 1 try

Tips for sucess:

Research each 'prompt word' before you start sketching so that you fully understand the word and to gather ideas but do not copy!
To help make your work good, focus on adding detail using a range of pen thickness but stick to Black Ink only. (some of you may add grey for shadow detail)
Make your work a uniform size (the same size paper each time) only use the paper provided by the Beauclerc house captains

Learn more...

There are some inking tutorials on the official Inktober website if you want to develop you skills and even more videos on Youtube. Press the links below to find them.

How to Ink

You Tube Tutorials