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Inktober 2025
All done for another year.
32 works • 2025-09-30 – 2025-10-31
2025 prompts
The official prompt list from Inktober.com.
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Day 1 / Moustache
“Don’t be silly, Darling!” (General Melchett a.k.a.
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Day 2 / Weave
Darn it... I’m no stranger to my own sock darning; the big toe is always trying to break loose.
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Day 3 / "Crown" Imperial
You remember the days when people venerated teeth above all?
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Day 4 / Murky
The murky world of Internet advertising.
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Day 5 / Deer
A frame from the Everything Goes My Way video (Metronomy).
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Day 6 / Pierce
Non-topical for October but the opening lines of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales depicted: When April with his showers sweet, The drought of March hath pierced to the root.
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Day 7 / Starfish
When I’ve been combing rock pools recently I’ve barely seen any life, never mind a starfish.
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Day 8 / Reckless
Don’t try this at home, kids.
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Day 9 / Heavy
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Day 10 / Sweep
Supermarket Sweep, rest in peace Dale.
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Day 11 / Sting
Some kind of operation going down here.
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Day 12 / Shredded
I had this idea and then realised Banksy got here first...
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Day 13 / Drink(!)
Difficult to think of anything else really.
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Day 14 / Trunk / “Truncated”
A.k.a. Sycamore Gap gap.
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Day 15 / Ragged
Of course, it’s the larvae of the moth that actually do the munching.
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Day 16 / Blunder / Bus Blunder
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Day 17 / Ornate
We have a trill, acciaccatura, mordent, turn (gruppetto) and a pause (technically not an ornament, more of a aesthetic requirement).
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Day 18 / Deal
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Day 19 / Arctic / ”Catharctic”
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Day 20 / Rivals
A late night entry to the Inktober ball — inspired by a popular chocolate brand.
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Day 21 / Blast
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Day 22 / Button
This makes sense in the context of the previous day (otherwise not at all!).
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Day 23 / Firefly
An increasingly rare species of firefly.
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Day 24 / Rowdy
Had to trawl through a lot of CCTV footage for this one.
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Day 25 / Inferno
In the Prelude to Hell of Dante’s Inferno, Dante is driven down to hell by three beasts symbolising weakness of will, violence and fraudulence.
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Day 26 / Puzzling
Autobiographical
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Day 27 / Onion / Onion skin model for cutting onions
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Day 28 / Skeletal
Just a bunch of skellingtons hanging out down the beach
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Day 29 / Lesson
I recently have been learning more about roof construction than I ever wanted to know.
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Day 30 / Vacant / St. Peter’s Seminary
I visited in 2014 and did some sketches at the time, though nothing as intricate.
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Day 31 / Award
Fairly sure I completed every day on time.
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