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How Inktober became Cattober

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Guess, what was my subject this year! Inktober 2024 was cats and ink only. This is how Inktober became Cattober. The Cat-tree has also find space and time to bloom. But let’s see it step by step.

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I used for this challenge a mini sketchbook 4.5×6.5 cm of 50 pages with a cover in grey cardboard.

What is Inktober?

Inktober is the international art challenge that connects a lot of illustrators around the world. 31 days, 31 prompts, paper and ink. These are the official prompts of 2024:

Jake Parker, the concept illustrator of cartoons “Rio”, “Ice age” etc, created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavour with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year. Any artist can use the own prompt list instead of the “official” one.

Out of prompts

No comments, just illustrations. These are the subject off topic of Inktober but regarding cats. Scroll with me all bonus illustrations for prompts and out of topic.

Cat-tree is back

It was impossble not to draw at least one cat-slower among cat illustrations.

No filter

Scroll with me all the illustrations for 31 prompts. The prompts are 31, but the illustrations are much more. Not every subject corresponded to my idea in the first version, so I created the other illustrations until I liked or somehow accepted it.

Which is your favourite one?

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Olimpic sketchbook Paris 2024

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Olimpic sketchbook Paris 2024 in progress

I believe that the best things happen by chance. This was the case with the Olimpic sketchbook Paris 2024.

Leggi in Italiano – Версия на русском языке

The sketchbook tells the moments and emotions of the opening ceremony of the 33rd Summer Olympic Games in the French capital through images.

Work in progress

In many ways a “plein air” in front of the TV is quite tricky. The framing is decided by the live broadcast, the time is limited and, aspecially, there is no possibility to stop and study how the subject is or simply to breath.

An important part of the ceremony took place after the sunset. The night sketching is rather challenging. Despite this, the fundamental steps of live sketching remain the same: observation, basic line sketch, tonal line, and colors or shadows. If you are very tired, you can make the steps 2 and 3 the day after. They are a sort of post-production in skethching.

Step by step

Basic line sketch. The most difficult part is to catch the essential lines and proportions of the subject and put them on paper.

Tonal drawing. The morning after. Watch here the sketches before and after i added the tonal lines:

Colours. The evening of the day after. If you do not like colours it’s anough to add shadows. this is the almost final version of the olimpic sketchbook.

Well, probabily I am still in time to add some lights and shadows.

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100 days of sumi-e ink

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This year my project is to start with sumi-e painting and make my travel sketches more essential and fresh. It will be 100 days of sumi-e ink.

Leggi in Italiano – Версия на русском языке

Some inspiration from the show dedicated to Japanese masters of engraving in Torino (Italy)

Sketches and engravings of Jappanese masters on show in Torino (Italy)

What is the 100 day project?

#The100DayProject is a free, global art project that takes place online. Every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of creating. Anyone can participate.

The idea is simple: choose a creative project, do it every single day for 100 days, and share your process on your social accounts using the hashtag #The100DayProject. In 2024 The 100 Day Project started 18^th February.

Headline of the 100 day project 2024

The seeds of The100DayProject began in 2008 at an artist retreat near Traverse City, Michigan. The 5-day retreat was co-lead by artists Louisa Barkalow and Ann Russ. Participants were invited to hang a simple piece of artwork they made each day on a piece of twine strung across a doorway at the retreat house. The purpose of this simple, warm-up exercise was to get the creative juices flowing.

In 2012, Ann Russ approached Tiina Harris, Director of the Marquette Arts & Culture Center (MACC) about having a 100 day project exhibit at the gallery there. In October 2013, an exhibit “The100DayProject: The Art of Practice and the Practice of Art” was installed in the MACC gallery and generated significant interest.

Since January 2014, 100 day projects have launched annually. Ann continues to support it as volunteer co-organizer. The 100DayProject has since spread beyond its Midwest roots and is now a global phenomenon.

The 100 day projects of the previous years I took part to

First strokes

The first very imperfect strokes with Japanese brush. My cats are always ready to help me.

Making order in thoughts and things

To get more essential in my art maybe I shall make an order in my life space.

making order before and after decluttering

Project in project

One week 100 people was the first occasion to use the new media in the sketching. The 100 people of this year are inspired to Japanese ink painting sumi-e. I tried to keep only the essential parts of every portrait.

Some ink and brush pen sketches for the project “One week 100 people 2024” by Urban sketchers group

Despite complicated internal situation I was back home to Moscow to sketch my native city. So it became Moscow urban sketching tour of 4-16 April when I tried to use the sumi-e srokes for city skethes.

Moscow (Russia) ink sketches in sumi-e sty;e

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Red Inktober 2023 sketchbook

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Take an Inktober 2022, turn to the back cover, reverse and start again! This is how Red Inktober 2023 sketchbook began.

31 days, 31 words. This is my 6th Inktober.

Inktober’s list

Inktober is a monthlong art challenge started by Jake Parker, one of the founders of SVSLearn. September 1st of each year Inktober prompts are posted. Artsts can also use their own lists.

Cover experience

Work in progress

Previously on Inktober…

In 2009, Jake Parker , American comics creator, concept artist, illustrator, and animator, started Inktober. The announcement was made on his blog. Parker originally started the challenge to motivate himself to improve his own inking skills. Since 2016, he posted a list of “prompts” for each day’s artwork. Artists are also known to plot out series of drawings on the same theme as part of the celebration. Participants have approached the challenge as an opportunity to practice and share their art, drawing in various art styles, and using a variety of media (the challenge originally was made only in fountain pen) . In October 2015, over 1 million Inktober drawings were posted on Instagram. I am in since 2018.

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cesenatico italy sketchbook 2023 Yulia A. Korneva

Seaside sketching 2023

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In 2023 I changed the destination of summer plein-air trip. Seaside sketching 2023 took place in Cesenatico, Ravenna and Cervia in Italy.

Русский – Italiano

…and the winner is…

This year we have chosen together the colour of the summer sketchbook thank to your vates on my social accounts. Anche the winner is… ORANGE!

Cover experience

Here we go with thecover of the seaside sketchbook 3×5 cm. As usual a selfportrait opens the “parade” of landscapes and live scenes from Cesenatico and Cervia. For real time updates watch my facebook and Instagram stories.

Memories

Other years, other seasons, the same place. Watch here the pages from the previous sketchbooks of Cesenatico and Cervia (Italy)

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Sketch in the shell

The shells with handmade seaskapes of Emilia Romagna (Italy) have been used for limited edition gfts for my friends and the most loyal collectors.

Work in progress

On the beach, in the city and at home, my mini sketchbook was with me everywhere. My cats also took parts in creative proccess.

Turn the page

Here we go with some of over 60 sketches made in August 2023.

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Inktober 2022 red sketchbook

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Inktober is the international art challenge that connects a lot of illustrators around the world. 31 days, 31 words, paper and ink. Inktober 2022 red sketchbook was born by the cut of the notebook in bigger size.

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Little red sketchbook of Inktober 2022 from unboxing to the cut

Inktober 2022 red sketchbook — Little red sketchbook of Inktober 2022 from unboxing to the cut

Treat or trick by Inktober 2022 sketchbook

The illustration dedicated to Halloween is the result of digital college of 2 ink drawings. One of them, the “Uh-oh” illustration was the most difficult to find the subject to draw of all the challenge.

Inktober 2022 & Co

Scroll al the illustrations of Inktober sketchbook 2022. The topics and bonus illustrations.

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Matite in viaggio 2022 Venice

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This year it’s 12th edition of Matite in viaggio 2022 Venice collective. As from tradition it is taking place at Candiani cultural centre.

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From 20th October to 6th November
21th October at 4 pm official opening ceremony.
Thursday and Friday 4 – 8 pm
Saturday and sunday 10 am – 1pm and 4 – 8 pm
Free entry

What is “Matite in viaggio”?

Matite in viaggio means “travelling pencils” in Italian. The cultural association “Matite in viaggio” aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.

Article 3 of the Association statute says “Visiting countries and places, meeting people and communities, understanding ancient and contemporary civilizations are the conditions under which “travel sketchbooks” can express the will and dream to identify with the freedom and dignity of all men”.

The project

The sketchbook on show this year has been created in autumn of 2021 in Moscow region (Russia). It is dedicated to birches in autumn transparent and warmed by the last fall sun.

Birch is one of the most common trees in Europe and north America . You will find it everywhere from USA to Italy and from Ukraine to Russia and Japan.

Work in progress from landscape sketches to the preparation of the sketchbook for shipping to Venice.

The show

Pictures from opening ceremony and from exhibition rooms of Matite in viaggio 2022.

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Bardonecchia beyond ski

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It’s summer and we are in Piedmont in Italy. We are far from the seaside. I am here to tell you Olimpic mountains and Bardonecchia beyond ski that is worth visiting.
I will use the language of forms and colours to tell you the green mountains, blue sky, fresh air and lingt walls of houses made of typical stone.

Версия на русском языке – Leggi in Italiano

Bardonecchia beyond ski. Sketchbook made with you

The sketchbook of Bardonecchia summer has been made with you throught the social posts live videos and messages. I used A4 sketchbook to cut it in smaller pages on sketches are completed

mini colours for mini sketchbook — ancient mirror

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Another Moscow beyond the Kremlin

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What do you imagine when one says “Moscow”? Probably you think about Kremlin, Red Square or St. Basil’s Cathedral… OK, that are the most famous places full of tourists. I will show you another Moscow beyond the Kremlin.

Версия на русском языке – Leggi in Italiano

From my window

Maybe it sounds strange, but most of the Muscovites does not see Kremlin from the window. An average Moscow landscape is something like this:

The ancient churches and cathedrals standing among the skyscrapers, active and dismantled factories and the high tension cables all around.

Dacha

Dacha is the name for a country house. It is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs. The noun “dacha”, coming from verb “davat” (to give), originally referred to land allotted by the tsar to his nobles; and indeed the dacha in Soviet times is similar to the allotment in some Western countries, normally free, to citizens by the local government for gardening or growing vegetables for personal consumption.
Since some time avery my journey to Russia I visit “dacha” of my family. In autumn the country landscapes are coloured by the red and yellow leaves of the trees.

Still-lifes

Usually you will see big and small plats with fruit or vegetables and more in the kitchens of muscovites. These place tell a lot about people who live in there. Here are some still-lifes drawn in different places..

Moscow City

It is one of the most recent and ambitious parts of Moscow. MIBC (Moscow International Business Center), also known as Moscow-City is situated about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) west of Red Square. Here you will find the headquarters of the banks, web companies like Yandex, Mail.ru, Kaspersky and the luxury apartments and restaurants. But you will unlikely find average muscovites in this major financial centre in Europe.

Selfy time

When you come to Moscow there is no way to avoid the places for postcards and films. Muscovites unlikely come here often because there are a lot of tourists. You are absolutely justified to take some photos with Red Square, Kremlin, University of Moscow and other monuments and places of interest.

Ready to take off

The trip takes almost whole day and consists in waiting most of the time. The time passed standing in ine to check-in, passport control, in boarding zone, in flight for me is an occasion to sketch a chaotic life of the airport and aircraft. By the way, if you want to save time and money make the COVID test directly in the airport. It takes just 1 hour.
Here are some pictures of Malpensa (Italy) and Sheremetievo (Russia) airoports:

It’s time to take off and switch off the devices… see you next trip!

p.s. How I did it.

The story of Moscow fall sketchbook 2021 started in April of the same year when my father passed away. Among his belongings I found an almost blanc agenda of 1995. So I decided to use that notebook to tell Moscow as it seen by a muscovite. The pages are covered with transparent acrylic paint to give a right space to the original page format on the background and the sketch in front line.

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Inktober in october 2021

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Inktober in october 2021. Also this year October becomes INKtober. 31 days, 31 words, 31 ink illustrations. Are you redy? Let’s go!

Версия на русском языке – Leggi in Italiano

This year all the illustrations are made in surrealism style and are inked with black and coloured pens. Every drawing of this sketchbook contains a sphere of glass.

31 days, 31 ink illustrations – it’s inktober!

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