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October Art Prompts 2024

Prompt items are numbered so they can be selected with a d20 roll. Using multiple categories provides a wide range of prompt combinations.

Examples: Roll 20-sided dice 5 times for a full prompt.

(20, 9, 7, 4, 8) would be "Western, Monster, Ride, Tool, Energetic"

(11, 02, 10, 12, 6) would be "Comedy, Villain, Dance, Instrument, Festive"

(14, 10, 6, 20, 02) would be "Noir, Pirate, Run, Animal, Happy"

And so on.

Image CC-BY NanoCog.

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Relating Color Harmony to Music Harmony

Experimental color wheel using the equal temperament chromatic scale, making a "chromatic circle" of double meaning.

Image CC-BY Nanocog.

On the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky

A Conversation About How Color Theory And Music Theory Overlap by Lighting Mentor

Color Theory - Are You Making this COLOR COMPOSITION MISTAKE ?? by Florent Farges

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access Collection

The Titan's Goblet by Thomas Cole

Art and Literature After William Bouguereau

Tea gown

A pendant depicting a ba-bird with outstretched wings

Marine by Edward Moran

The Beeches by Asher Brown Durand

Part 2 of a selection of works featured in the Open Access Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Such works are labeled "OA Public Domain," and their images are free for public use.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access Collection

Lake Squam from Red Hill by William Trost Richards

Bust of Napoleon After a model by Antonio Canova

In Hot Pursuit by Charles Schreyvogel

Study in Black and Green by John White Alexander

View of Berlin with the Ephraim Palais at Left by Eduard Gaertner

Crouching Nude Male Figure by Paul Baudry

Geneviève-Françoise Randon de Malboissière (1740–1766) by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Part 1 of a selection of works featured in the Open Access Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Such works are labeled "OA Public Domain," and their images are free for public use.

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compilation

Inktober alternatives prompt lists 2023

some alternative lists for inktober. This is absolutely not all of them, and I don't include fandom specific lists. [last years collection]

Unthemed: [link1], [link2], [link3], [link4], [link5], [link6], [choice of 2 prompts each day], [link8], [15 prompts]

Halloween / Autumnal / Fun Spooky: [link1], [link2], [link3], [link4], [link5], [link6], [link7], [link8], [15 prompts], [link10], [weekly prompts], [link11], [draw all prompts as one image], [scary/cute], [13 prompts], [link15]

Horror / Scary Spooky / Gore: [gore1], [20 vaguely spooky prompts],[gore2], [gore3], [gore4], [2 gore lists], ["cringe + gore combination"], [spooky1], [mostly horror], [vaguely spooky], [gore6], [gore7], [gore8], [gore9], [zombie themed gore], [gore11]

Witches: [swamp witch], [link2], [link3], [link4], [link5]

Fantasy: [link1], [fashion elves], [link3], [link4], [12 cursed relics], [chimeras]

Original Characters: [60 prompts], [link2], [link3], [link4], [link5], [1 oc list 1 fandom list], [link7], [link8], [link9]

Creatures / Nature: [plants+animals], [autumnal frogs], [scifi isopods?], [cats], [unicorns/ponies], [new zealand birds]

Other: ["cringe"], [desserts], [cute things], [textures], ['lost kingdoms'], [medieval], [a comic, 1 panel a day], [robots]

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October Art Prompts 2023

Prompt items are numbered so they can be selected with a d20 roll. Using multiple categories provides a wide range of prompt combinations.

Example: Roll 20-sided dice 5 times and get 2, 14, 10, 5, 12. The full prompt would be "comedy, pirate, hold, gun, hard." A roll of 15, 15, 19, 16, 4 would mean "steampunk, ranger, swim, sword, calm." A roll of 9, 1, 12, 6, 2 would mean "military, alien, laugh, hat, bold." And so on.

Image CC0 NanoCog.

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Color wheels for comparison/reference.

RGB = Red Green Blue primaries (additive color model)

CMY = Cyan Magenta Yellow primaries (subtractive, process color printing)

NCS = Natural Color System (perceptual, opponent process theory)

RYB = Red Yellow Blue primaries (subtractive, traditional color theory)

Images CC0 NanoCog.

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Clothes and Folds Tutorial by fakhear

Support the artist and visit their Etsy!

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Human figure character model sheet templates.

Female and male. Orthographic views of front, side, and back. Realistic proportions according to 8 head unit canon.

Images CC0 NanoCog.

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Illustration of how variable a figure's flesh can be while the bones are virtually invariable.

Body Type Studies by Fakhear

Support the artist and check out their Etsy store!

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Geometric primitives with sun (parallel rays) light at 45-degree angle.

Sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, icosahedron, torus.

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Free ellipse guides. 90, 67.5, 45, 22.5, 11.25 degrees. 45, 33.75, 22.5, 11.25, 5.625 degrees. Angles also correspond with illumination (diffuse reflection), with 90 degrees directly facing light source.

Images CC0 NanoCog