Inktober 2026 – Mutant Beasts

Having skipped it last year I have finally committed to, and completed, Inktober 2026. For those of you who are not aware, Inktober was originally conceived as a month long analogue challenge for creating art with ‘pen and ink’ and posting one illustration a day throughout the month of October. As devoted fans of Inktober will have noticed, I haven’t followed the official subject list and instead chosen a theme of ‘Mutant Beasts’ (made up creatures) and then using fountain pen friendly pigment inks for all line work and then colouring in with dye base inks with bleach highlighting. I used this approach for each illustration. For inking in the line work I used a Desiderata Daedalus Zebra G fountain pen or a Serendipity dip pen with a Jowo number 6 feed and a Kanwrite ultra flex nib. For the painting and highlights I used a number 2 half rigger brush. The paper used was a Seawhite multi medium stock. The fountain pen friendly pigment inks used were Diamine Forever Inks and Octopus…