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Inktober by Frames

Inktober is that one particular time of the year which at as a showcase for all the participating artist, where they blend the prompts to fit their creativity and imagination to it's next level. The Inktober by Spaces takes a different approach on understanding the prompts and turning them into spatial context experienced by the creator during his recent years of travel across India.

What is Inktober?

Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month. Artist Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve her inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.


Find more about Inktober here.
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Day 1 : F I S H 🎣
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~ catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line.
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A visit to any of India's coast will tell us how much the coastal community is dependent on fishing irrespective of state, season or time. One can spot fishing trailers lined up by the harbor of Indian town or city & experience this wonderful industry. This sketch remember one of my visit to the coastal territory of Diu.
Day 2 : W I S P 🔀
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~ A small thin or twisted bunch, piece, or amount of something.
Day 3 : B U L K Y 🦕
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~ (of a person) heavily built.
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Found on almost every rural wall by the highways, this famous Ambuja cement man portrays the qualities of the product and a direction for the audience. But the interesting part here this particular wall is located inside a workers colony on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, who are known to carry heavyweights and work for extensive long hours at the construction site and factories.
Day 4 : R A D I O 📡
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~ the transmission and reception of electromagnetic waves of radio frequency, especially those carrying sound messages.
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High up in the mountains where people escape the madness of the plains and city life, these towers are a symbol of how we still want to remain connected to hour easy life; irrespective how ugly they look or how hazardous they are.
Day 5 : B L A D E 🔪
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~ the flat, wide section of an implement or device such as an oar or a propeller.
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A part of current transportation system, the blades or the propeller of a plane never fails to amuse anyone passing by while deboarding or entering the plane. Lesser known to people these huge looking cylinders are the heartbeat of the plane which make them fly above in the sky.
Day 6 : R O D E N T 🐀
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~ A person/thing/place lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer. [mid 1980s-mid 1990s]
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A building is never left unoccupied; although not by humans but other living creatures. With our cities now experiencing internal migration from old areas to new areas, many of the buildings irrespective of their importance in the old area are left to degrade by humans. This gives an opportunities to various creatures like plants and rodents to fill up the gap, and create a unique ecosystem within the structure.
Day 7 : F A N C Y 🎍
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~ elaborate in structure or decoration.
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Indian royalties and known for their fancy and rich palaces across the world. Such palaces can be found across various; small and big town of the country some in good condition, other not show. What is effective of the condition this landmark stand as a central point of the area and now acting as major tourist spot for the same. In the desert state of Rajasthan, Udaipur City palace is known for it's beautiful rooms and hallways.
Day 8 : T E E T H 😬
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~ each of a set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of most vertebrates, used for biting and chewing.
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One of the most memorable and unique feature of human, the teeth can do a lot of things. Rather than traditional job of chewing food; the teeth stand as a signature of one's face, expression, language and attitude. A good set of teeth can impress a lot of other humans around, and similarly not so good set of teeth would do the reverse one. Here, one of my old & best friend, @b.u.nik.
Day 9 : T H R O W 🚮
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~ send suddenly into a particular state or condition.
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Indians crave to go to the mountains for various purpose; youngster to do backpacking, couples to celebrate their honeymoon, families to do picnic, stoners to score weed and lot of other uncountable reason out of which the main is the scenic beauty of the Himalayas. But this same Indians for all away dump urban garbage into the road sides of the mountains, drawing a good parallel with their hometown. Interestingly, this seem so called travelers keep on throwing or puking throughout their journeys.
One of the most visited hill station Shimla is notorious for this behavior.
Day 10 : H O P E 🕯️
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~ a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.
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We all work hard, work smart, work dumb; cause at the end we always depend upon this one particular scenario call hope. Irrespective of age, class, profession or circumstances, everyone have a certain degree of hope. One just need to look around them to find such person on a pursuit to do something in the life. For me, journeys on Indian railway's second class is one of the biggest source of knowing and understanding such people who commute from their village to the city with hope in their eyes.
Day 11: D I S G U S T I N G 🚮
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~ cause (someone) to feel revulsion or strong disapproval.
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In our ever growing want of new and branded things, fashion has one of the torch barrier in producing waste in a large amount. Branch irrespective of the background or size keep on promoting to buy new clothes, which is further scale up by Indians want to get new Clothes on festive seasons. In India second hand clothes are seen in a way of disgust; making fast fashion more and more part of the life. The installation set in Serendipity 2019 in Panjim, Goa take a stand on how how we look for the best among the worst which is actually the wrong.
Day 12: S L I P P E R Y 🌠
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~ (of a surface or object) difficult to hold firmly or stand on because it is smooth, wet, or slimy.
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Walking through the mountainous areas can be wonderful through the Woods and pine trees. But during monsoon days the same tracks can become dangerous and slippery, making people slip down the mountain. In India, during the season of winter Himachal Pradesh is a lot of such accident.
Day 13: D U N E 🏜️
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~ a mound or ridge of sand or other loose sediment formed by the wind, especially on the sea coast or in a desert.
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One of the most striking features of Thar desert of Rajasthan, the golden sand dunes camel and Safari Jeep and we spot around almost all the tourist spot across Jaisalmer. The funny thing is none of those trees are local to that particular place, is the tourist gimmick which has been created in order to draw crowd. anyone who just get drift away from the tourist locations, transport the real desert, the real camels and the real vehicle. But till then one can enjoy the bumpy ride over the sand dunes on a camel or Jeep.
Day 14: A R M O U R 🛡️
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the protective layer or shell of some animals and plants.
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Faraway in the countryside of India, one can find humble houses made with tiles and raw material. Surrounded by tall trees and farmland such places are the example of how the most simplest of the materials can be used to create a difference against a nature to protect self and to create something called as home, the army against the whole world.
Day 15: O U T P O S T 🏜️
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~ a remote part of a country or empire.
Day 16: R O C K E T 🚀
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~ used to refer to a person or thing that moves very fast or to an action that is done with great force.
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Locomotives as the master of speed in Indian railways since its beginning, pulling the nation and helping the people to reach the destination. is monsters also known as the electric locomotives of India have came across a long walk, thumping loud 2 landscapes - valleys, hills, cities and villages. The best example of how much powerful machine can be.
In the picture, a Wap 4.
Day 17: S T O R M ⛈️
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~ a violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
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Storm always doesn't need to be glorified in a bad way, sometimes they just at the beauty in the landscape. Away in the hinterlands where humans and nature has been living in harmony for long time, search natural agent doesn't cause any damage; rather beautify the landscape more. Far away from the mean life, small village of Nallavagu can be considered as the best example of it during the months of monsoon. In the sketch, four of my then colleagues can be spotted enjoying the calmness before the storm.
Day 18: T R A P 🥍
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~ trick or deceive (someone) into doing something contrary to their interests or intentions.
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One of India's largest city, Delhi as a number of open air market which sale all kind of goods. But the interesting part of that is they are mostly second hand or counterfeit or rejected lot. almost all the brands on the earth can be spot with their duplicate brothers in this markets. until a close look want aren't even spot the difference between the original and duplicate one. What does interesting parties is the visitors who go to the market, knows that they are going to buy a second copy or a counterfeit. because they caused much much cheaper than the original one. During the winter months, Tibetan market in Kashmiri gate all kind of duplicate Woolen products.
Day 19 : D I Z Z Y 😵
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~ having or involving a sensation of spinning around and losing one's balance.
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Fairs or Melas has been the part of India's tier 2 and tier 3 cities landscape for many years. Multiple rides shop food stall and things one can experience and get from such fairs. But one of the most visible attraction of such fairs are the giant Ferris wheels which becomes the highest point of that place for few days; and visitors irrespective of age and gender love to both the Fairy wheel. But a lot of them and their experience with dizzy and vomit.
Day 20: C O R A L 🐚
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~ a sedentary coelenterate of warm and tropical seas, with a calcareous, horny, or soft skeleton. Most corals are colonial and many rely on the presence of green algae in their tissues to obtain energy from sunlight.
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The cost of Diu is quite peculiar. Despite located by the coast of Gujarat, is little Ireland still duplicate how different it has been since last 500 years. A mix of Beaches, Rocky formations, Coral reefs, Cliffs & Jetties together build the landscape of the island.
Day 21: S L E E P 🛌
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~ a condition of body and mind that typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended.
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In our country there is always and comical difference on how watchmen of a particular place sleeps during the night. Till certain extent it is true, but most of the time we don't understand human aspect of it. In this society of classes, we always expect the lower classes to remain both powerless while decision making yet powerful while doing the duties. In any case it's the dogs who understand them as a human, being awake at sight of a danger.
Day 22: C H E F 🍳
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~ a professional cook, typically the chief cook in a restaurant or hotel.
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Whenever we talk about chef, we imagine middle age person wearing a white apron with white hat. it is rather a professional visual which we have in our brain. But we forget to look to the other side of the word, which means anyone who can commercially cook. In India pickle set of restaurants are very much restricted to the urban setting, especially serving to the money making class. Across every hook and look of the country, one can easily e find a street side food stall or a shop; run by poor families and making lip licking snacks. Irrespective of place, culture, religion; Indians love street food because they are cheap and they cater to you at the point of your hunger.
Day 23: R I P 🏞️
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~ a stretch of fast-flowing and rough water in the sea or in a river, caused by the meeting of currents.
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Short seasonal rivers are always furious, pressing and passing by the rocks and trees. Although seem small they are powerful and dangerous, and creates a unique soundscape in the environment. One of such gem is the river inside Sanjay Gandhi National park which is loved by a lot of resident of Mumbai.
Day 24: D I G ⛏️
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~ break up and move earth with a tool or machine, or with hands, paws, snout, etc.
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Redevelopment has its own pros and cons, and most of the time it is done in order to sell a new product or service. such thing can be found across every industry of sector in the country, where the old are being replaced by the new. India had a vast network of metre gauge railway, mostly build during the British Raj or post independence connecting small towns and countryside villages with the main line. birth in 21st century a lot of them are being replaced with broad gauge or being completely removed. But in the railway station of Ahmedabad, the old metre gauge Railway is not only replaced but upgraded to a bullet train grid railway tracks, cannibalizing those old memorable journey into a modern super high speed transit system.
Day 25: B U D D Y 🚲
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~ a working companion with whom close cooperation is required.
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Whenever we use the word buddy which generally used to refer to some of our friend a family or loved one; I prefer to use them for some permanent elements around me. Which here is @upto_something 's Btwin Cycle. Since the time he brought it, I has been using it vigorously. A point where I could say that I have rode hundreds and hundreds of kilometre more than the actual owner. The saga of borrowing a cycle from someone else was interesting to see how one react and other take care of it. It's been months I have rode this Cycle, not only the dusts are riding on it.
Day 26: H I D E 🔎
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~ prevent (an emotion or fact) from being apparent or known; keep secret.
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The political arena of India as been one of the most biggest concern the last decade, with every side political parties and organisation trying to influence the other in order to support their propaganda. Further to the technological advancement among the masses of India, social media has played a vital role as a catalyst to such nuisance. One of the most recent such event was the CAA protests held in certain small pockets of Delhi. The important point was that most of the protest was advertised much larger than it was, which led to a false image in anyone who lived outside Delhi. It was a great example of how to hide certain aspect and amplifier the other.
Day 27: M U S I C 💽
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~ vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
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Music is one of the most integral part of our soundscape, even when we are visiting a public space. From a Beggar to a celebrity artist, they always fill our ears which rhythmic vibration. This has led to a much higher integration of music with our entertainment. Every week, a numbers of festivals arw held in every city, each having its own display of music for the audience. One of my unique live concert ever attended was @thelilfleadelhi back in February 2019.
Day 28: F L O A T 🪁
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~ move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift.
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Humans have always imagined themselves flying high in the sky. The dream came true with the invention of airplanes & introduction of commercial jets especially; making the experience available for more people. The idea of float above the clouds, high above the ground; can even intrigued frequent flyers, not just seasonal.
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Day 29: S H O E S 👟
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~ a covering for the foot, typically made of leather, having a sturdy sole and not reaching above the ankle.
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In recent times the popularity of displaying shoes as increased tremendously. From boots to Canvas shoes, yaar getting more stylish and widely available to everyone. It has led to a phenomena of capturing moments which includes specifically the Shoes since it can describe a lot about the personality and the facade the person want to display. Incorporating various elements in the background, such photographs are now a common occurrence on the social media timeline.
Day 30: O M N I O U S 📛
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~ giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.
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Each land around the world has numerous types of stereotypes & superstitions, most dating back to pre renaissance age of their respective timelines. India too have it giga share in it. One of the most common one is the cutting of path by a black cat, which makes people to change their routes or even cancel the journey. Funny thing is this particular superstitions can find its roots in now considered developed Europe & was introduced in India by the British like everything else they did. In reality, a Black cat is a small, cute, harmless animal.
Day 31: C R A W L 🦥
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~ (of a vehicle) move at an unusually slow pace.
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People, shop, vehicles, festivals and a lot of things adds up to our very common Indian cityscape. Pre covid, people walking in crowd, vehicles crawling and navigating through them, shopkeepers shouting out their products, voices of children's and parents and old and new filling up the Soundscape; everything was was common yet amusing to watch and observe, especially if you are not part of that crowd.
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Inktober by Frames
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Inktober by Frames

Created during Inktober 2019, this one talks a lot about space, People and it's environment.

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