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Artists are marking day four of Inktober, the annual October drawing challenge, with cactus-themed illustrations shared under art and illustration tags. Participants post one ink drawing each day throughout the month, and the cactus prompt has produced a fresh wave of sketches from illustrators taking part across the fediverse art community.

An artist has posted a new 2024 illustration titled 'Travel Buddies', described as a commissioned piece. The work falls under illustration and commission art shared with the Mastoart creative community, where it is drawing modest attention and engagement from art enthusiasts browsing the tag.

Artist Sylvia Ritter has shared a digital artwork titled "The Grand Koi Hotel", painted in Krita and dated 2014, depicting an ornate building with koi fish under a starry sky. She posted it as part of a Silent Sunday art share on Mastodon, tagged with community art and no-AI labels, where it has drawn appreciative engagement.

An artist shared a traditional marker illustration of a German Shepherd drawn in a limited color palette, declaring they will use that palette for the rest of their life. The post, tagged with community art hashtags including MastoArt and CreativeToots, highlights the popularity of restricted-palette sketchbook work among illustrators and drew early engagement from fellow artists in the federated art community.

Illustrators are posting day-two entries for Inktober, the annual October drawing challenge, with this year's prompt 'relic'. Artists are sharing ink and digital illustrations of ancient objects and keepsakes under art community hashtags, trading reactions and their own takes on the theme as the month-long challenge continues.

Artists are posting their day three drawings for Inktober, the annual October challenge where participants create one ink drawing per day. One participant shared a sketchbook piece made with a fountain pen and brush pen, tagging it for the art community. People are following along daily, sharing their own work and enjoying others' interpretations of the daily prompts.

An artist has shared a new watercolour painting of a moody grey sky, joking that the sombre palette reflects her 'internal millennial grey vibes'. The piece is being shared with art and watercolour hashtags and has drawn modest attention from fellow art lovers online.

An artist is marking the start of October with a new piece shared on the art-sharing site Drifting Spirits, posting a short, cheerful note celebrating the month's arrival. Fellow artists and art fans in the Mastodon community have been responding warmly, engaging with the work as part of the ongoing MastoArt creative showcase.

An artist has shared a digital artwork titled 'Transfer Unit' as part of Shiptember, an annual community challenge where participants design spaceships. The piece, tagged under sci-fi art and digital art communities, depicts a spaceship concept and has drawn a small wave of attention from space art fans.

Artists are sharing work for day three of Cosmictober, a month-long art challenge with space themes. One contributor has posted a black hole piece blending psychedelic and Art Nouveau influences, sharing it with the Mastoart and KleineKunstKlasse communities. The challenge gives artists a daily prompt throughout October, drawing creative interpretations of cosmic subjects.

Artists online are sharing playful drawings of 'sploinky cats' - a loose, bouncy cartoon cat style - under art and mastoart tags. One artist's post drawing the whimsical felines drew warm engagement, with people noting how fun the style is to draw and sharing their own takes on the trend.

An artist has posted a fantasy illustration of an elf barbarian, created in 2022 as a commissioned piece and tagged for Dungeons & Dragons and tabletop RPG communities. The artwork is being shared among fantasy art fans, drawing likes and attention from players of tabletop role-playing games who enjoy character-themed illustrations.

An artist has shared a 2025 commissioned illustration titled 'Evening at the Cat Office', depicting cats at work in an office setting. The piece was posted with art and cat-related tags and has drawn likes from viewers. It is a lighthearted artwork circulating among illustration and cat lovers.

The annual Inktober drawing challenge has begun, with artists posting their first illustrations for the day one prompt, 'Apple'. Participants share daily ink-based artworks throughout October under tags like Inktober and MastoArt, and early entries are circulating across the fediverse as the month-long creative event gets underway.

An illustrator has published a new cartoon on the theme of skiing, created for illustrationday.com, and wished followers a good week. The piece, tagged under mastoart and illustration, is available in higher resolution on the artist's own website. Reactions so far have been modest, with a small number of likes.

Artists are taking part in OC-tober, a month-long drawing challenge, with day four themed around underappreciated original characters. Participants are posting sketches of characters they feel they have not drawn enough, often tied to tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. The prompt list, run by bweird, is drawing daily contributions from illustrators sharing their personal character rosters.

An artist has posted an old sketch found while going through past work, saying it felt like something they needed to come across again. The drawing is being shared under art and sketch tags, with people responding to the idea that old work can carry new meaning when rediscovered later.

A digital painting titled 'Affectrium' depicting a fantasy mountain landscape under stormy skies has been shared with the MastoArt digital art community. The piece is tagged as concept art and digital painting, and is drawing attention from fantasy art enthusiasts.

An artist posting as LosGrandeFocco has published a new piece of horse-themed artwork, tagging it for Mastodon's MastoArt, art and fediart communities, with the tag 'foccomaltwieder' suggesting a recurring series. The post is drawing attention as the top art item in the fediverse's global feed, with users engaging through likes.

Artist Karin Wanderer has posted a close-up photograph of a tussok moth caterpillar as the letter T in her ongoing ArtABCs series, an alphabetical run of nature-themed artworks shared with the MastoArt community. The image, taken on a mobile phone, highlights autumn insect life and invites others to join the alphabet challenge. The artist notes the work is human-made, not AI-generated, and includes alt text for accessibility.

Digital artists are posting new science fiction pieces tagged ShipTember, including a work titled 'Galaxy leaper' featuring space themes. The hashtag event is drawing sci-fi art, graphic design and digital illustration from creators sharing under the Mastoart community tags, with space-themed ships and scenes at the centre of the submissions.

An artist who goes by Tealfuleyes has posted a set of quick gesture drawings, described as scribbles, on Mastodon's art-focused instance. The sketches are tagged under art, sketch and anthro categories and are being shared and liked within the MastoArt community, which regularly circulates work-in-progress pieces like these.

Artist Tealfuleyes has posted a new pencil-style sketch called Pathfinder, depicting an imp, on their personal artwork site. The piece was shared with the MastoArt art community, where it has drawn a small wave of appreciation from fellow artists and art fans. It forms part of the artist's ongoing sketch series featuring imp characters.

A street artist known as Drako has produced a new mural titled 'Mechanical Rhino', blending mechanical elements with the image of a rhinoceros. The work is being shared among urban art and graffiti fans, who are praising the painterly detail and inventive subject. It adds to Drako's growing reputation in the street art scene.

An artist has posted the third page of a cartoon story described as 'possibly true', drawn in ink for Inktober 2026. The page uses space, moon and Apollo themes alongside a bug motif, and is being shared under the mastoart tag, drawing a small but positive response from readers following the series.

A new mural by the street artist ENDER is being shared and praised in art circles online. The piece, tagged across street art, graffiti and urban art communities, is described as a great work of painting. Little detail is available about its location or the artist behind it.

An artist has shared their finished piece for Inktober, the annual October drawing challenge where participants create one artwork each day, posting it just 12 minutes before the deadline. The message, tagged with Inktober and art hashtags, captures the familiar last-minute scramble many participants in the month-long challenge experience as they rush to complete and share their daily drawings on time.

An artist says they completed today's drawing on schedule despite doubts about keeping up with the month-long challenge, admitting they may forget, fall behind, or give up before it ends. They also noted it is three days short of one year since they began drawing on paper pro e-ink tablets. The post is tagged with Inktober, the popular October daily drawing challenge, and MastoArt.

An artist is sharing a new fantasy dragon drawing, tagging it as part of autumn drawing challenges such as Inktober and Drawtober, alongside art and Magic: The Gathering-themed tags. The piece is drawing small but positive engagement from fellow art community members who follow and reshare creative work.

Dancers Iulia_pzt and louison_blivet have presented a new collaborative dance piece exploring movement against, or perhaps with, the wind. The work is being shared within online art and dance communities, where it is drawing attention as an example of contemporary dance blending with visual art.

Artists have begun posting drawings for Inktober 2026, with day one's prompt being an apple. The annual October drawing challenge invites participants to create one inked or digital artwork per day, and early entries tagged mastoart and digitalart are appearing as illustrators share their first pieces of the month.

Inktober, the annual October drawing challenge, has entered its second day, with artists posting their latest ink sketches online. One illustrator shared a day two piece drawn with a fountain pen and brush pen in a personal sketchbook, tagged under the MastoArt art community. Participants are posting one ink drawing each day throughout October, and early entries are circulating across art-focused social feeds.