Neural net-generated prompts for Inktober

It's Inkotober, when "artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month." In a fun experiment, Janelle Shane trained a neural net with prior Inktober prompts and picked out some promising concepts like "ornery beach sheep" and "BUG IN HUMAN SHAPE."

If you'd like to participate in the fun, pick one of the prompts and post your illustration for a chance to win an advance copy of Shane's new book:

My US and UK publishers are letting me give away some copies of my book to people who draw the AInktober prompts - tag your drawings with AInktober and every week Ill choose a few people based on *handwaves* criteria to get an advance copy of my book. (US, UK, and Canada only, sorry)

Here are a few entries to date:

Doing the @JanelleCShane #inktober prompts. Heres Tiny Cod Flames Rise pic.twitter.com/WAqh7IzrGF

— SamsonLeisureCentre (@SamsonLeisure) October 1, 2019

Tiny cod Flames rising. A.I.nktober prompts by @JanelleCShane#madewithtiltbrush @tiltbrush #VR#Inktober #Inktober2019 pic.twitter.com/NkmjG2MfqS

— Cordula Hansen (@CordulaHansen) October 1, 2019

Day one of #AInktober (#Inktober prompts generated by #ArtificialInteligence, via @JanelleCShane)

Loose pencils, inked with a Prismacolor brush pen, lettered with Sakura Microns.#Inktober2019 #inktoberday1 pic.twitter.com/1jiEePPnaz

— Cartoonist Aaron (@TheLABSRobot) October 1, 2019

#INKTOBER DAY 1: "tiny cod Flames rise"Having a crack at following these 'unofficial neural net-generated prompts' from https://t.co/AZ3qyBxfkk (@JanelleCShane) because they're just so freaking beautiful & weird #inktober2019 #ainktober #art #traditionalart #drawing pic.twitter.com/D6ZimlfBSQ

— Mim (@MimLofBees) October 1, 2019

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