Inktober 2021

October 2021
Project Prompt
Every October, illustrators all over the world participate challenge themselves by completing a Halloween-themed piece each day. This project was dictated by Retro Supply Co. 31 prompts...
My Approach
7 of which I completed. I wanted to play with fitting data into these supernatural prompts and expand the representation of illustration in data viz.
An illustration of a ranch style house with a ghost inside of it. A chart shows that 32% of people surveyed by rocket homes believed they had been haunted and another chart shows that if a person had a ghost 49% of respondents would get to know the ghost while 21% would sell the house.
Tools Used
  • Procreate
  • Retro Supply Co. Brushes
  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
  • Excel
  • Google Sheets
Context

Artists all over the world create one illustration a day for all 31 days of October based on prompts provided by other artists or organizations. Retro Supply Co., the digital brush company, created their own prompts that ranged from black cats, haunted houses, and vampires to fall foliage, Halloween masks, and jack-o-lanterns.

This daily challenge tested my abilities to find data, clean it, create graphics, and build an illustration-based layout for the data to live in. Part of the challenge was that I wanted to take a unique and unexpected take on each subject. Instead of associating the full moon with werewolves, I chose to investigate whether or not there are more car accidents at each of the main phases of the moon.

A series of charts that show black cats make up 13% of total Austin Animal Center in 2020, fact that most black cats come to AAC as strays and that most come to AAC in June.
A donut chart showing that the majority of car accidents in Houston Texas happen in any other phase of the moon. An illustration of the moon with two cartoonish cars in an accident with the title Don't Blame it on the Moon, we are just bad drivers.
View the Rest of the Pieces on Instagram

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