# An Inktober Experiment in Daily Internet Art and CSS Animation

DevFeed: [An Inktober Experiment in Daily Internet Art and CSS Animation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-did-an-inktober-and-i-want-to-tell-you-about-it-35526.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://meowni.ca/posts/inktober/>)

Author: Monica Dinculescu

Published: 2018-11-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Monica Dinculescu](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/monica-dinculescu.md>)

Topics: [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [SVG animations in CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svg-animations-in-css.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [animation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/animation.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [experiment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiment.md>), [svg](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/svg.md>)

## AI overview

The author describes an Inktober experiment in which they created Internet-based artwork instead of traditional ink drawings. The project used daily creative constraints and led to learning CSS, SVG filters, and keyframe animation.

## Source excerpt

Inktober is a project where artists make an ink drawing every day for the whole month of October. This year I did an inktober but ignored all the rules, and made Internet Stuff™ instead. That experiment lives here, but I want to tell you why I did it before you go ahead and judge it. I think that it's also important to tell you it was a huge pain in the ass just in case you watched it unfold and thought I magically stuck every landing. The why "Art" is a word I struggle with a lot. I don't think of myself as an artist, because none of the things I make feel like art yet. At the same time, I obsess about these things if I don't feel they represent me, which is one of the nigthmares of being an artist - hence the struggle. For example, I made pottery for well over a year before I thought any of the mugs looked like what I wanted them to look like. They looked fine, and they looked like mugs, but they weren't the kind of mugs I wanted to make. In my opinion, one of the qualities you need to be an artist is to be extremely creative. I am not extremely creative, but I believe that everything in life can be learnt by grinding that level. So with inktober I wanted to force myself to think creatively every day, for a whole month, and see if that would level up my creativity. The how I don't like open ended projects because I think they lead to intellectual wankery instead of like, actually doing the thing, so I made up these rules for my weird art experiment: it had to be somehow about the sheriff of circle punch [1] it shouldn't take more than like, an hour it's fine if I skipped weekends [2] [1] Honestly the first day of inktober was a joke to make fun of the hashtag and my friend Fabian, who I troll with a circle punch any time I can. This of course ended up trolling me, because I did the whole fucking month afterwards, so ain't that the troller becoming the trollee. My friend Bushra came up with the name ("it's always howdy, never howthee"). Her inktober was way better