Call to Artists – Inktober Marathon Event Overview
Inktober Marathon
- We are publishing our first ever 31-page photobook dedicated to ink art, in time for the holidays. Toronto artists submit up to 5 art pieces, patrons vote for the best ones on CreativeUTO, Facebook, and Instagram. Live voting final results during innovator drinks at CSI Annex.
#CrativeUTO #CUTO Marketplace #Inktober Marathon
About Inktober
- If you're not familiar with Inktober, it's an inking challenge started by illustrator Jake Parker for the purpose of practicing and refining your skills with ink. Each day of October you must make an ink drawing, post it to social media, and hashtag it with #inktober #inktober2018.
How to participate
- Submit Inktober themed art weekly for free
- Only 5 submissions per artist allowed
- We publish it for a week on our fan page
- All pictures will be credited & linked back to your stores
- Fans vote for the best pictures of the week
- Top 10 pictures of the week go to finals
- Finals will be on October 31st at CSIAnnex Café
- Industry insiders vote for final 31 live
- We launch the photobook in time for the holidays
- Artists selected make royalties on sales, memberships
Click Here - To submit your art
- This form has been broken down into 3 sections; Artist information, Photobook logistics and Submissions
#Merchandise
All art submitted will be sold in #CUTO Marketplace
- postcards,
- posters
- t-shirts
- Photobook
artists participate in profit share system
Profit share
- Artist take 30 percent direct sale
- Cover artist takes 22%
- Photobook splits 60 40 in favor of participating artists
- Participating artists split 60%
CUTO Fundraiser
- Help us open a 2,600 square feet incubator space
- The rest goes towards overheads
- fundraiser to open an incubator space
Downloads - The Official Prompt List
#Hashtags
#CreativeUTO #CUTO #Inktober Marathon #Inktober2018
CreativeUTO will be following the official 2018 Inktober prompt list,
Submission deadlines
- Due dates are on Friday
- Results by Following Wednesday
Inktober week 1 (deadlines October 5th)
- Poison
- Tranquil
- Roasted
- Spell
- Chicken
Inktober week 2 (October 12th)
- Drooling
- Exhausted
- Star
- Precious
- Flowing
- Cruel
- Whale
Inktober week 3 (October 19th)
- Guarded
- Clock
- Weak
- Angular
- Swollen
- Scorched
Inktober week 4 (October 26th)
- Breakable
- Drain
- Expensive
- Muddy
- Chop
- Prickly
- Stretch
- Thunder
Votes are separated in to 3 categories,
- 1 heart on IG or like on FB gets 2 point.
- Vote from industry insider is 7 points
- Write-in vote in Google form 5 points
- Instagram comment gets 3 points
Submit your art below
Michael Bole has over 20 years research and development in marketing/sales. Michael has was worked for various companies in either sales, customer service and or advertisement. These include his projects including clothing lines, event management, talent management, as well as organizations such as Apple, Seagate, Honeywell, Air Miles, General Motors, Aimia Marketing, startups and social enterprises like Center for Social Innovation (as a DECA) Free Geek Toronto. He launched FMiMBranding in 2009 which focuses on business development from the foundation up and out of that came CreativeUTO a think tank of creative entrepreneurs where we leverage our skills to helps develop creative unicorns, their ideas, and their projects.
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