Calling all artists and class doodlers!

October. The season of crunching leaves, Pillsbury cookies, Halloweekend benders, and most importantly, Inktober. Created in 2009, Inktober is a challenge with prompts for every day of the month. Thousands of artists create and share these daily drawings, and the only rules are “to pick up a pen and start drawing.”

This year, Bwog is launching its first-ever Bwinktober, a month-long project with Columbia-related prompts. Whether you’re a famous artist or you’ve never drawn before, you can submit! Send your pen drawings every day, a few each week, or your favorites at the end of the month—simply email them to tal@bwog.com or DM them to Bwog on Instagram. We will be highlighting these drawings all month long.

Without further ado, here are are Bwog’s 2023 Inktober prompts:

  1. Nightmare 
  2. Rats 
  3. Low beach 
  4. Presbury
  5. Campus map 
  6. Blue
  7. Fountain
  8. Frog 
  9. Ghost
  10. Metrocard
  11. NYC 
  12. NYU
  13. Presnouche
  14. The Core
  15. Carman
  16. Barnard 
  17. The swim test
  18. Women’s basketball
  19. The Independent
  20. Blizzard
  21. Chastity gates
  22. Frat flu
  23. Sundial
  24. Freshman
  25. All nighter
  26. Discussion 
  27. Fall
  28. Tree lighting
  29. Dorm
  30. Costume
  31. Bwog

Bwinktober via Tal Bloom