Historical Inktober 2026 31 prompts in 31 historical stories

Throughout October, I am tackling a month-long personal illustration project exploring how a single word can become a visual story. I’ll be interpreting every official prompt through history, using books, archives and museum collections as my starting point. The prompt is the brief, history is the research and the illustration is my interpretation.

Follow along as I work my way through Historical Inktober 2026.

Day 1 - Apple

Day 2 - Relic

Day 3 - Miniature

Day 4 - Cactus