Accidental Art : The 31 Day Challenge for Digital Artists

Roll the dice : What Randomly Generated Prompt Will You Use?

A popular month long art challenge created by artist Jake Parker was originally created for ink pen artists back in 2009 and is held each October, but this well-liked challenge has also been taken up by digital artists as well.

For each day in October you are challenged to create an art piece based on these random, accidental, weird and wonderful prompts below.

Use your preferred digital art creation package and of course there is the option to use A.I. generators.

You can record your progress in this free resource inside our forum

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This activity is designed NOT to be a contest but to see how much you can advance your art skills through 31 consecutive days, and to be inspired or to help inspire other artists to do the same.⁣

1 dilapidated Bathysphere
2 Phoenix Balalaika
3 Boustrophedonic Seascape
4 Exteroceptive Echinoderm
5 Space Quilt
6 Belletristical Mitochondria
7 Dragonflies Chamazulene
8 Jack Russell Terriers Broken Fence
9 Praying Mantis Steam
10 A Necklace of Lab Rats
11 Casper Ghost Town
12 Carnivorous Coniferous
13 Pavane Lightning
14 Joyous Mosquitoes
15 Alchemist Luggage
16 Harmoniously Disaster
17 Squirrels Vault
18 Lucky Charms Brunch
19 Tissues Eucalyptus
20 Sackbut Hiking
21 Chantarelle Mushrooms Flies
22 Mountain Silent
23 Wind Penguin
24 Plangent Glockenspiel
25 Hornets Clowns
26 Ants Tenacious
27 Tribe Butterflies
28 Chill Haversack
29 Turtle Fireplug
30 Solar Deck Chairs
31 Trouble Bouffant

Where did these crazy random phrases above come from?

Community champion Tiffanie IMArts shared a friend’s take on Jake Parker’s original challenge using randomly generated (but selectively arranged) words. Note there’s a few words here that could be very useful for your next game of Scrabble!

Tiffanie has shared this challenge in our Digital Art Live STUDIO forum.  You can share your resulting art from the challenge in this forum thread using the link below.

Join the challenge HERE

There’s flexibility here – you could do just one, several or all of the daily challenges and you don’t necessarily need this to be contained within October.

This Sunday’s community event will:-

• Share the details of the challenge
• Share resulting community artwork
• Share what you’ve learned so far as a result of creating for this challenge.
• Figure out the meaning of some of these words!

Special guest artists:-

• Tiffanie IMArts
• We may include Cedar from Sanderley Studios

Meeting Date and Time

Date : Sunday 9th October

Time : 20:00 BST (London) / 12:00 PDT (Los Angeles) / 15:00 EDT (New York)

Duration : 1.5 hours

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• Entry to the event only

Premium Ticket

• HD quality Searchable and Captioned recording of this event
• Bonus tutorial 1 : Experiments with Dream from Wombo art (1 hour 42 minutes)
• Bonus tutorial 2 :  A.I. Generated Art Workshop (1 hour 52 minutes)

Experiments with Dream from Wombo art

In this workshop, we had a special focus on using the Dream generator by Wombo.Art for creating visuals that could be incorporated into your creative projects – such as the primary art (if postworked), backgrounds or just to use as ideas. We will look at specific experiments on “controlling” the art output by using text input phrases that may:-

A.I. Generated Art Workshop

We had special guest artists Vladimir Chopine and Peter von Stackelberg who have made their own explorations of various A.I. tools. They have learned a number of power tips to help either control the output or better utilise the generated art and they shared some of their knowledge and experiences. Community members showed their artwork and tips for A.I. generated art.

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