02 Oct 2025
We're back in October, the month of illustration challenges! The year has flown by. While these kinds of challenges can be useful for improving your technique and building the habit of persistence, there’s absolutely no obligation to start, finish, or even participate in them. We don't want to contribute to the "grind" culture or the constant pressure to produce content at the expense of personal well-being.
But if you've decided to take on one of these challenges, just like in previous years, we've created a special listing in "Discover Artists" to collect all the work you’ve created for any of these challenges that you'd like to showcase.
To appear there, simply upload your inktober images to your website, click "Edit" on each image, and add the tag "drawtober2025" (important: without the #) under "Tags".
The main goal of this listing is to give away 1 free year of Drawfolio PRO plan to the person whose work gets the most likes.
After the controversy surrounding the original creator of Inktober trying to trademark the name — in addition to plagiarizing other artists' work — many people have created their own October illustration challenges to distance themselves from the original Inktober. We've compiled some of these alternative challenges below, along with the Bluesky or Mastodon posts where we found them:
Good luck with the challenge you’ve chosen, if you’ve chosen one. And remember, it’s never mandatory: if you don’t want to start any October challenge, or if you want to quit halfway through without finishing — that’s totally fine too! The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and keep learning.
09 Jul 2025
As you may know if you're already on the PRO Plan, a while ago we migrated to our own visitor analytics system for your Drawfolio website to improve your privacy and not depending on Google so much.
Although, of course, a system developed by us can't be as sophisticated as Google's, we're gradually improving it. Today we're happy to announce that you now have geographic information in your statistics, with which you can learn a little more about the countries from which visits to your web portfolio come.
We remind you, as always, that for any problems or questions you can contact us at [email protected].
01 Jul 2025
July is here, and so are our traditional summer sales!
From this day until next 31 of August 2025, you can have a 20% discount on your first year of PRO Plan, to make it easier for you to have a great portfolio website that will get you opportunities and new customers.
You don't need to do anything special: the first year of all PRO plans will just cost 43,20€ + VAT instead of 54€ + VAT.
Don't wait any longer, and use this summer pause to get a great portfolio website!
24 Jun 2025
After finishing the final touches with the help of our beta users, we can now launch a new template for the PRO Plan: Gentileschi!
This template features a strong contrasting color (red by default, but you can customize it as you wish), square angles, and expanded information for the gallery list. We named this design after Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi (1593–1656), an Italian Baroque painter who developed historical and religious themes and was especially known for her paintings of female figures such as Lucretia, Bathsheba, Judith, and Cleopatra, in whom proto-feminist traits have been interpreted.
Like the rest of the designs, if you're on the PRO Plan, you'll find it listed under "Appearance" -> "Templates and Designs", and you can customize the main color by changing "Button Mode Link Color" under "Appearance" -> "Colors".
And if you're not on the PRO Plan, no problem! You can see a live example here
As always, we remind you that for any problems or questions, you can contact us at uservoice or by writing to [email protected].
05 Jun 2025
It's been a while since we release a new template on PRO Plan for your website, so we worked these last weeks to get that right! We've been working these last weeks on a new template we named after Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter.
If you are subscribed to PRO Plan and you want to be among the first users to test the template and help us refine it, please fill in this form and we will grant you access to the new template.
As always, we remind you that for any issues or questions, you can contact us on uservoice or by writing to [email protected].
