Admin Post: Community Check-In for January 2020

[goss]

(Hi guys, it's been a while! Happy New Year to everyone. Sorry I missed posting this yesterday.)

Yesterday was the last day of January, we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities since the New Year began, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

Are you considering working on our latest drawesome challenge (#28 - Makeover Challenge)? Reminder that the round-up post will be made on 24th February. :)

Comments

[mific]

I don't have all that much completed from January, but I have six artworks underway at the moment, so I'm definitely in the mood! (For Romancing McShep, the Makeover challenge, more portraits, and illos for a friend's longfic). It's partly as work's busy with stuff I should be doing so as to wrap up my current job end of Feb, and art's a distraction.
I just posted pics from a gouache portrait Skillshare class that I did, and before that a gouache portrait of John and Rodney from Stargate Atlantis C'mon Rodney, Catch a Clue. I like their faces but I think I should have left the background simpler. There was also digital art in Venom fandom, a fluffy H/C comic What's Wrong Eddie.
As we didn't have a checkin since Inktober, I'll also mention another McShep watercolour piece Yes, Him, For Me, Him (Rodney came out well, John not so much), and some Captain America art I did for a Big Bang story, end of last year.
I was mostly working for challenges up to January, and now I feel more energised generally to make art under my own steam. Plus I'm going through a gouache phase it seems, and I want to keep practising that.

[enemytosleep]

I really love the color and backgrounds for many of these, particularly the Stargate Atlantis and Captain America pieces. The Cap piece was actually my favorite all around (the proportions were very pleasing). Lovely stuff!

[mekare]

OMG that Venom comic is precious! Re SGA, I don't think the background detracts from their faces much because you used lighting to focus our attention there.

Thanks for linking back to these peices, because I missed some of them when they were posted.