Admin Post: Prompt Post

[goss]

This post will be used for brainstorming Prompts, projects and other drawing activities.

We encourage community members to contribute ideas, themes, phrases, lyrics, etc. in the comments section of this post, as well as links to drawing warm-ups, exercises, and any other interesting prompts that might inspire our artists.

Comments

[mekare]

Just an idea from a comment thread in the check-in post:

Maybe we should have a post sometime where we link to artists we admire and what specifically we like about their art, or what particular skill we like, or learn from. Like for me, alby's use of pastel layering (she has a tutorial which could go into our resource post in the future here).

And I remember there was a comm like "meet the artist" or something on LJ or Tumblr I think? Where artists were profiled and they talked about their process and materials etc. That could go in our resource post, too since there'd be tons of cool links and how-tos and so on.

[goss]

Oh, yes! I was thinking along those lines, and coincidentally, about Alby! When I saw her pencil sketches this week, I thought it would be great to share with the comm.

Maybe we could have some kind of central monthly Art/Artist Rec post, where people link cool artworks and/or artists they discovered online over that month.

Either that, or different members of the comm could take turns to do a Fan-Art Recs or Fan-Artist Feature Post each month, sharing fan-art/artists they enjoy.

[mekare]

I think the central monthly rec post would be a better idea, at least for this starting time of the comm. People can pitch in, and later there could be individual rec posts for people who volunteer? I think the first option is lower stakes and could maybe encourage people more to come up with smaller recs.