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

[olivermoss]

Braids, swings, heatwaves, train travel, fairy market, cooking and hot springs.

[chacusha]

Villainous, period costumes, fire and ice, leather, weather, dancing, in the style of (artist/art period)

Color palette challenges: https://www.google.com/search?q=color+palette+challenges&tbm=isch

Hexafusion meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hexafusion-triple-fusion (very challenging, though, because it requires doing 4 pieces of fanart)

[dhampyresa]

Wow, the hexafusion concept is so cool!

[mific]

1. The same character drawn from at least two different perspectives.

2. Detailed drawing of a character's face, or their hands.

3. Draw an unusual animal that is or could be in one of your fandoms - a sci-fi alien animal or a fantasy creature.

4. Draw a typical background from one of your fandoms - somewhere your familiar characters might be set against.

5. Draw a favourite or typical weapon or artifact from one of your fandoms.

[mekare]

Hhhm. Maybe: "Draw your two favourite characters interacting"? Could lead to some nice crossover fanart. Or: "What would X/favourite character(s) take with them on a lonely island?"
"Draw what makes X happy."

I realize these are all character based and therefore not as open to interpretation as the other prompts.

Idea for a discussion post

[mekare]

Since image hosting is such a big topic for fanartists (and especially beginners) maybe we could have a discussion post or how to post or an exchange of tips for the technical side of actually getting your work online? Since photobucket changed their model I think a lot of artists would appreciate hearing about alternatives. I mean inside dreamwidth everything's fine and dandy but if you'd like to post your work to AO3 (as I do) there are some technical issues to consider. Don't know about other sites.

Re: Idea for a discussion post

[goss]

That's a good suggestion, having discussion posts for technical issues that artists encounter. Will keep it in mind. Thanks. :)

Re: Idea for a discussion post

[mekare]

Since it's something that frustrates me on a regular basis I thought others might find it helpful as well. Some links to tutorials could be included (for example, I know you have your art website - how to do that, or how to self-host images so we are independent of companies like Photobucket to randomly change policies...)

[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.

[mekare]

I am all for the braids and swings prompts. *brain runs off to imagine things*

[mekare]

Oops another idea again. Talking about inspiration and muses. I know writers discuss this all the time but we could, too. Maybe it's too similar to the motivation post, hum... it could be part of what we talk about there - how to get in the mood/back to drawing and for me a lot of times that's a pretty face aka a new muse. *g*

[minoanmiss]

This community has been absolutely WONDERFUL for me, and I can't say enough how much I enjoy participating here.

After a little thought I have some challenge suggestions:

Eyes

Recursive art (aka The Droste Effect aka Mise En Abyme)

Rainbow (this doesn't have to be colored in -- how would one shade a charcoal drawing of a rainbow in the sky?)

Flight

In honor of the coworker who just walked past while I was writing this -- BEARDS (he has a Great big Bushy Beard)

Windows and openings

Visually convey another sense (smell, sound, taste, movement, touch, etc) Could be a mythical sense like clairvoyance)

[goss]

I'm so glad you're enjoying the community. ^___^

And thanks for all the different prompts. These are great!

[mific]

Those are great prompts - I had to google the Droste Effect as I'd never heard of that one! :)

[minoanmiss]

I used my Recursive Icon as an example of what I mean. :) I meant to include a link to the Droste Effect article on Wikipedia, but was distracted by my coworker's Extra Bushy Beard (he said he shampooed it for extra volume).

[minoanmiss]

beams You're totally welcome.

Should I post an ad for this comm to Tumblr, do you think? I'm not Ubr Popular or anything but I might help get the word out.

[mific]

Oh sure, signal boost away!

[goss]

Sure, you can post a banner or message spreading word about the comm, especially if you know anyone who would be interested in actually taking part in our community activities. Currently have 60+ members, and only like 7-8 people actually participating, so it would be nice to increase those numbers. :)

[goss]

I hadn't heard of the term either, but I always find the optical effect in artwork of that nature to be really interesting.

[mific]

Another type of Word prompt post.

http://www.textfixer.com/tools/random-words.php

Set it to do three words, then hit it until the words produced inspire an idea to draw. Tell us your prompt words when you post. :)

[goss]

Oooh, nice one! I especially like the fact that you can just keep clicking until something strikes your fancy.

[mekare]

I love it! Good idea, we should use that soon.

[mekare]

Using negative space.

(Just saw this beautiful art on Tumblr: http://sherlgrey.tumblr.com/post/163218874073/wont-be-long-before-this-pencil-dies)