Admin Post: Community Check-In for March 2020

[goss]

Today's the last day of March, and 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 in March, 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.

I know it hasn't been easy, especially given the reality we're living in right now. Since many people have been at home for the last couple weeks, how have you been occupying your time? Got any tips or finds?

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Also, just a reminder that the Round-Up post for Drawing Challenge #29: Prompt Bingo has now been extended to Tuesday 28th April. :)

Comments

[goss]

Even though I started the year off at a good pace, creating lots of fanart for my two main current fandoms (The Untamed and Guardian), by the middle of February all of that came to an abrupt halt, due to RL family stuff (my dad's health).

My life took a drastic turn, and the last 6 weeks have been focusing on my dad and his medical care. But now that things with him are starting to level out somewhat, I'm hoping to have a little more time and energy (and focus!) to work on creating art.

Like many of us, I'm homebound for the next couple weeks anyway, so am looking forward to taking up the Prompt Bingo art challenge. :)

In the mean time, one of the bright parts of my day is seeing all the lovely works YOU guys are producing. They cheer me immensely. \o/

[minoanmiss]

I am hoping very hard for your dad and for you!

[goss]

Thanks for all your good thoughts! *hugs*

[mekare]

I really hope you get some time to wind down and work on the bingo challenge. *fingers crossed*

[goss]

I can see that in order to get any art done I'm gonna have to "schedule" it.

Being at home instead of my usual daytime job, somehow time gets eaten up doing...I don't know WHAT? I swear, I only just had breakfast and tinkered around the kitchen, and somehow it's afternoon already. Where did the day go?? O_O

[mekare]

I KNOW! It‘s horrible how time gets away from me. I do nap more, but that doesn‘t account for all of it.

[mific]

So tough to have the worry about your Dad and then all this Covid stress, all at once. Hang in there and I hope you can get some time for yourself to relax doing art.

[goss]

Aww, thank you. <333

[ruuger]

I haven't drawn much lately, but I wanted to give a tip to everyone that if you like life drawing, the British artist Stuart Semple is hosting virtual life drawing sessions on Facebook every Friday:

https://www.facebook.com/MrStuartSemple/videos/525887078358967/

I participated in the first one couple of weeks ago and it was a lot of fun.

[goss]

Cool!

Wait, is that the same guy with the whole pigment Anish Kappor feud? XD

[ruuger]

Yup, that's him.

[mekare]

I had to look up this feud and couldn‘t believe what I read. I‘ve never heard of either of those artists but what a ridiculous thing!

Anyway thanks for sharing the link!

[mific]

I'm definitely Team Semple in the pigment war, but I don't do Facebook. Still, there are lots of other classes out there.

[mekare]

I finally started on my third piece for the bingo challenge today (Danny Williams+fire). As I already knew, frontal view portraits are a lot harder than profile views. I can’t be bothered to change the whole sketch even though I know the eyes are too big.
The other two pieces are already posted to the comm under the challenge 29 tag. I‘m saving Steve for last because he is the prettiest (and I‘m still undecided which prompt to use for him).

I still have a personal project to work on this week, my sister wants a pencil drawing of Rodin‘s sculpture The Cathedral for her birthday.

I‘ve been heroically resisting signing up for any art commitments which are probably going to be too much for me to handle in a couple of weeks time. In the mean time I‘m glad I have this challenge to work on.

[goss]

my sister wants a pencil drawing of Rodin‘s sculpture The Cathedral for her birthday.

Ooooooh! You gotta share the results when you're finished.

Glad to see that you're keeping yourself free from too many future art commitments. That's definitely for the best right now. But in the mean time I'm really enjoying this H50/Elementals series that you're doing. :) :)

[mekare]

Thank you! I enjoy it too when it‘s not frustrating me. I redrew Danny‘s face three times already ARGH

[mific]

Looking forward to more elementals art (yay for Steve and Danno!), and the cathedral project sounds interesting. Glad you're pacing yourself.

[abyss_valkyrie]

Wait wait!APRIL?!!XD :D \o/ I'd been thinking March 28th so that means I actually have time to try some more prompts!!
I did sign up for the Guardian Reverse exchange-*sweat*-I hope I can come up with something good!!
The way I've been occupying my time? ICONNNNN MAKING!!Dreamwidth,Twitter,Youtube(lots of youtube) and trying out workout videos that look interesting!Also Zumba because that's infinitely more fun than exercise!>_<

[mific]

Lots more time - go for it! :)

[goss]

I actually have time to try some more prompts!!
I did sign up for the Guardian Reverse exchange-*sweat*-I hope I can come up with something good!!

Yay for working on more of these prompts! And best of luck with the Guardian Reverse exchange! *\o/* I'm sure that whatever you make will be wonderful, and loved by your recipient. *cheers you on*

[mekare]

Good luck with Guardian Reverse Exchange! I'd have loved to sign up but I cannot commit to challenges atm. *waves pompoms*

[mific]

I'm a bit slow checking in - had to clear up some RL work-from-home stuff the last couple of days. I've mostly been arting to cope since we were locked down here in NZ 10 days ago, but have tried to do too much, attempting both a daily painting project and the "100 heads" challenge. Drawing the portraits takes more energy and time than I'd realised, and they're definitely not going to be done in 10 days, probably more like 30 days. The first 20 of them are here: https://mific.dreamwidth.org/141244.html.
I'm also painting a daily gouache landscape which is more about colour and form, and figuring out how to do hard things like clouds! The landscapes are on my journal at the "daily views" tag: https://mific.dreamwidth.org/tag/daily+views. I missed yesterday but I'll do another today.

[goss]

I really admire how much artwork you've been able to produce recently! They are all so wonderful! *\o/*

[mekare]

I already told you how much I enjoy the daily views, but don't stress yourself out! Take care.