Admin Post: Community Check-In for October

[goss]

Tomorrow will be the last day of the month (Halloween!), and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you?

Did you take part in any fandom activities in October, 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.

Also, if you participated in Inktober over the past couple weeks, how has the experience been?

Comments

[goss]

Inktober

Right now I am experiencing complete burn out. I thought I could make it through to the final week, but with the added pressure of RL/work stress, I...just can't right now.

But! The first 3 weeks were AMAZING. I feel like this has been the most art I've ever produced in one month. Not only that, but even though I've been creating fanart for years and years, I'd never really explored ink as a medium. Plus the lack of colour pigment meant that I got the chance to really play around with lighting and positive/negative space in order to create visual interest.

It's been a joy checking the community each week, and my flist too, and being inspired and motivated by all the wonderful artists and artwork being produced for this challenge.

Inktober has also been helping me deal with my perfectionist tendencies, which I often struggle with. Having to produce so much, in such a short space of time, forced me to (somewhat) let go of my need to produce a 100% finished/perfect piece every single time. I've always been an all-or-nothing type wrt to my art, where I'd rather produce nothing at all than something half-done. But there is definitely something to be said for quantity over quality sometimes, and I'd really love to keep up with producing artwork (regardless of quality) on a regular basis, and keep this momentum going. So thank you, Inktober! And congrats to all who took part it in too! :D

Other Deadlines and Projects

I have no other deadlines at the moment. I deliberately left this month clear, and November as well, since they're always a busy time for me IRL.

As for projects, I'm thinking maybe for December month, here at drawesome, we could possibly engage in some kind of group art activity. Any ideas for this would be welcome... :)

[mific]

Group projects, hmmm. The introduction pieces we did were fun. What if everyone who wanted to filled up a puzzle piece with anything they liked - maybe something meaningful to them or linked to their home/where they’re from, or anything at all, could be colours or a pattern. Then we could join them up at the end (I’d be happy to do that in photoshop). The number joining in wouldn’t matter, as the end result wouldn’t have to be symmetrical.

We could use a puzzle piece like this, for example.

[goss]

Oohh, puzzle! I like that idea! And that the nature of this one keeps it open in subject matter and to a flexible number of participants.

Another variation could be more structured, with an outlined picture for people to fill however they want. But of course the division of puzzle pieces would depend on a specific number of members joining in. I remember fanartivation on LJ having these group Grid Projects, that were pretty fun to take part in.

[mekare]

I really like the idea of a collaborative project in general and the puzzle piece idea is neat!

[goss]

Awesome! :)

[minoanmiss]

*fans you*

A collaborative project sounds so nifty!

[goss]

Good to know you guys are on board with the idea of a collaborative project for the community. :)

[mekare]

I feel like this has been the most art I've ever produced in one month

That's definitely true for me!

And I was pretty happy in that I only planned to do something every two to three days, it was hard enough as it is and I've great respect for all of you who managed to do it.