Admin Post: Community Check-In for April 2018

[goss]

It's the last day of April, 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 April, 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.

Comments

[mific]

April seems to have flashed past! I've been struggling to write my Captain America Big Bang story (more underway now at 6000 words, thank goodness) and distracting myself from that by doing art and other short fics! As well as the artworks made for Drawesome challenges, I also did a portrait of Bucky and Steve (G rated) to practice watercolour technique. Bucky came out well but I flubbed the texture of Steve's face a bit and had to fix him digitally.
Plus I did a quick (for me) John/Rodney painting (PG for cuddling boys but the fics are explicit) for Brumeier (an SGA friend)'s birthday to illustrate one of her fics. That one turned out well, probably as there was no time to overthink and overwork it, hah!
I got a postcard block book in the '642 Things To Draw' range* to practice drawing more, and am looking forward to trying it (also it'll be great for Inktober as it restricts the size I can do, so uses less time). Each postcard has a short prompt on it, like "15 hood ornaments", "5 tea cakes", "a lost map". The card probably won't be great for watercolour, but it should work for drawing, ink and gouache.
Plus it was National USA Poetry month, so I posted a couple of poems to my DW. I've taken on too many challenges, as usual, although some are art ones which will be easier than the writing deadlines.
It's autumn here, with unpredictable weather and a 24 hour power outage at one point. At least I got more sleep that night!

* No there aren't 642, just 30 in the block!

[minoanmiss]

Oh my goodness, you did National Poetry Month too? I need to find your poem posts!

[mekare]

Hey I love the check-in posts because there's always artwork I would have otherwise missed, like your demon!John piece. Great!

[jainas]

I'm always impressed with your colored pieces... :-) And kudos for managing to do those AND write a +6000 words story!