Admin Post: Community Check-In for June

[goss]

Today's the last day of June (wow!), 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 June, 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.

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[jainas]

Busy month:

I took a 32h course in artisanal silk screen printing (I think it's the name? In french we call it Sérigraphie) spread over the week-ends, which was very fun but also kinda exhausting because I was also busy house hunting. I learned a lot and treated myself to a full serigraphie kit with press, paints, screen, various chemicals... During the courses we worked on assigned designs, and outside the classes I only had the time to work on one personal design early on, with the first technique we learned. My first try printing at home was a disaster as at the time I didn't have all the supplies I needed. ^^ No time yet to try again with more interesting techniques. I also was panning to make a recap post about it with pictures and explanations, but didn't have the time yet.
Some pictures can be found on my tumblr: https://jainas-art.tumblr.com/post/174920270932/jainas-art-working-at-adapting-my-inktober-crow or my instagram https://www.instagram.com/jainas/
I reworked one of my inktober drawings to work with serigraphie! :)

I also did two fanarts for a french rare fandoms exchange. They are still anonymous, but I think I can safely out myself here. ^^

- The Ancient Magus Bride : Chise & Elias, Tentacle hug with tastful nudity ^^ https://obscur-echange.livejournal.com/229436.html
- The Adams family: a child's "potato drawing" of his family, by Puberté Adams. Needless to say, it's not quite like other children's drawings of their families. I wrote a short fic (in french, sorry ;) ) to go with it, dealing with Puberté describing the drawing to his teacher and her reaction. You have to scroll down a bit to get to the drawing: https://obscur-echange.livejournal.com/229864.html

And that's it for this month!

Next month I have to get serious with my Hannibal Ravage piece, and finish an ongoing illustration I have neglected the past few months. I'll also try to do more silk screen printing, bu it's time consuming and it's already looking like my month will be pretty busy, so we shall see.

[olivermoss]

Those silkscreens look great!

[mific]

I love the silk screened ravens - it looks really hard to make those screens. Also the tentacle monster one is amazing, if a bit creepy!

[mekare]

Oooh the silk screen printing looks magnifique! Quand tu as plus d‘images, please share :-)
J‘ai reconnu Elias de ton message sur le manga, c‘est image est très tendre et un peu troublant. :-)

[jainas]

Thank you!
I'll try again soon wit the same screen, but I think my first try it was poorly made, so I'd probably be better off cleaning it and starting anew. ^^ I'll take pictures even of the failures! ^^

Platonic consentacle is the new thing. :D