Admin Post: Community Check-In for August 2018

[goss]

Today's the last day of August, 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 August, 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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Upcoming Group Project?

mekare has suggested having another Drawesome Group Project in the coming months. I am all on board for it, but would like to know when would be the best time for you guys. So please take a moment to fill out our poll by selecting 1-3 months. We appreciate your input. :)

Poll #20397 Drawesome Group Project

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

View Respondents

Which month(s) would you be more likely to participate in a group project?

View Answers

November 2018
3 (42.9%)

December 2018
3 (42.9%)

January 2019
5 (71.4%)

Not sure which month is best, but I would love to participate in the group project
1 (14.3%)

I will probably not be participating in the group project
0 (0.0%)

In addition, we're open to ideas for this group project, so please let us know if you have any suggestions.

Comments

[goss]

Drawesome

This month I actually managed catch up on completing previous Drawesome challenges (#17 and #18), thanks to the 10 Day Challenge, which forced me to sit and draw something everyday. I went back and found ideas that I'd begun putting together for those challenges, but had later abandoned them when RL stuff took over. So now I'm all caught up. :)

Big Bang Challenges

Also, this streak of being able to produce work continuously has given me the incentive (and confidence) to enter a couple Big Bang challenges. I signed up for both marvel_bang and dcu_bang last week, just in time to claim fic. Am in the process of reading the rough drafts and planning out my artwork. So I'm really looking forward to getting those done.

Work/RL

Yesterday was actually my first day back to work from summer vacation. Felt soooo hard to go back out to work. My actual classes start on Monday, and it's gonna be a really busy term. So I'm hoping to be really organised with my fanart, and make time for it, so that things don't get stressful when it comes to deadlines.

[mekare]

I went back and found ideas that I'd begun putting together

I really should do that more often, I have so many ideas which could be realized lying around in sketchbooks... maybe we could have a challenge for that one time/ or regularly? To get back to half finished stuff? That would be great for weeks where we need a breather.

I hope you have a lot of fun with your Marvel and DC fics! I haven't gotten mine yet, so I'm all focussed on Captain America for now.

here's to regular art time!

[goss]

maybe we could have a challenge for that one time/ or regularly? To get back to half finished stuff?

Good idea! Could you add this one to the Prompts post?

We could probably call it something like a "WiP" challenge maybe? Come to think of it, there are quite a few that I've posted here as sketches on watercolour paper, that I meant to ink or paint over, but never really went back to finish.

[mekare]

Absolutely, I‘ll do that.

[felicitygs]

Nice work! Good plan going ahead too :)

[goss]

Thanks. :)

I really want to complete all my Big Bang drawings by the end of this month, because I'm planning to take part in Inktober this year as well, which will probably take up most of my free time once October begins.

[mific]

I loved all your 10 day challenge drawings. I’m so glad the earthquake wasn’t too bad in the end, for your neck of the woods anyway.

[goss]

Thanks! :)

(Sorry for the late reply, since work started on Monday, I've just been going, going, going...)