Admin Post: Community Check-In for November

[goss]

Tomorrow's the last day of November, 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 November, 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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Some Community Activities to look forward to:
(1) December - Holiday Card Exchange:
It's quite casual, where you can choose to send out one or multiple cards to our community members. So if you'd like to join in, you can always leave a comment in this post, and I'll add your mailing info to the shared listing.

(2) January - Group Project:
We took a poll back in August, and January came out on top as the month that most people would prefer to do a Group Project. If you have any suggestions or ideas for a group project, please chip in, we want to hear from you. :)

Comments

[syntheid]

I finished up this bird I started ... originally for a Skillshare class and then kinda. Veered off course and did a more elaborate/graphic background.

And I did some work trying to design my half-orc druid with snake companion for a D&D campaign. I want to do similar stuff for the whole group, but this took me so long so I need to rethink the way I'm working on them.

Started brainstorming ideas for cards and for a couple friends, too, and since I signed up for the exchange I actually have to do the cards next!

I keep finding I'm frustrated with how I feel like I'm either too sketchy and nothing I manage to do feels 'finished', or lean too far the other way and end up spending much too long on single WIP projects for months, and I want to find better middle ground with a mix of sketches, studies, and 'finished' stuff. Part of which, as I mentioned above, is going to be trying to figure out a way to work faster and still end up with something I like, so I think I'm going to try to experiment with some simplification over the next month.

[jainas]

I saw the bird, I really like how it turned out, the balance between the realistic bird and the more stylised background is great.

Good luck with the experimentations! I tend to love the "sketchy" style, but I do agree, the balance can be difficult to find.