Admin Post: Community Check-In for December

[goss]

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

Did you get a chance to take part in any fandom activities in December, 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, New Year's Resolutions, etc.

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We've had a wonderful year here at drawesome. It's been exciting to see our community growing and taking shape. We've been quite productive over the last 12 months, made lots of new friends here, and enjoyed encouraging and supporting each other. Wishing all of you a New Year filled with fun, creativity, love and kindness! :)

Comments

[jainas]

I struggled a bit on the cards too... congrat for getting them done!

I did a 12 month recap, which is an accomplishement for me to have managed for the first time in many years! Some months were very productives and other not at all and I did have to go digging through some sketchbooks for some unpublished drawings, but I did draw every month this year!:) \o/
As for a 2018 summary it is a good Idea as well! I suspect it may be way more time consuming to make, but it is nice to be able to look back on all the thing one drew in a year!

Good luck with submiting for zines! I did it this year with fanzines, and had a lot of fun. :)

[syntheid]

Thanks!

Did you post your recap? I also had to fudge a bit, hah. But yay for you, drawing every month! That's basically what I meant as a recap, it's just one piece from every month in 2018.

Do you have tips on finding fanzines? I've been having a hard time figuring out where to find stuff I might be interested in, ahah. Maybe because I was never very good at tumblr, but I feel like I only find things after they're published.

[jainas]

The first fanzine I participed in was recced to me by a friend who knew I low-key shipped a pairing, and the other one was from peoples I was already following because they had already made Hannibal anthologies in the past.
So I'd suggest letting your fannish friends know that you are on the lookout for fanzine and what fandom/theme interest you; and following people who already made fanzines... My first fanzine was by https://thezinezone.tumblr.com/ and so far they made fanzines in 3 different fandoms.
I'm pretty sure also that there is a gdoc floating around where people can add their planned fanzines, I may be able to track it down again. Maybe a post on the community fictional_fans could also help, people may know of fanzines in the work or have useful tips on where to look.