Admin Post: Community Check-In for January 2019

[goss]

Today's the last day of the month, 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 January, 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, etc.

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Holiday Card Exchange: Reflections

Also, for those of you who participated, how did the Holiday Card Exchange go? We'd like to hear your thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc. :)

Comments

[syntheid]

I went to pull a WIP, which I made some progress on that was heartening, and then I got stuck again which was a bit disheartening. I sorta just stuck it in WIP form as an icon anyway, even though it's not really what I intended and I might try to come back to it again later.

Other art-wise, I sketched my D&D group's characters to do headshots for them, but I haven't made much progress with them.

On the holiday card, I thought it was fun, but might be nice to have some sort of process to acknowledge sending/receipt? I'm not sure if anyone even got mine, though I sort of assume so, since a few friends I also sent cards to on the other end of the world got theirs. I also wanted to take a picture of all of them together as a round-up post, but I'd been waiting since I wasn't sure if there were more coming. Not a huge deal, but would also help to know for next year if anyone had particular problems receiving cards I sent that maybe I could avoid. Starting earlier would also be a good idea.

But anyway, thank you to those who sent cards! They were all lovely and I still have them up on my mantle.

[mific]

Yeah that's a good idea, and a good point. I tried to individually PM the people who sent me a card. But if a card didn't get through in the mail that'd leave the artist hanging, not knowing what had happened. Also I am distractible amd may not have remembered to thank everyone by DM - I kind of lost track a bit. I think some sort of wrap up post or comment acknowledging receipt of the cards would be great, from the participants. I'll do one to demo how it could be done without too much difficulty. e.g. I think one pic of the cards rather than posting all the individual scanned cards is totally fine - only took me 5 minutes to do it.