Admin Post: Community Check-In for July

[goss]

Today is the last day of the month, and the perfect time to check in and chat with us. How have things been with you? :)

Was it a busy month, were you swamped? Did you get the chance to take part in any fandom activities or are you 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.

Comments

Re: Oops, that got long.

[amberdreams]

Oh I just discovered alby_mangroves today and was exploring her tumblr earlier! I love her most recent set of pencil drawings!

Re: Oops, that got long.

[mekare]

That's great! She's so accomplished and she produces an insane amount of work (I don't know how she finds the time). And yes, her pencil drawings are also very good. If you are into Captain America, check out her "Steve Roger's notebook series" where she draws stuff that Steve would have drawn (pre-war, while-war etc.), his mother for instance.

Maybe we should have a post sometime where we link to artists we admire and what specifically we like about their art, or what particular skill we like, or learn from. Like for me, alby's use of pastel layering (she has a tutorial which could go into our resource post in the future here).

And I remember there was a comm like "meet the artist" or something on LJ i think? Where artists were profiled and they talked about their process and materials etc. That could go in our resource post, too since there'd be tons of cool links and how-tos and so on.