Community Check-In for April 2019

[goss]

Tomorrow'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 April, 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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New Community Challenge

We will be kicking off a series of themed challenges centered around Creature/Character Design, starting on May 1st. Details will be posted tomorrow. :)

Comments

[goss]

Yup, our first creature challenge will definitely be coinciding with MerMay! :D :D

Does drawesome affiliate?

We're just over a year old, and haven't affiliated with any other comm on DW so far, but would be open to the possibility.

[mific]

Looking at the artslam comms, it seems more active on LJ, even though there's a mirror on DW. As it's a longer and mostly one-theme challenge across 3 months of the Northern Hemisphere summer, probably the best thing would be that if anyone's doing artslam, they tell us about it here at Drawesome at these monthly catch-up posts.

And yay for MerMay!

[dray]

Most of us post on the Discord channel and the DW has been a quieter mirror; I'm going to help armaina get the DW resource passed around this year in case people prefer posting in journal format, but rather than affiliate maybe we could snag your help in announcing sign-ups on May 15th? From May 15th to the 31st is our sign-up period so there's lots of time to get hype about the summer challenge. Hopefully if folks are wondering what to focus on, they can work with drawesome's prompts to get their draw-a-day on.

I'll see if Armaina has a post put together to share; I'm not sure if we've got an official ad or not!

[goss]

Sure! Happy to help get the word out about sign-ups. You can always make a post to the comm and tag it under resources: other challenges & comms. :)

[dray]

Awesome, thank you! That makes things super easy and is one less thing on your plate to do.

Appreciated!