Admin Post: Community Check-In for May 2019

[goss]

Today's the last day of May, 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 May, 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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[minoanmiss]

I am contemplating drawing for a Challenge of Explicitness that I've signed up for and am madly writing for (too many ideas!)

[oldtoadwoman]

I've done almost no art this year at all. I was really productive last year and up to maybe about January and then suddenly every bit of motivation I had fizzled up. I'm trying to get myself psyched up to getting back in the doodle-every-day habit. (If I call it doodling, I don't get mad at myself if I don't like the finished product.)

Isometric Rooms

[olivermoss]

Outside of MerMay things, I made some isometric rooms.

This is the first one I made:



and the third one:



The second one was just me turning the basic design of these rooms into a finished drawing. I'm drawing the living spaces from an 80s cult classic called The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. The core team live together so all the rooms will be on the same template or a mirror image of it. I am collecting the drawings here. The complete rooms are for Rawhide and Buckaroo Banzai. I am working on Perfect Tommy's room. I have the basic layouts or ideas for a bunch more rooms and plan to do several more.

While I am considering the line art completed pieces on their own, I am painting them as well:



That is why I am doing them on rough paper, which is making the line work much harder.

[ruuger]

This has been a very artsy month for me. For the 1,5 years I've been studying fine art in open university and last week was the final portfolio presentation for the basic studies (you can see some of my class assignments etc on my instagram), but besides that in the last month I've also become addicted to Youtube art videos that have inspired me to try new techniques (they also get me painting more, because I'll just put a YT-video playing on my laptop and listen to it while I paint).

[yhlee]

I'm slowly attempting to go through Riven Phoenix's The Structure of Man constructive figure drawing course on Udemy. I like his approach and quite honestly, it can't hurt.

I've also started a piece (a woman in a modern hanbok with epaulets and a bonus peacock!fox) on Procreate because I want to acclimate to my iPad sooner rather than later, but I'm still getting used to how to do the most basic things like "how do I lock a layer in this app" that I knew how to do in Photoshop or Clip Studio but have to Google help for because I suck at iOS. I entertain delusions of adding color to it eventually, but I have to fix the pencils.

[mific]

A bit of a slow month for me, and feeling pretty blocked with writing and art. Maybe due to colder weather and shorter days, as autumn sets in fully. I just did the Aquatic creature challenge art here, and one of Teyla and Jen Keller from SGA for the Wayback Exchange - Girlfriends. Writing challenge deadlines hanging over me aren't helping, so I need to get the main one done then I think I'll feel more free to do other works.

[amberdreams]

I totally missed MerMay (again) but I've been stupidly busy finishing painting my gorilla and two elephants (all gone to their respective city trails) and I have a fresh blank elephant arriving on Monday to paint for a different trail in Newcastle. The rest of May was taken up with JIB convention (Supernatural for those who don't know) in Rome, a well in Perugia and Assisi doing none of the travel sketchbooking I'd planned, but lots of sightseeing and photos instead, and getting my art posts ready for the CapRBB posting dates. Two down and two to go!
CapRBB #1 https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/889467.html
CapRBB #2 https://amberdreams.dreamwidth.org/889638.html
At some point I need to do a post about my Italian holiday, the convention, and all my sculpture painting stuff!
Here's one of my elephants - she's called Compass Rosie :D

[undergrounding]

I'm doing artslam this summer (once I figure out where to post). At least, as much as I'm able around work and life commitments, which are many.

It's mostly a way to get back into drawing daily, maybe experimenting with media and formal stuff too.