June 2017 Sign Ups

[artslam_mods]

INTRO
armaina Here, this is the first year of the Dreamwidth mirror of ArtSlam and I hope everyone has fun! I've decided to match the original site as much as possible to keep things cohesive. With the rise in Dreamwidth users I hope it'll be just as fun over here as well as provide a place for those that left Livejournal.

FYI
Just to make sure it's clear, you can find the original community and all it's really awesome backlog at artslam

The LJ team for ArtSlam has also set up a Discord server if you'd like to join
https://discord.gg/RJe8Rt3

Additionally there is a Tumblr Mirror ArtSlam on Tumblr

There is also a sister Tumblr over at WordJam if you'd like to have a go just at writing. The WordJam aspect will be more relaxed than NaNoWriMo standards: there will be no hard limits that you have to meet. There is no Word Jam community on LJ or DW as far as I'm aware of but if anyone has something like it I wouldn't mind plugging it at all here.

ABOUT ARTSLAM
ArtSlam runs from June 1st to August 31st, providing a summer-long challenge that is simple on the surface: draw something every day. For this community, we prefer that you pick a concept and stick with it for at least one month. If you have a world that you want to explore with art, or a set of characters, this is a great place to do it! If you're shaky with perspective, background art, anatomy, or just really want to draw 30 pandas, you can hone your focus that-a-way, too.

What constitutes 'a drawing a day'? A sketch works -- preferably one where we can see what you're trying to communicate. Finishing an image takes more time, so noticeable progress on a single piece works, too.
Fill this info out and post it up as a comment, please! I'll begin adding new users tags to our list for June 1st. In the meantime, check back and leave comments as you like!

<B>Username:</B> <user name=insert username here> <b>Goal at ArtSlam signup:</b> Insert difficulty rating here: Hard (3 Months), Medium (2 Months), Easy (1 Month). You can change this towards the end of June or July if you like. One concept == one challenge, so switching means you'll be doing two or three different challenges. <b>Links:</b> Insert any pertaining links to other galleries: <a href="">dA</a>|<a href="">FA</a>|<a href="">Personal Site</a>|<a href="">Sketchblog</a>|<a href="">Tumblr</a> <b>Concept:</b> Tell us about your project for your first challenge or potentially all challenges -- stay positive: you'll do awesomely. :D (Just for fun and pre-slam discussion -- feel free to fill these out or delete them, or add topics of your own if you'd like to talk about something else.) <b>Who is your favourite artist or author? Links?:</b> <b>When did you start drawing? What do you love about it the most?:</b> <b>Any shout outs in particular for other ArtSlammers this year?:</b> <b>What's one thing you'd like to improve in the most over this summer?:</b> <b>Have you participated in past ArtSlams? Which ones?:</b> <b>If yes to the above, where are those projects now? Have any success stories that budded out of an ArtSlam challenge?:</b>

MOD STUFF
For the moment it's only armaina as a mod, but if any LJ users with accounts here would like to mod here as well please let me know, you're welcome to help mod. As I remain the only person at the moment, achievements might be slow but I'll keep on it best I can. If anyone else thinks they can volunteer I would appreciate it. Tasks would be to make sure nothing outside of guidelines are posted and that tags are kept orderly as well as helping keep up with achievements.

Comments

[somnous]

Username: somnous

Goal at ArtSlam signup: 1 month (i'll possibly be travelling end of june-beginning of july)

Links: i'm a nervous fool about giving out my art urls

Concept: mainly, i hope to be working on things to either: a. keep my (furry primarily, but also nonfurry) art accounts active/have examples for commissions, or b. explore some of the ideas i've been tossing around in my head for years. i'll be primarily working either in watercolor or digital media.

i'd like to work on furry character designs, just for examples not specifically for development of characters/stories, because i've been struggling to get outside of what i think is "respectable" character design which is just stifling. i'm also not really familiar with how i want to approach anthros, because i'm really kinda new to it?? so anatomy and making it look like the animal its based on is going to be a heavy focus there.

i've been vaguely considering taking steps towards making a casual webcomic again, like building up something that i'm not so emotionally attached to that perfectionism takes over, but we'll see. the last comic i did crashed and burned because of me going back to school and it devouring my life.

lastly, and most unlikely of them all considering i'm mainly working on a netbook, i'd like to get back into either recording or streaming my work to put up on youtube, etc. the last recording i did was extremely choppy so it's probably not going to be a thing.

Who is your favourite artist or author? Links?:
francis bacon, cassandra complex (RI artist), william blake, idk. i have a hard time keeping track of artists online so nothing comes to mind there.

When did you start drawing? What do you love about it the most?:
as a kid, like i don't even remember when, but i got into it more when i encountered The Anime TM in middle school. i like a lot of things about it, like it gives me a way to express myself and get out emotions and concepts, and i like telling stories so comics has always been a thing i've wanted (and done? a little bit?) to do. the things i dislike are i guess more Prominent, which is the amount of energy and how much joint pain i'm in without throwing in working on art, but its literally my job. even if i didn't go to school for it (i wasn't originally going to school for shit) it would still be like the only thing i'd want to do with my life.

What's one thing you'd like to improve in the most over this summer?:
tbh i'd like to improve on my ability to complete things, quickly, but well. having a degenerative joint disease is still p new to me and i have lost a lot of my ability to work steadily/continuously now that i am out of school and therefore not Required to.

Have you participated in past ArtSlams? Which ones?:
nope, never. p nervous about it.

[artslam_mods]

Nothing to be nervous about, most important to feel motivated and have fun! your tag is set as somnous