Artists! Sketch Fest?
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ellenmillionHey, would any of you guys be interested in doing a day-long Sketch Fest?
I'm modeling the idea off of Muse Fusion, which is a creative jam thing we're doing with Torn World. We designate a day, where anyone can stop by and give us prompts. (In the case of Torn World, the prompts had to be for Torn World.)
You can see the actual Muse Fusion here: http://community.livejournal.com/torn_world/13878.html
and the wrap-up here: http://community.livejournal.com/torn_world/14454.html
As you can see, it was pretty fun - we ended up with a lot of material at the end of the day, and everyone had a good time.
For the Sketch Fest, we can do anything in the fantasy/sci fi genre, or particularly portraits, maybe, for PA? So, Joe Public can stop by and say 'green-haired rock goblin!' and one or more of us sketches a green-haired rock goblin. What we do with that sketch? Entirely up to you. I recommend putting it up at PA (with or without customization options) and sending a link to the person who left the prompt, sort of like a really, really fast submitted description. Or maybe it becomes the sketch for your next big piece. Or maybe you hide it from the general public forever. You do not need to submit any of your work to PA or EMG, you can consider it just a fun art exercise or... whatever you want! The idea is that we have a fun time and make some art. If some of it ends up saleable or gets adopted, so much the better!
I recommend not spending too much time on any one piece - think of it as a speed-art day. I also recommend letting folks know if you're working on their prompts - partly so that we can spread out our efforts and make sure that everyone gets at least one prompt responded to (depending on how many people participate!), and partly to encourage audience participation. Artist participants can also put out paypal tip jars.
If this sounds like fun, let me know, and let me know what day might be good for it. A weekday is better for me, maybe 2 weeks from now?
Comment here, or at the forums and we'll work something out...
I'm modeling the idea off of Muse Fusion, which is a creative jam thing we're doing with Torn World. We designate a day, where anyone can stop by and give us prompts. (In the case of Torn World, the prompts had to be for Torn World.)
You can see the actual Muse Fusion here: http://community.livejournal.com/torn_world/13878.html
and the wrap-up here: http://community.livejournal.com/torn_world/14454.html
As you can see, it was pretty fun - we ended up with a lot of material at the end of the day, and everyone had a good time.
For the Sketch Fest, we can do anything in the fantasy/sci fi genre, or particularly portraits, maybe, for PA? So, Joe Public can stop by and say 'green-haired rock goblin!' and one or more of us sketches a green-haired rock goblin. What we do with that sketch? Entirely up to you. I recommend putting it up at PA (with or without customization options) and sending a link to the person who left the prompt, sort of like a really, really fast submitted description. Or maybe it becomes the sketch for your next big piece. Or maybe you hide it from the general public forever. You do not need to submit any of your work to PA or EMG, you can consider it just a fun art exercise or... whatever you want! The idea is that we have a fun time and make some art. If some of it ends up saleable or gets adopted, so much the better!
I recommend not spending too much time on any one piece - think of it as a speed-art day. I also recommend letting folks know if you're working on their prompts - partly so that we can spread out our efforts and make sure that everyone gets at least one prompt responded to (depending on how many people participate!), and partly to encourage audience participation. Artist participants can also put out paypal tip jars.
If this sounds like fun, let me know, and let me know what day might be good for it. A weekday is better for me, maybe 2 weeks from now?
Comment here, or at the forums and we'll work something out...
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Date: 2010-03-11 12:38 am (UTC)It could be fun if there was some kind of chat/ thread for while it was going on ... though again I'd be probably working when everyone was asleep :(
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Date: 2010-03-11 05:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-11 07:13 am (UTC)I'm 10 hours ahead of EST (about 19 or 20 hours ahead of Alaska) so yeah, 9am your time is crack of dawn the next day for me :)
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Date: 2010-03-12 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-11 05:50 am (UTC)I'm not really on par with a lot of the visual artist at TW but I just love to sketch on prompt and I haven't made time for it in a really long time.
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Date: 2010-03-12 03:42 am (UTC)There's a Friday night art thing on Twitter where artists post what they're working on with the relevant tag. #Fridaynightartdorks was it...it was on American time though, I noticed. Flickr or twitpic was used for image uploads (but PA could be used in this case). Doing this on Twitter may get the whole thing more "buzz".
I would definitely restrict the sketching/response time--playing with this may help work out what the optimal time is. I've noticed whenever regretsy.com had contests for Photoshop manips, people were restricted to something like 1 hour from the time each challenge is posted. And yet they still got brilliant work. ;) Multiple challenges a day are posted (with warnings in advance) so more can join in when they can.
I'll be keeping an eye out for this!
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Date: 2010-03-22 02:29 am (UTC)