Challenges and Things

[laisserais]

Hello Everyone! I have been bugging goodbyebird to let me run some challenges and things in this comm and she is being gracious and letting me.

Since I am too cheap to have a paid account, there is no poll, BUT! I am looking for feedback from y'all. What kind of icon battles/challenges would be interesting to you? Some ideas I've had so far:

*Show us your psds
--This one is totally going to happen, and I'm announcing the details probably tomorrow. It will be a free-for-all where you can post as many psds as you'd like, either a link to your own journal/other journal or in the comm. And everyone can read and comment and ask questions about your techniques. 

*Technical Challenge
--You sign up and get tagged to make one icon using a particular technique. Sort of like a round robin, you watch the comm to see when you've been tagged, and then have 24 hours to do your icon.

*Team Battle
--You sign up and work with another artist, with each one taking a turn at making a layer, and then you post your completed icon (or icon set) on your assigned day.

*Ask the Maker Spotlight
--I'd like to do something where we have guest icon makers come and discuss their process.

--> Question: Most of us use some version of Photoshop, I think. Who uses something else? GIMP? Other? A program that cannot produce a layered object?

Please let me know in comments if you are interested in these sorts of challenges, and/or if there are other ideas you'd like to see. This is YOUR community! We are one of the most-frequented icon communities on dreamwidth, and I want to hear from you! Everyone gets a vote, even if you're just watching this comm; even if you don't make icons.

Comments

[goodbyebird]

lol I thought Teen Wolf was your excuse for wining it up ;)

Huh, did not know that. I guess they all figured it'd be a good idea to cater to the most used platform.

Sounds good! What kind of code were you thinking?

Yeah, an ask the maker thing would be very cool. Just make sure we space them out properly so people don't burn out.

Icon praise is awesome. I followed the lj comm religiously before hehe. The graphics community on dw isn't all that big though, so a monthly or at most bi-weekly post would probably be best, where people can praise in the comments(and maybe it would be neat if they could also praise up to five of their own favorite comics from that month? Also, would we be sticking to the smallbatch theme of five max?).

[laisserais]

tbh I think everything is an excuse to have a glass of something. ;)

Hm for code, I mean a box with a code in it people and c/p. but i don't know how to do any of that--like have the pic link back to the comm? Sort of like our sticky.

Did you mean 'five of their own favorite icons'? I agree. Maybe once a month, if we intersperse other things. I really like the idea of praise. And yeah, don't you think--five praises at a time?

[goodbyebird]

The way you make a box with code in it is to type textarea, put it in brackets like any other code. I'll put the rest in a textbox myself, but can't put the textarea bit in there since that'll cancel it. So you gotta add that on yourself.

<center><a href="URL for challenge post"><img src="URL for banner"></a><br>We're hosting a <big><big><big><font color="#f29f05">PSD exchange</font></big></big></big> over at <user name="smallbatchicons">. We hope you'll join us for blah blah whatever info you might need.</center>

Something like that?

Yeah, up to five of their own, with up to five icons by other ppl, with text as to why they like it being optional. Should we restrict it to stuff posted on dw?

[laisserais]

yeah, a text box like that! Ok, for reals, this weekend I am figuring out a schedule.

hm, I think we should keep it as wide open as possible, don't you? Encourage cross platform discussion?

[goodbyebird]

Good good! I was thinking, maybe if we're doing the PSD thing here first, that I could kick off the icon request fest at comicbook_icons?

Sounds good to me :)

[laisserais]

DID YOU KNOW THERE MIGHT BE A LUTHER PREQUEL.

[goodbyebird]

lol yeah I did. Long before the third season aired actually, though not that it would be a prequel. I thought roadtrips with my favorite sociopath, but alas. Still, Elba rocking it up on the big screen? Yes yes yes please.

Oh, and I did the thing over at comicbook_icons. Just in case, y'know *cough*SAGA*cough*

[laisserais]

eeee! EXCITE

And good cross promotion timing. Oh that reminds me *goes back to editing banner*

[goodbyebird]

Yeah I figured since we're doing PSDs here first, we could get the other request fest out of the way. I just hope people will actually join in.

Hehe you're doing good with the banner. I tend to just slap one together :p

[laisserais]

http://i.imgur.com/d8zl8CT.png

Y/N?

[goodbyebird]

ooh me like!