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]

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!