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Chit-Chat / Re: Tell us about yourself
« on: January 26, 2020, 08:47:59 AM »
Glass! I wonder if the different colours would have different flavours. And would the shapes/usage influence the taste as well? Would a soft pink wine-glass taste different than the windshield of a car or the green glass of a beerbottle?

My question, if you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be and why?

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Art and Elfquest / Re: EQ Fan Art paint chat is open!
« on: January 23, 2020, 11:17:45 AM »
Oooooooh this is really cool! A lot of Photoshop shortcuts work which is really neat. I've claimed a space, I'll try to scribble something tonight

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: January 05, 2020, 03:40:31 AM »
I get a "Something went wrong. 404" error when I go to the "Products" tab on Zazzle.
Calendar looks amazing though, props to everyone for their hard work!  :love

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: November 05, 2019, 10:41:04 AM »
@Wildfire I don't have Facebook so I wouldn't be able to promote it there myself but I do send out personal invites to members of this group that aren't always active (but have participated in the calendar in the past) as well as places like DeviantArt. Messaging people here has often worked and I have had a positive response in the past from going around and inviting artists from different sites but ultimately those invited artists have rarely worked out. They say yes, I want to participate and then end up dropping the calendar at the last minute or just not responding to messages after a point. So nowadays I tend to shy away from invitations.
The dropout rate is discouraging for sure. Especially if they've been invited personally.
Should the calendar continue, I'd be happy to do some promoting on Facebook. I've posted about the calendar a few times and people are always excited about it, so there has to be some untapped interest there. Doing a monthly/bi-monthly promo would (if nothing else) help garner some excitement.

...As for sharing sketches and the like, I didn't make the calendar rules. They were passed down to me but I think the reasoning behind the not posting anywhere rule is getting an advanced look at the artwork does dull the excitement of seeing it finished and for the first time but it also taints judging and may allow someone to usurp an idea and use it themselves. If you want to send private messages and share work behind the scenes please go ahead.

Collaborations are fun and encouraged. We've had a few in past calendars and if that is something that interests people we could do a whole collaboration calendar.
A thought - is it possible to set up a subsection of the forum to be for invited members only? Having a place where people can collaborate openly or ask and receive feedback might be good, both for the calendar and the website. Having somewhere to turn to for help if you get stuck without an idea or need some help with posing or colours. Even just hearing some positivity and a few encouraging words from other members might help people finish their entry. As it is now, it is a fairly lonesome challenge. Treefox has helped me out a ton through the years (:love), but that was through email, and establishing that connection for a new member would be nigh impossible.
Sketchfab (https://forum.sketchfab.com/c/past-challenges/halloween-contest-2015) does monthly challenges where people post WIP works and it's a lot of fun to follow the different processes. Doing something similar might be worth a shot. We might all learn something new.
People stealing ideas is honestly not something I'd worry about with how small of a group we are. Even if they did "steal" (there has been similar ideas in the past), it's still fun to see the difference in execution and style.

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starting earlier

Tasks expand to fill the time available. Most years I start properly sketching a few months before the deadline, and I doubt that I'm alone for that. Usually the fandom challenges that I've been a part of has had a runtime of 4-5 months at the absolute maximum. Most run for 2 months for a reason. Interest quickly starts to dwindle and people simply forget that they've signed up for it.

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varying the characters
For the "Tribes" year, we were each assigned a tribe. How was that received? If we're no more than 12 people that might be a way to do it unless people hated it.

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: November 02, 2019, 02:17:21 PM »
Perhaps it's more a question of promoting it? Posting a "signups are open!" post on the Facebook group would generate a lot of attention, as would contacting the various holts. Generally making people aware of the project and what it has to offer throughout the year.
Another thought - maybe losing the locked format would make some people more interested as well. But it wouldn't be possible to have a printed version if there's 12 different aspect ratios of course... Maybe trying a vertical version would mix it up a bit?
It's curious that the weekly calendar from a few years back was hugely successful. The portraits one was really popular as well.

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Chit-Chat / Re: Howl of Farewell
« on: October 31, 2019, 01:54:18 PM »
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Thanks for letting us know, and sorry for your loss :(

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: October 31, 2019, 01:49:05 PM »
I just submitted! ;D I didn't manage to submit early even though I'd planned on it, but it's done.

I'm sorry to hear about the lack of art. I love this place even if I don't use it terribly much, but it has always been a labour of love tied to the calendar. If interest is dwindling away to other areas of the internet, it might be time to let it go. The Elfquest fandom is still out there, doing the calendar project elsewhere (Tumblr, Deviantart, Reddit, Discord are just a few that comes to mind. Even a Facebook group might do, but Facebook is ill suited for that kind of thing) might be a possibility. It would remove the burden of hosting and maintaining the site and maybe draw in a part of the fanbase that doesn't frequent forums as much as they did 10 years ago.

I've pretty much been committed to the calendar for a solid decade lmao, but committing to something beyond that - I won't be able to do that. I enjoy this niche of the fandom a lot, and I might participate in whatever challenge would come, but I can't promise anything more concrete than that.

That being said, I hugely appreciate that you're not shutting it down overnight. I never imagined that you would, but I never imagined the SoC going down that way either.

@Yavia, I had some trouble with the theme as well, you're not alone! Sometimes broad themes can be difficult  ;)

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: October 17, 2019, 09:54:50 AM »
Krita's not availble on an iPad no. I tried Krita (on my desktop) a while back but I couldn't really get the hang of it. I'm just too used to Photoshop, I've been using it for years and years hah. It's a good alternative to Gimp, though it does fewer of the photography related things.

How's your entry going jaRf? Vectors, I asssume?

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: October 16, 2019, 11:45:34 AM »
Good luck indeed! I'm sure it'll look wonderful.
If Adobe Sketch doesn't pan out, I've heard really good things about Procreate.

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: October 12, 2019, 02:44:45 AM »
Poses are the worst!  :lol

Ooo, all digital Treefox? That's exciting! Are you still using Gimp?

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: October 01, 2019, 12:00:15 PM »
How's it going for everyone? 30 days left! :D As always, I was super slow to get started, but now the ball is rolling and I might just finish before time for once :O

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2020 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: February 07, 2019, 12:48:44 PM »
I'd also like to join :)

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: February 07, 2019, 12:21:47 PM »
It's been on the horizon for a few years, I think, and with good reason. As much as I love this project, interest has been waning. The EQ fandom is active enough that I'm sure there'll be other outlets/projects :) And I love the idea of continuing in a different way, it'll be exciting to see what happens.

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: February 04, 2019, 11:25:07 AM »
I'm late as always, but thanks for hosting again, Maggie! You do a great service to the Elfquest fandom every year, pulling all of the artists/works/other strings together is not a small task. Thank you!

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: January 01, 2019, 12:06:57 PM »
Oh my goodness! All the art is so amazing, I'll have to look more closely at the submissions in the coming days :O

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: November 19, 2018, 12:40:13 AM »
I submitted my entry as well, so there's at least 11 entries :)

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: October 25, 2018, 07:10:04 AM »
I'm doing 3D (at least partially) so I'm super not done. I'll get it done one way or the other though! :D

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 EQ Fan Art Calendar Guidelines
« on: August 12, 2018, 09:59:36 AM »
I've been super busy with moving, adorable new kittens, and other RL stuff, so I've barely had time to draw in the past few months!
But I'm still in, I have a rough sketch and an idea for the colourpalette. I hope to get most of it done during August :)

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Art and Elfquest / Re: Vote for the 2019 Fan Calendar Theme
« on: December 01, 2017, 03:27:17 PM »
Oh man, I like all of these and want to vote for... 6 or 7 or them. This'll be tough!

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 Fan Calendar Theme
« on: November 29, 2017, 11:48:25 AM »
Ohhh Colours is an interesting idea! That has a lot of potential, though it might end up resembling the "Tribes" year significantly if whoever does green does the Wolfriders and white does Go-Backs etc. Encouraging participants to use the colours in unexpected ways (ex Preservers - grey, Wolfriders - pink etc) might result in some fun submissions!

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Art and Elfquest / Re: A Wolfrider's Reflections question
« on: November 23, 2017, 07:16:22 AM »
Ohhh I loved the darker ones, the Winnowill, Strongbow and Tyldak ones especially as far as I remember. The music was rather tacky IMO but I enjoyed it immensely when I was a kid :D

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2019 Fan Calendar Theme
« on: November 04, 2017, 06:24:20 AM »
I absolutely love the "Seasons" idea! Joselle's Mucha imagining in 2006 was gorgeous, I'd love to see other people's take on the Seasons.

Lots of great suggestions here, I'd like to add "Movie-verse" to the mix. Dress the elves up as different movie characters/settings/tropes (Cutter as a Clint Eastwood styled cowboy in a standoff with Rayek?) or use a style particular to an era of movies (Winnowill in a film noir setting? ). This might be two different ideas or one, I'm not sure, but I'm thinking basically a remix of the Elfquest Through the Ages theme, just with movies or TV :)

I'm good with nudity as well.

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2018 EQ Fan Calender Guidelines
« on: October 21, 2017, 03:16:31 AM »
Ekuar is quite different face-wise than most other EQ characters, I like that about this theme. Difficult yes, but it'll be interesting to see everyone's take on Ekuar!

@jaRF oh yeah his missing limbs are something to look out for for sure! I decided in the 11th hour that I liked the feel of my composition better when I flipped the image horizonally, which usually isn't a big thing (flip the hair/add an ornamental doo-dad/switch the stitching on the clothes a bit) but with this one it turned out to be a rather massive change hah!

Oh and on outlines, you can always colour your lineart if that makes it easier, it can remove some of the starkness of the black lines. I'm not terribly good at lineart myself, I often leave it out and just block out everything first, and in the end tighten the image with a "border" instead of proper lineart. Working with vector is very different though, I can't imagine needing to keep everything so crisp!

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2018 EQ Fan Calender Guidelines
« on: October 18, 2017, 03:18:46 PM »
I know I said I'd have it finished last week, but life and Ekuar's face happened (he's so hard to draw!). Hopefully I'll be finished tomorrow :)

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Art and Elfquest / Re: 2018 EQ Fan Calender Guidelines
« on: October 08, 2017, 12:11:56 PM »
Oh man, that absolutely sucks. It's always risky running a challenge like this with so few participants, but it does seem like the interest has been dwindling in the past few years. It's a shame, I've really loved this project, it's been a huge part in shaping my art and approach to fandom in general. If it (and the site) does shut down, I'll be pretty devastated, but running a site/fanevent like this only for nostalgia's sake isn't really sustainable. It's only really alive if people participate.
I'll absolutely understand if you shut the site down, I'm not nearly active enough on here to in any shape or form demand that you keep it up :(

Regarding the time-frame, I've run a few fan-challenges over on Tumblr, and in my experience, people having longer to finish their submission does not mean that they actually use that time. If people only have 4 weeks they'll probably deliver the same result as if they have 10 months and a few people will always drop out. Which of course sucks as an admin, but there'll always be something that comes up, good excuses, bad excuses, lack of interest, whatever. There's not really anything any of us can do to stop that.

I made a post on the Elfquest Facebook site and on the Discord chat, maybe a few people will consider signing up. :) I'll try to finish my submission over this week and maybe I can take on another entry.

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