ARTISTS: THE GATHERING

[chimney]

WEEELLLCOOOMMMEEE
...to the somewhat grand opening of drawingboard!

If you've read the profile or came here from plurk, then you probably already know this, but! This community is dedicated to connecting artists on dreamwidth and allowing them to request critique, share resources, techniques, references, et cetera! For more info, see the faq.

here's some links!
RULES WHAT RULES
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUIBBLER
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE [member-locked mod contact, yo]

This is an obligatory meet-and-greet post/meme/shebang with an obligatory form to help y'all introduce yourself. (yourselves?)

NAME
age: if you wanna give it out...
are you in art school? were you? is art a hobby? do you deign to offer a reply?
where you at: codes are provided for tumblr, deviantart, and plurk, but you can fill out or remove whatever you want.
what mediums do you use? paints, pencils, digital, programs, etc
whaddya want: tell us a bit about yourself and/or what do you hope to get out of this comm. do you want to discover art/artists to follow? collect resources? receive critique?
OBLIGATORY GIF CATEGORY: obligatory gif category

<span style="text-transform:uppercase; font-family:Georgia; font-style:italic; font-size:14pt; color:#ED6F2F; letter-spacing:1px;">NAME</span> <b>age:</b> <b>are you in art school?</b> <b>where you at:</b> <user name="" site="tumblr.com"> | <user name="" site="deviantart.com"> | <user name="" site="plurk.com"> <b>what mediums do you use?</b> <b>whaddya want:</b> <b>OBLIGATORY GIF CATEGORY:</b>

Comments

[callmewing]

Yeah, that's one of the big things holding me back. Ideally, I'd want to like...do a whole damn story arc before starting, but then that starts to conflict with the "DAMN IT I WANT TO SHOW SOMEONE THIS" urge.

...that, and how the hell does building a website even work. Or paying for one.

[chimney]

i think that's a good idea actually. after i called the hiatus i realized all the things i could've added/done better, like all the little details and foreshadowing and things, and sadfaced at my previous pages. it's been on my agenda to redo them/rework the storyline or something but it's such a daunting task to stare at. i'd probably be plurking/tumblring my pages for the world to see before they went up, too, haha.

you can use webcomic sites! there's free ones for everyone to use (like comicfury and uh, this one site with ducks in the url i forget which one it was) and there are comic circles, i.e. people who buy a domain/has a website and add comic artists who do a specific kind of comic genre to it. alternatively you could buy a domain and host it with comicfury/another comic hosting site, usually for free.

...i was p. serious about this when i started lmf 8D

[callmewing]

I know there's Smackjeeves and Comicpress. :|a I'd ideally want something that could be customized to give it a more... I guess legitimate feel, would be the way to word it. For that, I'd need the help of someone who knows coding/HTML/etc, though.

Now that I think about it, I should probably stop fretting over the daunting things like HOW DO I WEBSITE and actually work on material first. Then cross the website bridge when I actually have stuff to have a website for.

[chimney]

ahh yeah, that's always the hard part. you could go with a WYSIWYG site hoster? i think wix is one. or maybe it's webs.com. lets you drag and drop elements without going through the coding/html stuff. not as customizable as doing the coding yourself, but better default comic hosting sites? but there's the downside of not being listed with the other comics where a lot of people see them. :C

LMAO. i learned the website stuff before i started doing comics so that was my problem solved, but yeah. you could go with smackjeeves or comicpress default layouts to start with and slowly code things here and there as you go along.