Spring is in the Air: Your fan art Town Cryer, Saturday Edition

[red_satin_doll]

Recently tempertemper said she was taking a page from my book and promoted icontest voting specifically otherworldlyric and slayerstillness. I have to admit I had already stolen that book from velvetwhip, who tirelessly promotes fandom activity of all sorts; but I'm very glad to be part of the chain. Shall we call it a library book and simply pass it around?

tempertemper also made a wonderful point about supporting icon/art communities that I think can't be said often enough. There are so many people in this fandom and so few voting at art competitions. As a visual artist I of course vote at fiction contests but I think writers oftentimes feel shy or uncertain about voting in art contests. Maybe a grade school teacher made a cruel remark about one's abilities. Maybe one has heard one too many "experts" insist that you have to have a particular sort of education in order to be able to "understand" art. This really shouldn't be so - art belongs to everyone and we all live, breathe, take in visual images every day. We are all incredibly sophisticated and well-educated simply by dint of exposure.

So in that spirit, here are some worthy art challenges in need of your vote:

Banner by moi for character20n20

**   slayerstillness Challenge 43 "Helpless" Wonderful work and one of my favorite buffyverse episodes - how do the entries end up so often looking go great and of a piece with one another as a group? I'm side-eyeing at least one or two in a "I don't know who made this but back off because I WANT this one" kind of way. *lol*

** otherworldlyric Challenge 200  "Working for the Weekend" I really have to thank tempertemper for bringing this one back to my attention. Some of my first awards were in this comm but I have not participated in a while, and have been very remiss in terms of voting and promoting it.  This comm is also one of the most overlooked in terms of participation overall, which is a shame.

** whedon_elite Challenge 116 "Spring Time" My love of the sepias and desaturated tones is well-known but it's nice to try something different and really welcome springtime in bright, light tones;  the really interesting challenge is to come up with something "pretty and light" that also carries emotional weight. It's been a long, hard winter this year, hasn't it?

Finally, speaking of springtime, congratulations to all the winners of  Round 68 of character20n20. setentpet asked meto make banners for those who had requested it: roseemrys, punk4life1315 and spikesredqueen, and the gorgeous clear, springtime colors and the change of season inspired the colors and design of my banners. I indulged myself in a tie for Banner Maker's Choice: spikesredqueen and x_lostinthesun. Check them out here.  I used a photograph I took in 2013 of roses in my landlord's yard as the base.

       

Comments

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

A couple of people did, but they would only be able to do it as a monthly contest, and I was hoping whoever would take it over would keep a similar schedule. (One of the people ended up having RL go crazy, so it's just as well that I didn't turn it over to her because she wouldn't have been able to keep it going.)

I should probably make the offer again, but I've barely been able to think about since I replaced it with a new comm, which I run with a co-mod, comicsontv_ic, and the SunnyD Awards have been eating up my weekends.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I didn't offer, my newish job would have left no time for it.

How badly do you want to revive it? I ask because, maybe it was time to let it go? I think I was just starting to get the hang of it. But your new comm is very different to anything else I've seen "around town".

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to start it up again myself. I just don't have the time or interest. I probably won't do anything unless someone reaches out to me about it.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

And that's perfectly reasonable; you already do SO VERY MUCH for this fandom (and randoms in general) with art comms, SunnyD etc, you deserve many many plaudits and kudos.

Thank you for all you do!