Would anyone be interested in a new monthly Sumea paint activity?
It's something we could run once a month and have all the contributions placed in a nice gallery for comment and viewing etc?
I'm a bit over my head with stuff to do on the site at the moment, but we'll definitely get this off sometime near the beginning of next year.
I also want to do some sort of "member focus" that I've mentioned around here ages ago. A likely set of interviews on Sumea profile members on their work etc for the Sumea Creative section. We need to get some of the art activities happening back on the site!
Ok, I'm starting our new monthly paint activity NOW. This is your assignment for this month. Everyone is required to join in the fun, otherwise I will get *very upset*.
For this entire month, I want all participants to concentrate on this topic. You can spend as much time or as little time as you like. But in the end, I want to see something from everyone. You can provide sketches, you can do a speed paint, or if you have a tonne of time to spare, you could do a full blown complete piece. It's up to you. The thing is, you have to try. If you don't, I will be very disappointed. I don't care if you think you suck or not. Give it a go!
The topic for this month is this: A nude man with wings. Yes, we have a nude figure with wings on the Sumea main page, and you can use that for inspiration if you like, or you can go completely off on another tangent. Up to you! Just make it interesting!!!!
Post your thread in this section of the forum (Sumea Quick Activities). Name it:
Paint Activity #1: (Your name)
The size of your canvas is 1000x800 pixels. At the end of the month, I'm going to compile all the pics and place them in a special viewing gallery on Sumea!!Souri2007-03-01 07:43:59
Here's my contrib (yer I'm a programmer, not an artist):
Not gonna put it in its own thread... Should we be keeping all of the paint activity related stuff inside the pain activity thread anyways?
PS: LOL this is the first time I've ever actually painted something in photoshop - I've read tuts and that on it but I never actually went and did it - yays for quick activities.
We'll go with Makk's on for the time being. I'm more than happy to go with green alien for the next one. We had a good number of people participating in the previous activity, and I hope even more people at least have a go with this one.
We're not expecting everyone to submit polished pieces that had hours and hours of time spent on them. If you don't have much time, consider doing a pencil sketch, or a black and white paint concept (I wish I had an example handy to show on the awesome work you can do with thick brushes and black + white paint in photoshop). Have a go, people! (and yes, this applies to myself as well, I'm currently on the hunt for a gfx tablet).
LOL self-portraits, my last cruddy submission was a self-portrait, but since I don't have any time to draw anything new because I've got too many assignments to do I guess I can at least post a couple of self portraits I've sketched into my design journal since yer, I'm pretty self obsessed.
For some reason I had to reformat my PC and now I have no photoshop, and I can't use paint , here's the sketches of my self-obsession.
I'm looking forward to green alien month
So I can draw something new
Sounds good. Its good to be given a task to tackle, especially if its something you wouldn't often attempt. expands your skills. I'd be in!