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Around the World in 30 Days!
Update Oct. 18: You have two more weeks to send in your art. Scroll down to the bottom to see some of the other entries!
This month, you're challenged to take a piece from your gallery and redo it in an art style from a different country's artistic tradition. When you finish your piece, submit it to dA and link to it on our journal. We'll be featuring the art in this journal as it comes in - if you put the old and new piece side-by-side, you can also send it into our Before and After gallery. You can do more than one, if you have the time.
At the end of the month, we'll create a map showing off all the places we've been, artistically. Let's see how much of the globe we can cover!
For bonus bragging rights:
- Celebrate Halloween this month by having one piece relate to the holiday
- Slip this challenge in a couple of your Inktober images
- Pick an unusual country
- Draw while wiggling your ears
Rules:
- Don't just do an art style from your own country. Instead, explore! Push outside your comfort zone!
- Don't take the easy route and do usual suspects (realism, impressionism, manga, cartoons, etc). I see those memes all the time. YOU CAN, HOWEVER, be inspired by a specific movement or time period that includes one of those. For example, you could do something in the style of the golden era of comics in the US or a piece inspired by the Swedish Halmstad group, which used cubism and surrealism. The idea is to research and discover new things about art. Don't take the easy way out!
Questions you might have:
Q: Do I have to only re-do old pieces from my gallery? I want to make new ones! And I have only 2 pieces in my gallery right now...
A: No, it's not a hard and fast rule. There may be many reasons you'd want to do a brand new piece for this challenge (especially if you're doing many). But remakes are cool and show improvement, nudge, nudge.
Q: So you're saying we shouldn't do the most obvious styles (like manga or realism). But what if I make them specific to a place and time? Like what if I do Russian Realism and put a bear drinking vodka and a ton of snow in my picture? Can I do it then?
A: Yikes, no need to get the poor bear drunk, but yes. If you do (for example) realism inspired by the traditions of Russia specifically, that'll count. As long as you use a specific movement within an art style, you're good.
Q: Wait, I don't really know much about another country's art. Should I just make stuff up?
A: Just look it up and see what you can dig up online. And don't just base your picture off the first hit on google Images. Learn a little about what made the style appear and why people drew the way they did. That way, you won't be merely copying the art that's already out there. You'll be able to use the ideas behind the style and make it yours.
Q: I really really like Japanese art. Can I do four pictures using different Japanese styles from different periods (say, Yamato-e, Kyoto school, Ukiyo-e, and Superflat) and count them as four country entries to this challenge?
A: That sounds like a really cool idea! I would love to see it and you should totally do it...but it would only count as one country - Japan.
Q: Do I need to put something in the comments section of my deviation?
A: You don't have to, but a link to the group and/or link to the challange is always welcome and will help explain the reason for your piece and get more people involved. Oh and I love hearing about what you did and why in the piece's comment box. I know I'm eager to learn about art styles of different countries.
Q: Will there be point awards? I like points.
A: The art is its own reward! There might be a few participation points here and there, but we do these challenges for the fun (and the bragging rights!). For points (and to enter a monthly point raffle), you can do corrections to art pieces in the "correct me" gallery folders (unrelated to this challenge).
So. There's just one question left to ask...are you in?
Art so far:
France - Fauvism
Eastern Roman Empire - Byzantic style
Korea - Traditional
France - Art Nouveau
United States - American Pop Art
Ancient Egypt
China - Traditional
Austria - Symbolism / inspired by Gustav Klimts
Russia - Abstract / inspired by Wassily Kandinsky
January Challenge
Update 1/18/2020: How are your pieces coming along? Just two weeks to go!
Happy January! It's a brand new year, and it's time for a brand new creativity challenge.
This month will be about stretching your creative muscles.
Here's how this will work:Leave a comment on the journal to sign up.Select a 100% real plant/creature name from the list below. Do not look it up.Draw a profile for what you think a creature or plant with this name might look like. Once you're done, you can look up what your creature or plant actually is. How close were you?Share your final piece in the comments section. You can do this challenge as man
2019 Secret Santa
We're getting the ball rolling a little early this year to give you plenty of time to sign up and make your art. Sign up and you will be randomly assigned to create a secret gift for someone (and secretly assigned to get a gift from someone!). Everyone will get a gift made especially for them by their Secret Santa the last week of December.
(check out these beautiful holiday drawings from deviantart!)
It doesn't matter if you're an experienced artist or just starting out - everyone is invited to join the fun!
Sounds fun! How do I sign up? 1. Write a list of (5 or so) things you'd like to get as your Secret Santa gift.
2. Post the list in a j
November Challenge
Nov 29 Update: Just a couple days left! How's your final piece coming along?
Happy November! It's time for another monthly challenge.
This month will be about the ways we improve our art.
First: everyone will decide what they want to draw: it can be a re-draw of something in your gallery, or something new from your imagination.
Then: For the first three weeks of November, you will do studies and practice fundamental that relate to your piece.
Finally: In the last week of November, you will draw the piece...and see how your skills have improved!
Here's how this will work:Pick an old picture to redraw, OR come up with a new idea.Plan what
October Challenge
Update 10/31 - Thanks to everyone who participated. I loved reading your character's backstories and hearing about your character design process. You blew me away!
Update 10/25 - Just a few days to go! :fear:
Update 10/15 - we're halfway through the month! :la:
Happy October! Autumn is here, and it's time for another monthly challenge.
This month will be about two of my favorite things - creativity...and superheroes!
Here's how this will work:Comment to sign up. I will give you a prompt to inspire your superhero character. Example: "Weakness: Dogs," "Superpower related to hats," or "Keeps accidentally levitating."You will draw this charact
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Life changed a bit since I said I would join, and the craziness is making it hard to keep up with everything, so I'll not be able to enter in time. However, I'll still be doing the three I planned in my own time, and I'll do them as a Before and After~
Sorry for being unable to follow though on my words~
Sorry for being unable to follow though on my words~