Goooooooooooooood morning!
To everybody participating in the art marathon, the signup thread will now be used to provide updates and reminders to our schedule as we begin the workshop!
To anyone still on the fence about participating, do not worry you can still do so at any time! If you do join just be aware of the dead lines and the schedule that we will be following. While there will be some wiggle room, we don't want to back pedal too much.
First things first, thank you to everybody that will be participating! Let's start with some information about format and posting before we jump into the first topic of week 1.
ALL NEW INFORMATION AND UPDATES/REMINDERS ABOUT DEADLINES WILL BE POSTED IN THIS THREAD FROM THIS POINT ON!-------------------------------------------------------
REVIEWSWe will be using this thread to post your reviews and critiques of each other's artwork. Please use this format to review someone's work.
(Name of the Artist) + (Name of their art piece)
-Copy and paste their stated goals here-
Spoiler
-art goes here-
-review goes here-
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ART SUBMISSIONSPlease submit your artwork to this thread:
http://forums.mangaraiders.com/index.php/topic,18580.0.htmlA reminder to everyone participating to post in the art thread before submission date with a thread stating your desired goals and outcomes for this week's illustration. Try and do this prior to the submission date.Please use this format or something similar when submitting artwork:
(Name of your illustration)
State your goals:
Spoiler
-Illustration goes here-
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SCHEDULEAnd now a reminder of deadlines and how we will be handling them.
Each illustration will be given 2 days worth of time for completion. Each topic will last 1 week. There will be 2 illustration challenges per week and 1 day of rest before we move onto the next challenge.
The schedule will be as follows starting today:
Monday 10AM CST -First Illustration Start Date-
Wednesday 10AM CST -First Illustration Submission Date-
Thursday 10AM CST -Second Illustration Start Date-
Saturday 10AM CST -Second Illustration Submission Date-
Sunday is a free day
Please review and critique at least 1 illustration before Monday 10AM CST the following week
Monday 10AM CST the following week -We begin topic 2 and the first illustration for this topic begins again-
From this point on the schedule repeats for a total of 8 weeks and 8 topics.
You are only required to submit 1 illustration per week though we encourage you to try and do the standard 2 illustrations we have planned for each weekly topic. The reason for this is that many of us have 9 to 5 jobs and school, life can get in the way. If you feel 2 illustrations per week is unmanageable, it is absolutely fine to only submit 1!
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TOPIC 1: ROMANCEOur first art topic for this week will be romance! You can choose to draw any subject so long as the theme is related to romance in some way! Be it a passionate encounter between two love struck individuals or a romantic seaside Italian city, it is up to you to interpret the theme of romance! Don't forget to explain how your artwork is related to the theme in the art thread!
- Remember that ANY subject and ANY level of completion is acceptable so long as you CLEARLY STATE that as your goal in your art thread! This is for your benefit after all! Try to challenge yourself! --------------------------------------------------------
MISCELLANEOUS
Deadlines: While there are deadlines as stated above in the section about schedules, these are NOT hard deadlines. It is completely understandable that some submissions will fall behind and move around the given deadlines due to timezones, life and any number of reasons.
As a result I only encourage you to try and stay within the deadline as much as you can but do not worry if you cannot post something before 10AM CST on any given day. It is perfectly OK to make a post later, but try your best to make sure the post is made within the same week as the related topic.
Copyright: As always, anything and everything you create belongs to you alone. I nor any other participant or workshop organizer claim any right to anything you create.
Goals: The goal of this workshop is to get artists drawing and get illustrations cranked out and completed. For intermediate artists this can be a good way to engage with other artists and get that proverbial fire burning underneath your ass and work within a deadline. You can also use this as an opportunity to create portfolio pieces.
For new/beginner artists, this is a great chance to get reviews from your peers and experience working under a deadline. It's also an excellent opportunity to get drawing!
Dropping out:No hard feelings if you feel the need to discontinue! This workshop is for the benefit of the participants and that alone is the only purpose. If you feel the workshop/marathon is no longer working for you, feel free to drop out! I only ask that you send a PM to either myself or TheSlamJam to inform of us of it, no need to give a reason.
Communications:For an ideal feedback and information environment I encourage all participants and anyone thinking about joining the marathon to hop on over to the unofficial MR Discord! There will be a channel for all workshop participants to ask for information. You will also get direct access to the workshop organizers so you can ask for information at any time.
https://discord.gg/29yaC39Workshop organizers are currently: Myself (Devola) and TheSlamJam, you can contact either of us for information
Critiques/Reviews:Please follow standard guidelines for art critiques and reviews. We encourage all reviewers/critics to do go as an depth as you feel you can. Remember that the critique should be for the benefit of the artist! Try to include at least 1 positive aspect of the illustration in question when reviewing the work and encourage the artist to continue drawing! If you have absolutely nothing positive to say about the work, then I encourage you to find a different piece to review.
Please try and find someone who's illustration has not yet been reviewed and review it. We want everyone to benefit from this exercise!
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Thank you all for taking the time to read through this and good luck to all the participants! There may be the potential for a future collaboration with the Manga Raiders Writer's Workshop! As always, any new information will be posted here!