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Smeargle's Studio - What would *you* like to see?

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Libelldra said:
How about a general thread for just discussing art in general?
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I've been thinking about turning the proposed spriting-requests merge into this kind lf thread. Thoughts?

Casteel said:
Despite that, I will put in my two cents just to add to the conversation productively. Has there been anything like a "Submission of the Week" or maybe something that highlights individual pieces? Maybe a "Smogon Muesum Gallery" where you take pieces that have just been awe-inspiring or just really good and maintain them in a sticky post?

With that you could still highlight older artist, showcase the new and have a collection of really great art that new and current members could be introduced too. Not to mention it shouldn't be too hard to maintain as you would only be adding those pieces you felt were deserving.
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I've been thinking about this idea too, and I'm going to have a chat with some people -- watch this space?

wickdaggler said:
well yeah, it's just I'd like to see more of it
you know because this is the thread where people are like: "this is what I'd like to see"?

on that note we have like 10 stickies or something
some culling would be nice
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There are 8 currently, two of which are temporary. With the proposed merging, that makes 5. Five is not a big number.

Master Win said:
Well.....:D

What I would like to see isn't directly digital artwork or sketches. But what if we had threads dedicated to the other arts? Like video, photo's and music (music might be a bad example because I think we have a music thread). But why not expand the art that is brought into smeargle's studio?
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  • Photography threads exist.
  • Music thread exists (see signature).
  • Writing thread exists (see signature).
Naturally threads will pop up where there is demand, but my aim since being modded (and beforehand) has been to bring in new forms of art to the studio. I even wrote a Smog article on the philosophy of art for that very purpose. Nevertheless, I think creating threads without there being demand is futile at best.


Keep 'em coming guys! Note to Az: I'm happy for you to organise a collab thing, but it would be cool to have brainstorming etc going on in this thread. Post a couple of logs occasionally I guess?
 
I do not want to see what Moob Toshio comes up with...maybe he's found his motivation? I'm joining the Destickies bandwagon, it takes a small amount of time for new posts in art threads to get pushed away and go unnoticed in those sporadic art bursts the forum seems to have (it might go unnoticed for 2 days then bam 15 updates) and things like WSC are always up anyway, and the competitors willl be posting in the thread regardless of its page number. I don't think an index is such a good idea, though, since people following threads can just use Search and new posters with perfunctory or lazy art (lazy like me) can always update with more until someone posts (not to say FLOODSPAM or anything). Also, Alch just reminded me to pop some crap into the Writing Thread (will it count as necro though or have there been recent posts D:). And if the stickies are going to be cut to 5, I suppos that issue sorts itself out in the end. And I think that I'll second Alch's suggestion about the spriting threads as well; I remember the era of the pillow spriting thread very well...
And there should be more open constructive criticism (I'm too chicken to do it) because if you tell an artist that everything they do is perfect are they going to change it? I don't think so...
 
What about reintroduction of the #smeargle challenge? Recently the chat hasn't seemed to be as active, and it could help to promote it like it did last time it was on.

Thoughts?
 
LevitatingLamprey said:
Also, Alch just reminded me to pop some crap into the Writing Thread (will it count as necro though or have there been recent posts D:).
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There is no such thing as a necro in the megathreads (well unless you just post bump or something). I think lots of people have this misconception and I just want to take a moment to say that ANYBODY can necro things like BBFA, Writing Thread, and Music Thread as long as you post with content and not just to bump it to the top. In addition, an artist can necro their own thread at any time as long as they post artwork.

RitterCat said:
What about reintroduction of the #smeargle challenge? Recently the chat hasn't seemed to be as active, and it could help to promote it like it did last time it was on.

Thoughts?
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It was a good idea but there was literally almost 0 activity because people couldn't get them done in time, judges didn't do their jobs (I'm guilty) and it was an overall mess. It was like a tiny MAC and I just don't think we will be able to garner enough participation with week deadlines, and if we extend them then it's just another MAC so why even bother
 
Ok I'm going to leave this open until this time tomorrow, and then we can get cracking!

If you have any more suggestions you'd better post 'em quickly.
 
Crazy idea: Make a CAP art (idea) thread

CAP and SS have a unique relationship, but there seems to be a small divide. We could easily bridge that gap and bring artist to engineer, who really are essentially the same being.
 
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