Fandom Snowflake Challenge #2: Goals

[razielim]

SFC #2 - "In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private."

My goal last year was very concrete - paint 300 illustrations or die trying. I did not die, therefore I completed the goal, and with time to spare. You can check all of those out here and here. (I had to break it up because the site template only allows 250 images per page, as I found out in the fall.)

This year, my goal is a little more nebulous.

I'm going to take my newfound discipline, and use it as a building block to deliver less paintings, but of better quality. I would like, by the end of 2022, to replace my portfolio entirely, with better paintings than the ones I have up now. I want each and every painting on that page, no matter how proud I am of it, to be replaced by a better one.

Most of the best paintings I do come from commissions, fests, and collaborations with fellow artists, of course, and the more excited I am about the project, the better the result.

So I'll be on the lookout for opportunities that, to borrow a phrase from YWA, "meet my appropriate edge." That is to say, the maximum amount of challenge with the maximum amount of excitement for the subject.

If you'd like to challenge yourself with me via some sort of collab on a mutual interest, hit me up!

Comments

[pumpkinlumpin]

Three-hundred!! That's incredible!! I have nothing but complete and total awe for that. I believe I saw someone mutter something somewhere along the lines of: I have to go through the five stages of grief before I can even get started on a drawing, lmao.

The palettes used for these illustrations are lovely, too!

Wishing you the best of luck on finding collabs to get you pumped and on putting out work worthy of replacing your current portfolio!

[lamiacalls]

Holy moly, 300 illustrations is amazing. I am especially in love with your August Måneskin illustration, ugh it's so perfect <33 The little detail of Damiano's shoe half-off!! Your memaid pieces are beautiful too.

Good luck with replacing your portfolio!

[tsuki_no_bara]

oh my god that's a lot of paintings. so many of them look so good, too. if you want to replace your portfolio it looks like you've got a really good foundation already.

[turps]

Oh wow, your portfolio looks so good.

I really like your goal of getting even better and I hope you can find that balance of excitement and challenge.

[bewize]

Your art is gorgeous. <3

[razielim]

Yeah! Doing the 300 forced me to get over that feeling. I could either remain as I was and miss my goal, or change myself in order to achieve it. And I reallly reallllllly wanted to achieve it. Definitely realized part of the way through, "Man, I'm going to have to become a whole different person, huh?"

[razielim]

Thank you! :D

[razielim]

Oh, man, thank you. That one was so fun to work on. And fun to take breaks to listen to Morirò Da Re on repeat, haha.

[razielim]

Yeah, it's wild because when I went to pick my favorites at the end, it was hard to narrow down to a manageable number. Never encountered that problem before, but it's a good problem to have, especially as a sort of reward for powering through all the bad paintings that were an inevitable part of the journey.

Try this ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Most of the best paintings I do come from commissions, fests, and collaborations with fellow artists, of course, and the more excited I am about the project, the better the result. <<

Check out allbingo with a new fest every month. All formats, fandoms, and original works are welcome. crowdfunding is more for original work, with a mid-month Creative Jam on different themes.

Feel free to drop by my blog and see if you find anything inspiring. I'm running a Poetry Fishbowl today on "short forms." New prompters activate a second freebie. Also, anyone else is welcome to borrow prompts from my post if you like them. My fans throw in some truly far-out suggestions: this is the second time I've been asked for a Pictish poetic form.

Re: Try this ...

[razielim]

Cool, thank you! There's so (too?) many communities out there, it's nice to have recs draw my attention to specific ones. :)

That sounds really challenging! I was translating some Pushkin to English this summer to go with some fairy tales I was illustrating, and it almost broke my brain trying to get the feel of it right in a language whose words are so... stubbornly short. And that's just the poetry most familiar and dear to me. That you try out new forms for fun is wow.