This is a information page that describes all of the features and benefits of the Creative Community. If you are interested in being a part of the Community, we encourage you to join! Feel free to message the Creative Community if you have any questions.
The Creative Community provides a friendly and inspirational environment to encourage the learning and growing of artists of all kinds, giving access to several artistic resources, such as tutorials, references, and constructive criticism from members. We want to advocate the coming together of artists to help improve each other's skills, encourage one another, and build connections and relationships. We believe that great things come from working together. The Community is designed to be beneficial without constant supervision, so artists are welcome to use our many features to their benefit.
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Resources - Open to Everyone
The Resources page is open to everyone and serves as a database for artists to access several artistic resources. There are so many artist sites and tutorial pages out there, so the Resources help organise all of the sites so artists can easily find them. The resources are divided up into several categories in attempt to cover the many different forms of art. Inspirational artists are also included in this section.
Lessons - Open to Everyone
Lessons are a series of tutorials arranged to reach a specific goal or teach a certain subject. This can include things such as certifications (e.g. Adobe Certification Associate), learning different styles (e.g. Manga to Realism tutorial), crash courses on different media (e.g. Vector Diary's 30 Day Illustrator Crash Course), and more! Lessons are developed by members and provide in-depth explanations and/or tutorials for the benefit of other artists and is open to anyone. They can either use up several posts or be compiled into a single post. Whichever you choose, be sure to have at least a majority of it planned out for our members.
Events - Open to Everyone, but prizes and evaluations are member exclusive
Creative Community events are Admin run and focus on challenging our members and bringing together artists. Only Community members can earn prizes if they are offered, but we still encourage non-members to be involved in our events.
When are events?
Weekly challenges will begin on the Monday of the week that the month begins. The week will end on Friday with a Comment Day. Collaboration challenges will be the last weekly challenge of the month. Monthly Challenges will generally begin on the first day of every month and end on the last day of the month; contests can last up to three months.
Events include:
Challenges
Monthly and Weekly challenges are designed to improve artistic skills and test artists' creativity. Monthly challenges have a general theme for all mediums of art to participate. Weekly challenges will have slightly more specific themes/subjects so artists can focus on certain skills. The last weekly challenge for every month will be a collaboration challenge where members will have to work together with each other. Any Community challenge will be recorded in the Event History page so artists can go back and try challenges they missed. Challenges are meant to be fun and creative, but some challenges may become contests to include fun prizes (at the discretion of the Administrative Team).
Comment Day
Comment Day is held once every week on Friday. Members of the Community will go out and share encouraging and constructive comments with theO community. Members participating in Comment Day are encouraged to comment on every submission in every section (or at least in their specialty section: Fanart, ecards/wallpapers, etc.). We want to encourage learning and creativity throughout the whole theO community. Members are also encouraged to welcome new members with the use of theO's New Member Introduction feature.
Community Evaluations
Community Evaluations, which is member exclusive, will be held at the end of the month and ask members for feedback on improvements that need to be made to the Community and suggestions on new resources and events. Member nominations are also included in evaluations and are used to recognize exemplary members in the Community.
Critiques - Member Exclusive
The Critique feature of Creative Community is dependent on member activity and is exclusive to Community members. Members can use their guest posting privileges to link to or post their art and ask for critiques from the Community. The Community provides positive and constructive criticism to other members in order to help artists improve their skills. Please comment on the piece itself rather than the post asking for the critique. The Critique feature also includes an analysis of other artist works to try to decide what techniques and skills other artists used in their pieces. With the permission and request of the original artist, other artists can draw over or redraw a drawing to identify the mistakes in the specific piece and show the artist how to correct it.
Jobs - Member Exclusive
Our Job page is a member exclusive feature that advertise artists offering commissions/requests/art trades and people looking for artists to complete a certain job. For example, people could use this feature to collect drawings of their own original character from different artists. This would allow artists to pick and choose what they want to draw. Requests and art trades are voluntary, but commissions involve money. Make sure you use the terminology according to this description to avoid confusion throughout the Community. If you wish to be advertised, please message the Creative Community for details. *Important!!* Jobs must be arranged between the artist and the client.The Job feature of the Community is only meant to advertise artists and opportunities. The Administrative Team cannot be held responsible for any miscommunication, failed transactions, or unkept promises. Please act appropriately, professionally, and responsibly.
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We hope you consider joining the Community to share in our creative energy. If you decide not to, we still allow access to several of our features to non-members. Thank you for taking the time for learning about the Creative Community, and we wish you good luck in your journey as an artist!
