30 Apr 12:18
--@DanialG I'm on a similar situation with Artloader. I treat studies/doing art as a reward for the excruciating time at work. It's fun to explore new things I am inclined to doing. I don't do a lot of environments because there are times where learning it becomes this another stressful thing I have to solve. Like a kid who isn't good in Math forces himself to study for a test. What seems to be causing the stress?
30 Apr 10:02
--Artloader: I'm also not a big fan of doing architecture, or environment perspective-type things. But! I've found that when I'm looking up references and doing research for the little comic I started doing, this seems to be a really fun way to put studying and imagination together.
30 Apr 08:54
--I'm experimenting with a way of removing stress from my art studies - for example I don't enjoy doing architecture so it has always been stressful for me to study it - but I have decided to do a little every day and see if eventually I can conjure up enjoyment for it.
30 Apr 08:51
--I have a full time non-art job so I do my art late at night - most of the time I lose out on sleep - not sure how much sleep I can lose before something bad happens to my health!
30 Apr 07:43
--@DanialG: Requires overtime? That sounds very, very difficult. I have ADD and I'm me, so I find I need to not be tired or stressed to study and work at art. I generally make sure I have at least 6 - 8 hours of sleep per night. It's really sleep that's the most important. And if you really want this, and you don't have time to sleep AND do this... I think it's possible, but very, very difficult.
30 Apr 01:48
--Has anyone managed to find a less depressing/stressful way to study while having a non-art job that requires overtime. I'd work at my local greeting card company but sadly they need a bachelors degree in graphic design to basically push out gradeschool level art.
29 Apr 11:45
--... it's so damn hard to focus and concentrate and fight through tedious, repetitive work.
29 Apr 01:25
--Crimson CHOW 23 is live! Good luck to all participants! http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-8244.html
28 Apr 13:21
--The new Crimson CHOW brief will be coming in a day late. Sorry for the delay.
23 Apr 17:53
--The reality is the audience pool for participation is very small on CD, much smaller even than the number of members suggests. So it is always going to be an uphill battle for participation.
23 Apr 17:42
--Here's the thing we learned from cc. We had to actively push it and try generate hype, we got judges, participated in supporting each and every wip thread with at least one comment, and then gave crits to everyone at the end. All that effort and entries still only barely got out of single digits some months, though had great participation on others.
22 Apr 10:45
--You're right of course Amit. Maybe the key is having longer periods of downtime to give the challenges more of a "happening"-characteristic
22 Apr 09:20
--This is the struggle with getting artists on forums to participate without any incentive or hype to push it. It's probably not really a lack of time issue for most. You give people a month, they'll take the whole month to do sweet fa
21 Apr 22:00
--Well, we did have a few participants... maybe you could give us some more time. I know I'll finish my entry for this one before I move on to something else
