CAB21: February challenges
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poddersundercoverWelcome to the first monthly challenge of this Cover Artist Bingo 2021!
Btw, a few useful links: signups, rules/FAQ, help wanted.
How this works:
There will be two optional challenges each month: ask the artist and art history.
- For ask the artist, you’ll have to talk about your experience, share some resources, and generally discuss cover art. You can answer directly on this post, or answer somewhere else and link to it here.
- For art history, you’ll have to fill a specific prompt, similar to the monthly themes of Podfic Bingo. You can incorporate it with other squares, or create a work just for it. Do post it in this comm, we'd love to see it!
Doing one will give you a cheat (so two if you do both). Cheats don’t expire until the end of the bingo. A cheat can be used to swap two squares on your card, replace a square by a prompt from the prompt list or fill a square (or actually, anything, if you decide to make your own rules.) For more information, see the rules/FAQ post linked above.
Ask the cover artist: goals goals goals
What are your goals for this challenge? Are you customizing your rules playbook or going by ours? Is there anything in particular you’d like to learn or accomplish?
I (Anna) am mostly trying to take it easy this round, but I’m looking forward to playing around with the graphics for the challenge, and that includes the prize banners at the end of the bingo! Here are a few potential achievements that would for sure win you a personalized banner*:
- blackout with one (1) work
- blackout with cheats only (might need some adjustments to the standard rules)
- all the challenges, not even one square
*(Everyone will get a personalized banner anyway, but like, extra sparkles on yours maybe? Idk.)
Art history: geometric art
Geometric art is created using geometric elements, shapes… Geometric art is inspired from geometry.
However, it’s also a phase of Greek art that flourished circa 900–700 BCE, and in general, geometric abstraction can be found in many a continent and art period. Here are some more practical resources: 10 geometric art explorations for teachers, a wikihow article, a video lesson for art students, and a design lesson.
Once again, feel free to interpret this prompt very broadly: make something that could qualify as geometric art, integrate or reinterpret an existing piece of geometric art into a work, or just take inspiration from your research somehow!
Btw, a few useful links: signups, rules/FAQ, help wanted.
How this works:
There will be two optional challenges each month: ask the artist and art history.
- For ask the artist, you’ll have to talk about your experience, share some resources, and generally discuss cover art. You can answer directly on this post, or answer somewhere else and link to it here.
- For art history, you’ll have to fill a specific prompt, similar to the monthly themes of Podfic Bingo. You can incorporate it with other squares, or create a work just for it. Do post it in this comm, we'd love to see it!
Doing one will give you a cheat (so two if you do both). Cheats don’t expire until the end of the bingo. A cheat can be used to swap two squares on your card, replace a square by a prompt from the prompt list or fill a square (or actually, anything, if you decide to make your own rules.) For more information, see the rules/FAQ post linked above.
Ask the cover artist: goals goals goals
What are your goals for this challenge? Are you customizing your rules playbook or going by ours? Is there anything in particular you’d like to learn or accomplish?
I (Anna) am mostly trying to take it easy this round, but I’m looking forward to playing around with the graphics for the challenge, and that includes the prize banners at the end of the bingo! Here are a few potential achievements that would for sure win you a personalized banner*:
- blackout with one (1) work
- blackout with cheats only (might need some adjustments to the standard rules)
- all the challenges, not even one square
*(Everyone will get a personalized banner anyway, but like, extra sparkles on yours maybe? Idk.)
Art history: geometric art
Geometric art is created using geometric elements, shapes… Geometric art is inspired from geometry.
However, it’s also a phase of Greek art that flourished circa 900–700 BCE, and in general, geometric abstraction can be found in many a continent and art period. Here are some more practical resources: 10 geometric art explorations for teachers, a wikihow article, a video lesson for art students, and a design lesson.
Once again, feel free to interpret this prompt very broadly: make something that could qualify as geometric art, integrate or reinterpret an existing piece of geometric art into a work, or just take inspiration from your research somehow!
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Date: 2021-02-14 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-14 10:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-14 01:26 pm (UTC)Ask the cover artist: goals
Date: 2021-02-15 02:11 am (UTC)Since this is the first time I’m trying this challenge, I’m mostly just aiming to diversify my covers a bit. I started out using the same template and I still like it, but I had so much fun with doing covers for voiceteam mystery box that I want to try new things. I’m not sure if I’ll get a full square or a bingo but it’ll be fun to participate regardless.
Are you customizing your rules playbook or going by ours?
At this point I’m planning to go by the main rules.
Is there anything in particular you’d like to learn or accomplish?
I haven’t incorporated my own art into covers before, so it might be interesting to try that. I’m not sure if it’ll work out for the particular works, though, so I’m not making it a formal goal. I also recently downloaded procreate for my phone so, again, not a formal goal, but it would be interesting to incorporate that into my regular over (app) workflow.
Re: Ask the cover artist: goals
Date: 2021-02-25 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-15 08:18 pm (UTC)I'd like to finish it this time!
Are you customizing your rules playbook or going by ours?
I think I'm just doing the thing as written. But maybe I'll revisit that when it's not February and I feel motivated to do things beyond the bare basics again.
Is there anything in particular you’d like to learn or accomplish?
I talked a bit about Cover Art Bingo on Tumblr, in particular about how doing pod covers, and just fan design in general, has been both useful and really fun for me. As I said there, I'm an in-house graphic designer for a fairly conservative organisation, and have been for a long time. This has pushed me to do my own work by my own rules, and in the process I've remembered that yes— I actually really do enjoy graphic design!
I don't at this point have anything special in mind to learn, but I'm very much hoping this will introduce me, somehow, to something new and exciting, designwise!
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Date: 2021-02-25 09:02 pm (UTC)Art history: geometric art
Date: 2021-02-21 11:23 pm (UTC)Second attempt: (which is the one I used)
Image description: A geometric design: the lower half is horizontal bands of white and navy, with thicker navy bands at the bottom, thinning to the middle. The upper half is a white background with a red triangle and yellow circle outline centred on the top corner, half-filled with a mostly turquoise swirl pattern.
First attempt:
Image description: A geometric design: A large pink triangle in the centre, filled with the title, with intersecting orange/pink triangle and blocks of navy and shades of yellow surrounding it.
(Unfortunately, I am not great at image descriptions.)
Re: Art history: geometric art
Date: 2021-02-25 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-03-01 12:35 am (UTC)I like trying to do different things, but it's easy to just... grab a screenshot and artfully arrange text over it, soooo I'm hoping to use the prompts to make different covers?
Are you customizing your rules playbook or going by ours?
Sticking to the official one!
Is there anything in particular you’d like to learn or accomplish?
I think I'll just see where the prompts+fics chosen take me?
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Date: 2021-03-02 01:29 pm (UTC)