I think we should have a featured artists dealy around here. Hoenstly, there are enough good people here to have one. May be post a forum post designated for it, or make a page and show a few peices from that person. So. Let me hear the ideas. Let me here yay or nay.

I think it sounds good. What happens when we run out of good artists though? Repeat the same ones again, lower the standards, stop doing it, or wait for more good ones to come?

sounds like a good idea ;d
we should also have, "mod of the month" like employee o' the month....
or something....*rambles*

Well, that comes up with another question. How long would they be the featured artist for? A week, a month, a day? I think a week or two would be fine. I think we have 40-50 people that would fit into the featured artist.

Why?

I'm with ^.

soz, I just don't see the point...

Because we're all bored, and we need something new to spice up our 2draw lives (or something) * I shrug*

p.s.- Hi bruzzah <3

Well think of it like this- It could be an oppertunity to better know the artist. A lot of these people I just know as being that person who draws well and has a name, but that's it. Suppose there was an interview section along with the feature, a paragraph or two maybe?

Ooh that's a fun idea! I'm very nosy and this will make my nosy-ness easier and more socially acceptable. :D

I don't think It would last.
Just not enough people.

I like the Mentor Idea better.

How about a viewer counter. It would count every time a new user looks at a pic.

Edit: We have a top user page. It's close to a a featured artist page.

That would make people draw for competetion. I don't think we should because it would take all the fun out of drawing.

couple thoughts on that- Competative drive makes people want to try harder and do better, might improve some people's art. I know it does with mine. Competetions can be fun too can't they? Besides, I don't think it would make people draw for competetion, that's something people choose to do. No one would be forcing or "making" you to do that.

top user page is based on points and activity through that. Only ten people there anyways. Also, there's certain people with over a thousand points and "master" status that are really just very active, not actually having mastered anything in art. Certain others have under a hundred points and are already very good artists. I'm just saying points and quality are two different things.

Competition is a good idea, It would make people try harder.
Maybe we should have an art duel board.
And you could get points for wining an art duel.
People like art duels.

A good idea is to have cyber drawings. It is like cyber chat, but with drawings instead of text. >:)
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art duals would be fun, but with a less cheesy name. ;)

maybe winning that would be how a featured artist is chosen?

Maybe the featured artist could be put on the top user board.
And the person who wins the most art duels could be the featured artist.

these all sound like great ideas, to have an artist or the week/month/day, whatever feature. also, that art duel thing sounds fun.
and chiyo chan, you wouldnt hafta do an art duel if you didnt want to, so it doesnt take the fun out of drawing, you could still draw whatver on other boards you know.

Good idea. Now lets get together and scream it in Marcello's ear.

the ideas suck.

Hey! Not cool 'cello, not cool.

I'm glad you have an opinion marcello. :|

Heh....it's not surprising though since a majority of his comments are negative anyway :P....

Well a featured artist thing would be weird and biased. Plus it's a lot of work. Feel free for any of you to do your own featured artist thing. There's not reason you can't do such via the forums. If you can keep it up that'd be impressive.

Okay, maybe I'll do it. I used to do that via journal posts on another site.

which forum? I'm thinking community, since that's what it'd be, though it's kind of drawing discussion in a way.

Hmm, thanks for actually telling me why you think it would suck. ;p
Yeah. I'll try the forum idea.

I don't see the point. People know who's good and who isn't. And the only people that'd it be are the ones that draw realism well. Oh yippee.

Hmm. May be you didn't read all the reasons why it would be good for a featured artists. It's not to tell people who's good or not, mmkay?

-too lazy to read it all- then what IS it for? x-X -doesn't see a reason for it anyway-

Ha'. You're too funny. Don't just post when you don't even know what your posting about.

Okay :D -doesn't-
Edit: I just read everything on this forum, and to me, it seems you have to be a good artist to be artist of the week.

realism doesn't equal 'good' art though. It may be eye candy to some people, but photorealism doesn't really appeal to me personally unless there's something more in the image than it just being an image to show off a technique. If the image was about something or had a message/meaning then I may like it, but simply the fact of it being realistic alone isn't enough for me. That said, technical skill in things other than realism also doesn't automatically make someone a good artist either. Someone could be great at fractals or pointillism or all sorts of other isms but that alone doesn't make someone a great artist. Just something to think about.

maybe we could use the forums to set up art duels to see who wants to participate, then use then use them to vote for a winner of the duels. im thinking kinda like a monthly contest.

Art duels ... like in a arena ... cool >:> ... Some competion is good, but the theme board cover some part of it.

This idea is just like deviantART. They have that 'featured deviant' thing and there's over a bajillion users and only 1/4 of the users get to be featured. We could feature those users who we see in the showcase but they're not even here anymore to see it themselves, or feature those users who are either above intermediate or advanced because either way it would be unfair for the 3/4 users (approx.) here in 2draw who aren't up to that level. If a forum was created and threads are created by anyone that features their favorite artist then it would seem a little chaotic, no offense.

But don't get me wrong. I think it's a nice idea... just not really applicable. Like some people have said, it's biased because whoever is the featured artist, there's always going to be that one person who will disagree. That's what I figured in deviantART, that there's so many people there, and they could just pick a random picture that they think is good and say: "this so-and-so is a high achiever in art and his/her skills are exceptional" blah blah blah. I've come to know, I guess get a glimpse of their 'other side' through these forums. There are some really talented artists here who act as if they're so great. How do we know? Forums. *Ahem*

On the other hand, if we did have a featured artist, the person who chose that artist will have to make a detailed explanation. And then maybe the rest of us can make good or bad comments and disagree in any way about the featured artist. Although someone might plan a coup d'etat if the decision was made by only the mods lol, it would only make sense since the Showcase has been created to feature the Art, rather than the artist. Besides, those who are featured in the Showcase aren't always here in 2draw.

Several topics could be made on Your Favorite Artists. Making a top 10 list would be nicer. (we already had one).

I agree

"good" isn't really the appropriate term for artists whose art is posted in the advanced board, more like exceptional. If their gallery looks great, then they could be considered exceptional artists. lol

I agree, but this is a much smaller comunity of artists than deviantart, and deviantart hosts a place for all art, here, it'd only be people who draw oekaki. (of course).

yes, deviantART seems to want to include the entire universe. lol I don't think you really explained who should make these featured artists or choose who to be the artist of the day or something. Are you saying anyone can post in the forum and call it 'featured artist'? That's not a bad idea. It would also be good to hear someone's opinion on another person in a formal tone... ok that might be stretching it a bit but a nice long paragraph describing what they like about this artist, their art and were they inspired by this artist. Something like that.

Well I personally see it as a bad idea only because I don't see how we would be able to get around the biased aspect. I would say have someone pick a random number (each personal had a user number) and that be the person. But, many people don't do that. Then there could be only those who "say" that they want to be in this drawing. Their number would be put in. Draw that random number and that's who it is.

I dont feel that the competition would be right. People could say your my favorite artist, I choose you. And their picture blew ass. Or, you could be one of the most favorite artists period. And win constantly because your good. That would make it unfair. Now if you wanted it to be like a real competition, you could have different groups. Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced. Put people in their real area. You can only do your group. Then do it like that. If you mixed things some people might feel intimidated, and won't try.

I'm not sure if I explained that well, but I hope so. Have any confusion, ill try to varify what it means.
Tell me what you think?

I also agree that the competition would be unfair for those people who are struggling to be good at something they want to so badly achieve. Besides, when they already have that idea that "Art is meant to be for fun", and they might feel pressured to do a work that needs more work in order to impress those around them. There are different levels of drawing for a reason. I don't really think those people who post in the beginner level are those who struggle at art and are not considered "good artists" like those in the "advanced." Someone mentioned that we already have a top users section here but that proves that there is a different between "quantity" and "quality." There are some advanced quality pieces that don't intrigue me the least bit--they are well-drawn but I don't like them. Some beginner pieces are obviously NI (Needs Improvement) and some are there because people want to work small. As for the featured artists, a very talented person could be featured because of their art and their attitude around other people. I suppose the reason why people would like to try this is because when they look at the Showcase, it could be interprted as: 'wow, this person is really good. I like their Art.' And it could only be their Art. Hmm. We'll see how this goes.

Well something that I am really getting from this whole thing is that everyday we come to 2draw, make art, browse art, and comment. That's all. We need something different to light a new spark here. same thing is generally boring. So in all reality, from what I see here is that we should be buggin Marcello to get his ass into making new things here, which in the long-run might equal to a higher demand in donations, which could lead in eventually a shut-down of this place. The more imput the community puts in, the better the community will be.

Wow.. sounds like i'm on a tag-team with Cello trying to get donations. Lol....

We should have a "Featured Assholes" page. It wouldn't be bias at all, everyone is eligible to be featured, especially Mods.

Hahah... awesome.

That sounds like a neat idea, Clox. I'm all in for that featurette.

How about the "most perverse artist" page? >;p
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Haha! Well we would only have one artist for that section. =)
Too lazy to read the whole thread, so i think the featured artist with an interview is an excellent idea.
I don't think the featured artist needs to be highly skilled either like what most people have implied, just anyone that comes here often and does an interesting picture.

Cloxboy: We should have a "Featured Assholes" page. It wouldn't be bias at all, everyone is eligible to be featured, especially Mods.
The biggest asshole of all >=P -->####<--

Perhaps, but I think Marcello's asshole would give that asshole some competition, as seen here> http://cellosoft.com/2draw/view/33219/

That makes me want to draw an even bigger, for competition... hehehe. >:)
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That's it, an asshole drawing competition! That's what this site needs.

I think it would be weird to put people into categories like those lol But I think that would be interesting because it's like seeing something through another person's eyes. Maybe come up with different categories like that one for instance, 'The Biggest @$$holes in 2draw,' or 'Most Perverted Freaks in 2draw.' Something like that. lol

I agree with you Cordelia. That would be pretty cool. Although we already have Most points, comments and drawings lists, more detailed ones would be real cool.