August 11, 2006

Welcome to Avalanche!

This is a work in progress. We will be up and running soon. Enjoy the links while we get this thing organized.

9 comments:

Ryan Wood said...

First comment on the new blog. Yay!

Adrian Ropp said...

So many artists, so few pictures to look at. I'll be lurking....

Casey said...

I just gotta say *sniff* that I'm glad to be a part of this. *sniff*

Sam Nielson said...

So who's going to grace us with the first real post?

What's suppsed to be posted up here anyway? Art that we've already posted on our own blogs? Although that seems redundant, I can't imagine wanting to do extra artwork just to post here.

Also, Joe, Kevin, Ryan and I have been doing these mini-art challenges every couple of weeks. We could post the topics up here if people are interested in joining in.

S.T. Lewis said...

I agree with you, Sam. We should do the mini-art challenges. That would be a good thing. I say we start that way and see how things go from there. If you all want to do that, I say someone give us a topic. We'll take a couple of weeks on it... maybe something Halloweenish since it's almost October. Thoughts?

Sam Nielson said...

Wait, are you talking about doing an official Avalanche mini-art challenge every couple of weeks?

That's not what I was suggesting, although that would be fine. What I was saying is that a group of us have already been doing mini-challenges. We'll just keep doing them like we have been, but if other people are interested we can post up the topics when we decide on them. I like the idea of inviting other people to join in, but changing the unofficial, non-deadline format would be less motivating (at least for me). And motivation to draw outside of work time is the whole reason for these mini-challenges.

So what about it, should I post up the topics as we do them?

S.T. Lewis said...

I don't mean an official Avalanche thing. I know you guys have been doing the mini challenges for a while now... when I said "a couple weeks," I meant whatever system you guys have been using. I thought you were doing something new every couple of weeks, but it looks like it's longer between topics than I guessed. I just think it would be cool to do whatever you guys are doing... you know - it would be cool for me to force my way into what you've already established. That's all I'm saying.

I don't want to change anything you're doing... except that instead of only posting the stuff on your own blog, you could all post them here too... so we can see them all in one place. If you're up for that, give us a topic. Otherwise, we'll come up with something else. At least we have these links here! Hooray!

Sam Nielson said...

I think we often have a quick turnover between topics, probably close to a couple of weeks. I just want to avoid deadlines because we want the motivation to draw be intrinsic instead of extrinsic. With a deadline, people wait until the last possible minute to do something.

By the way, our current topic is "Lost" (I've never seen the show, but it's been fun anyway). Some are doing caricatures, but I'm sure anything would be fine. We'll probably do a halloween topic closer to the holiday.

S.T. Lewis said...

Cool... thanks, Sam.