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Welcome to Sketch Fest! What's Sketch Fest? Sketch Fest is a 24 hour creative jam session with artists across the world, brought to you by Ellen Million Graphics. Our audience and fellow artists give us prompts that can be single words, links, collections, creatures, characters or concepts, and we sketch whatever catches our fancy. The only rule? Sketches can only be worked on for one hour. Go to the Prompts Page
See the August Results! Prompts, registration and claims are closed. Join us next month! Please bring your comments and suggestions to our livejournal community! A huge, gigantic thank you to our webpage sponsors: Selina Fenech, Drakenhart Studios, Jeffrey, Jenny Heidewald, Lindsey Hodder, Lisa Cree, Carol Moore, Katerina Koukiotis and Anke Wehner It's still plain, but pretty powerful... and every month, your donations mean I can give it better features and more polish! Find out more about our participating artists at the EMG Livejournal (until our artist pages are more finished!). Join in our post-Sketch Fest discussion(s) here. New for August: Registration and Email Alerts! Registration is OPTIONAL! However, you can't use the same name as someone who IS registered, so I recommend that you do register and log in to protect your identity. If you're okay with the possibility that someone else might claim they're you, I'm okay with that, too, and you can play along without registering. (Do note that some future features may require registration - such as being able to edit your own work, or adding information to your artist page.) If you are already a registered Ellen Million Graphics artist, this account uses the same database. Please do not register a new account, just log in with your existing account! Email alerts are available on prompts (find out when people claim them, or post a new sketch to them!) or on artwork (find out when people comment!). Right now, they're only available on your own prompts and artwork, but I'll expand those choices in the future so you can get alerts when new prompts are posted, or you can track other prompts and art. If you want an email alert on your own prompt or sketch, all you have to do is enter your email address when you submit them. If you are logged in OR if you have already entered your email once, it is automatically entered for you, but you can choose not to get emails just by deleting the address before you post. Emails will be coming from ellen@ellenmilliongraphics.com. Please whitelist this address, or your email may think I'm spamming you, and that would make us both sad. Prompters: Please leave us ideas and inspiration to keep us sketching through the day! 24 hours is a long time to think up ideas, and we need all the help and encouragement we can get. Prompts can be one or two words, character descriptions, photos, weird science facts, links to articles... whatever. All prompts will be available for all artists to choose from, and most of us will be working in the fantasy and science fiction genre. You may post one prompt or several. Please limit yourself to about five as we get started, to make sure that our sparkling new webpage can handle things. You may add more later! You do not have to be logged in or registered in anyway. You may post anonymously. The same prompt cannot be posted again. The option to get email alerts when someone claims your prompt or posts a sketch for it will be added in the future. Consider donating to the webpage fund to make this happen for next month! In the meantime, check back often. Artists: Have fun! To claim a prompt, click 'Claim?' and fill in your name. You may also leave a comment! You may use any name you like. More than one person may claim a prompt - it's fun to see different interpretations of the same idea! And you may combine prompts, if they mesh together well. The option to get email alerts when someone claims the same prompt as you, posts a sketch for it, or comments on your sketch will be added in the future. Consider donating to the webpage fund to make this happen! Artists have 1 hour to complete a sketch for the prompts they claim. You aren't required to post it within an hour - maybe you get a phone call, or want to scan all of your finished sketches at once, or who knows. You are simply on the honor system not to spend more than one hour on the sketch before posting it. You are also invited to finish the pieces later, if you like what you start! Any medium is welcome. You don't have to spend the whole hour on a sketch - if you get to a good stopping point after 20 minutes, that's fine, too! Hop in for an hour and do one sketch, or pull an all-nighter and spend all 24 hours jamming with us. Upload your finished sketch using the 'Upload a sketch' link! You do not have to claim a prompt to upload a sketch to it, but it is a friendly thing to do to let other artists know which claims are are being worked on. If you have combined prompts, you can upload your sketch to both prompts! You may list information about your sketch in the description field, and include a link to where it might be purchased. You also have the option to sell your sketch as a donation to the Sketch Fest webpage. By doing so, you agree to mail the sketch (or a print, or a high-resolution copy) to the buyer when Ellen provides you that information. You will be listed on the Sketch Fest webpage as a donor if your sketch sells. For Everyone: A few basic rules of conduct apply: no swearing, no spamming, no sexual content (though nudity is fine), no hate-stuff. Be nice to each other. You can join us in #prompted at starchat.net on IRC for sketch chat while we work, whether you are an artist or not! If you don't have a chat client, you can use this link to join us through javachat: javachat. You may also post questions and concerns at our livejournal. Above all, have fun and be creative! |