Hello & Welcome to a different kind of Art Community,
Update May 2020, Hello everyone! Don't forget to stop by our discord sever, please join us here https://discord.gg/zcr2Vns
Different how? Well for starts I created this community for all types of artists & the non-creatives who thought about trying some kind of art but never thought they were good enough.
Lets start with this, I do believe a lot of people were born with a high skill level of artistry that is just unmatched comparing to other artists in there lane. Sounds contradictory right? All the expert artists are on the same level, everyone has there own style and way of doing things. In my opinion its the artists who can just pick up a pencil, grab a sheet of paper and draw anything from memory and it looks like a photograph. That is born talent, its a gift. They can see things most of us can't, but can it be learned?
Again in my opinion yes. Drawing, painting or any art medium for that matter can be learned, but it takes a TON of PATIENCE and PRACTICE! This doesn't mean that if you can't draw highly skilled art, it isn't art. Anything can be art. Look at the world art community, some pieces sell for millions and the canvas is painted white. Yes, things like this happen, crazy indeed. What constitutes art? That is up to you to decide, thats what makes art an amazing profession or hobby.
I feel like everyone can be creative if they wanted to, they have to connect with there creative side. Find a way to get the juices flowing. What are you into? Try to use your interests as an influence. Example, you love animals or flowers or whatever it may be, relate that into the art world. Maybe try an draw or paint the animals and flowers you see. Check out videos and tutorials online and see how you do. You be surprised once you learn the mechanics behind certain art mediums that its sometimes not as hard as you think.
Anyway I don't want to chew everyones ear off all day long about my opinion on the art world etc. I wanted to create this community for every skill level and newcomers! Even if you never did any art in your life, your welcomed here. Ask, post something and we will all help point you in the right direction to your first masterpiece!
Now, experts and very skilled artists, don't fret this place is for you as well. There is a lot of artists who do have a lot of skill but are having trouble pushing themselves to the higher skilled work. Please post your art work here, a lot of people including myself would find a lot of influence and interest from your work. Especially if you take the time to tell us about your piece, some information on how you went about creating it etc.
So, all in all, anyone is able to subscribe to this Art Community and post what your heart desires to show the world. One side note, if your piece is a nude piece that's fine, but please mark it NSFW, in-case someone is at work or around family, warn them first.
Lets get to the contests, the second part I'm most excited about besides seeing all the great artworks being posted into the community. I plan on putting a twist on my art contests. The very first one is a basic contest, it will piece together the art banner across the top of the community page, but the next ones will be different and give chances of all skill levels to win top prizes. Thats because I plan to set the prize structure a little differently. Most communities in the past on steem and other platforms always prized the grand prize for the most skilled \ visioned and impressive artists. Why? Like I stated, art is art. No matter how its created or skill level. So here are some future ideas.
For example next months contest will be grouped into different sections like this:
Experts \ Professionals
1st Place 100 hive
2nd Place 50 hive
3rd Place 25 hive
Skilled Enthusiasts
1st Place 100 hive
2nd Place 50 hive
3rd Place 25 hive
Crafty \ Novices
1st Place 100 hive
2nd Place 50 hive
3rd Place 25 hive
This is only an example and this can change many times, because as I wrote an outline for all my contest ideas, whose to say which section people belong to?Thats the part I am still trying to figure out. One idea I had was the person submitting there contest artwork picks the section they want to be in. Then they will be curated within that section, but if your obviously really good we will put you into the right section. Or possibly a voting structure of some sort. This is a tough one to figure out and over the next few weeks something will get fleshed out, if you all have opinions on this please do comment below and tell me! I want all of us to make decisions as a community. Thats all on contests for now.
On to the voting, curating, delegations etc.
First I would like to thank @overkillcoin for delegating 4k hive power to the Art Community owner account @hive-188955 !! He said the delegation will stay for about 4 months. I will use this to vote on the communities contest entries and art work they post here. A BIG THANK YOU overkillcoin! We all appreciate the delegation. His blog can be found here: @overkillcoin He is an amazing artist go show him some gratitude!
I also sent over 500 hive to the owner account @hive-188955, powered it up. I will try my very best to keep contributing to the owner account to make the vote stronger and stronger to help all of you out there in this community.
Now with that said, I am not rolling in the dough and would love if anyone else would like to delegate HP to the art community account, even if its for a short period of time, if so you will be on all future posts until the delegation is no more. I will make sure you or your organization gets the credit where credit is due! Also, a big thank you if we get some help!
Besides delegation if you want to donate hive, it will go towards the contests each month and other give-aways in the future.
Either way delegation or donation, please mention it in the comments below first, I will respond with my discord handle and we can discuss the details.
I will always be transparent to the community with all of this. I have a history with a lot of people I met on steemit, i was there from almost the beginning over 3 years. If you need someone to vouch for me, ask and we will work something out, but for the people that know me, always saw how nice I was to everyone and never had any bad intentions, that is not who I am. I am very out going, I like to lead which is probably why I started these communities, I am very passionate and ambitious. I never take no as an answer with my goals and persistent as hell, a blessing and also a curse lol
Summary:
- All delegations will credited in every update & contest posts.
- All donations will be credited in every update & contest posts.
- I will try my very best to stay as active as possible in this community, I do also work a day job, if you don't hear from me instantly, I promise you will.
- All skill levels are welcomed here, please have respect for each other.
- Please help by reblogging this and other update posts \ contests, to help this community be the best on hive!
- Much, much more to come as we grow!
Lastly, in the begining I will handle most of this on my own, the voting, curating etc. But I would like to build an Art Community team made up Artists and non-artists, both sides of the spectrum's with different perspectives. I'll need, mods, curators, judges for the contests etc. So if your interested and no me already on discord, reach out, if you don't comment below!
That's all for now! Start posting your artwork for all of us to see, and subscribe! 1st 10 people to subscribe and reblog this gets 2 hive each, please comment below, i'll check and send ya the good stuff!
- Michael
#artcommunity #art #hive #posh
PS: Now that I finally got this post and the art contest post up, I'm taking the rest of the week to vote on your artwork, comment, talk to you all and start working on my own artwork, when there finished i'll share them here! :)