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I discovered that galleries on ATCsForAll.com are limited! I had been archiving traded cards on the site and that was working out fine, until I hit whatever numerical or memory-based limited there is for users and could not upload any new ATCs available for trade. What to do, what to do? I settled for deleting older work and any collage cards.
Flickr was my previous go to for an online archive. It is nice to be able to show people prior work if you are working on a trade for a custom card. ATCs you made grouped together show your skill level and may offer ideas if the person is not decided on what to request. I was about to get a paid account for Flickr, since I hit the limit on uploads for the free account. Then Flickr did the massive, messy new Web 2.0 design of scrolling tiled thumbnails. My primary problems are that it is a visually cluttered design and the new design jams my slow speed internet connection. I wound up bailing on Flickr and leaving whatever art I had uploaded there alone.
Maybe I should have been putting my ATCs up on my WordPress blog. It just seemed that I do too many and that ATCs are only one facet of the blog. A group of ATCs seem nice from time to time. Putting every single one up that I make would be boring and repetitive. They could maybe fill their own blog but I have enough blogs to write and make images for right now. I don't want to add another blog to my blogroll.
Unless Google wants to throw a nice big server my way, I'm out of ideas for archiving online. I use dA as a community, showing more of my higher level work, and do not use it as an image archiving resource. I do save my own scans on my hard-drive at home. It seems there is not a good location for the sort of ongoing gallery of prior work I would like to create. At least, expecting to have that kind of online memory storage for free is not likely.
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New ATCs for Trade
Hey ATC fans, I have some new art up for trade. There are some "Manga girls" that are just drawings from imagination, some kawaii bunnies with a digital background, some other hand-drawn items, some digital and laser cut / laser etched works I made and these two aquatic themed ATCs below. See availability here: http://www.atcsforall.com/forum/gallery/index.php?c=4&u=25198
Blending coloured pencils with mineral (baby) oil
Hello everyone!
I hope winter is not too terrible where you are, unless you are in Australia and it is summer!
I have been working on restocking my ATCs after a lot of trading through the fall and have been experimenting with some Manga style cartoon portraits for Anime Central 2015. The rough paper did not look too good with the coloured pencils, so I tried blending the pencils with mineral oil (baby oil). I did a more detailed write up about the process on my WordPress blog here:
shellielewis.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/how-to-blend-colored-pencils-with-baby-oil/
If you never tried this process before, give it a shot. It has a nice painter
Halloween Monsters and Magic Trade Anyone?
I'm thinking of doing a group swap for Halloween with a "Monsters and Magic" theme for this group. My ideas right now are:
◙ Hand-drawn, hand-painted only with artist grade materials.
◙ Have a rating system for what you want to receive such as (1) keep it cute, (2) traditional monsters, Universal Studios classics etc. preferred, (3) I won't faint at a drop of blood (4) a little gruesome is okay, and, (5) shove your hand in a blender, go on, you can't scare me!!
◙ This will be a curated swap. If anyone wants to join, it will be based on receiving approval after reviewing prior work. Beginner artists and novice ATC traders
ADVENTURE TIME Summer Swap 2014
I am hosting an ADVENTURE TIME Summer Swap 2014!
This swap is for artist trading cards of "Adventure Time" cartoon characters, and fans of the show know there are quite a few! Here is a great wiki of characters: http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Characters I think this is a group swap a lot of us can get into.
Here are the parameters of the swap for players:
◙ Total of 6 hand-drawn and/or hand-painted artist trading cards. Please use only artist grade materials (no ballpoint pens, Sharpie markers, hi-lighters or other office supplies.) Good ideas for materials are artist markers, paint media, coloured pencils and inks. Ma
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If you're looking for alternatives similar to the old Flickr, I can recommend Ipernity I think they have approximately the same amount of space reserved for free accounts as Flickr (200 pics displayed) and the interface is much more user friendly. There are also groups, although so far I've only found one specifically for ATCs. I haven't checked in a while, though.