Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

Am incredibily busy in real life with preparations for the renovations to my apartmentcomplex. This weekend I'm clearing out my attic so they can put in a new floor. I bought a handtruck stair climber, which should come in handy moving the big ass old computer monitors I have stored up in the attic.
So far I've sorted all the empty boxes I had saved of every appliance I bought in the last twenty years (because I never knew if I could use them when I would move again, ahem, I'm really bad a throwing stuff out, okay). So that was a whole bunch of cardboard and plastic bags and styrofoam shapes to separate. Didn't need the hand truck to get all of that down the stairs, although it took me four runs to get everything to my bikeshed. That needs to be emptied out as well, because they will be putting in a new ceiling there, but hopefully I'll have help from my mom and brother next week to get everything out of there and to the city's disposal site.

Anyway, I'm taking a break by sitting down to update my journal with the latest landofart graphics:) Due to the aforemented preparations I didn't have time to go for maximum points, but I tried to participate whenever I could.

Challenge 9 - Franchising Teamwork
Create Posters (500x700 pixels) for movies/shows/games in given categories
(Click for full size).

Orphan Black & The Walking Dead

Challenge 10 - Can You See Me?
Unfortunately I had to opt out of this one; I hope it will make an appearance in the next Phase again, because it did sound like fun. You had to create art and only share the basic elements you used (textures, fonts and images), then another member would try to recreate it just by the description of what you made and so on up until a group of five members.
I lacked time to fully commit to this so I used Golden Tickets instead to at least get some points for my team SteamPunk.

( Challenge 11 - Mystery Bags of Loot )

Still fiddling with my artwork for the QuickyBang, but so far I'm making more progress in landofart Here's an update with mylatest graphics, starting with a teaser sigtag I made just for meeeeeeeeeee:



That was originally a tumblr gif I made for the fifth challenge, you can see the bigger size below:)
(While Jeff is scrumptious here, this film is really one of the worst I've ever seen and he plays a real jerk. When I watched this with sillie82 (a long time ago) we managed about twenty minutes before we just started to fast forward to every Jeff scene;) Anyway, on with the artwork:

( Challenge 5 - Letter Association )

( Challenge 6 - Happy Birthday )

Half a day of work to go until the weekend. I'm so ready for it! How about you?

J.

So happy to be playing in the landofart again! Here are my graphics for Challenge 1 + 2, they all signature tags (sigtags 300x150) with a twist. We traditionally start each Phase with making our own Sigtags and Icons, which we use to sign our submissions. This time we got to make templates only, and other members could make requests for versions with their name and team on them. A great opportunity to practice with text placement and font combinations:)

( I made mirror themed sigtag templates )

( These are the text versions I made: )

CHALLENGE 2: Character of LoA
For the second challenge we created sigtags for imaginary characters to be part of our teams:)
I'm in Team Steampunk, and here are my fantasy team mates:







It's just a coincidence that it's all sigtags by the way; I could have made icons for the first challenge and most of the time there's a whole bunch of graphics to choose from each challenge. Right now I'm already working on the next two challenges for which I chose gifs, bookmarks and colouring pages!

I've also claimed a fic in the quicky_bang to make art for, so I've got my weekend sorted:)

What do you have planned? Are you going to the virtual SPN Convention? I've got a ticket for the J2 panel this Sunday, can't wait to see these guys again!

J.


P.S. Let me know if you're curious about any of the fonts:)

P.P.S. There are loads of short fics submitted in the QuickyBang, so if you're looking for SPN/RPF inspiration to get creative, come over to claim!

Another set of graphic designs for landofart that I worked on in between fandom challenges in the past month. Points for Phase 15 are still being tallied, so I don't know how my team Steampunk did yet. I'm also still waiting for the votes for the Halloween challenge, I will post the final two sets of Land of Art graphics as soon as those results are in. There was going to be a Christmas challenge, but that got cancelled, so I supposed I have no more excuses left to start getting my Xmas cards* ready!

( Colourbars and Bookmarks )

I still have a few Sam & Dean cards left from last year, if you want one, let me know! This year's cards* will be non fandom;)

J.

In between moderating and making artworks for the SPN_ReverseBang, I'm also still playing in landofart. Here's an update from the latest few challenges. (I handed in Golden Tickets for Ch. 8 + 10 so I could skip on creating anything for those, saving valuable time and energy;). I made quite a few animations, I'm putting them behind the cut to not overwhelm the flist. Would love to hear what you think of these though, so come take a look!

( Challenge 03: Hide & Seek - Round 4 )
( Challenge 06: Two Color Adventures )

( Challenge 11: Remember Me )


Diana Riggs (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) & Rutger Hauer (23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019)

I initially wasn't sure if I wanted to participate in that last one, because it was a painful subject, and it turned out to be bittersweet to create these graphics. But it was also a nice way to remember these people <3

J.

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I want to make an effort to post my landofart challenges in order, even though they are not always set up in numerical order in the community. Challenge number 5 was done a while ago and was an individual challenge. For challenge number 4 teams of six people had to work together to create icons for colorbars, which took some time to organize. I joined three other Steampunk teams as a member and put one team together myself.
Now that the team effort for challenge 4 is finally handed in, I'm catching up with posting here again:)

( Phase 15 - Challenge 4 - Colorbar Teamwork )

Phase 15 - Challenge 5: Hm that looks interesting
This challenge was about creating billboards, a format I had not used before. Out of the two sizes, I went with the larger 900x400 dimensions. The billboards had to include at least one image, the character name and what show/movie they are from. I decided to go with female characters from The Boys, ( Grace, Annie, Charlotte & Kimiko )



Would love to hear what you think of these, whether you're watching The Boys or not:)

J.

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For this Phase landofart has two teams again to "fight" in the friendly competition to keep everyone motivated:) Together we create Challenge Leader Banners to be used to announce the winner of each Challenge.
We also all make Comment Banners for our mod to accompany the standard comment categories: Questions, Squee or Yay, Team Renaissance, Team Steampunk (in any variation of those teamnames).
For challenge 2 of Phase 15 I made 4 challenge leader banners, and two sets of 4 comment banners.

Preview:


( The full sets )

I decided to go extra colourful this time:) Comments/Questions of all kind are welcome!

J.

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Woohoo, Phase 14 of landofart is finished, points have been awarded and my team PopArt came in third! (Out of three teams, but *blows raspberries*;) There were a few challenges I didn't create art for: one was a nostalgic look back at old designs (Ch20), another was a quick draw doodle thing (Ch19), and I handed in Golden Tickets for two challenges that I didn't have time for (Ch11+17). But there are still plenty of graphic designs to share: I made filmposters and loads of tumblr graphics, icons and wallpapers! (Click for full size images:)

( Challenge 3 - Hide & Seek (FINAL ROUND) )

( Challenge 16 - Deciphering the Truth [QUIZ!] )

( Challenge 18 - I Really Wanted to Like You )

( Challenge 15 - Colors of the Rainbow )

( Challenge 13 - Gotta Catch'em All )

Love to hear what you think of these:)

J.

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This week I've returned to the office to train new employees and it's been physically exhausting as I usually start the day standing during a long presentation and then spend the rest of it walking around answering questions. Most evenings I barely managed to eat a bowl of yoghurt before I fall asleep on the couch. It's been mentally rewarding though; we've selected a great bunch of 'students', none of them have any experience with GIS (Geodata Information Systems) and it's been a joy to teach them all I know:) I also love that I get to cycle to work again!

Having to adjust to the Corona measures is still a bit tricky, as I have to do my explaining from a safe distance and I can't simply grab their mouse to show them what I mean on the screen by doing an example drawing. But I happily wear my funky map-patterned mask for one-on-one talks and I found this lovely berry-scented hand desinfectant that also amuses me.
Now that everybody is settled in, things should calm down a bit. My fellow tutor is on digital stand-by and we plan to have the new people interact with him even more next week to take the biggest pressure off. I still have two major presentations to give, but I'm actually looking forward to those, as I get to talk about a subject I love and I really enjoy sharing knowledge:).

This weekend I will be finishing the final version of the paper story-banner for my first SPN_J2_BigBang artwork of 2020 which will be revealed after the weekend, dundundunnnn. I haven't been able to work on that during this busy work week and I also haven't had time to check up on all the awesomeness that has already been posted in the spn_j2_bigbang. Go give all creators there some love if you can!


I did manage a few creations for Land of Art; creating graphic designs is as relaxing as a lovely hot bubblebath: it's instant pleasure and it clears my mind. I found some gorgeous pics of Jeffrey Dean Morgan/John Winchester to play with (I have a bunch left to fiddle with too, woohoo!). Of course there's also a CSI Tumblr design plus bonus Hannah Gadsby!
These were all made for Hide & Seek, where you make graphics based on given themes. Each piece you make is a vote for that theme to be included in the next round. I spread my votes across three themes: Looking Up / Vintage / Action. Can you tell which is which?



( Two bookmarks & two Tumblr graphics )

As we used to say and it still holds true: comments are love!

So how have y'all been doing? Still social distancing and working from home? What's going on in your part of the world?

J.

Earlier rounds of Phase 14's Hide & Seek: Round 3 | Round 2 | Round 1
For all my other Land of Art posts, just check the tag:)

J.

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Update on life: last week I went back to the office for three days (after working from home since the "Intelligent" Lockdown started in March). I got to assist with job interviews and was responsible for testing candidates, which had to be done in person. Normally we would invite all candidates on one day with multiple people testing them. But with all the social distancing and hygiene rules we had to limit the process to three people a day with just me, switching computers for each candidate (they had to plug in their provided clean keyboard and mouse themselves).
They would first have a half hour interview and then be send to me for a full hour. I would guide them through several tests, starting with satellite images which they had to interpret. Then I'd let them play in the map drawing program for a bit before having them translate some texts from our massive manual (which is in English).
I'm not a people person, but really like one-on-one interactions with people who are interested in what I do:) Some of them got very excited; I had a great time. In the end we hired six people and I will be training them in two weeks time. Until then I'm busy updating our guides and preparing presentations:) We usually teach the three week course in pairs, but the rest of the senior team have hay-fever and they are not allowed in the office, so I will be doing the whole thing by myself. I will have video-chat back up, but it will be intense!

I hope to continue to relax in my spare time with arts & crafts. I've started working on both my SPN_J2_BigBang collabs (have figured out what I want to do, woohoo) and of course there's all the graphics fun in landofart. Here's what I created this week:
Hide & Seek is a long running challenge within a Land of Art Phase, where you make graphics based on given themes. Each piece you make is a vote for a specific theme to be included in the next round. I liked a lot of themes, so I spread my votes again. This round I chose the following themes: Looking Up / Shapes / Vintage / Yellow / Action and I gave one of those two votes; see if you can figure out which is which;)

( Five Tumblr graphics and a Bookmark )

Earlier rounds of Phase 14's Hide & Seek: Round 2 | Round 1
For all my other Land of Art posts, just check the tag:)

J.

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