Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

I was going through my blog and journals (as you do this time of year;-), and I noticed I completely forgot to share the stuff I made for Land of Art in 2024. My year was mostly filled with work and travel (which was also mostly for work) but I did manage to squeeze in some creative times. So I figured for my end of year post, I'll just picspam y'all with my graphic designs.

But first, to round up this year properly, here's what I did since the previous journal post in October, with links to my photos on Instagram:

I had a quick weekend in London for a play that was cancelled last minute (but I found another one to at least make the most of my weekend in November)

I built a cabinet for my renovated shower

I went on another businesstrip to England as well, where I didn't really go sightseeing, but did discover a lovely outdoors pool that was decorated for Christmas in December

I celebrated Sinterklaas with my family

Now, without further ado: all the fanart graphics I made this year!

Land of Art Phase 22 - Summer 2024
I handed in Golden Tickets for Challenge 1, 9 and 11. I missed Challenge 3 and Challenge 14 was a puzzle challenge, so no artwork for all of these.

( Challenge 2 - Stop & Stare )

( Challenge 4 - Technique )

( Challenge 5 - Hide & Seek )

( Challenge 6 - If You Believe )

( Challenge 7 - That's New to Me )

( Challenge 8 - Mother's Day )

( Challenge 10 - The Scenic Route )

( Challenge 12 - Call Me Daddy )

( Challenge 13 - All About That Base )

( Challenge 15 - Show Me the Pain )

Land of Art Phase 23 - Autumn 2024
This phase was supposed to last through December and into 2025, but was cut short because everyone is too busy with work. Team challenge 3 is moved to the next phase, challenge 7&8 were not posted.

( PH23CH01 - Follow the Leader )

( PH23CH02 - Mini Bang )

( PH23CH04 - You were the First )

( PH23CH05 - What if I'm the Bad Guy )

( PH23CH06 - The Saddest Goodb )

( PH23CH09 - On The Side )

That's all! Wishing everyone all the best for the holidays :-)

J.


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Pff, those were some worlwind weeks since my previous post. In between work being crazy busy (as usual;) I had a long weekend off for a theatre trip to London, including a night at the Leicester Square Theatre for Richard Herring's podcast; he interviewed Tim Key, who presented his book of poems, and Davina McCall, a hero of mine ever since her MTV days, she was so cool and gorgeous. I also met up with an international workfriend:) I shared a bunch of photos at my Instagram:
Part 1: Night Ferry / Breakfast / Undergrond / Rain / Black Friars Bridge / Exploring Bankside (Artsy:) / Shakespeare's Globe! | Part 2: More exploring Bankside (Winchester Palace / As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe! / Golden Hind galleon) / King's Cross Hotel / IFO (rainbow swing) by IFO Jacques Rival. | Part 3: Saint Chad! (for the SPN RPF fangirls;) / King's Cross / British Library / Detail of St. Pancras railway sculpture frieze (The Meeting Place by Paul Day) / Skeleton at Liberty / Lunch at Mother Mash with G.

I received some great fandom news: after a process of over two (2!) years, the import of the Nick&Greg fic archive WMTDB is finally complete and the collection of over 2000 stories is now safely stored in our own collection at AO3!

I continued to play in Land of Art Phase 21: Challenge 10 was a Halloween/Autumn Edition Scavenger Hunt where we had to find specific images and create a whole bunch of spooky or autumny graphic designs. I dove into all sorts of monster and witches films and also rediscovered the Buffy and Angel fandom:-)
I managed to find all the required images/screenshots and below I'm sharing all the stuff I created; a mood theme, icons, sigtags, picspams, bookmarks, colorbars, headers, panoramas, posters, tumblr graphics and wallpapers!

( ALL THE THINGS! )



( MORE THINGS! )

With another businesstrip ahead of me, I may have to hand in some Golden Tickets for a few coming challenges to have enough time to do the ones I really want to do. Today I'm working on colouring pages, it's so relaxing getting out the pencils:-)

J.

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This is the second half of my Land of Art Graphics for Phase 20. In case you missed here are links to Part 1, Challenges 1-9: on Dreamwidth and on Livejournal.

There will be a new Land of Art Phase starting next week, let me know if you are interested in joining in and I'll introduce you to our creative community:) It's a great low pressure challenge over several weeks with inspirational suggestions to make digital artworks, for which you can use stock or fandom images. Below you'll find my creations, featuring Orphan Black, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and more:) I'm on Team SteamPunk, we won Phase 20, yay!

( Challenge 10 - Hide & Seek: Types of Weapons )

No Graphics:
- Handed in Golden Tickets for Challenge 11 - Competition: Superheroes Vs. Anti-Heroes Vs. Anti-Villains Vs. Villains
- Challenge 12 - Puzzle Maker was a digital puzzle challenge for speed
(I created my own puzzle as well, 70 pieces featuring CSI Nick Stokes, go check it out:)
- for Challenge 13 - May the 4th Be With You (Stormtrooper Edition) you had to pick your favorite stormtroopers for a lottery.

( Challenge 14 - Hide & Seek: Accessories )


+ 2 No Face Sigtags on Glasses


( Challenge 15 - Hide & Seek: Love )

( Community Banners: Love & Film Backgrounds )

( Challenge 16 - Competition: Animation Vs. Anime Vs. Live Action )

( Challenge 17 - Colored Graphics )
A great final challenge:)

J.

You can check the Land of Art tag for my graphics from all previous phases:)

If you're interested in my digital and papercut fan-art, you can scroll through my Artmasterlists:
Artmasterlist 2010-2018 | Artmasterlist 2019 and beyond

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Yay, lots of improvements on my shoulder mobility since my last update. I was able to get on my bicycle again and after trying it carefully in the weekend to do groceries, I also cycled to the office again every weekday.
I started on my 'senior citizen' bike, which has a low step and saddle, so I didn't need to put my full weight on my arms when getting on and off. On Wednesday evening I decided to try my regular (high) bike to cycle to my mom; this route includes a steep bridge, so it's good exercise;) It feels very good to have my independence back and to no longer need public transport or a ride from my mom to move around.
I'm still going to physical therapy; my left shoulder still needs kneeding and I've been getting new exercises to further improve mobility and strength in my arms. We'll see how much time I need to full recovery, but I'm already feeling like myself again. (Now not to have this happen again and learn to take regular breaks in between fiddling on the computer, both professionally and privately;)

Speaking of fiddling on a computer: here are the final graphics I made for landofart.

( Ch16_PH18 - What's Behind Door... )

( Ch17_PH18 - So That's Who You Like )

( Ch18PH18 - LGBT )

( Ch19PH18 - 4 Elements )

( Ch20PH18 - I Will Go Down With This Ship )

( Ch21PH18 - My Favorite )

( Ch22PH18 - Screencaps as Textures, What?? )

( Ch23PH18 - Mystery Bags of Loot )

( Ch24PH18 - Letter Association )

Previous Land of Art Phase 18 challenges: Ph18Ch1+3 | Ph18Ch2 | Ph18Ch4+5+7+8 | Ph18Ch6+7,10-15

I'm currently playing in the Land of Art Summerphase for Team Deep Sea! I'm also working on my (Paper!)art for the spn_j2_bigbang, which will be shared at the end of the month! How's everyone doing with their collaborations?

J.

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CHALLENGE:
Make up to a total of 6 sigtags (300x150) or icons (100x100) for your team
- Your team name must be included and for sigtags only, your username must be included.
- You can use whatever you want on it. Text Only, fandoms, stock, celebrities, you choose. - Team names are just that, team names, they do not have to inspire your art.

I am in Team PopArt and I made 4 sigtags (signature tags;) and 2 icons (userpics)







In the landofart we use these sigtags to sign off on our artwork when we hand in our designs.

If these artposts make you curious and you want to join in, you can! We've only just started and there are different new challenges every couple of days until July. You can do a little or a lot, main goal is to get creative. Low pressure, no judgement, lots of inspiration:)
You can sign up here (Or first read the FAQ here)

Don't hesitate to ask any questions about fonts, images or the Land of Art community, here or in a PM. I love babbling about my design choices;)

J.

P.S. In case you missed it: I posted new papercut art earlier this week: A Sexy Surprise to illustrate a fanfic in the Quicky_Bang. It's a little naughty underwear, so NSFW! [DW]

This was one of my favorite Challenges in landofart, because I got to play with new types of set ups. I was familiar with lovebars from my early days in the CSI fandom, but I didn't know there was also a variation called a colorbar. I had never heard of a Panarama, but I love the whole concept; five icons that together make a complete image. Both of these compositions had dimensions and sizes I had never worked with before. It was very exciting to put them together!

I made two colorbars and a Panarama:)









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( Before and After, Sources & Fonts )

J.

I've been playing in landofart for the past few weeks again and am finally making time to post all the graphic designs I created so far. I'm planning to post everything up to challenge 10 this weekend.

Challenge 1 was to promote Land of Art, I didn't make any new banners for this, but I did do shout outs all over my social media:) [On LJ & DW amongst others.]

Challenge 2 was the traditional making of personal icons & so called sigtags that you use to sign your submissions with your teamname. I'm on team SteamPunk:) I created 3 sigtags & 3 icons:







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( Before and After, Sources & Fonts )

Check my Land of Art Tag to see all old and new artworks. From now on I will try to keep up right after I submitted artwork to the community;) Comments are always appreciated!

J.

Yesterday brotherdearest came over to fix my upstair's computer and to continue our everlasting Buffy/Angel marathon. We watched the final episodes of Season 4 and 1 respectively. It was obvious we now reached the episodes that we only watched once (or maybe twice;) in the past; there were a lot of scenes we didn't remember, while before we would voice over a lot of dialogue. It was fun to feel suspense again.

I can't look at Christian Kane now without connecting him to J2 fanfiction. Especially when a screenshot of him reminded me of a gorgeous still of a certain Jensen Ackles in Supernatural.

( I had to capture it: look how pretty! )

See what I mean? *sighs*