Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

Well, December was another wild month; I didn't get to go on the planned businesstrip (that is postponed to the end of January), but I had plenty of stuff to do.

We had elections in the Netherlands; my green party joined a collaboration with the socialist party in the hope of building a big left wing powerblock. Unfortunately more people voted for the angry right and those conservative parties are currently working on a coalition for government. *big sigh*

Happier happenings: my family celebrated Sinterklaas (Photos of the surprise packages I build and received in my Instagram) and my birthday was fun as well (Check out my awesome over the top cake!).

If you're on other socials, I now also have an account on BlueSky, let me know if you want me add/follow you there:) I'll share a complete list of my platforms next year. I will at least continue to share stuff on Dreamwidth and Livejournal. This final post of 2023 is a round-up of my Land of Art graphics.

( Challenge 11 - Fake it, Till You Make It )

( Challenge 12 - Cracked )

( Challenge 13 - A Panoramic Twist )

I handed in Golden Tickets for Challenge 14 - Hide & Seek Characters (Prep) because I was lacking time to come up with approved character types and create banners.

( Challenge 15 - A Silver Lining )

For Challenge 16 - Where is the End Point? everyone had to find mazes to share and solve. That was more fun than I initially thought, I did 27 of them! Here, have one, with bonus colouring option:)


( Challenge 17 - Associate This! )

( Challenge 18 - Characters Wear What? )

That's all for this year, hope to see you here in 2024!

J.

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A final look back at my artsy creations and graphic designs from 2022. I updated my ArtMasterlist for 2019 and beyond [DW] with my fandom artposts for the 2022 SPN_J2_BigBang and the 2022 SPN_ReverseBang. I collaborated on two claims for the latter, so in total I made 3 artposts last year, which is the lowest since I started keeping track of my fandomcreations in 2010. I also was quite busy moderating the RB, so I did interact with fellow fans a LOT behind the scenes to keep things going. The main reason for not being as creative as previous years are the over-all slow down of the SPN fandom and my work taking a lot of energy causing me to more lurking and less participating online.

I was active in Land of Art again, which is all about graphic designs. I may have slipped in a bit of fandom here or there, but my favorite thing about Land of Art is that I can be creative without being restricted by fandom. However, one of the pieces I'm most fond of features Jeff/Jensen for Challenge 11, which is why they are not behind a cut;)

( Ch07_PH19-Tic Tac Toe )

Ahw, I was determined to get a 100% participation, but I missed Challenge 8 (Legends Never Die) because I was too preoccupied with work to pay attention to LJ :-( I was still busy when I found out and I used a golden ticket for Challenge 9 (Queen Elizabeth) which counts as participation, so I still got points for the round). In most of the challenges I didn't have time to go for full points, so this phase I often handed in additional golden tickets to at least get my team maximum scores. (And then Team Renaissance obliterated us in Challenge 17, we didn't stand a chance to that! Still: go Team SteamPunk!)

( Ch10_PH19-We Choose, We Create, We Vote )

Ch11_PH19-Blended
Blend at least two images together.



( Ch12_PH19-Read My Mood )

( Ch13_PH19-Cut Out Fake Background )

( Ch14_PH19-Two Color Adventures )

( Ch15_PH19-Horrific )

Challenge 16 was a game where you had to guess video games based on snippets of covers, no art was made and I scored 145 out of a possible 410 points, ahem.

( Ch17_PH19-Gotta Chatch'em All )

( Ch18_PH19-Colour Me Halloween )

Challenge 19 was a Pot O'Gold challenge, where you got to pick fandoms from a list to get a bunch of surprise points, like a lottery. I won 1x100 and 1x20 points, not too bad.

In the next phase I hope to have more time for playing and to finally get to that 100% participation again. It all depends on work, as I'm still crazy busy there and might do quite a bit of business traveling...

Anyway, this was it for 2022 creativity;)

In case you missed it, here's an overview of my Graphics for Land of Art Phase 19 Ch 1-6 You can check the Land of Art tag for all previous phases:)

J.

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Yay, landofart is running a new Phase! So I will be posting updates of graphics I create for that for the next few months. This is the first one. Challenge 2 is long team challenge, which is not due until May, so I won't be posting that for a while, but here are Challenge 1 and 3! All graphics are made with Affinity Photo (highly recommended if you're looking for an affordable alternative to Adobe Photoshop)

( Challenge 1 - Character Tags )


( Challenge 3 - This Year's Love )

J.

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There. Am all up to speed with Twitter and just updated the NicknGreg Tumblr. Besides the paperfiddling I did for the QuickyBang (check it out here if you missed it!), I'm still happily playing in the landofart. Here's my latest bunch of graphics: wallpapers (1920x1080) and a set of Golden Ticket banners. Let me know what you think!

( CSI, Supernatural, Pride & Prejudice and more... )

This Land of Art phase is running until May, you can join in any time (and warm up for the next phase)) Ask if you want to know more:)

Am now contemplating picking another fic in the quicky_bang... There is one calling out to me... If no one beats me to it, I will grab it! See what's still available, SPN and RPF artists! Go go go!

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!

I had hoped to share the icons I made for the Halloween Challenge in landofart, but they had to be submitted anonimously for voting in the community, and that is still going, so I can't show them yet;) Instead, I'm catching up with the latest two rounds of the Hide & Seek Challenge that runs all phase long. In this challenge we get to create different graphics using different techniques or themes. Each design is also a vote for that technique/theme and only the most popular ones move on to the next round. My favorites usually don't survive, but hey, I get to try new techniques every round, haha!

( For Round 2: MultiColour Background, Chairoscuro and Knockout Text )

( For Round 3: Astronomy, Prop, Animated and a final Chaisoscuro )


Popclaw from the Boys. I can't believe I got this glitch effect to work; I split the original photo in coloured transparant layers, moved them a little off to the side and then added brushed scratches to make it look even more distorted.

I love experimenting in Land of Art a lot:)

J.

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As I'm working on finishing my SPN_J2_BigBang artworks, here is a set of graphics I made last week for another round in the landofart challenge Hide & Seek, where you create graphics based on given themes. Each piece you make is a vote for that theme to be included in the next round. I don't really have a prefered winner, so for round 5 I also spread my votes across several themes just so I could make various designs:) Can you guess the themes? I made three Tumblr Graphics and did a colouring page (In black and white, that was harder than I thought!)

( Graphics featuring CSI, Supernatural and more )

J.

Earlier rounds of Phase 14's Hide & Seek: Round 4 | Round 3 | Round 2 | Round 1
For all my other Land of Art posts, just check the tag:)

*This also happens to be the title of my very first SPN_Cinema artwork that I made in 2011: a J3 version of Pirates of the Caribbean!

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CHALLENGE:
Use images of people as a texture to create an effect on your art.
I made a Poster (500x700) and three Tumblr Graphics (540x500-800).
For the texture I used photos from the same shoots/people and experimented with filters and transparency:) See if you can find these visuals in the finished designs!

(Click on any image for full size)

Poster featuring Amy Adams & Images I used for texture


( Tumblr Graphics featuring Nick/Greg )

For landofart Phase 14 I will share my artworks with only a description of the assignment. If you are curious about the lettering or images, don't hesitate to ask about them; I do love to babble about my creations in the comments:)

J.

Spread the word: I just opened up another round of the MatchMaker Challenge over at quicky_bang!


Sign up with a date in January or February and you will be assigned a mystery match:
a short SPN or RPF fic (<4000 words) to create artwork for!

Sample promo:
<center><a href="https://quicky-bang.livejournal.com/40438.html"><img src="https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/beelikej/7499883/2347103/2347103_original.png" alt="MatchMaker LOGO2019.png" title="MatchMaker LOGO2019.png"/></a> <i>Sign up with a date in January or February and you will be assigned a mystery match: a short SPN or RPF fic (<4000 words) to create artwork for!</i></center>

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Other modjobs in 2019
I also filled the queue of the NicknGreg Tumblr where I post daily scenes for that tiny corner of the CSI fandom.

This Sunday starts another cycle in the smpc, a Supernatural community that I run together with somer and that offers a weekly dose of Sam/Dean and/or J2 porn:) Come over to watch! (Or join in if you're up for the challenge of creating something pervy once every two months:)

Last but not least I will be moderating the spn_reversebang again this year. I welcome any and all suggestions and comments on that event!

J.

Hey Nina, the guys from CSI have a message for you:


( but of course Jensen & Jared are ready to party too! )
*smishes and twirls you*
Have a wonderful day!