Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

The only creative community I'm currently involved in is no longer at Livejournal: landofart has moved to Dreamwidth! Good thing I have already been (t)here for years as well ;-)
If that is the incentive you wanted to join in, come on over! Phase 24 continues for all of 2025 with new challenges to create graphics every couple of weeks. Fandom is optional. With your graphics you collect points for yourself and your team (and you can also earn Golden Tickets, which you can use when you want or need to skip a challenge)

Go here for FAQ!
Should you decide to sign up, please mention my name (so I score 5 points for me and my team SteamPunk)
You can apply for a team here!

Due to travel (for work) I missed a few challenges and I handed in Golden Tickets for a couple of them as well, but here's what I made so far for Phase 24:
( Challenge 1 - Signatures Here )

( Challenge 2 - Stocking Holidays )

( Challenge 3 - Hide & Seek )

( Challenge 7 - Frenemies )

Challenge 15 - Promotion
A demo on combining images into a graphic, featuring The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

Come over to play in Land of Art!

J.

Want to see more of my graphics? I did a big artpost on these at the end of last year: Phase 22 + 23

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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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I had an extralong weekend because May 5th is a national holiday and I had saved up loads of overtime training new people in the past few weeks, so I took Monday the 4th off as well. I had planned to do another Japan picspam, but then I spent all Sunday on the couch with a book and loved that so much that I did that again today.
Yesterday I caught up online, cleaned out my Gmail box and did another landofart Challenge. So once again I didn't get around to selecting photos from the final few days in Japan, but you can see a little travel sneak peek in my previous LoA post when I made photocollages of buildings, which also includes pics of London and Dallas, from when I did that roadtrip in the USA in 2015!

Below are my latest Land of Art designs for Round 2 of Hide & Seek, which is a long running challenge throughout Phase 14, where you make graphics based on given themes. You create art to vote for that theme to be included in the next round. The themes I voted for are: Looking Up / No Eyes / Shapes / Sharp & Blurry / Vintage / Yellow /
See if you can see which is which;)

Skam Sigtag, featuring Isak Valtersen (Tarjei Sandvik Moe)


( Five Tumblr Graphics )

Hide & Seek Round 1

J.

P.S. I reread Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and followed up with The Testaments. Still don't feel the need to watch the TV series, no need to convince me. These are the kind of books I love for what they are:) <3 Last time I spent all day reading a book from beginning to end in a day was when the final Harry Potter book came out. I missed being able to do that:) Book recommendations are always welcome!