#brunei art

[yunokiart]

Gojo Satoru

[zanielart]

Brunette Beta portrait

[zanielart]

Resya & Sufrina  My beautiful models of muslimah <3 <3

[yunokiart]

Remake a friend's OC, Rieth Amethyst 😍👍

[yunokiart]

Huhuhu 🙈🙈

[yunokiart]

Having video chat with your 2/3D *coughs* 🙈🙈

//self-reference

[zanielart]

Started drawing the Forgotten Legend himself, Awang Budiman since last week. . . . . . For fun Plot twist 2nd pic: 20 years ago, Nick Fury recruited him to fight a bigger threat in the future so he took off, until 2018, Thanos arrived and snapped his finger and cleansed half of the population in the universe. Now the world is in a brink of annihilation, he returns and will fight along side with the Avengers

[rolluptheclouds]

#365artchallenge2017bn

Since the 365 Day Art Challenge started this year (or technically, end of 2016) by United Network Entertainment, I've discovered a number of great local artists! The above screens are what's showing if exploring the two associated tags #365artchallengebn and #365artchallenge2017bn on Instagram.

It's been interesting watching this hashtag unfold over the first half of January 2017. When I first saw the original post about the challenge, I wondered if a full year was not too demanding for most people. Secondly, you would not fail to notice point two on the outcomes of doing the challenge:

Artists who complete the 365 day run and showed commitment, and improvement, will be selected to be featured alongside the artists at UNE in our publications to be showcased.

Given the few opportunities Bruneian artists have to showcase their work, I can understand if they would jump at this chance, albeit having to wait a year to be judged. I mean, also it is not immediately clear how "selection" will work and... okay I'll reserve my scepticism for now. All the best to those involved, I guess?

I do regularly check up on the hashtag (usually the one with "2017" in it) and it's nice seeing the artists who use this hashtag following each other, liking and commenting on each other's daily art. I would guess there are a good number of non-formally taught artists posting these, and I hope it is proving a productive, challenging - but also supportive - outlet for them.

I wonder: Is this an "art community" that's forming around this hashtag? Was this all that was needed to entice them to post up their drawings, a "goal" and a hashtag to find each other with? (Especially a hashtag more specific than #bruneiartists) And is it possible for the hashtag to become reappropriated for this growing art community, rather than for the initial reasons that a commercial entity intended?

Original post for 365 Day Art Challenge: https://www.instagram.com/p/BOd2ixuhJx4/

Monthly Prompts: January