#ocsandartists

[thefandomexpert]

Hey guys! Just so ya'll know, the blog ocsandartists is currently under construction, but it is there!

I'm working with teamcloverkit to figure out exactly how it's gonna work, as their blog has a similar purpose

Eventually I'm planning for it to:

Display and promote OCs by young artists

Have more experienced artists draw said OCs

Have a mentoring/tutorial volunteer based system

[thefandomexpert]

abt your cloverkit project idea, it!!! kinda inspired me to think of smth else. maybe a mentoring project too? where more experienced artists could volunteer to help younger artists? like, i just remember ages ago where i was on this one site, and some of the users there ran usermade 'spriting schools' - where they'd help you learn how to make pokemon sprite edits. and it could possibly kinda work like that!!! sorry if this is a bad idea, i just wanted to get it out :0

nono dude that sounds awesome

I'm waiting to hear back from teamcloverkit about whether or not starting a new blog would be a good idea, as they have a similar purpose, but I do have a blog blocked out over at ocsandartists and having mentors/classes sounds like a great thing that can happen over there too

I imagine it'd work similar to FR's mentors, where the more experienced artists would volunteer to be mentors and then younger artists could pick mentor(s)

some mentors would be open to everything, some would only do specific things. I'm thinking maybe split them up by subject (eg. mentor1 only does canines and felines and maybe anthros, mentor2 does humanoids, but tends to stay away from anthros, mentor3 does dragons and unicorns, but never anthros, mentor4 works with detailed armor and other 18th century things) style (lineart vs lineless, only teaches sketching, only teaches proportions/movement studies, works mainly with color palettes and finding balance for a character, ect.) and detail (teaching full pieces with backgrounds vs teaching how to make character ref sheets), and then occasionally there'd be classes/tutorials, where a mentor would teach a few different 'students' on how to make a particular thing (eg. one on how to color eyes or a class on expressions, maybe a class on researching characters, or how to pick an official height and weight based on background. A class on making humanized versions of non-human characters would be fun) Classes would be less personal, but they'd have a lot of good general info

In that last respect, since most if not all of these guys will be OCs, we can bring in writers too! Things that i mentioned above like researching through a character's background (and by that i mean looking through local lore and statistics to find things like eye color, religion, skin color, general shape of the face, hair color and style, jewelry, tattoos, ect.) and finding body types off of a decided height and weight and vice versa are all things writers do regularly (if i'm anything to go on), so they'd be able to help just as much as the artists in things like building character backstories, personalities, and habits

(also if you want to end up co-running this with me, or helping with the mentoring part of it at least, just shoot me a thing off anon and we can start working stuff out)