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poetry_fiction work into a finished draft form, which is good.
I also drew fanart for a birthday request of someone I follow on a different social media platform. It's not great (the hands are wrong-proportion, and it's drawn on a post-it), but it was something I felt like doing. I'm also a little embarrassed about it, because while I think it's in the vein of the works that the person has already posted, and it's borrowing exact text from something already posted, it's still the avatar of the person performing an entirely appropriate gesture for the caption, and I don't know whether this would be taken well (as in "I've wanted to do that so much and haven't in the comics") or poorly (as in "I would never do that!"). So I eventually created a more suitable for posting version of it to put into place and mentioned that it was a cropped version of the original thing that I drew and posted that.
The important part, though, is that I did the thing first and then figured out what to do with it afterward. A lot of what I've seen people lament about is that they have ideas, or there are things they want to do, but they're scared of starting, or they're worried they don't have the skill to pull it off. These are normal concerns, and in a world that's basically pressuring you to put a camera on everything you do and make you hustle for every moment to monetize or to share or whatever, doing a thing for you, to try, even if you don't like the finished product or you don't want to post it, seems like a waste of time and effort.
It isn't.
Not everything you create is going to be something you choose to post or let others see. You might finish it and then decide that it's words or objects for the drawer or that it's a practice entity and not yet ready for sharing. (Or it might never be something for sharing.) Radio host Ira Glass mentions that most of us who create do so because we have good taste, and that practice is what we do to get our skills to match our taste. I have written a lot of words in my lifetime, only some of which are remembered by the Internet in various places and publications. Writing fic that can get a job done is easier because I have millions of words of practice at writing. If I had millions of lines drawn, drawing would be easier to match taste. But some of the fun of doing fanworks is doing things that you want to do and not caring about whether you want to show it to someone else or whether it currently matches your taste. If you're doing it for you, whether it ends up as practice material or in your portfolio, then you got something out of it.
Keep on creating.
One of our favourite things about this challenge is the pure variety of skills and ideas that this community of fans possesses. You all are you talented, and in so many different fandoms!I did the thing. Prompts at 3SF and all that. I got my
Challenge #10
In your own space, create a fanwork.
Don't think we only mean "write some fic" with this, though please do write some fic if you like, but also consider art, icons, graphics, podfics, musical scores, meta, fibre arts, vids, recipes, or whatever other combination of the words "fan" and "work" that strike your fancy. Have fun with it!
poetry_fiction work into a finished draft form, which is good.I also drew fanart for a birthday request of someone I follow on a different social media platform. It's not great (the hands are wrong-proportion, and it's drawn on a post-it), but it was something I felt like doing. I'm also a little embarrassed about it, because while I think it's in the vein of the works that the person has already posted, and it's borrowing exact text from something already posted, it's still the avatar of the person performing an entirely appropriate gesture for the caption, and I don't know whether this would be taken well (as in "I've wanted to do that so much and haven't in the comics") or poorly (as in "I would never do that!"). So I eventually created a more suitable for posting version of it to put into place and mentioned that it was a cropped version of the original thing that I drew and posted that.
The important part, though, is that I did the thing first and then figured out what to do with it afterward. A lot of what I've seen people lament about is that they have ideas, or there are things they want to do, but they're scared of starting, or they're worried they don't have the skill to pull it off. These are normal concerns, and in a world that's basically pressuring you to put a camera on everything you do and make you hustle for every moment to monetize or to share or whatever, doing a thing for you, to try, even if you don't like the finished product or you don't want to post it, seems like a waste of time and effort.
It isn't.
Not everything you create is going to be something you choose to post or let others see. You might finish it and then decide that it's words or objects for the drawer or that it's a practice entity and not yet ready for sharing. (Or it might never be something for sharing.) Radio host Ira Glass mentions that most of us who create do so because we have good taste, and that practice is what we do to get our skills to match our taste. I have written a lot of words in my lifetime, only some of which are remembered by the Internet in various places and publications. Writing fic that can get a job done is easier because I have millions of words of practice at writing. If I had millions of lines drawn, drawing would be easier to match taste. But some of the fun of doing fanworks is doing things that you want to do and not caring about whether you want to show it to someone else or whether it currently matches your taste. If you're doing it for you, whether it ends up as practice material or in your portfolio, then you got something out of it.
Keep on creating.
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Date: 2023-01-21 04:46 pm (UTC)