In order to try and stimulate a bit more "Community spirit" on caedes. I am going to start running a new project called "Artist of the week". The idea is that we will focus on a single artist on caedes who will be nominated by caedes members. I thought some of the benefits might be that it would allow people to see images that they might have missed previously; it might encourage good artists to post more images; it might provide valuable feedback for artists to improve their work, even if only to a small degree; it will encourage people to become more involved in the caedes community; it might allow people to learn from the "experts"; and it might allow members to "get to know each other" better and maybe make a new friend/aquaintance. This project will be run by myself and perhaps a few others if they want to be involved (I know at least one other person already suggested this in the forums, sorry I can't recall who it was just at the moment). It is not an "official" project so any feedback should be directed at me rather than caedes, mods, the site in general, etc.
The first step is to select an artist from the multitude of talent on the site. Please PM me with a name if you want to nominate someone, it should be an established member with a fairly large personal gallery, maybe someone you feel deserves a bit more attention, but still someone who is fairly accomplished in their area of work. It should also be someone who is currently active on the site as providing feedback to someone who probably won't ever read it is futile :-). I will probably go with whoever receives the most nominations. I will then post the name on the "Desktop Wallpaper" discussion board with a link to the members profile and gallery. Hopefully members will visit the gallery and leave comments on images or on the members profile with feedback on images, general encouragement, questions regarding their techniques etc. Members will also be able to leave comments in the post itself if they wish. If anyone has ideas that might improve this project please post them HERE rather than on the "Desktop Wallpaper" discussion.
PS even though I have called this "Artist of the week" it might change to artist of the month/fortnight/whatever depending on how the thing pans out. I won't really be able to tell what the best timeframe is until it's been up and running for a while I think.
The first step is to select an artist from the multitude of talent on the site. Please PM me with a name if you want to nominate someone, it should be an established member with a fairly large personal gallery, maybe someone you feel deserves a bit more attention, but still someone who is fairly accomplished in their area of work. It should also be someone who is currently active on the site as providing feedback to someone who probably won't ever read it is futile :-). I will probably go with whoever receives the most nominations. I will then post the name on the "Desktop Wallpaper" discussion board with a link to the members profile and gallery. Hopefully members will visit the gallery and leave comments on images or on the members profile with feedback on images, general encouragement, questions regarding their techniques etc. Members will also be able to leave comments in the post itself if they wish. If anyone has ideas that might improve this project please post them HERE rather than on the "Desktop Wallpaper" discussion.
PS even though I have called this "Artist of the week" it might change to artist of the month/fortnight/whatever depending on how the thing pans out. I won't really be able to tell what the best timeframe is until it's been up and running for a while I think.