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Finally getting my studio back together in RL, so I'm volunteering for hootoo CA...

I do art with traditional media as well as digital stuff like Photoshop and the Gimp..

Will you supply the models for figure studies?

Hi there. Apparently, Mina recruits on Tuesday afternoons, so it may be a few days.

In the mean time, I'm sure some more qualified individuals will come by to break you- I mean greet you. I'm no CA, just a guru.

conviniently avoids the whole CA shpiel

Or is it Schpiel? Or is that just an American saying? Or am I just making it up?

Does it have a 'c'?

No 'c'... Nor an 'h'
.. except maybe after a few ......

It's really a german word, Jodan. Though in the sense you mean it can be applied to american salesmen, politicians, ... well lets just say many americans (but not just americans)!

Hi, Taliesin.
I find myself convinced that you've volunteered before and therefore don't need the "spiel" anyway. Maybe it's just a deja vu thing.

So if you haven't done so already, read the image guidelines in <./>CommunityArtists-What</.> and make sure you can do the anti-aliasing and transparency for front page circles since this seems to cause more people trouble than anything else. More examples can be found via the CA group persona at U204560.

Thanks.

I'll be back tomorrow Taliesin. Thanks for volunteering.

*makes an appearance*
^. .^
= ' =
Guru
CommunityArtist

Hi there! Thanks for volunteering to be a Community Artist.

To join this volunteer scheme there is an art test. This is because the standard of Edited Entries on h2g2 is very high, and we'd like the illustrations to match this.

I've picked two random Edited Entries using the Infinite Improbability Drive, and I'd like you to do a picture for each of them. You can look in the GuideML-PictureLibrary for the kind of graphics we've used in the past, use the entry for inspiration, and use the internet for research, but make sure that you follow the specifications that you can find on the CommunityArtists-What page. We also don't want to see photographs relied on heavily, or visible in the finished image, as we'd like to see your drawing style, not a photographic montage. We'd like to see all the images, although only the main one will be used, as these entries have already had their day on the Front Page.

Once they are done, let me know by Posting to this thread, and I'll give you the details to send them into us. If your pictures meet the Editorial standards then not only will you become a Community Artist, but your test pictures will be blobbed and added to the entries.

Your entries are:
A581014 - A History of Opera
A418637 - Stars


Feel free to ask questions, and good luck.

NB: The same rules of copyright apply to images as to text. If you are in any doubt as to what this means, please ask.

Ooh, nice ones!

Very nice ones. I'm envious.

hahaha
good use of spiel- in german it means 'play', if you didn't know

*ich spielen, du spielst!*

*ooh, nice brushes*

...now people read the backlog...

Taliesin, are you still interested? I only ask because you haven't been back to the thread.

Oh dear:

it's "ich spiele" without an 'n'

Good luck Taliesin

Taliesin's been back, to correct my poor grammar

No, that was Wotchit (see nickname link in header). The last line was wishing Taliesin luck rather than a sign-off from Taliesin.

I'm talking about post 4

OK then - that was Taliesin correcting your spelling rather than your grammar.

Right. I always put grammar where spelling is intended. And I always confuse pink and purple.

Perhaps this thread should go back to Taliesin now?

On the way now....