Community Day! COLOURlovers Member Mini-Highlight, CreateMixedMedia Challenge News and Survey Talk
Spring is hitting some of us big time! Are you feeling the soft pastels or bursting-budding colors? Have you gotten the bug to create even more flowery floral patterns and shapes?
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This week I'd like to highlight an amazing piece of artwork in the shapes division...
HeringDevotee created this beautiful lotus flower using Seamless Lite - a true piece of art and must have taken some amount of dedication. Her commentary about creating this in Seamless Lite:
I just kinda "sculpted" this using circles, triangles and lines in Seamless Lite.
Although she doesn't necessarily recommend this method, because it creates such a large "file" type to do a repeat load from your saved shapes, it's still amazing! I think it's a great example of not limiting yourself with the tools you have at hand. By squishing, bending, mashing, rotating and a good eye, HeringDevotee was able challenge what she had to work with to create a work of sketch-like art. Quite impressive!
Speaking of challenges, the CreateMixedMedia Template Challenge came to a close last week with some great submissions. I will Love Note all winners, participants and commenters on April 1st announcing live showcase. Winning templates will be showcased on the homepage during the first week of April (days 1 through 7) over at CreateMixedMedia.com.
Suggestions for the next survey: Contests & Voting
Another big, congratulations to COLOURlovers OrigamiMei and Pennington for winning the FLOR contest! I am interested in ideas from you guys on how we can run contests where it doesn't feel that the most popular COLOURlover(s) seem to win.
I honestly don't feel that either winner won because they might be popular (as they both have attested), but we do see that you may want more attention to how the voting is filtered and submissions displayed on such large-scale contests. You recall a previous contest with Betabrand (lisadale69 and her plaid shirt palette) where a new COLOURlover won (new in that she registered in order to play in the contest), so such is the balance of the matter.
I have to admit, both winners are fantastic, active members of our community and are very talented and well deserving - Maybe next weeks survey?! Give me some ideas on how to make voting more fair and/or easier. I see some great suggestions in the FLOR winners post.
Lastly, our community surveys are getting some nice feedback showing us what you guys feel and think as a majority. The last survey really showed the need for some Seamless Studio (and Seamless Lite) tutorials and a huge interest in those tools. So thank you for the feedback and the extra little comments have also been helpful, I read each and every one.
This week I decided to keep it simple and find out how mobile some of you are as I've suddenly received an amount of questions about the COLOURlovers site and using it mobile, both for contests like we recently ran with FLOR and with creating pattern templates using Seamless Lite. Interesting feedback so let's find out how everyone else uses COLOURlovers, I am curious how many of you are trying it out on the iPad, iPhone, Android devices and such.
Last weeks T-Shirt winner is NorthShoreShells, COLOURlovin since December 2011. Congratulations and thanks for the survey entry and extra input!
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OrigamiMei
zlaughingdog
mollybermea
Thanks for everyone's feedback!
ちょわ もさ
American Women
sundancer
American Women
Ycc2106 should be featured!!!!!
We all miss her she deserves a tribute blog for all her contributions
to the community!
I'm sure we can lure her back that way!
:)
Everyone who was ever a CLAD artist knows how good it felt to wake up to over 100+ love notes and feel the love of the community! It brought us together and made us happy and inspired!!!!!
I can't do it without her! If CL made official I think it would raise all of our spirits! Not to mention it is sooooo much fun!
sundancer wrote:
zombiedisco
100 % agree. I really enjoyed discovering other wonderful profiles that I didn't know about. All thanks to CLAD and my day was fantastic, one of my favorite on CL. I'm quite surprised that it isn't an official part of the community.
American Women
The featured artist is nice, but it doesn't seem much like CLAD. What I loved about CLAD the interactive part of it, using the artist's palettes or templates or colors to create something new. I found it stretched me as an artist and helped me get to know and appreciate the work of others. I looked at their work a lot more closely than reading an article would have made me. Does this make sense?
Anna is a superwoman. I never could understand how she did all that she did and I know that no one could replace her but I really do miss CLAD. Thanks for all you do too, Dawn. Henriette (Bluesinger)
American Women
This is a fabulous idea but sounds like a lot of work. Of course I would love it but I'm not able to help with any of the technical stuff. If I can do anything else I'm willing! Here's my BIG VOTE: YES!
Carol
American Women
OrigamiMei
Bluesinger
jeremycole
American Women
OrigamiMei wrote:
American Women
American Women wrote:
agathejs
Freak4Color
OrigamiMei
Gasp365
Does 'official' simply mean that it'll be revived with someone other than YCC hosting it? Or does the term 'official' also involve a newly added aspect to it?
Is it safe to assume that American Women will host it? ;)
I don't really think that it needs voting at all. Just do it.
You'll soon see how people react to it. It´ll be positive I´m sure.
American Women
Gasp365 wrote:
American Women
Just an Idea
American Women
American Women
I agree with Sundancer ! a little interview with the colourlover of the month, would be nice :) i think they all deserve a little spotlight once in a while :) specially the colorlovers that have been here for a while and delighting us with gorgeous templates, like Any, Sundancer, Ambu, and sooo much more! It would be nice to let them all know how much their work is appreciated and loved, with a little tribute to their creations ...this is just a humble opinion, i do miss Artist of the day!! though and ycc activities... Many thanks to Mousey dear that has continued with some of them, although there are so many more that are missed i wish they do come back some day :)
rubyvillasenor
American Women
Yes for Clad!
pique
I keep checking back to see if its up and running again. I agree that clad is toomuch for one person to run - I don't know how ycc managed- and still had time to play here.
I VOTE YES for an officially curated clad group linked to a featured artist!!!
klomystr
hana*
i agree with Carolhue.
2:
the future is always uncertain. i hope that we can register multiple administrators of the community.
i think that multi-admin feature can really increase the effectiveness and efficient management of community pages.
3:
if you are not sure about the border of the "un-official" / "official" of the community, i think there are unfair.
vote, recommendation, the number of members ...... . What is the standard for official community?
thanks.
hana*
American Women
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