Well, I think everyone can speak for how much fanart this site has been accumulating, especially since the announcement. In the past few months I've seen some really awesome art I've never before thought was possible outside a professional atmosphere. However, as video games have become a heritage from our childhoods and have grown with us, many people have been able to express their talents even better when portraying the world of Sanctuary.
What I'm asking is, I remember some time ago we used to have a somewhat pathetic art section specifically designed for showing galleries and images made by users and fans on the site. Before, we didn't have nearly as much fan art as we do now and I can understand it's deletion. However, now I feel that it would be beneficial to the site again, especially if the image upload size isn't as small as it used to be (that kind of ticked me off when I was trying to upload a few novice acrylics of mine). I also feel that if this part of the site were more advertised and encouraged for the duration of this site's life- maybe with promotions of some kind like custom titles or something, I don't know- it would be a much more vibrant branch of the site than it was before.
So, what I'm proposing is:
A re-vamped fanart gallery.
Heavy encouragement of its use for a longer amount of time.
Possible incentives (in the form of maybe contests or something) to keep it active.
Especially with the launch of the Wiki, I think this would, in addition, be another great way of boosting activity and bringing people together. Or it might just flop, who knows?
And, I realize I'm not an artist, so coming from me this might not mean anything. But I noticed that we have members that come just to post their art- maybe if we had a little more of the site devoted to these people they would stay longer and feel more comfortable and useful here than before. Those are just my thoughts.
Heavy encouragement of its use for a longer amount of time.
Possible incentives (in the form of maybe contests or something) to keep it active.
No comment :cool:
Honestly though, I think you're right. The fan art forum is not easy to navigate at all, and as time goes on it will only get worse. But if it is to be implemented, it would have to be better than the onld fan-art section. It lacked in terms of design and functions, but we could definatele use one.
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I'd love to see all of what Magistrate suggested.
I think you'll get more good artists to the site if you get a nice gallery here. With the increasing popularity of the site, it's a way for them to promote themselves. It's beneficial for both them and you, as you will also get more varied and interesting content on the site.
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What I'm asking is, I remember some time ago we used to have a somewhat pathetic art section specifically designed for showing galleries and images made by users and fans on the site. Before, we didn't have nearly as much fan art as we do now and I can understand it's deletion. However, now I feel that it would be beneficial to the site again, especially if the image upload size isn't as small as it used to be (that kind of ticked me off when I was trying to upload a few novice acrylics of mine). I also feel that if this part of the site were more advertised and encouraged for the duration of this site's life- maybe with promotions of some kind like custom titles or something, I don't know- it would be a much more vibrant branch of the site than it was before.
So, what I'm proposing is:
Especially with the launch of the Wiki, I think this would, in addition, be another great way of boosting activity and bringing people together. Or it might just flop, who knows?
And, I realize I'm not an artist, so coming from me this might not mean anything. But I noticed that we have members that come just to post their art- maybe if we had a little more of the site devoted to these people they would stay longer and feel more comfortable and useful here than before. Those are just my thoughts.
Honestly though, I think you're right. The fan art forum is not easy to navigate at all, and as time goes on it will only get worse. But if it is to be implemented, it would have to be better than the onld fan-art section. It lacked in terms of design and functions, but we could definatele use one.
I think you'll get more good artists to the site if you get a nice gallery here. With the increasing popularity of the site, it's a way for them to promote themselves. It's beneficial for both them and you, as you will also get more varied and interesting content on the site.
Errr.. nail on the head
I'd like to see the new fan art section to be art only. No uploading captioned pictures with "EPIC FAIL" underneath and all that type of stuff
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged