Tomorrow is the start of National Art-making Month

naarmamo is a comm started by jekesta ... six years ago, now ??

Anyway, it's loosely modeled after National Novel-Writing Month. Only instead of creating one long piece of writing, the goal is to create one small piece of art each day... so at the end of the month, you will have 31 new pieces of art to your name that didn't exist before.

And "Art" here is defined as loosely as possible -- seriously.

In the past, we've had:

People doodling designs in the soap suds while they took a bath, or
Artfully arranging the jars of jelly they just made,
Full-blown, carefully painted landscapes,
Journal (100 pixel square) Icons
Brief pieces of composed ditties...

And everything in between.

Anyway, participating in this, for me, has been a way to lift my spirits through the hump that is the summer doldrums. So you can be damned sure I'll be doing this again. I thought, here, that I'd like to make a list of things I'd like to try, this year. So if I get stumped, mid-month, I can come back and remind myself of ideas I've had (not necessarily in this order):

A hand-drawn sketch of my own, bare, feet (they are the part of my body I am least comfortable with, and I want to get more comfortable with them) Problem: Getting a way so I can actually see them while in a position to draw them...

Another facial portrait (I've done one every year, it's a thing)

Make a video response to Vi Hart's Squiggle Inception (specifically ~ 3 1/2 minute mark)

More monsters -- this time, ones that are explicitly disabled -- perhaps after a run-in with a knight. Although... my "monster on wheels" is disabled... I drew another adult version who was able-bodied -- with eight tentacle legs, instead of four...

Some three-dimensional art... tactile.

Write a song -- maybe my own version of a Geek pride song.

And ...other stuff...

Testing Dreamwidth's picture posting by email

This is brand new, created during the latest code push. Eventually (they
say), they hope to have their own "Scrapbook feature"

Let's see if this works, shall we?


( ETA: \o/ it works! )

How this works: set up email posting in your DreamWidth settings (hey, I could follow the instructions just now, after one read-through -- tech stuff usually takes me three readings, so...). Then, when you send an email post to your journal, add the picture you want to post as an email attachment. Also, this is a free feature. You don't need a paid account to use it.

This is a pro-tip for all DreamWidthers who're taking part in naarmamo, and are Sad because LJ changed their own scrapbook feature to Terrible.