community newbie asks

[light_of_summer]

Hi, justcreate folks, I'm new to this community—thanks for being here! I have a question I'm hoping to get your input on: What can you tell me about month-of-creativity kinds of challenge communities, especially for art or photography or short bits of writing, either on Dreamwidth or on dedicated websites that allow uploading or image-linking to DW? I'm currently aware of:

• Inktober (I've done this in the past, but am dubious about repeating it due to controversy)
• November is Art Every Day Month (I've done this in the past, and liked it a lot, but I'm not willing to follow the community onto Facebook)
• Expert Photography Photo Challenge Calender (Prompts look OK, but hashtag for community looks intended to be Instagram-specific)
• ...various others intended for Facebook or Instagram, sigh.

FYI, I do most of my writing for an amateur press association, where community is built into the purpose of the organization. I miss the sense of art community I've had in the past with NiAEDM (and somewhat with both Inktober and local in-person classes that ended with the rise of COVID-19). I have a regular monthly photo group Zoom, but no explicit challenges or central online community associated with it. I occadionally do some crafting, but am not really plugged into a community for that, and am not seeking a challenge for that, right now. I'm currently hungriest for making art in community.

Thanks in advance for any info you can share, and I send you good wishes for your projects of all types!

Here I go, to tackle my next not-very-creative to-do list item. ➡️

Comments

[mekare]

Hi! drawesome is an art community with monthly challenges, for October we just sourced our community prompt list for daily inspiration!
Caveat: it‘s for drawing/painting traditionally or digitally rather than other art forms like collage or linocut or something.
Check it out, we are a really friendly bunch! All challenges stay open indefinitely, so there is no pressure to finish in a particular month.

[light_of_summer]

Thank you for the info about drawesome, Mekare—I will head over there to check out the October prompt list, right now!

Edited to add: I see a request for October prompt suggestions, but not a finalized list—I hope I'm just too early. 😏 But if I should already be looking in a particular place that I haven't found, please point me to it, and thanks, again!

[mekare]

Hi, you were just early, our mod just posted that it‘s still possible to submit prompts.

[light_of_summer]

🙂👍