#crowberry comic connection

[starfacedstudio]

Image ID: A logo featuring a round, grinning, crow-like character with leaves for its tail holding a green pencil. Curved text at the top reads "Crowberry Comic Connection." The crow is surrounded by a purple and blue rope, tied with berries and leaves, and there are two branches of berries to either side. Beneath this, the Discord logo appears next to text reading "Community Discord Server!" End ID.

We did a bit of teasing about this before, but @doedreamiing and I are excited to announce our opening for Crowberry Comic Connection - a community Discord server!

Created as a casual meeting place for artists and their communities alike, we hope to inspire a positive and productive environment to chat and chill with fellow artists, post your work, get helpful feedback, and have fun with participating in our challenges and server-wide events. Though our primary focus is on comics, we welcome artists (both visual and literary!) of all sorts to our server! You must be 18+ to join.

As was shared last week, we're opening our server with a small prompt list event in spirit of October! Check the post here, or check it out in the server itself :) Joining is NOT required to participate.

OUR SERVER OFFERS:

Places to chat, share memes (and pets, food, or that cool rock you found on your walk), share commission info, and (for comic folks) a place to link your latest comic updates!

Critique Forum: ask for constructive criticism or advice, or give advice or constructive criticism to others!

Challenges: a forum dedicated to user-created challenges (limited palette, timed, prompts, culinary??) that others may participate in!

User-Submitted Art Resource Forum (categorized with tags!)

Colored names, selectable roles, and custom emotes

Low number of channels to hopefully not overwhelm. Channel lists can be customized and things can be hidden as you see fit!

Voice channel + no-mic channel for folks who don't have mics or don't wish to speak!

More Events! (We hope to possibly host things like critique sessions, art jams, zines, or similar in the future)

More to come!

Image ID: Banner of 8 multicolored crowberry creatures on a rope. End ID.

WHY WAS THIS CREATED?

Community among artists is something very important to both of us, as people who grew up with places such as deviantART (rip) and it is something we (and many, many others) have been struggling to find as social media continues to point its focus away from artists (as well as the over-emphasis on professional portfolio socials). As our name suggests, we wish to help foster those connections between fellow creators and their communities once again!

Though perhaps not an ideal solution as Discord certainly has its own problems, we wanted to try and create a safe, accessible space for people to come together in this way. We both sincerely miss the sense of community that once was among artists.

Information on how to join can be found under the cut.

HOW TO JOIN:

Our server is a community server that uses the Onboarding feature, meaning you will be brought to a bit of a different screen than normal Discord servers may have. You must read and accept our rules as you join.

You will also be asked questions such as your interests or occupations, your pronouns, and your preferences on receiving DMs, pings, or having tone tags used for you (and the color of your name)!

Additionally, there will be a few tasks to complete:

Introduce yourself!

Say hi in general :)

Familiarize yourself with our rules and guidelines!

Check our filter guide for info on what is allowed with a filter.

OUR RULES:

You must be 18+ to join.

We do not allow pornography or extreme gore, but certain mature subjects are allowed with a filter.

Be respectful and kind towards one another. Harassment, bigotry, and bullying are not tolerated.

We do not allow proshippers, TERFs, zoophiles, or pedophiles.

We do not allow venting, spamming, AI images or NFTs (use, creation of, advertisement, etc.)

Asking for money directly though Paypal, Venmo, Cashapp, etc. is not allowed for privacy reasons. Links to fundraisers are fine.

Flashing images (gifs, emotes, stickers, etc.) must be censored, or avoided altogether.

Leetspeak and censoring words with numbers/symbols should be avoided in the server. Use Discord's censoring instead.

Check our full rules channel, and any pinned messages for specific rule information.

JOIN LINK: https://discord.gg/HGJh2cFwSh

We hope you decide to check us out. Stay connected, friends!

[starfacedstudio]

@doedreamiing and I are putting the final touches onto our Discord server, Crowberry Comic Connection, and have some exciting news! We will be making it public on September 30th, and we had some time to put together at least something for the opening:

Image ID: A poster with prompts listed on sticky note graphics (in transcript below). It has little crowberry creature doodles and leaf decorations around the text (also transcribed below), and a fake wax seal with the Crowberry Comic Connection logo is in the corner. End ID.

Transcript:

Crowberry Comic Connection presents: Crowtober 2023!

Prompt List:

Week 1 (Day 1-7): Crow, Fall, Weave, Loose, Sweater, Startle, Rain

Week 2 (Day 8-15): Color, Coffee, Harvest, Bump, Stranger, Thirteen, Footstep, Web

Week 3 (Day 16-23): Hollow, Leaves, Patch, Hay, Lost, Inside, Dirt, Haunt

Week 4 (Day 24-31): Dark, Visibility, Rot, Worm, Vile, Treat, Trick, Costume

Crowtober, like any other October art thing, is a list of prompts to use as inspiration to create! Though we focus on comics, feel free to do just about anything else with these (we'd certainly love to see some story-based pieces, though!)

Do as little or as many as you want. Please do not burn yourself out. We recommend choosing just prompts that you find most interesting, and can have the most fun with!

End of transcript.

We wanted a lil something to start the server off, and wanted to post a bit early as a teaser (and to give some heads up). You absolutely do not have to join the server to participate, this is merely a prompt list and you can really just do whatever you want with it. Nothing needs to be polished, don't feel pressured to do all 31 days (we both certainly will not be doing every prompt), just have fun with them!

Feel free to tag us (@doedreamiing or @starfacedstudio) if you post something made from the prompts here, we'd love to see what you make :D

[starfacedstudio]

Image ID: a collection of 12 colorful, simple, round, crow-shaped creatures called "crowberries". Their bodies are black and shiny like berries and have bunches of green leaves as their tails. They are arranged in a somewhat grid-like way. Each crow is outlined in a different color, and has a different goofy face. End ID.

my good friend @doedreamiing and i have been working together recently on a project that we're both very excited for! these are some goofy guys that go along with it :^) we hope to have more info out soon.

more ideation, doodles, and sketches under the cut!

Image ID: A single grinning crowberry in a simplified, lined style holding a yellow pencil. It is against a blue splash of watercolor texture, and there is a shadow beneath them. The shine on their body is light blue, and has hatched shading. End ID.

Image ID: Two early mockup versions of a logo, featuring the same crowberry holding a pencil surrounded with a circle. There are symmetrical branches beneath and around the under side of the circle. The left is older and less refined. The right is newer and, while sketchier, features a more detailed ring that looks like rope with 3 berries at the center on the bottom. End ID.

Image ID: A collection of early versions of crowberries, labeled V1, V2, V3, and V4, against a dark background. V1 - very colorful and done in a rough lineless style. Unlike other versions, they have manes of leaves. V2 - crowberries in a lineless style with defined heads. They are mainly black with different shine colors, and have a red and white version. V3 - black but lined in color, again with defined heads similar to V2. V4 - sketches of crowberries with round bodies and a defined beak instead of a defined head. Closest to final version. End ID.

Image ID: A Very Buff crowberry in the same shape as the buff dog meme. It is red in color. fear them. End ID.