Thanks for joining in! The canvas is now finished!

I’m going to be leaving the canvas up and read-only for a couple days, but not too long.

This was incredibly fun to host, thank you all for participating! ♥

Future Events

I’d love to make this a yearly event. Expanding from just Lemmy to the entirety of the fediverse aswell!

I’ll reuse this Lemmy community & the Matrix space for that event

If you have suggestions for future events, post them in a comment on this post, each suggestion as it’s own comment so people can vote on them

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    • Autian@feddit.deEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Great thing that there was much less vandalism. I was able to single-handedly put my work on there and didn’t have to fix up anything at all.

      • Setarkus@toast.ooo
        2·
        11 months ago

        Same, that was a nice surprise. I was worried that the green labyrinth would consume my build but it just started growing along the edges, so I helped it spread further afterwards :))

        • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          11 months ago

          I did most of the labyrinth! My original idea was that it would be more of an interstitial background linking other artwork together.

          • Setarkus@toast.ooo
            0·
            11 months ago

            Oh nice you’re here :D

            Love the idea, I had a lot of fun spreading it and being frustrated when I miscalculated the distance for the colors when getting near another build. Would you be willing to do it again next year / in the next event?

              • Setarkus@toast.ooo
                0·
                11 months ago

                Do you think “LabyrinthineCanvas” would be a fitting name for a community to organize? Well, if you’d be in for a community at all, could also just simply start it again next time ^^

                • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  I don’t know if there’s already a convention for naming Canvas-related communities, but it seems like it would make more sense for them to start with “Canvas” so they all sort together in peoples’ community lists.

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I know it’s largely due to a smaller user base, and therefore smaller spread to overly popular personalities and groups, but this is so much nicer without the exceedingly large national flag patterns and huge streamer vanity projects.

  • BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    11 months ago

    I’m gonna leave this comment here so I can flex on people saying I was at the first lemmy canvas in the future 🆒️😎

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    11 months ago

    Honestly, I find it wholesome that everyone got their little space to draw without much fighting. Perhaps making the canvas increase in size by request /user numbers to accommodate newcomers instead of forcing them to draw over someone else artwork is what would make this event unique compared to r/place.

  • Blastasaurus@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 months ago

    I like the native wheel with the pride maple leaf and Canada goose.

    Also, way too many My Little Ponies lol

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    It’s over already!? I never even figured out how to find it, let alone contribute… :(

    • grant 🍞@toast.oooOPMEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      That seemed to be a major hiccup this time around, getting the word out there

      my plan for next year’s is to give 30 days and 7 day notice before the event starts

      make sure you’re subscribed to !canvas@toast.ooo & in the Matrix space so you don’t miss it next year

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 months ago

    This looks so polite, like everyone is nice to others. Just like lemmy.

  • Rin@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    Honestly, I didn’t expect my name to stay (“Rin”, bottom left ish inside the green box). I made it expecting it to be quickly overwritten, but people just went around it.

    Someone even gave me a shadow. :)

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    Thank you for running this, grant. Appreciate all the hard work.

    A very small percentage of folks will always whine about some grievance or point out what they feel should have been done differently, but 99.9% of everyone who engaged had a great time, thanks to you, and you won’t hear anything from most of them.

    I got covid for the first time as of last Friday, so we’re self isolating and lying low, so this gave me something to focus on and do for long stretches, and it genuinely made a big difference.

    I was able to draw my old high school notebook comic character Block Head at 2 o’clock on the Firefox logo completely unimpeded by griefers or vandals. It was really nice. Thanks again.

  • Resonosity@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 months ago

    Few things to point out:

    Go vegan!!! Yes!!!

    Lot more My Little Pony than I was expecting…

    Destiny community’s in there

    Love seeing all the Pokémon :)