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Canvas is a yearly Fediverse event similar to Reddit's Place - it's a collaborative art project where any Fediverse user can place colored pixels on a shared canvas over a period of a few days. It has a dedicated community at !canvas@toast.ooo - the canvas itself is here.

This will be its third year; the first time, there were some minor furry drawings, and last year, we were a bit more organized, with a bit of collaboration between Pawb and Yiffit. The full canvas from last year can be seen here - we had a small spot carved out in the lower left corner, as well as a few scattered things all around.

I'd be great to actually start organized this year, and create something substantial together.

Anyone else interested in participating? Any thoughts on what we might make? Anyone with artistic skill want to sketch something out? If we can get a few ideas, maybe we vote on them prior to the event itself?

Edit: Template Here

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[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Hmmmm, yea the size is problematic. How should we decide on what to omit or try to shrink further (e621 has much potential)?

Other possibility would be to assign priorities and when something couldn't be finished, then it is what it is.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Okay, new proposal: We trim some elements and omit others, leaving us with this:

We put it at (0,390), with the understanding that we're going behind (rather than over) the tree that's going up right beside us; that will also help box it in.

In the event that the canvas gets extended twice instead of only once (which will result in another 500 px below the initial square), we extend the two cut off pieces down into the new area, if we have time.

Total area here is 176x110, which is still ambitious, but plausible.

The other option is we design something that fits on the right edge of the canvas and plan to continue into the expanded area the first time it expands (which will probably happen, the second one is less likely.)

(It's not really about being able to place all of the pixels over the course of the event so much as it is being able to command presence of our area. If we're working slowly and filling things in a little at a time, other art will move into the area we'd planned to draw in, but we can take advantage of the expanding canvas to solve for this.)

The alternative is that we take all of the individual elements and place them around the canvas, and build them separately. We really do just have a collection of small things, so we could fit them in around other artworks rather than trying to capture an entire corner / area.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Out of interest, will everyone be contributing to any/every piece of art here? I might adjust Omega's eyes slightly on the final thing so they're a bit more even :3

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's the intent, yeah - whatever we decide on, we just work on it as a group, via the template we'll set up.

Definitely feel free to make any adjustments you want!

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

How's this? I think it should be pixel perfect

Though when I try and open the image and zoom in on my browser, it looks blurry. Unsure if that's just a browser thing, or if it should be saved as another file type.

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 2 points 2 days ago

The dimensions say 60x52 pixels so I think the blur comes from the browsers zoom.

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