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Djammal86

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Oct 20, 2009 8:24 am PT

I have a few suggestions:

For the Designertags, since most designers will want to promote their own tags, here's an example of a smaller tag, that can go under each players existing tag:

It's a bit smaller and won't take up too much space in the signature area.

Also, I would suggest that more people showcase their illustrations as well. I understand a lot of people like to make sigs and it's a great way to get creative ideas going. I would just like to see more people trying to perfect their drawing skills, rather then just sig/banner/avy making skills. This would also help seperate this union for the other unions currently on GS and could help spark activity

BassCrossZero

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Oct 20, 2009 12:51 pm PT

Yeah, that would be a good idea. I'm not all that skilled in the tag making front, so sounds good to me. How would we go about approaching the drawing and illustrations part of the DC?

Designertags will need some improvement (once again I decided to make a very bad example before I sent the newsletter XD. ~tries to figure out how to do designertags.

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Djammal86

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Oct 21, 2009 1:22 pm PT

BassCrossZero wrote:

Yeah, that would be a good idea. I'm not all that skilled in the tag making front, so sounds good to me. How would we go about approaching the drawing and illustrations part of the DC?

Designertags will need some improvement (once again I decided to make a very bad example before I sent the newsletter XD. ~tries to figure out how to do designertags.

I think we should start with a simple Fan Art Contest to get peoples interest in drawing. I can make the advertisements in the off-topic and other GS forums. We could also have drawing/illustrations in the Battle Callout thread, to get people into making their own art as well. I might even try to throw in a prize for it, like a paid membership to Deviantart or something like that.

I made a pretty generic example for the Designertags myself . Another suggestion I have for that is that maybe we could use the user's current sig to blend in the BG of the Designertag, to personalize it too.

I really feel that this union is tapping into new ideas that haven't been done in other design unions. Now all we need is proper advertising and word of mouth.

[QUOTE="BassCrossZero"]Yeah, that would be a good idea. I'm not all that skilled in the tag making front, so sounds good to me. How would we go about approaching the drawing and illustrations part of the DC? Designertags will need some improvement (once again I decided to make a very bad example before I sent the newsletter XD. ~tries to figure out how to do designertags.[/QUOTE]I think we should start with a simple Fan Art Contest to get peoples interest in drawing. I can make the advertisements in the off-topic and other GS forums. We could also have drawing/illustrations in the Battle Callout thread, to get people into making their own art as well. I might even try to throw in a prize for it, like a paid membership to Deviantart or something like that. I made a pretty generic example for the Designertags myself :P. Another suggestion I have for that is that maybe we could use the user's current sig to blend in the BG of the Designertag, to personalize it too.I really feel that this union is tapping into new ideas that haven't been done in other design unions. Now all we need is proper advertising and word of mouth.

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Oct 21, 2009 4:57 pm PT

just vlick my sig and get the link to affiliate

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HellDeep
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Oct 21, 2009 5:12 pm PT

yea i like the idea of having a illustration section if i can get my hand on a scanner soon i can participate

and if you need help making tags i can help with that

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BassCrossZero

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Oct 21, 2009 7:30 pm PT

Djammal86 wrote:

BassCrossZero wrote:

Yeah, that would be a good idea. I'm not all that skilled in the tag making front, so sounds good to me. How would we go about approaching the drawing and illustrations part of the DC?

Designertags will need some improvement (once again I decided to make a very bad example before I sent the newsletter XD. ~tries to figure out how to do designertags.

I really feel that this union is tapping into new ideas that haven't been done in other design unions. Now all we need is proper advertising and word of mouth.

I did have the idea of providing a .png template for designertags and each member could personalize and keep up with them by themselves, but I just dont know how that would work out.

And yes, a fanart contest would be great actually.

HellDeep wrote:

yea i like the idea of having a illustration section if i can get my hand on a scanner soon i can participate

and if you need help making tags i can help with that

yeah, if we dont adopt the have everyone make their own idea then that would be a great help.

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