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! ♥

Event date: August 4th (12:00am EST) - 6th (11:59pm EST)

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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  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year 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.

    • Speiser0@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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    • Autian@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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
          1·
          1 year 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
            1·
            1 year 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·
                1 year 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·
                  1 year 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.

  • seal_of_approval@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 year ago

    The lack of vandalism gives me the heartwarming mental imagery of passionate people drawing the things they love while being kind and understanding to one another. It makes me unreasonably happy

    • Pandantic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      And all the cooperation that went into not messing up people’s art. I made a bisexual flag heart by the Aussie flag, and the bronies messaged me and said “we want to put something there but we will move your heart. Is that okay?” Which I thought was nice. Lots of people helping others too! Such a difference from the other place, and it reminds me why I moved to Lemmy.

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

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

    • grant 🍞@toast.oooOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 year 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

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    1 year 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·
    1 year ago

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

    Also, way too many My Little Ponies lol

  • BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year 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 🆒️😎

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year 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.

  • Rin@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year 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. :)

  • itsmect@monero.townEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It was an honor to place art with all of you <3 Thanks for bringing the fediverse community together with this event!

  • KiraKo@feddit.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    this was so much fun~ Because of everything that happened on reddit I wasn’t able to enjoy r/place much. So I am really happy that it happened here and it gave me a reason to finally create an account ^^ I feel proud for what I was able to do on the canvas and also happy how the canvas turned out. I’m excited for next year~

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

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