Emoticons are, well, icons of the internet age. They help us add emotive expression to otherwise dry and easily misinterpretable text. During a discussion with Darbysniper and Patty on a related topic, I got an idea and I shall now present it to you in the form of a new community project...



Emotive Expression: A Community Project

Emoticons are, well, icons of the internet age. They help us add emotive expression to otherwise dry and easily misinterpretable text. During a discussion with Darbysniper and Patty on a related topic, I got an idea and I shall now present it to you in the form of a new community project.




The Project

Visual Artists:. Create an image involving two individuals expressing emotions for one another with emoticons. These images can be of any medium, using any tools. The only caveat is that you can't use premade emotes and cut-and-paste them into the image. They must be self-painted/made.

Authors: Write a dialog in which the characters use only emoticons to express themselves to one another. You'll have to use ascii (text) based emotes. This is due to the fact that site emotes are deactivated for uploaded text. [link]

Submitting: When you submit an entry into this community project, it should go into the Storm-Artists -> Community Projects category. Also, make sure to add the word EmoteProject to the keywords. That will allow folks to view all project entries by using that one word in the search tool.

For Everyone Not Making Entries: For those who aren't participating in this project by producing entries, you can still help out by viewing and commenting on entries. You can most easily view entries for this project by entering the keyword EmoteProject in the search field just below your account control panel (upper-right side of the screen). Everyone involved will greatly appreciated it!




The Conclusion
This community project will conclude in just over month, on June 15th. Then, all entries will be linked in a news post for all to see. If we get enough (10 or more), we may even have a vote to see who gets "bragging rights" as the best entry.




Addenda
Here's a couple of links to material involved in the discussion which inspired this project:

A Journal by [darbysniper]: [link]
An image of the project by [conorschild] (dA link): [link]
More pics of the project: [link]
Enjoy!




[mirrin]
Head Gallery Moderator


Project Keyword: EmoteProject