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Alexa Vanas

PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:48 am


I support you, Thaliat Everwood.
PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:32 pm


'ello Juney! College is where I've been. It's been draining my life, but I love it at the same time.

Anyway, with the change in management, I still want to stay a moderator here, and I will make an effort to try to be more active. heart

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:52 pm


Now is as good a time as any to let you all know I am now the new HTDM Guild owner. Technically I became owner as of last night, but I wanted to make a post(s) for the mods' eyes only, finish some avi art for the DTAAY thread, and do some other things. By the time all that was done it was rather late, so I postponed my little "announcement" until now.

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A few quick things:

I am keeping JuneBerry on as Vice Captain. She is too important to lose.

I am not going to arbitrarily oust moderators. Unless they ask to be relieved of duty, current moderators will maintain their status. I understand life outside of Gaia can sometimes blind side one before one can prepare for absences.

I will be adding two or three new moderators so that we have more active moderators represented. I will be establishing an application process and I hope the other mods will help me to select the best applicants.


I will not make any drastic changes to the guild. Any changes I do wish to make, I will run by the rest of the mods first. I have ideas that I think would be good for the guild, but I value the input of the others.

I have been a bit of a lurker in the past, although I do occasionally post my own art and participate in the DTAAY thread. I like to draw, but I'm not the greatest by far. I am here, like many of you, to improve my technique. I also own two other small guilds that I founded. I do have to commit some time to managing them. That being said, I expect most of my time will be devoted to this guild as it is larger and more active.

I will of course host the HTDM Guild banner in my other guilds. I will also try to get us affiliated with larger guilds. I will be running a guild contest in the near future...perhaps a little after Thanksgiving. I will also be hosting (me, not the guild mule) a pan guild art contest of my own and will start posting that this weekend. Watch for it, maybe even participate. I will me more visible in the guild now than before...I have ideas for new threads and such. I will do my best to keep this guild great. I hope you all will help in your own way by being active and giving us feedback. It's your guild too!

Feel free to PM me or post on my profile if you have comments or questions, I will reply. ***Do not dis the profile, I already know it needs overhauling.
PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:26 pm


Thaliat Everwood
I would like to see more art contests, well, that and more to promote them (I notice subforums get ignored quite often) as I feel art contests are a good incentive to get people to practice drawing outside of their established comfort zones while allowing them to still work within their preferred styles.

Also the Art Discussion seems really stagnant, more could be done to get the discussions rolling. For example, I'd like to get beyond the whole "who/what is your favorite..." and more into the discussion of the merits of various mediums, techniques, and styles of drawing.

I'd like to see a new subforum to showcase samples of strong art as the guild has some amazing artists. Maybe to select pieces there could be be monthly votes for the favorite piece(s) of the month and the most popular art gets in to the showcase. Maybe establish a thread there to also acknowledge the efforts of those who've made a lot of progress too, as I have noted quite a few blossoming artists in the guild greatly improving their pieces even if they aren't popular artists or the strongest pieces posted. Encouragement is a good way to promote drawing practice and increase guild activity.

Oh! And I want to start an art conversation thread where all posts must have the response involving a sketch or drawing in the post. For example I want to post I had a rough day, I might include a quick sketch of a gloomy looking character/chibi. Nothing fancy, rough sketches would be encouraged. Practice, the fun way!

Those are just my ideas to add to the guild. But the guild is pretty much great as is, I wouldn't want to see anything removed.

I gotta say, your ideas all sound very good. Hopefully the participation level will be satisfactory if such topics and events occur.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:37 pm


Well, you should be seeing some of those previously mentioned additions and threads appear over the next few months! 3nodding
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