New Boards....

[Cherries]

Hows about a Media Board? Mucis TV gaming etc... i think it would be Kool (thats why i am Suggesting it Fool!) and it may bring in some more members, it will also make the genral borad less cloged up

[Assassinator/Young Everest]

We used to have sub-boards in chillout for this sort of stuff. It was taken out...dunno why. I think chillout is fine, all the current topics fit nicely onto the first page and it never overflows.

[pandora]

Absofreakinlutely we need a media board. It would fill up faster than a swear jar at a rap concert. I thought I was just plain missing it the first day I signed up here. I think music, movies and books should be one subboard, and games should be another. Just my humble opinion.

Also, everyone here is into sig designs and digital graphics. I suck at both, but I enjoy seeing everyone's handiwork. Why not a traditional art board, along the lines of Literature, for people to post sketches and paintings and comics? If there already is one and I missed that, sorry.

[eternity]

We're currently discussing the introduction of traditional art to SSD. As for the media board it was taken down for inactivity I think, we don't really need it anyway. Chillout is where that kind of thing is posted, if we have a seperate board for it, Chillout wuoldn't have half the activity it does.

[Josh]

Yeah, we used to have a Debates and Video Games sub board in Chillout. It decreased activity in chillout and then the boards eventually died. Chillout is generally media related, with the odd sport, current event, and computer topic mixed in there.

[pandora]

Well, if it was already tried and the experiment failed, end of story. Chill out is pretty streamlined the way it is.

[Cherries]

oh well it was only an idea the old nugget came up with anyways...

As for traditional art u mean liek hand drawn struff? or kinda like the stuff at Deviant Art?

[eternity]

traditional is hand drawn, painted etc anything not done on a computer

[Cherries]

wow u replied quickly lol. well if its hand drawn stuff then thats me out. PS stuff on a PC is one thing hand drawn stuff is another i know where my ground is

[Admin]

Yeah chillout is fine how it is, otherwise all the fun gets sucked out of the main board and you're left with well...rubbish in there.

[pandora]

(lmao, Oliver. You have to have that avatar/sig for a month? hehe)

Anyway, traditional art thread will probably be about as active as literature, but there is a certain virtue to not excluding handdrawn/painted art. Currently, I'm looking for ways to combine my traditional art with computer tools. I noticed lots of members here know all sorts of handy tricks when it comes to comps. I don't, so I thought if I joined here I could get an education of sorts. The tutorials are very helpful.

But to me, nothing beats sitting in some remote location in a forest, and putting pencil to paper to make all my mad ideas a charcoal smudged reality. And I wouldn't mind sharing my own old fashioned skills with the crew here.

[Admin]

Well we do allow traditional art in show off, just nobody really does it much here or shows it off. Although that has given me a little idea. Perhaps a topic in either boards where people can showcase their traditional works?

I don't think it'd be wise to make a new board for such a thing, more modify another one like digital art Our main focus will be digital art still since this is a litle addon.

[pandora]

Wow. By looking at the Show Off section, I definitely don't get the impression that handdrawn stuff is welcome. Everyone is so digitally oriented here.

[Josh]

Well, that is the main focus of the forum. We are a PB Support forum, and as PB is an internet system, it tends to lead to digital orientation.

[pandora]

So I've noticed. And that's why I joined. I was analog until about 2 1/2 months ago. And I've yet to own a cell phone. Slowly, I'm learning some stuff, and this forum and some members here could be very helpful.