USxUK Calendar Project

[haro.livejournal.com]

kanami_yuuta brought up an awesome idea for a community project, and I figured I'd run it all by you.

How would you all feel about producing a 2011 USxUK calendar, featuring art by the talented members of this community?

Cost for the calendar would be cost of printing+shipping to you. I don't have a cost yet, but I'd try my damndest to keep the total with shipping under twenty dollars.

As for art, we would need THIRTEEN different artists in order to participate; one for each month and one for the cover. I imagine that if this goes through, more than thirteen artists may be interested. I'd be putting up a post (with screened comments) to serve as an 'audition' of sorts, where artists can submit some of their previous art and we decide from there. All artists will be given proper credit. I plan on printing the calendars with either the name of the artist and a link to their livejournal/devart/website/wherever on their respective page, or with an 'index' in the back featuring that information.

POLL TIME!

[Poll #1634645]

YOU DO NOT NEED TO VOTE IN ALL THREE. VOTE IN ONLY THE ONES THAT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE NOT AN ARTIST, *PLEASE* DO NOT VOTE IN POLL THREE.

Now looking for some member feedback:

-If this calendar goes through, how would you like it to be set up? Size, printing, etc.

-For me: I would love suggestions as to the best places to get high quality printing for a good price. I live in the states, but I am willing to order from an overseas site if they ship here, so don't let that limit you. I've been looking around at places myself, but I know we have some fans here who have printed doujinshi and such that may have great suggestions.

-Any other suggestions for the project?

-haro

Comments

[kanami-yuuta.livejournal.com]

While it's true I'd like to participate I doubt I'd be able to do it since my art is not very good anyway XD

I'm very poor but for this thing I'll try my best at saving money! hopefully I'd be able to make it.

I have never printed so I dont know but sometime like the hetalia calendar size could actually make it... (maybe smaller)

[haro.livejournal.com]

Wh-what are you talking about, your art is great!

Well the Hetalia calendars are really MASSIVE, think poster size. Japanese anime calendars are always really, really big. While that would be amazing, I think it would cost A LOT to print and ship something that huge. XD So... smaller? But debating how small...

Re: As an audition

[haro.livejournal.com]

D'aww I love your art. But don't audition yet! I'll put up a separate post for that at a later point if we do this. :D

[bluubun.livejournal.com]

OHHH * m * sounds interesting! if auditions are made I'll def try out OuOb

[haro.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Your art is lovely so yay!

[ricecakespwn.livejournal.com]

Derp, I accidentally voted "maybe" instead of "yes" for the first poll XD My bad

[haro.livejournal.com]

If you want, you can fix it here. (http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=1634645&mode=enter) :D

[kisu-fu.livejournal.com]

Sounds great ;AA; I'd love to join!!

[sppandaaa.livejournal.com]

Sounds cool. I'm not picky on sizes. Maybe the default American size, or even a desk calender would be nice.

[lumossolarum.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely audition ^^

[maiyeng.livejournal.com]

Great idea! I would like to audition, but I'm a little worried about workload and deadlines.

[carnsy.livejournal.com]

I would love to participate with art but I doubt I'm good enough.. oh well. x33
As for the size I don't know anything about these, if I can draw, it can be any size, I love drawing huge pictures anyway ! 8D

[resimaderu.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see how this develops - I may audition when the time comes..

[nutburger.livejournal.com]

THIS SOUNDS AWESOME.

I-I would love to audition, but I've never done anything like this before. It all depends on deadlines and stuff, but I really am interested!

[blulious.livejournal.com]

I put "YES" to all...||OTL

I hope I get chosen as an artist if this comes true. ^^;;

[kanami-yuuta.livejournal.com]

I think you're most likely to be there XD

[kanami-yuuta.livejournal.com]

already 43 people are interested... this might not be a bad idea at all! (hopefully)

[ekazoo.livejournal.com]

Definitely interested o/ *gets practicing*

I think the standard calendar size would be nice, but then I don't know if that would be too expensive to print. ;-; Or maybe one of those thinner calendars? That would work. I think it would be fine as long as the pictures are big enough :) But yeah, this is an awesome idea! :D

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

sHit..... I have to try....

[blulious.livejournal.com]

BE JUNE-AUGUST YOU SEXY THANG!!!!

UNF TO SHIRTLESS MEN.

[shiny-phoenix.livejournal.com]

OH! I'd love to draw something for the calendar, but I'm not sure I'll be able to do so with school and all... And I don't know if my graphic skills are good enough... ^^;

[scribblefish.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in submitting art. I'll make sure to keep an eye out for that audition post.

[oresame.livejournal.com]

Ooh, sounds really interesting *-* Will definitely try and audition at least o/

[raienn.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a wonderful idea! Depending on how much it is, I might buy it if my wallet allows for it. <3

As for size, I think a desk calendar (ie 9x6) will be small, affordable, and appealing enough to warrant a second thought. I've also seen 12x6 and 11x8.5 which seem like pretty good sizes and easy for shipping. But I would suggest that you find the printing service first and then double check on what sizes they can do and go from there. :)

I have a question though! Are the artists going to be getting a share of the profits? I ask mainly because I would love to support the artists as well as the community here. :)Sorry if you were going to address this later and I got too ahead of myself. And forgive me for sounding much too presumptuous on this subject. orz

But this is a brilliant idea! <3 I am eagerly looking forward to how it will come out. ^.^

[haro.livejournal.com]

There will be no profits. I'm not taking a cut of money for this at all. The only fee will be the calendar+shipping. :D

I do plan on giving each participating artist a free calendar though, so I might ask the community if it's okay to throw on one or two dollars to the total (depending on the price) to cover a calendar for each artist.

[socialholic.livejournal.com]

Ohhh this sounds so awesome *u*!

I'm kind of interested in submitting art too, b-but as some other people I'm a bit afraid of deadlines and schoolwork too a-and stuff. But I'll keep this in mind, definitely.

[wisteria02.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in buying it!!! *starved for usuk and/or ukus merchandise*

[antisolar-point.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty nice idea! Depending on my workload, I might audition.

As for the size, something like a table calendar sounds good to me.

[nasty-show.livejournal.com]

Oh crap my computer is having a fit tonight. I clicked yes for the first two but i don't know what ended up going through as my computer was sort of going a bit crazy when i pressed submit. :/

[kuromitsu.livejournal.com]

Great idea! :D Well, I can't say that I'd definitely buy it (that depends on many things, mostly the state of my wallet...) but I'm definitely interested in it.

[phox99.livejournal.com]

I don't know about an idea but I would love to submit some art for it, it sounds like a fun project !