For those who don't know, Pixiv (one of the largest - perhaps the largest - art host site in the world) has been hosting a yearly event since 2008 where the hosts create a theme (ie, Last Saga where three countries are at war with each other), and anyone can draw and post art of their own characters in that world or vehicles or creatures or illustrations of battles or locations, etc. And whichever country has the highest view count wins the war. And then there are other themes like mecha or Age of Discovery-esque exploring new continents, etc. It got people motivated to start drawing and you saw many artists later go on to release their own artbooks or found gacha companies and design characters for them.

Why haven't we seen any such similar movement on Devianart or Artstation?

>>7609743 (OP)
very interesting

>>7609743 (OP)
this happened but ended a while back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm8URxXFF0

>>7609743 (OP)
>Why haven't we seen any such similar movement on Devianart or Artstation?
Well, beyond similar things such as art battle, which has been going on for years now, there's also art challenges such as inktober and comic day, and yaddah yaddah yaddah.

Unfortunately, I think the time for those type of community challenges has passed, and trying to make one work now would be difficult, due to lack of participants. People are just too occupied with trendy social media shit, to do things with other artists that won't benefit them.
You could only make one if you somehow got the general public interested in it, so the trend chasing dickheads would actually see a benefit in it.

>>7609766
>trendy social media shit,
cant you consider art challenges to be trendy social media shit?
on top of that, if you draw a trend, that shit will just get drowned in the hashtags if you are a smaller artist because hella other people are also dropping art by the minute and sometimes second

>>7609743 (OP)
AI Slop Fest 2025?

>>7610090
I was thinking more along the lines of "Whoah, this character is popular, I don't know who they are but I'm drawing it too!" when I wrote that.
An art challenge would... well... challenge you, whereas the trendy social media shit is just you playing it safe.
Plus, as I said, the art challenges were done more so for your community of fellow artists and those particular fans, where as the Trendy Social Media shit is watered down to appeal to everyone, so as to get as many numbers as possible.

Just look at how any site made specifically for art and artists dies now. Is Cara still talked about? It's because artists can't get enough of the normie eyeballs to satiate them on such a site, or (to bring it back) by doing such niche challenges.

>>7610136
subhuman post 2025?

Sounds fun. I thought Pixiv Fantasia was just draw fantasy themed shit month instead of an elaborate event