ElfQuest Fan Art

I'm all for keeping the Calendar (and site) going!

Time and motivation isn't always on our side though,
but me and Rowtiger were up to the almost last minute
challenge last year

I do agree off-site advertisements and reminder posts
is a must, to enable more to enjoy the lovely calendars
and for more artists to participate!

Hmmyes, Contrasts.. can be a very wide topic,
could include Chiefs too

Rowtiger, if you need help colouring, please let me know

[I started on an entry too, in case there was no one else,
but so glad to see you are in the loop now! Because I haven't
drawn elves in aaages..]

*keeps fingers crossed too*
Darned be technical snags 'cause those tech savvy peeps are hard to come by :/

Warg has started fiddling with SMF stuff to learn the ropes, and judging by various exclamations, so far so good! *keeps fingers crossed*

That said, given the concerns voiced in this thread, I would recommend that the new hosts of the site distribute the site management load by enlisting the help of the community. This is actually something that has always been a part of our roadmap for phase-2 implementation strategy of this latest incarnation of EQFA (in addition to the feature roadmap): when Foxeye and I started this site the larger Elfquest community was too amorphous to draw upon, so we were left to our own devices to design and implement all aspects of this site. Now EQFA has a community to draw upon, and it might be beneficial to bring the community in on running and improving the site in limited fashion. Enlisting the help of moderators could be one way, but another way could be setting up contests for letting our CSS+XHTML savvy members design a new theme for the site.

*nodsnods*
An overall layout/theme challenge for the new incarnation of the site sounds like a good idea, and a splendid way to add to the revival and bonding between new and old members

I'd be happy to be act as admin/liaisons person for other mods and/or help keep Warg updated on stuff overall when the techy stuff needs fixing/changing, and we'll figure out the rest as it goes along!

And hm, appears the quote function appears oddly for me, will have to see if it's my browser or funky addons that are acting up or if we can bug Warg about it

Okay, finally got things working over there.. but honestly.  We already had some people who mostly hung out here because it was too complicated and big over at the Scroll.  Well, that's going to be ten times worse now!

I am not sure I like having an EQ version of Facebook.  The whole "friends" thing and being able to comment and vote on everything and anything.  That's why I have avoided Facebook to start with!  And visually, I like the friendly "feel" of the old Scroll forums - like this one for that matter.

We'll see.

Oh, and the photo gallery there is way less organized than here.

Ohyes, the first idea that struck me.. is that elfquest had turned into facebook when I saw the new look and content of elfquest.com I liked things the way they were with elfquest, cosy and not overly complicated. The only thing were the occasional server snags, and this kind of new content isn't really going to help..  The new social features feel too much to me.Those neat little icons for each section etc were so charming, I very much liked the old menu.

And EQFA's focus was always the fanart and the fiction, which is it best suited and well structured for (especially in this incarnation)!

So EQFA better not go anywhere! *spanks and clings to Foxeye*

Joyrider1978, Interesting.. as I see bits that reminds me of Rayek, Voll, Scouter, Cutter.. and Jareth and Dune!

I'm submitting Mournsong's (illustration) and my (colouring) combo entry just now... as I had hoped she'd mail be back, but I was some hour ish late submitting the final ish version to her yesterday (damn those leaves!), but worst case scenario I might have to send Windrider a slightly update version.

*keeps fingers crossed for Joyrider1978 and Faerydae!*

You mean dollmaker dolls with an elfin look then, not just general dollmakers/drag'n'drops?

There's always irc though..

*eyes the fef.net servers for instance*

Mirr, how did you get all the 2007 submissions?  Unformatted?  I think someone was doing mass downloads from the old site as it was tanking.  Sneaky, but I'm glad you did.  Those will work better than what I put up there.

*grins*
..yeah, since the old site was crumbling I thought I'd browse through the galleries and save down entries, just in case. And there is quite the spread in styles for calendar entries, so inspirational in many ways. I also tended to save down personal favourites overall, prior to that, so I'd have them in one place and not have to browse around so much to refind them

EDIT: It seems for the 2006 Calendar, "The Scream" was added to my gallery/account, but "The Cherishers" was not. As I at least don't think I can edit it.
*scratches head and tickles site code bits*

*grins*

Makes me think of the vildvittror and vittror (mostly mentioned and acted upon) in the Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia, the Robber's Daughter) movie. Basically the Swedish version and some more creatively created ones to suit the movie, of the huldufólk

Since the at the time site of convergence for most things to do with eq fanart calendar stuff had started on its demise, I think that also played part in artists struggling last year.. and yes, let's yay once more at the new home of all things eq fanart

But, as you say, there is not much new-new elfquest material out, and even fans must fend off real life every now and then, especially if the themes are tricky. Maybe the new site is just the kind of creative sparkle needed to get things back on track