Sketch Something- an illustrated letter

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Swap Coordinator:	pocketwatch (contact)
Swap categories:	Letters & Writing Mail Art
Number of people in swap:	12
Location:	International
Type:	Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:	December 30, 2011
Date items must be sent by:	January 5, 2012
Number of swap partners:	1
Description:
This swap is a chance to sketch something, integrated in a letter, and send it off- i always intend to fill up corners of a letter with sketches, but then my left brain takes over and fills the page up with writing, and i'm left to sketch something on the envelope while i carry it around waiting to come across a mailbox. I hope this swap will encourage a more blended letter of written impressions and sketched ones. You'll just need to do one, for one partner. Maybe you can take it to someplace especially easy or rewarding to sketch? All around us there's architecture and nature, for a start. I don't think anyone should be discouraged to join if they don't think their sketches are very good- my art profs, who by all accounts know what they're talking about, tell me my drawing is good and on a bad day I still feel like it's awful. And yet, practice like this can't help but improve it. The letter you send will be: -heavily illustrated- 1/3-1/2 of the content is the images -around two pages long I don't imagine flakers will be drawn to a swap wherein you receive a letter, but as this is my first hosted swap I will be a bit conservative in allowing folks in.

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DecoPalace 12/23/2011 #

I am wondering for any of you that sketch if you can do a picture for me? I have this one I was going to pay someone to do but she hasn't gotten back to me after she started it..

I would gladily pay someone a few dollars to do it. please email me if you would consider it..

Thank you for reading!

emmel 12/25/2011 #

Hi, I am an art-teacher and I just discovered this site, I became a member but now I don't know exactly what to do...can somebody tell me where I must take a look?

Halogen 12/25/2011 #

@emmel I've sent you a message :)

papermoon 12/28/2011 #

Hi. This is my first swap. I'm super eager (and have some neat ideas) but I'm not 100% sure what to do now that I've joined. I'd like to start my sketch tonight... So please let me know what to do next. :) (Something about this site is oddly complicated for my brain, sorry!)

pocketwatch 12/30/2011 #

Hi papermoon, you won't have a partner until the end of the day tomorrow, but you could certainly still get started on the sketching part. My process is going to be to take my letter paper to someplace I'd like to sketch, and while I am sketching my surroundings, think of things to write to my partner. Was that your question, or did you mean something on the website end of things is complicated?

papermoon 12/30/2011 #

That was my question, thanks :D

Lizzycat7 12/31/2011 #

Hi there, this is my very first swap and I can't wait to get started. When and how do we get our partners information?

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