Thanks for joining in! The canvas is now finished!

I’m going to be leaving the canvas up and read-only for a couple days, but not too long.

This was incredibly fun to host, thank you all for participating! ♥

Event date: August 4th (12:00am EST) - 6th (11:59pm EST)

Future Events

I’d love to make this a yearly event. Expanding from just Lemmy to the entirety of the fediverse aswell!

I’ll reuse this Lemmy community & the Matrix space for that event

If you have suggestions for future events, post them in a comment on this post, each suggestion as it’s own comment so people can vote on them

Timelapses:

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    • Autian@feddit.deEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Great thing that there was much less vandalism. I was able to single-handedly put my work on there and didn’t have to fix up anything at all.

      • Setarkus@toast.ooo
        4·
        1 year ago

        Same, that was a nice surprise. I was worried that the green labyrinth would consume my build but it just started growing along the edges, so I helped it spread further afterwards :))

        • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I did most of the labyrinth! My original idea was that it would be more of an interstitial background linking other artwork together.

          • Setarkus@toast.ooo
            1·
            1 year ago

            Oh nice you’re here :D

            Love the idea, I had a lot of fun spreading it and being frustrated when I miscalculated the distance for the colors when getting near another build. Would you be willing to do it again next year / in the next event?

              • Setarkus@toast.ooo
                0·
                1 year ago

                Do you think “LabyrinthineCanvas” would be a fitting name for a community to organize? Well, if you’d be in for a community at all, could also just simply start it again next time ^^

                • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I don’t know if there’s already a convention for naming Canvas-related communities, but it seems like it would make more sense for them to start with “Canvas” so they all sort together in peoples’ community lists.

      • Deebster@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Way less vandalism. I noticed the don’t got erased on the “don’t that on me” and I think that’s now gone entirely, probably because it’s now associated with Tea Partiers in the states.

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    10·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I find it wholesome that everyone got their little space to draw without much fighting. Perhaps making the canvas increase in size by request /user numbers to accommodate newcomers instead of forcing them to draw over someone else artwork is what would make this event unique compared to r/place.

  • seal_of_approval@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    1 year ago

    The lack of vandalism gives me the heartwarming mental imagery of passionate people drawing the things they love while being kind and understanding to one another. It makes me unreasonably happy

    • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There was a little. Like “banana for scale” became “bananada🇨🇦 for scale”. Sadly it got half-reverted at the end, which is the worst of birth worlds imho. And I had to protect the Canada flag from some vandalizing. Things that were possible to change with small single-person edits happened, like mangling the text in the Stardew Valley banner, or the magnificent bastard who put one red pixel in the bottom right corner of The Blue Zone.

    • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I really whish someone would have vandalised the facist grey wolf logo on the left though…

    • Pandantic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      And all the cooperation that went into not messing up people’s art. I made a bisexual flag heart by the Aussie flag, and the bronies messaged me and said “we want to put something there but we will move your heart. Is that okay?” Which I thought was nice. Lots of people helping others too! Such a difference from the other place, and it reminds me why I moved to Lemmy.

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
    8·
    1 year ago

    It’s over already!? I never even figured out how to find it, let alone contribute… :(

    • grant 🍞@toast.oooOPMEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      That seemed to be a major hiccup this time around, getting the word out there

      my plan for next year’s is to give 30 days and 7 day notice before the event starts

      make sure you’re subscribed to !canvas@toast.ooo & in the Matrix space so you don’t miss it next year

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I know it’s largely due to a smaller user base, and therefore smaller spread to overly popular personalities and groups, but this is so much nicer without the exceedingly large national flag patterns and huge streamer vanity projects.

    • Speiser0@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

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  • BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m gonna leave this comment here so I can flex on people saying I was at the first lemmy canvas in the future 🆒️😎

  • SeaOfTroubles@lib.lgbtEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This was a lot of fun! I (briefly) participated in the first reddit place, but I didn’t find it anywhere near as friendly or engaging as I found this. Thanks to whoever started Calvin after I finished Hobbes and needed to take a break, I never would’ve gotten both done without you!

    • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      You can get cleaner art if you just wipe out neighbours and replace with your own through bots. Working together and building together is on brand for Lemmy. I prefer human flawed art to robot perfect art.

      The canvas started slightly too big, but the end goal was epic considering.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, like it or not, Lemmy is not as big as Reddit. One weekend wasn’t long enough.

      Then again, no bot armies was nice.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m willing to bet that more people would have contributed if they knew where the damn page was to begin with.(Such as myself). It wasn’t advertised very well.

  • Resonosity@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 year ago

    Few things to point out:

    Go vegan!!! Yes!!!

    Lot more My Little Pony than I was expecting…

    Destiny community’s in there

    Love seeing all the Pokémon :)

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thank you for running this, grant. Appreciate all the hard work.

    A very small percentage of folks will always whine about some grievance or point out what they feel should have been done differently, but 99.9% of everyone who engaged had a great time, thanks to you, and you won’t hear anything from most of them.

    I got covid for the first time as of last Friday, so we’re self isolating and lying low, so this gave me something to focus on and do for long stretches, and it genuinely made a big difference.

    I was able to draw my old high school notebook comic character Block Head at 2 o’clock on the Firefox logo completely unimpeded by griefers or vandals. It was really nice. Thanks again.

  • Rin@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I didn’t expect my name to stay (“Rin”, bottom left ish inside the green box). I made it expecting it to be quickly overwritten, but people just went around it.

    Someone even gave me a shadow. :)