Community:Art

Welcome

This is the main organizational page for the OLPC art community. The purpose of this community is to provide programmers, game developers, and everyone else within the OLPC community with quality artwork that maintains a standard of coherence (that is, art done by various individuals should transition smoothly between applications or parts of applications).

Where to Start

If you haven't already, create a wiki account! Then add yourself to the Artist Roll Call page. Optionally, you can also add yourself to the [OLPC art community] on LiveJournal, which will serve as both a discussion forum and art sharing space. You can also join our [Flickr group], which is set up as a repository for stock photography and other art.

You should also make sure to read the OLPC Human Interface Guidelines, as the guidelines cover both the theoretical and implementation human interface standards for the project (this is a great way to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Sugar UI). Make sure that you also understand [Creative Commons licenses], since we want all of the artwork involved in the project to be publicly available. This is an open source kind of project, after all!

Some other handy pages include the page on choosing image formats, the Artwork Common Room, and the page on emulating the XO (for those interested in actually trying out Sugar).

Projects

Want to propose a project? Find an artist to work on a project? Find a project to be an artist for? Go to the Art Wanted page and sign up!

Also be sure to let us know what you're working on right now at the Art Projects page.

Tutorials

This is where we will keep all our tutorials! Tutorials should be written not by one person, but by the community as a whole. Keeping this goal in mind, we all need to agree to respect certain boundaries - differences of opinion or technique do not warrant deletion or 'correction'. Since there are a lot of different ways to do things, it's much more educational for people to each contribute their own ideas, so that readers can read a tutorial on, say, icon creation, and learn not one, but several effective methods for each part of the process and be able to choose between them.

• Icon Creation
• Digital Painting
• Have an idea for a tutorial? Make a new page and begin to write one (or if you don't know anything about it but want to, make the page)! Don't feel obligated to do the entire thing in one go; you can always write more later, and others can always pitch in.

Question and Answer

Want to know something? Can't find it in the tutorials? Check out the Art FAQ!

Maintenance

This community is currently being organized and maintained by Jessi and Nikki. This is not a dictatorship, nor is it necessarily permanent. Feel free to give us suggestions, ideas, complaints, and any other kind of feedback! It's important that this community function as a group of people with a common goal, not as a group of people resentfully doing what we tell them to.