Offical information and Help for DSG

[davi]

The DSG

· What is the DSG?
The dsg is a collection of artists who draw from a randomly generated topic which is given each day, and DSG stands for Daily Sketch Group.

· When does the DSG start?
The topic is given at 1am (PDT) and ends at 12:59pm (PDT) so everyone has 23:59 hours to do it.

· Where is dsg?
The topics are listed in the dsg forum (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=39) or at http://www.conceptart.org/dsg

· Can we chat in dsg threads or should we only post art?
YES! Talk and share opinions, references, questions and critiques

· Is there a limit of entries?
Nope, No limit at all-- Feel free to post as much as you are inspired to do.

· Is there a dsg chatroom?
We chat on the irc server irc.asylumnet.com in the channel #art . It is also the chatroom for conceptart.org and other friendly art forums. To get irc you must get a client, i suggest MIRC (www.mirc.com) for windows users and for mac users to pick one from this http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mac/ (list)

[Pencil Soldier]

PDT? Which time zone is that?

[davi]

i believe -007gmt

i'm little confused on it myself.

franz helped set it all up and then left...
the time it changes might change but it will still be 24hours so it generally doesn't matter

[Fozzybar]

???

What's the deal now? Is this the new form of dsg, opening the threads in advance?

What's with the surprising moment at the chat when the subject is announced?

It turned out to a common speed painting thread...

[Prometheus|ANJ]

Well, the SP4 thread on sijun has 140 pages... I think it's cool that there's 24hrs cuz I always miss the time. On the other hand there won't be any time triggered meetings in #sketch at a given time, but there wasn't that much dsg chatting going on there anyways since ppl were busy drawing.

I'm not sure how good idea it is to reveal the threads in advance tho.

Pacific Standard Time is probably some sort of US time, so it should be 6-9hrs after european time, which means that the deadline is 8am for me or so, I dunno.

[franz]

PDT is GMT-8. The new DSG opens at 1:00am PDT (US west coast), which translates to 9:00/10:00/11:00am for Europe.. Depending on time zone and daylight savings. It's 10:00am for Sweden, I think.

franz helped set it all up and then left...
Yeah well, I spent two days programming the whole thing on my own, so I think I deserved a night off. :)

[davi]

haha yeah thanks franz ;]

[strych9ine]

Pure sweetness... I was only able to make it to one DSG before, so this is huge. Great idea to change it to 24 hours.

[eobet]

Not to be a stick in the mud, but what was wrong with the way it was?

I'm not fond of forums, so I'd rather chat on IRC, and I liked the "live" feeling of the DSG... I am afraid this will disconnect me from the event (that is, the feeling that something is happening "now" will go away).

/Robert

EDIT: Btw, is the 90 minute limit voluntary now? I guess there's no way to check anymore, is there...

[davi]

1) I had to do too much work since my irc script was screwy

2) Most people interested couldn't do it because of timezones

[jarvis2824]

PDT is also known as Pacific Time here in the states because that time zone consists of several states that stop at that ocean (I think). I was a little confused because I didn't know what the 'D' stood for (Daylight).

Chris

[Tedsuo]

Cool! Now I can do DSG again.


Also, if you enjoyed hanging out for 90 minutes at 6:00, keep it up! If I get into a consistent habit, I will post and maybe we can form a splinter cell that meets at a more agreeable time.


:chug:


-T

[davi]

yeah people setting up times to draw together is a great idea, i'm still going to draw at 6:00pm(PST)

[MGH]

Thanks for the new format Davi!

[Behemoth]

you've labelled the start and finish times as 12 hours apart - one's am and one's pm. they should be the same if its a 24 hour period.

Also, to eliminate time zone confusions, try this page:

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/abbreviations.html

Hopefully I'll get to have a go now...:D

[Laconic]

I'm a little confused. Part of the DSG was trying to do it in 90 mins, Is everyon still sticking to 90 mins? or could i spend my entire afternoon on it and still call it a DSG piece?

[Oblio]

well.. for me it's hard to find time for anything these days but i'll surely try to join (again). Thx guys!

Ob

[davi]

you can take as much time as you want on it but it's going to change the next day.

Most people are going to be doing speed paintings for this anyways, i can't picture people spending 5 hours on a dsg

[antihero]

I'm really looking forward to this new format, maybe now i can also join dsg from time to time.


Only point that i'm worried about, is that shitty timezone-thing. I guess i'm not the only one that gets confused with it.
A good idea would be doing an online-counter, that is set on the PDT time. This counter could be located on the conceptart.org/dsg page so everyone sees it, when checking the subject. At least for me, it would help a lot to see "20 hours 34 minutes left to go for the topic: blabla".
Maybe franz is not as happy as i am, because he's the poor guy who has to actually programm that counter... If that's the problem, i might help out, because i can also do some programming and the counter isn't _that_ complicated.
However, first of all it would be nice to hear what you guys think about the idea.

antihero

[BlackRose]

sorry i f i sound like a noob but i was wondering if you have to be at the chat session to be included in the dsg. im not usually up at the time. right now i just see he topic and doodle on my tablet but i dont post em cus i dont want to break any rules.

[OLSEN]

Blackrose- you dont have to do the chat thing. Dont worry too much about the rules and start posting your work :)

[bgermain]

Can someone tell me exactly how I add an image to my postings (like a step-by-step for us morons)? I would greatly appreciate it.

[Synista]

Originally posted by bgermain
Can someone tell me exactly how I add an image to my postings (like a step-by-step for us morons)? I would greatly appreciate it.

1. Upload picture somewhere that allows outside linking. (ie, not GEOSHITTIES/TRIPOD etc.)

2. [ i m g ] URL OF YOUR PICTURE [ / i m g ]

You do the [img] thing without the spaces. Tada.

[spok]

pleeeeeaaaaaaaaaase help me!!! i don't know how to post an image, and i need your help, coz i want to post a luxary spaship design...thank you...

Spok...

[spok]

oh, ok...

[Pauladrian]

are there any free webspace providers who work with image posting here?

[capone]

Just wondering, can anyone confirm the time that sketchgroup is "open" in the UK?if its 6 hours behind I guess it would be 6pm-6am?

[JackSparrow]

if you want a sweet place to put your pics to put a pic site up at 250free.com they add one banner to the top of your page but you only have one pop up which is killer for a free site + they let you remote link

[Pauladrian]

Hey, thanks Jack Sparrow, helped me a lot!

[veinglory]

I am sure it is not approved of but deviantart doesn't block hotlinking so you can use them too.

[Lune]

just so everyone knows, you can add a http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/ before your link to your image and it will work in ANY FREE WEB SPACE PROVIDER!

found this out in the polycount forums and thought i would share it with you, i will make a new post in the dsg thread as well.

[JackSparrow]

Ya 250free.com has kinda throwen in a bunch of pop up crap now arrgggghhhh but its not to bad I guess/ now its all behind the window pop ups so they don't get in your way but you have to click out of some windows after visiting.
I guess the one pop up thing was to good to last but what can you expect from a free site atleast they let you remote link :D

http://otherrealmcreations.250free.com/remotelinkpics/signature2.gif (http://otherrealmcreations.250free.com)

[ilustre]

Were I can post a off topic free sketch? Whe have a thread about this?

[Phuzion]

ilustre: you can post in the "Sketches & Doodles" section... that would be my suggestion...

[ilustre]

Thanks phuzion. In fact, surfing a bit more at conceptart I discovered it. Anyway thanks for your attention.

[anjy]

Hello, I just joined conceptart today, interested in the activities that are hosted here.
It was already mentioned that there was no 90 minute time limit for the DSG, but just to confirm... So there is no time limit (besides the 23hr59minutes, or whatever)? Haha...
I just want to make sure, because I don't want to be posting a 5, or like 15 hour DSG piece, and then get replies like, "What the hell is that? That's no SKETCH!"

So they don't have to be "sketches" either?

[silentbrain]

As far as I can tell, you can put as much time as you want into it. :) You can even turn it in late if you want. It's all for good fun and personal learning.

Hell, if you are inspired enough by a topic to put 15 hours into a piece, I can't see how that is not a good thing either way. :chug:

[anjy]

Thanks.
And being able to turn things in late is a nice one.