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30 Ideas - Volume XVII by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume XVII

*order of which was received. --- galinuva • Make an emoticon that would say \"You\'re obsessed!\" or something like that. • Make an emoticons of someone exausted, and fighting sleep. Not actually sleeping, but should sleep. • Make an emoticon of an artist hard at work. Not any type of artist in particular, but an artist. • Make an \"Under Construction\" emoticon. •Draw something normal, but have the background be out of the ordinary. Like a bottle of lotion engulfed in purple flames. •Watch a child playing and write a poem about what the child is thinking and/or doing as s/he\'s playing. •How about an animated emoticon of one guy du

30 Ideas - Volume XVI by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume XVI

*order of which was received. --- jnaz • photographers: Like a rubberband, people have their breaking point, photograph yourself at your breaking point. • Writers: When a person is intoxicated, their thought process is dramatically different: a quiet, shy person may become very extroverted-showing all their emotions. Express yourself when you are intoxicated. Show yourself as you truly are/would be. • Drawers/Painters: create an image of pity. This could be someone, something, that you pity or it could be just the thought of pity. • Imagine youself as a telephone operator-express your time at home when your phone goes off. • Make a col

30 Ideas - Volume XV by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume XV

*order of which received. --- lathe • I've been always interested in the concept of disappearing physically into something non physical, like music or an imaginary world. you could use this like a young girl traveling to an imaginary world when her drunk parent is after her. nene-chan •This would have to be a collaboration between two people. The idea is for one person to write a love letter and the other person writes a letter in response. It has to be love/romance related, so it can be about breaking up, being in love, being apart, etc. Anything goes as long as "love" is the theme. birger •A wheelchair is lying on the floor. It seems

30 Ideas - Volume XIV by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume XIV

*order of which received. --- Cuttsy • Write either a prose or poetry either 2 different submissions or just one split into 2 half's, on part written in 1st person from the perspective of a cancer tumour, treat as a conscious being. Then in the next part do the same but from the perspective of the body with cancer, this could illustrate the battle between them and maybe a hatred for each other. Also if it was only one submission you could do one paragraph for one then switch to the other and back again giving it the feel of an argument. • Prose or poetry, to depict the plight of a spider caught in a bathtub, how it got there, how sick it

30 Ideas - Volume XIII by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume XIII

*order of which received. --- dreamroamer • A poem: take an old journal entry and tear it into a minimum of fifteen pieces (photocopied entries may be used for shredding.) Pick up one of the fragments and write a poem using the words found on the scrap. • Fictional flyer: take photographs of a collection of items. Label the items, assign prices and arrange them neatly on two double-sided tabloid-sized pages. Add other details such as the name of the store, location and phone. Make several copies, and if desired, distribute them to a few friends. jnaz • Writers: describe your favorite song, WITHOUT any music words in it, like beat, drums

30 Ideas - Volume XII by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume XII

*order of which received. --- satan666v • Re-Imagine the dev. Icon of another deviant. Along the lines of taking the basic subject og the icon, and reworking it from there. Mine, for example, is a fire-toned face. So, flame and face. Make an icon with fire and a face. • Select any poem, short story, etc and create artwork based on that writing. Interpretation to whatever degree. Writers can do the opposite. Choose a piece of art and create a story that expands on that one image. • Pull one character from classic literature and insert him/her into a modern day setting. Ex: A bewildered Huck Finn in LA 2003. Hesse\'s Siddharta in a modern

30 Ideas - Volume XI by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume XI

*order of which received. --- thegrayman • The two armies charge at one another, taking the Thalarion Empire inbetweem. The two armies are made of over 50000 soldiers each, and they come from kingdom that have more or less 100000 inhabitants each. Even boys barely old enough to hold a sword have volunteered. Waste is laid on Thalarion, ransacked by the ravenous hoarde which finally meets in the middle. • The two hordes meets in Jad Nadek, Thalarion\'s capital, sieged and taken by the two armies in a single night of fires and steel. The fighting takes place inside of the city as well as outside. When the two commanders meet, they start a d

30 Ideas - Volume X by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume X

*order of which received. --- jnaz • Randomly open the dictionary and pick a word. Create a piece of litureature, a photo, a drawing, or a painting that you feel best describes that word. Use either the denotative or the conotative meaning, whichever means more for you in the long run. • Empty your wallet and pick the most obscure thing from the pile and write a story about how it got there. Then write random story that involves this obscurity as a central focus as the story. ah-art • Pieces dealing with thoughts. the basic idea is to ask someone randomly what they are thinking about at that moment no matter what it is and build an imag

30 Ideas - Volume IX by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume IX

*Order of which received. --- redpanda • When I was in high school there was one classroom that always got a lot of flies in it from the windows being left open when it got hot. It was suggested that the teacher put up some flypaper sheets, but then someone suggested in jest a giant sheet of fly paper. The teacher said no because then we'd just get some freshman stuck to it crying "Help me!" Try to imagine people stuck in other situations. Maybe an old grandma who absentmindedly knitted herself into a caccoon or "the new guy" on an old time pirate ship who got tangled in the rigging. • I've always liked seeing cross-sections of things. In

30 Ideas - Volume VIII by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume VIII

*order of which received. --- iisiois • Get one of those golf umbrellas - black and white photo! - make sure to get water on outside of umbrella and dripping off. From in the rain a girl looking into camera, soaked & no rain coat, looking hopefully, sweetly, sexy \'wanna share your umbrella\' like look. endofdayz • I think a great poem could be about someone standing in a field during a storm, about to be struck by lightning. Then the poem returns to when the person woke up, and goes through the things that happened that day to bring them where they were about to be struck in the field. • Another semi-satirical piece: A photo manip or

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30 Ideas - Volume I by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume I

*order of which received. gothork • 3d image, a thunder putting a under-water forest in fire. My idea is to create something like this, to mix some elements. leodadominico • Create emoticon - "wow! what a comment" & "Call that a comment?". • [photograph manipulation] - x-ray of a mechanical heart in a human body. • Exammin the face of evil - Close up study of evil faces, drawn or photomanip. eclipz04 • This is an idea for a photo manip, or anything like that. A girl who is obviously depressed (tears in eyes, sad look.. you get the idea) is looking into a mirror, with her hand placed against it.. and in the reflection is herself,

30 Ideas - Volume II by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume II

*order of which received. dr-d • Write a story about a telemarketer. (the idea reoccured to me after seeing leo\'s thread in the Complaints forum) This telemarketer happens to be bipolar or manic depressive. I think that would be a bad combination. Think about all the people shouting abuse at him/her: \'Don\'t call my fuckin house anymore\', \'Get a real job, loser!\', etc etc. I know just how bad some of these people can be, I used to be a telemarketer myself, and the couple things I\'ve listed there are pretty tame. All the verbal abuse often sends him/her into a spiral of depression and anger. This could trigger some very funny/sad/sca

30 Ideas - Volume III by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume III

*order of which received. 213-static • there is one piece of was thinking about but decided not to do was of a few pictures of children of different races that have been affected by war, under the title, the causulties of war. siedhr • Actually, I do have an idea for a drawing. Night time, a lake and one of its shores, then the moon, full moon, in the water, as a reflection. only the real moon, the one in the sky would actually be a mask, like a venetian mask. sort of like the reflection is more real than the actual thing. hope it makes sense. ivyc • I was watching the movie \"the Matrix\" for the billionth time.... I noticed how in mo

30 Ideas - Volume IV by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume IV

*In order of which received* iamsplee • Gum dried on the bottom of a shoe with something written on it or engraved in it. tranzintel • As we as a planet grow more and more diverse in our thoughts, emotions, and our over all way of life, we lose our view of other people's interests and emotions. So what I am trying to say is, try to express the Earth's emotion in one piece. Or even your insignificance as a thinking human being trapped on this planet. leodadominico • Art and science in the world today. Having the scientist working with an artist. Both of which think differently, where the scientist think like scientists, while the artist

30 Ideas - Volume V by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume V

*order of which received: pariahale • Draw your inner child. You know you have one. f-x • Find someone without an avatar and offer to create one for them... • Turn the flag of your country of residence into an emoticon... If one already exists... Make an item that represents your country best into an emoticon... dsds • Take a sketchbook and some pencils and go into the city. As you walk, analyze architecture of the buildings in your area. Sketch what you like, draw textures of things you like, contour drawings, whatever. When you return home, combine ideas together and do a drawing of a building or set of buildings or whatever, but rem

30 Ideas - Volume VI by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume VI

*order of which received. thegrayman • Happiness: The image (a photo, a drawing, a manipulation) of a man in the last instant before he hits the ground after falling down a skycraper. The man should be dressed a clown, with an almost estatic look on his face. The image should be packed with religiuous symbols. • There are 2 fixed stars in the sky: One is Polaris (the north star), the other hangs low on the horizion. All other stars move. Legends claim it a light on a tower, and travellers seeking for it speaks of a immense mass at the horizion, darkening the sky, seen just befor falling for hexaustion. One claimed to have seen it, but he k

30 Ideas - Volume VII by elements-of-art, literature

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30 Ideas - Volume VII

*order of which received. --- daikan • (Freehand) Make a person standing in front of a fork in the road. That person has a choice to make. Draw one road, the one to the left (In former times, left were considered \'wrong\' and right - yeah, that\'s right - \'right\' ;) (Wink) ) is dark and full of faded or withered flowers and plants. The right road, which stands for the good in the world, is full of colourful flowers and stuff like that. Make the person look overwhelmed, that will probably add alot. Of course you don\'t have to do exacly like that, you can for example do a person standing in front of two doors, one shines bright and the o

30 Ideas - Volume VIII by elements-of-art, literature

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Prideful Bitch by eclipz04, literature

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Prideful Bitch

I put my foot on the ledge today memories and emotions swarmed over me. And you know what? I fucking hate you. Through shaky breaths of denial And shattered dreams all over my floor I walked through them with an air- I don't need this world, I'm better. Down below, the people creep Ants of society, we call ourselves humans You're nothing but fucking pathetic. You damn ass of a society. Screaming voice atop that ledge Few look up, most don't hear. My wind sweeps the sound away. But inside their minds, they know. They all know. Laughter fills the old apartment room the melodic tones wake the man. Just in time to see the mess

Emotion Sickness by aeshryne, literature

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Emotion Sickness

rumbling resonances echo cracking, breaking, smashing glass shards skitter like fallen ice skaters, fingernails scour the wooden desk-- searing splinters pierce the cuticles but no pain compares to what you've done. my head, spinning with detested thoughts, beats unmercifully choking my senses shrouding the world from view. why did you do it? I watch the hatred streak my vision with blackened colors, I taste the acidity of the anger as it ruptures slowly seeping through the skin, I feel the sadness swell, but never burst-- I feel no compassion, no sympathy, nothing for you. I tire of the lies, the screams the tears but n

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30 Ideas - Volume XVI by elements-of-art, literature

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Jul 13, 2003

Ideas Archive

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What is 'Elements-Of-Art' about? :confused:  This is massive archive of usless ideas from deviants. Who can submit ideas? :greetings:  Anyone, we don't take membership. If you have usless ideas (nonintellectual properties) please feel free to drop us a note title "Idea". Example of ideas. Understand that you abide to the rule that your ideas does not need to have permission to use, nor giving you the credit to your usless idea(s). However your name will be in the list within the volume it contains. Who may use the ideas? :shh:  The idea are to be use and abuse by those whom may have writers/artist/designer/ect block, id

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elements-of-art

Jul 13, 2003

Out with the old...

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Welcome...to New EOA, this group has gone from a massive community to a single person opperation. Who you may ask? Well, the creator and director of this group, ZirTuan (https://www.deviantart.com/zirtuan). We (EOA staffs) have noticed the great amount of decline in participation, therefore we take it in as another hint of by being a community does not seem to be working out for us. Nothing is suddent as we have view EOA from the begining, and now it's time to change EOA to that one purpose. The main idea for EOA in the first place were to collect usless ideas and just that. Somehow it formulated into something else, and now I am bringing back to what I had in mind

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elements-of-art

Jun 12, 2003

Ideas In Volumes - Third 5

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The Elements of Art community (EOA) proudly presents our third compilation of ideas, consisting of 5 volumes. If you have not heard of EOA, then please take a moment to get to know what were all about. EOAs sole purpose is to inspire the artist that perhaps is in a writers block. This community is conspired of all ranges of artists housed here at DeviantART, from poets to pixel artists and painters from every walk of life and every level of experience. As members of EOA, they take part in submitting their own useless ideas to spark another artists interest, encouraging the onlooker to use it or draw from i

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hmmm

I wish someone would start this deviant up again it's given me alot of idea's

poodude0006

Oct 31, 2005

Hello, DeviantART I would like to announce to the whole DeviantART community that there will be a Poodude Halloween party this comming Monday. Poodude will be giving out pumpkins and cupcakes. Enjoy and have a safe and happy Halloween. Early 2006, Poodude will be launching a huge campaign on DeviantART, I encourage every staff admin and member to join in and vote. It's going to be a special day. It will be held sometime in April of 2006, so get out there DeviantART and come together as a great community. I would like for everyone to take a moment and check out my page, you will find the link in there for Poodudes website to find out more. Thank you everyone on DeviantART from Poodude.

Jeans16

Apr 1, 2005

I wish this place was in action

eclipz04

May 5, 2005

It crapped out and died. I was part of the staff back.. way back when. You can browse through old idea though ^.^

Im crusing through memory lane tonight, cant believe this is even still here. lol

-brita

Jeans16

May 5, 2005

Yup that's what I like to do too. Shame it died, any particular reason? Or did people just forget about it?

eclipz04

May 5, 2005

From what I remember, people kind of lost interest. And we all started to get busy with other things, so ` leodadominico, who was the owner basically, turned it into what it is now, just ~elements-of-art and that's it. Such is life, eh?

-brita

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