Schools and universities have been keeping all our members a tad busy with their studies, so even our projects during the last month have not really taken off as well as they usually do. Anyhow, let’s get around to updating you with the latest news.

Our Collaboration project, unfortunately, is on hold now because of the reason I mentioned above. Not to fret though! We always have our Monthly Duties to look forward to! For October, the theme is shapes and numbers. We’ll post the best creations as soon as we get them. The deadline isn’t up yet~

For now however you can have Cloud stock images by Psychicmind!

Totally, there are 12 3000×4000 pixel images and they’re completely free to use!

You can download it by clicking on the image above. It will take you straight to his deviantART page. He does have his Terms of Use that he would require users to comply with though.

That’s it for now! We’ll try to be regular with the updates. ‘Til next time!

Hence, we have some catching up to do. The three pictures below were from the prior months.

The first one spawned from the mind of Mira Kaiba. After receiving the most of votes for the month of March with the theme “Spring“, it was chosen to stand for that month.

The second was created by Karuto, also in the theme of “Spring“. After the votes had been counted in the month of April, hers was the one to be featured here.

The third came forth from Inked+, after the May’s monthly duties had been completed. The theme was “Typography“.

For the remaining autumn, we have a lot of things planned in the same line of thought. More monthly works will be featured and further updates will be posted. See you then.

With renewed vigor and new talented members, IGFX is back with a bang! March 2010 was a huge turning point for us with the introduction of the new Monthly Duties besides the other major projects. So far, we have had 5 successful MDs [as we like to call them] and are now into our 6th one this August. The purpose of introducing them into our group was to allow for our members to explore the regions of the graphics’ world they otherwise wouldn’t try out. Each of these MDs have a single theme and with it, the members can make whatever they want to ranging from simple avatars, to complex manipulations and even collaborations! Indeed, things have got pretty exciting over the past few months~
With regards to our larger projects, we are currently working on a collaboration. Yes, folks! A collab with nearly all of our members, so the very diverse outcome is one to look out for!

As I mentioned earlier, we have new members, and the Member List has been updated with their details.

We hope we won’t fall into a slump again. If we do, we will always somehow pick ourselves up, dust our pants, and get on with it once more! By the way, we now have a deviantART page where we have put up a lot of our works on display~ We’ll keep you updated every two weeks from now on along with some Freebies for you to enjoy! Have fun until then~

The Mechanics

At the front page of yinyanganime.com, there is a widget that displays 5 random images from the site’s gallery. The challenge: use one of those images to create a signature. No refreshing and refreshing until you get an image you like. That’d be cheating, and that’s a definite no-no! But if you got a nice image as you first loaded the page, well, lucky you! If not, well, that’s the challenge right there!

It’s not a contest against other gfx artists, but a challenge against one’s own skills. To learn one of the important gfx skills: making use of limited resources to make something great ;D

The project ran from April 11-19, 2009. And here are the artists that braved the randomness of the image selection and made their awesome gfx creations:

Jose 101

dotmyztick

Lovebeat

Jagan Eye

KuroTan

Unli

AtomicoX

Mira Kaiba

Balance

SSDynamite

Equanimity

Congratulations to everyone of you! Give yourselves a nice pat on the back for a challenge well met!

Until next challenge… keep on your gfx toes! =D

We have an update! haha. Sorry for stopping them, I was kinda busy with schoolwork and some other stuff. However, since it’s spring break and all, I thought I’d churn out one while I had the chance. Furthermore, we’re getting a new member today so I thought I should show him that there’s still life in our little family. XD

Welcome AtomicoX!

So first things first: let’s all welcome AtomicoX to our little family of sorts. I know not everyone has had a chance to vote on whether to bring him in or not but since the majority already said they had no objections I thought there was no need to wait to bring him in. After all, the sooner he joins the sooner he gets to take part in the fun right?

(Which means you’ll HAVE to join this week’s project just to show willing. But of course I kid. =9

Weekly Project 3

Which brings me to the next thing on the update: our weekly project. As .Lovebeat said in her thread, you’ll need to take a random extract from the gallery and make a signature from it. It has to be totally random. No cheating! If you cheat, you will be smitten (smote? smite?) by the Gods of Copyright, because the Gods of Cheating are busy atm. If you want more info, here is the [link]. Dooo itttt.

Project: Avalon

Next is Balance’s website redesign. Or as it’s officially called *cue epic soundtrack* PROJECT AVALON. There’s really nothing much happening with it at the moment BUT if any of you have any ideas or if Balance himself (u da man!) has any instructions, then by all means make a thread and we shall make it our next monthly project. Go young warrior! *cut epic soundtrack*

Project: Shirt Design

Which again leads us smoothly to the next thing on the update: our previous monthly project. As I hope you still remember, Mira had a T-shirt desing contest running for last month (as you can see here [link]) which saw one entry from mikadzuki. I’m not sure if she’s still accepting designs but I thought I’d give it a little shout-out.

And that’s about it for this week’s update. As always, if you have any questions/comments/suggestions, just reply in this thread, or, alternatively, catch me on MSN. I’m usually on and if I’m not too busy then I can entertain anything you might want to discuss with me. Until then, keep on rockin’ Lame ending is lame. =_=;