The Canvas event is the Fediverse’s take on the r/place event, I.E, a collaborative artwork where every participant can place down a single pixel every 30 seconds.
This limitation means the only way to assemble a larger piece of art is for people to come together in groups to collectively decide what they’ll be drawing, where it will be, and communicate with other groups working on neighboring artworks so as not to impede their efforts, or even to negotiate mutual aid treaties to help maintain each other’s art from potential hit-and-run attacks.
SLRPNK participated in 2024’s Canvas event, which @Five@slrpnk.net documented in one of our previous Monthly Meta’s.
If there are any Solarpunks interested in participating this year, this thread might be a good place to organize and collaborate :)
Here’s my template (sized 46x46). It’s a little rough around the edges, and we can change it up to make it more attractive. It features a sunflower in the center, symbolizing hope and the sun itself. The inspiration for the quote came from the write-up in the instance wiki.
Upscaled version:
Original version:
Nice work, Terra! Love the cool banner style around the sunflower, and a great message! :D
I did a couple touches to it to increase contrast, and moved the B down one pixel to line up with the I across from it.
As it doesn’t seem likely we’ll get any more template submissions, I vote we use yours :)
Smol version:
It looks much neater now. Thanks for the touch up. I’m happy to hear that you liked the idea, though I think one drawback would be that if someone sees it on the canvas, they wouldn’t know it’s from slrpnk. So probably not the best for publicity.
Maybe we can wait a little bit for others to give their opinions
That is true… Perhaps there’s a way we could manage both?
My template is fairly small, and much of it is empty space, which means we should be able to complete it fairly quickly. We could then begin assembling your design near it (if there’s open canvas still).
If we begin to run out of time, we could leave the banner parts uncolored, meaning we’d only have to draw the banner outline, letters, and flower, which would cut down the number of required pixels quite a bit.
Super! Now the banners look more on-brand lol. Great work. It would be nice to have milestone-based series of these templates. Like what are the first 20% of tiles to place. The next 20%. And so on. Itll help us sort of claim a spot early on if we only focus on an outline first. I wouldve done that part but its super late right now.
That’s a good idea, I’ll see about working on that.
I made a team account on the Canvas pre-planning template and added our templates to a blank spot that no one else has claimed yet (I can also still edit them or move them around).
https://chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/cotemplate/ui/template/20260520-Canvas26_main
Now that we’re closing in on the opening and we’re pretty well decided on what we’re drawing, I’ll likely create a new thread for us to collaborate from, describing how to start and hopefully with a couple step-by-step 20% templates too.
There’s also a Matrix chat that canvas created for teams to organize with each other and collaborate on, but I’m not sure how many of us have Matrix accounts, since we mostly use XMPP.
I was thinking that perhaps it would be best to move closer to the Pawb.social templates, as I suspect we could rely on them for help somewhat, since we’re both lemmy instances. Thoughts?
Also @tburkhol@slrpnk.net.
Could put ProdigalFrog’s SLRPNK/logo in the center, vs sunflower? Lay the whole thing on Vegafjord’s flag, just to tie in everyone who’s put an image out there.
Either way, somebody should make a team & let the rest of us know where to start. Plus maybe a new sticky with the final details.
Hm, I tried combining them, but personally I don’t think the result is as aesthetically pleasing, Terra’s design works better with the flower.
This one gives the feel of a police badge in a way
I agree. I think I didn’t realize their relative scales.