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I don't know how many if you are familiar with ATCs, but my sister set up a swap community for them!  The community is on LJ, but the real swaps will be held on SWAPBOT, so its ok if you don't have an LJ account, you can still be apart of it and keep checking the community for updates. For all the information on how it will work and how to join, check out

HAPPY ATC INFORMNATION POST!!

and heres just the community link:  [link] [link] [link]

ATCs are a great way to get yourself to do little arts here and there, and a great way to collect other people's art, too. each swap the partners are assigned randomly, so its always fun to see what you'll get in the mail!

Eventually there will be a DA community where we can post our finished cards after the other person recieves them, but we haven't made it yet.

But yeah, you should all go and join, it'll be alot of fun.

the first swap sign up deadline is MONDAY and the theme is POKEMON.

go do it! it'll be fun!
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:iconlemurkat:
~lemurkat Aug 26, 2008  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
dangit I missed it! If your sister wants some ATCs from me too, let me know - I have a chikorita spare and some of the other ones she likes I haven't drawn yet. I've been checking out Squishtaro's swapbot info.

Kat
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:iconfunwithjinx:
I'm thinking I might pimp this on my DA and LJ journals. :D

Count me in!
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:iconfresh4u:
thank you!
lets have fun!
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:iconfunwithjinx:
Nn, it's no problem at all! :D I'm glad I get to participate!
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:iconakuwaneko:
Wheee~ my mum has been doing ATCs for ages, but I haven't been an active ATCer for a long time. Years even. We belong to ATCs for All (which replaced ATCards). Maybe I should get back into the swing of swaps, they are a lot of fun. :D
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:iconfresh4u:
Ahah wow, thats cool. I havent really been into ATCs long, so i dont have alot of experience with it, but i didnt like alot of theo nes on swapbot where 90% of them weren't even drawn, they were just magazine cut outs and stuff. So we're trying to get a more variety of artists to swap with <3
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:iconakuwaneko:
Yeah, a lot of artists- like my mother for example -are paper artists; or rather "paper crafters" is the correct term for it. They work mostly with 'found art' and collage. In a way, it's a totally new form of art that's heavily derived from scrapbooking and alteredbooking.

At the same time, there are different "types" of ATCs and ATCers. There are people who make strict rules about what you can and cannot draw/use/etc that way people make a good effort and swappers don't wind up feeling cheated. It's a big deal and it causes a lot of drama on the ATC sites. Because then it gets into that really hairy argument of what "qualifies as art" and what "qualifies as good effort". But then again, that's sort of an issue on any-every-and-all online art communities, isn't it? You sort of have to look past all that and just have fun with it.
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:iconlicchan:
YAYYY! 8)
Should I pimp this too? Ahurhur. EVERYONE SPREAD THE WORD YAY.
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:iconfresh4u:
thank you! that makes us excited!
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