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[koraki]

Signups for Multifandom Doodle are open early, hooray! 

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Signups close on June 11th at 11:59 PM UTC - remember that this may be earlier than midnight in your timezone. 

As a reminder, here are the signup rules and guidelines: 

• When signing up, you choose what characters/ships you'd like to receive fanart of, and what characters/ships you'll offer to draw fanart for. You can only request and offer characters/relationships that are in the tagset.
  • The "Any" box means "any character or ship in this fandom that has been nominated for this exchange." It does not mean "any character in the fandom as a whole." 
• You can request 3-10 different fandoms, with 1-20 characters/ships per fandom. You can offer 4-10 different fandoms with 1-20 characters/ships per fandom. 
• This exchange uses "or" matching, and your gifter is only required to create something based on one of your characters/ships. Please keep this in mind when prompting. 
• In the "Description" section of the signup form, you can write prompts for your artist to get a better idea of what you want. It's generally a good idea to list out tropes, kinks, or visuals that you tend to like, as well as give some prompts specific to your requested characters/ships. "Dear artist" letters are not required, but they are welcome! 
• You can also include DNWs (Do Not Wants), which are things you don't want to see in your gift. These can include anything, but you may not use them to try and railroad your gifter into making one specific drawing (e.g. "DNW anything except a picture of catboy Kylo Ren kneeling at Rey's feet while she holds his collar and looks at him lovingly"). You may not use DNWs that contradict your requests (e.g. requesting a "/" relationship and then DNWing shipping). 
  • You are encouraged to list any stylistic preferences you have, and artists are encouraged to take these into account. Due to ambiguity and the beginner-friendly structure of this exchange, style- and medium-related DNWs will not be enforced (e.g. "DNW traditional art", "DNW CalArts style", "DNW anime style"). 

Here are some additional, general reminders: 

• All participants must be the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction.
• If you choose to request a fandom with no character/ship/setting tags in the tagset, your artist has free rein to draw anything that could reasonably be interpreted as having to do with that fandom. Any details/requests you add related to that fandom in your signup or letter will be considered optional details.
• If the tag you want to request/offer isn't showing up in the dropdown after you've selected a fandom, copy and paste the tag into your signup exactly as it appears in the tagset. 
• When matching runs, participants who aren't be able to be matched as a gifter will be matched at random to a recipient who requested Creator's Choice of Fandom. If you do not want to be matched to a CCoF request as a gifter, check the requests summary before June 11 to make sure you are matchable to a specific fandom request. If you are requesting CCoF, be aware that you may end up with more than one assigned gifter because of this rule. 
• Last year during the nominations phase we shared a few AO3 exchange guidelines & art posting resources that some participants who were new to either AO3 exchanges or to posting fanart on AO3 found helpful. These resources will be posted in a comment on this post. 

If there are any questions or concerns please comment here or email multifandomdoodle@gmail.com . 

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Posting Art to AO3

[koraki]

Here's a collection of various AO3 exchange & art posting related resources that some participants found helpful last year.

AO3 Exchanges: Breakdown & Resources

This is an AO3-based exchange, so everything you do for the exchange -- from nominating fandoms/characters, to receiving your signup, to submitting/posting your gift and treat(s) -- is going to happen through AO3, exactly the same way a fanfiction exchange would.

During the nominations period all potential participants are able to use the Tagset to anonymously nominate fandoms, characters, and ships they might want to offer or request in this exchange.

When nominations close and signups open, you will be able to use the AO3 signup form on the AO3 Collection (linked in this post) to request and offer different fandoms, characters, ships, and objects/settings that were nominated in the tagset. (You will not be able to request or offer anything that is not in the tagset.)

When you get matched up with a recipient, AO3 will send you an email telling you what their requests are so you can create for them! AO3 will also generate an Assignment page for you, which is your assignment for the exchange.

And finally, when you create your gift, you will post it on AO3 using the Assignment page. Because of AO3's handy challenge and collection settings, the mods for the exchange will be able to keep everybody's gift hidden and anonymous until the exact same time :)

Here is a tutorial for posting to a challenge/exchange on AO3 (it uses fic-centric language but the basics are the same for art)
Here is a general tutorial for posting works on AO3

Hosting & Posting Art to AO3

Here is an assortment of resources with different people discussing how they post their fanart to AO3.

AO3 hosted tutorials:
-Embedding Media at the Archive Of Our Own (official admin post; if you scroll down to "Inserting Art" you'll see some image hosting suggestions from the AO3 admins, but you will also see that all the admins' image hosting examples have been noted "Caution" or "Not Recommended"... YMMV but I suggest looking into the resources below for image hosting guidance)
-Tutorial on putting pictures and gif on AO3
-...and if you're feeling really brave, How To Size Images on AO3 and How To Make Images Fit In Mobile Browsers

Other resources:
-How to post images within a story on AO3 (Dropbox hosting)
-How to post fanart on Archive Of Our Own (imgur hosting, deviantART hosting)
-Reliable Long-term Image Hosting Sites (list of image hosting sites, includes Discord)
-Any advice on adding fanart to your fanfic on AO3? (see comments)
-Discussion of image hosting, specifically on Discord
-Traditional artists discuss scanning, image hosting, and uploading to AO3