I believe, always, that the work you create should be work that matters for/to you. ICAD is flexible, and it should be your challenge. For some people, the challenge falls somewhere in between. For some people, the challenge is creating a card that somehow reflects or fills the prompt for the day. For some people, the challenge is simply creating 61 cards. But using these prompts and challenges is optional.
And that’s okay! ICAD is what you make of it. Generally, my plan has held steady through some of my early cards and then tapered off during my travel. Some years my plan has involved both a materials and a content constraint. Sometimes my plan has involved medium/materials (I want every card to include “x”), and sometimes my plan has involved content (I want every card to include “y”). That’s just me!Įach year I’ve had some kind of plan for how I wanted to do my cards. I do know that I approach the challenge my own way. Sometimes, I waffle about uploading a simple sketch, a simple drawing, an ad-hoc self-portrait, or a graphic novel panel. I often feel a bit uncertain sharing my cards in the ICAD community because my cards are rarely full-color, multimedia explorations. Even so, I sometimes feel like I’m the only black and white ICADder out there.
As the challenge has continued to attract artists of all types in recent years, I have seen more and more people who sketch or paint in response to the challenges and prompts. Following ICAD streams and browsing the group is almost always a colorful experience. These artists paint, make altered books, do collage, and use a wide range of multimedia techniques for print and background making. If by some unimaginable stretch of the imagination, you have ended up on this page and are not already a Daisy Yellow follower or already signed up for ICAD, let’s get you on board! (When you view this as a Venn diagram, the chances of that above statement being true are almost zero.) How I ICADĪs an outgrowth of the Daisy Yellow community, many ICAD participants are multimedia artists. I tacked on some info about ICAD 2016 in my notes on Episode 185, but I realize they might get lost there, buried in the show notes about teddy bears and stuffed things. Please visit the ICAD base (on the Daisy Yellow site) for more information and to sign up. Some of the logistics of doing ICAD have changed for 2017.
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