A collaborative art community for artists.
Collaborative art is an art form that involves multiple artists to cocreate together.
"The potential of community-based, participatory art to fulfill not only art’s creative potential to beautify communal space and rejuvenate the spirit, but also to forge meaningful collaboration within a community is what makes collaborative art transformative."
——The University of Chicago Press Journals
Since most artists tend to be introverted. Collaborative art may enhance the communication with other artists and expand their social zone .
Under the trend of AI drawing, what is unique about hand-drawing is something worth thinking. Collaborative art can be one of the answers, because it provides the participants with a unique sense of engagement.
Many artists are unwilling to collaborate with others, especially with strangers because they are afraid of meeting somebody with no shared topics or similar opnions.
Artists can either start a new collaborative artwork, or join an existed one created by others. In the canvas, artists can chat with each other, see others' dynamics, and check the history of this collaborative work.
In Artzone, there is a comprehensive friending function. Not only can artists add friends with others, they will also be notified about their friends' updates, and the current artwork their friends are working on.
Artists can freely create a prompt as the topics of their canvas. Besides, they will tag their work so it will be easier for artists to find artwork they are interested in. In this way, artists will be potentially motivated to join more canvases.
In order to choose the most fitting form of collaborative art for Artzone, I have researched three different genres and chose the wall art evantually. Because it will give artists a full freedom to express themselves, and also allows a more comprehensive collaboration between artists, leading to a better collaborating experience.
An original draft will be divided into several parts and be finished by different artists.
Artists paint their own pieces and collage together to create a final artwork.
Every artist paints freely on a blank canvas
Then I interviewed three artists who have joined collaborative art before, and made a persona based on the information.
Besides two collaborative art platform, Magma and Drawpile, I also chose a painting application, Procreate, and a social media, Instagram for the competitive analysis. These slection was made because Artzone includes painting function and some social functions as well.
Then I sketched the basic pages and wireframes of the app. The main pages include home page, friends page, canvas and user profile
Artzone comes from the words 'art' and 'zone'. I hope to create an area where artists can come together to collaborate freely, fostering a vibrant environment for shared artistic expression and enjoyment.
