So over the past few days in the Art Forum, I've posted some art challenges that I'm calling "the hate series". The intent behind this is to drive artists into territory unfamiliar to them and test their commitment to the craft. Are Newgrounds Art Forum users willing to draw something they don't like, or spend time researching something they don't know, just as a chance to hone their skills? Will they possibly discover something that they do like buried in the rubbish, or at least a stronger knowledge of why they don't like those things? How will they even react to the very idea of doing so? I seek to find out!

Here's a list of the threads (will be continually updated as I do more of these):

• Draw yourself in a style you hate
• Do an art trend you hate
• Discover, draw, and describe an aesthetic
• Draw a design trope you hate
• Copy the style of someone you appreciate (it’s not hate related, but it definitely involves going out of your way to draw something you wouldn’t!)

I'll keep on adding new threads to keep the experiment going. In the meantime, it'd be fun if anyone else would like to join in! An experiment needs data, after all, and performance art needs an audience.

-Theta

(I kinda made this post for my own use, as a way to keep track of all these threads in one place, lol.)