Our mission at Muddy Colors is to provide aspiring and professional artists with access to a free art education. In keeping with that mission, we are extremely happy to announce a new project that we created with our community in mind. We call it ‘Sit & Crit‘.
Any professional artist will tell you that constructive criticism is an essential aspect of artistic growth. Unfortunately, not all artists have a group of peers that they can go to for helpful input and support. Muddy Colors is hoping to change that!
Sit & Crit is a website dedicated to providing artists with a venue to share their artwork, meet new people, and receive helpful critique from their peers. All without the pretense and toxic discussions that plague most social media venues. No politics, no religion, no fluff… just serious critiques for people who want to grow as artists.
All you have to do is make an account, sit at any table you want, and start critiquing your fellow artists. Upload artwork of your own, and get feedback in return. Don’t know any other artists? That’s OK. Just sit at a table and make some friends!
We even have a built in draw-over function to help make your critiques easier and more informative.
Our plan is eventually grow Sit & Crit into something much larger, but for now, we are keeping it very small and limited. Because we have no idea how much traffic and data storage something like this will take, and because there will most likely be some bugs that need to worked out, we are temporarily restricting the number of available seats for now. Empty spots are available on a first come, first serve basis. So, hop on over to www.sitandcrit.com and grab yourself a seat before they’re gone.
We hope your experience with the website will be a positive one, but we are still in a de-bugging stage, so don’t be surprised if you encounter some weird quirks along the way. If you encounter any issues that you think we should be aware of, please let us know here in the comment section.
Great concept for a site! So excited to use it! One bug that I found though is that as I tried to add an easel, it kept saying it failed and that the request timed out, but now I have several versions of the same easel as I scroll down through my easel page, with the same picture over and over and I’m not allowed to delete any of them
Yeah, servers were wonky today. The time out issue should be resolved if you want to try it again.
Oh, you weren’t joking. I see the issue. The servers must have went down as you were uploading, and it allowed you to make more than one easel, which it isn’t supposed to do. A few people encountered this. I will try to delete all but one of them, but you may have to create a new one all together now that things are more functional.
Thanks! Yeah i do have to create a whole new one, but that’s fine. This is sooooo great! Already got tons of great feedback and met new people.
Great and unique initiative! I’ve been searching for a couple of months / year now for a community where giving and getting feedback is the main focus. Maybe I finally found one.
Thank you,
Sounds like a great idea! I signed up and got my easel set up, but right away I noticed that the account password was sent to my e-mail in plaintext. Just thought you ought to know.
Good to know! We are still working out a lot of the smaller issues, especially security ones. We need to add an SSL certificate as well.
Thank you so much for setting this up, I’ve been really missing the studio environment and this looks like a great digital substitute! My only suggestion for the future would be to give people who have not put any art up or supplied any crit some kind of ”virtual prod’ every so often, to keep activity on the tables up.
Haha! I was just thinking the SAME THING. Otherwise, they are just taking up space someone else can be using.
I think I’ll do a little pop-up reminder.
Thanks Dan, that would be great! I’ve been enjoying seeing peoples work and giving crit where I can. I’m looking forward to seeing how the site develops! Right now it’s a bit hard to see what other activity is going on, maybe something for the future would be some kind of site activity feed, or email notifications when people reply to your comments? Being able to click on peoples name in the comment section and see their easel would be great too, and hopefully a good way to get some cross-table crit going on, which would be especially useful if your table is a bit quiet. I realise it’s very early days yet though, so please feel free to ignore me! Thanks again for setting the site up, I think it’s a great idea.
I checked it for 5 minutes. One thing that is missing for me is number of comments under people uploads in table view. I mean, you must check someone upload and there is 0 comments and then u go back and check another one and so on so forth. It’s kinda hard to explore for people seeking knowledge.