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akavel piefed.social akavel@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-09-10
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A small, rectangular piece of watercolor paper, the size of a trading card. On it, a watercolor painting of a building, roughly three levels tall, plus a few trees, and a low wall. The building is mostly in beige, brown, and yellow colors, with balconies on the left, with a red roof and some antennae on the chimneys.

I recently discovered the ArtistTradingCards format and idea. This is my first watercolor attempt at making one! I hope there gets to be a lemmy community for such cards at some point

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Herbal Gamer sh.itjust.works HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-10-30
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Please elaborate on this format.

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fakeman_pretendname feddit.uk fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-01
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This is cool.

I'd never heard of these for some reason - at least by this name and specific format.

I found a bit of an "intro" on here:

www.tinteddy.com/introduction-to-atcs-what-are-artist-trading-cards

Cool idea and thank you for bringing it to my attention (and I like your one too).

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dr_yeti lemmy.world dr_yeti@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-03
#4 · Quote Reply

This is lovely! A good place to find trading partners is on swap-bot(at least until the future ATC lemmy community gets some steam).

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onionguy lemmy.world Sly2@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-12-31
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Beautiful! Always love the lightness of aquarell. ATC sounds cool!

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cathfish lemmy.world cathfish@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-28
#6 · Quote Reply

Great!

Is there an ATC community on lemmy?

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Anachu leminal.space Anachu@leminal.space
Joined: 2026-06-07
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I hadn't heard of artist trading cards before, but that seems really cool! the watercolor is so pretty I want to take a bite out of it

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akavel piefed.social akavel@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-09-10
#8 · Quote Reply

I hadn't heard of artist trading cards before, but that seems really cool! the watercolor is so pretty I want to take a bite out of it

Thank you so much for the kind words! <3

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akavel piefed.social akavel@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-09-10
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Beautiful! Always love the lightness of aquarell. ATC sounds cool!

Thank you! <3

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akavel piefed.social akavel@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-09-10
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Great! Is there an ATC community on lemmy?

Thanks!

None that I'm aware of. I'd love to learn also if there is! I wonder now, could it make sense to try and create one? I have absolutely zero experience how this works 🤔 I'm totally new at Lemmy first of all... Should there be some minimal group of people interested in a topic to make it sensible to create a community? From the looks of it, even the artshare one doesn't appear too crowded, so I'm not very sure there would be even anyone to take part in an ATC one? Maybe for starters it could be enough to just share any ATCs here on artshare? 🤔 Do you have some thoughts or experience on this?

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cathfish lemmy.world cathfish@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-28
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Thanks! None that I'm aware of. I'd love to learn also if there is! I wonder now, could it make sense to try and create one? I have absolutely zero experience how this works 🤔 I'm totally new at Lemmy first of all... Should there be some minimal group of people interested in a topic to make it sensible to create a community? From the looks of it, even the artshare one doesn't appear too crowded...

I don't know either. I only just discovered ATCs when I saw your post. Apparently, you need at least four people for a 3-for-3 swap, so I imagine it's doable. What worries me more is the postal service!

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