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You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.

Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.

It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.

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Apr132013

LIA Quest 6: An A-Team of Your Own

Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 11:24AM

You Are Writing a Memoir of An Incredible Mission.

You were chosen by a very powerful secret organization to assemble a team of heroes from any story in any genre in any media.

Who was on the Team?

What was the mission?

Choose from the following scenarios below to form the reason you needed to recruit the team.

Choose a Scenario

To save the Earth from a hostile extra terrestrial armada with hundreds of thousands of powerful ships and soldiers.
To train a plucky young hero so they may win a multi skill tournament against incredibly skilled, powerful opponents.
To rescue a good giant who's fallen under a spell to attack an innocent village.
To pull off a rare jewel heist from an eccentric wealthy wormhole tycoon's asteroid.
To solve an international suspense who-done-it mystery.

Normal Quest

List the members and your reason for choosing them individually.
Describe what you expect the team to do.
What makes them a good team to tell a story about?

Heroic Quest

Draw your team! Any way you want - group pose, action shot, grid of head shots.

Ways to Keep the Quest A Mini-Challenge vs. A Giant Project

Keep it quick and fun! If you finish the quest super fast on normal, you can always take it again or upgrade to the heroic quest!
One way to keep it quick: make your responses super brief. For instance: 140 character limit to each response in the Normal Quest.
2 or more characters make up a team, if you're short on time keep the team roster low! Also, it's tough to track the relationships among team members if there's a ton of characters to follow.

Deadline to have your quest mentioned on the next LIA Cast: April 24!

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