_{ATH - Digital Painting 2018}

Dear friends and followers,

in my third part about Art an Blockchain, I want to talk about a new blockchain and marketplace for creatives called Creativechain. But let me start with a new creativity tag, that I discovered a few days ago.

#maysketchaday

I discovered this tag at twitter and as the name implies, participants should make a sketch every day of May. The whole thing is meant as a "daily exercise to build immunity to perfectionism. Any medium, anything goes."

After I already took part in last year's #penciltember (which happened right before #inktober), I thought it could be another great possibility to increase productivity and to improve my skills.

The first sketch, I did is called "ATH (All Time High)" and I've made it using the Sketchpad app. I've also put it on ascribe as an edition of 10. So feel free to contact me, if you're interested in owning a copy.

The second sketch I did is called "Novice" and I've done it using the app ArtRage Studio.

_{Novice - Digital Painting 2018}

Creativechain

For the distribution of this sketch, I tried out a new blockchain based app called Creativechain, which has been a bit tricky, because I actually had to upgrade my OS to Mac OSX 10.13 to get it running.

Creativechain is a...

Blockchain platform for multimedia registration and distribution that indelibly certifies the intellectual properties and their distribution licenses of digital art. [...] Aimed at all artists, musicians, designers, writers and professionals in the audiovisual sector who produce digital content and use the Internet to sell or distribute their creations among their fans and followers.

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_{Screenshot from my Creativechain user profile}

CREA Coin

They've also created their own crypto-curreny called "CREA Coin", which is already tradable at several exchanges.

CREA is the first cryptocurrency created and designed to satisfy the needs of all creative communities that produce and distribute digital content. A global currency that doesn’t belong to any state or government and can be used around the world without geographical or political barriers. [...] The cryptocurrency is anonymous and no one is obliged to reveal its identity, which makes of CREA a perfect currency to register contents anonymously.

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Every action, like publishing a work, updating your profile or liking the work of someone else costs a fraction of CREA. But you also get some CREA in return, when people like your works.

Creative Commons

When you upload a work, you have to choose a Creative Commons license (which I like a lot), but you cetainly can decide, if you want it to be a free license (like CC0) or something very limited (like CC-BY-NC-ND).

_{The different available CC-licenses}

You can further decide, if you want to make a full resolution version available and if you would like to charge users some CREA-Coins for the full download. This way, you could even provide source-files, a whole music-album or the like.

The use of the Creativechain app itself is absoltuely free:

Creativechain is an open source program (for Win/Mac/Linux) that has been published and is available to anyone without charging any fees.

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Giveaways and Challenges

When you decide to join, you will most likely get some free CREA-Coins and there are weekly challenges, where you can win more free CREAs for participation.

The challenges are open to public of all ages. Simply download the Creativechain’s app, create an entry fitting with the challenge, add the specific tag, and you’re in!

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_{"FORK" - My latest #maysketchaday contribution - Acrylic on canvas paper - 2018}

TL;DR

Creativechain is a promising new approach to let creatives distribute their content to their audience without intermediaries. It is meant for all kind of "artists, musicians, designers, writers and professionals in the audiovisual sector, who produce digital content."

You should definitely check out the website, twitter and @creativechain Steemit account for more infos!!

Thanks for reading!

@shortcut

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Here are the other parts of my Art and Blockchain series:

Part1 - Bitmark
Part2 - Ascribe