Background
As many of you will know, this group, NaNoEmo (https://www.deviantart.com/nanoemo) hosts a fun emote-a-day style challenge every November to match up with NaNoWriMo in the literature community. Over the last few years we have had a fair number of emoticonists taking part and some fantastic emotes appearing all through the designated month.
Whilst this is great for creating smaller or ‘chat friendly’ emotes, it is far harder to work on larger canvases in the given time scale. Although there is nothing stopping artists working emotes every day and producing a smaller quantity of emotes, the majority of participants opt for the more traditional approach of