What does WIP mean?

What is WIP?
Your curiosity has been rewarded. :)

WIP, (W.I.P and plain old wip, too) is an acronym for Work In Progress. It’s most often used by artists and people in other creative work to designate that a piece – be it a painting, a snippet of computer code, a dress or a bookshelf (to name just a few things) – isn’t finished. Usually (but not always) when a WIP is presented, it’s at least completed enough so that the intended final result is obvious or can be perceived fairly easily.

Artists et al, publish WIPs for many reasons; sometimes because they’re impatient and want to share what they’re working on; sometimes to get feedback or direction if they’ve come to a trouble spot; sometimes to get encouragement to finish a piece, or to be let off the hook and told it’s not worth the time and effort to carry on.

There are as many reasons as there are works of creation, adaptation and invention.

Thanks for stopping by!
-Jenni
WIP Arts*

*Named so because progress always requires work, and in art (as in life) there is always something to be learned, something to be improved and something to strive for. :)