I may have dug up a couple of college artists. Interviewing them this week. They're gonna have to be serious and present me with lots of art up front. We'll see how it works.
Also, I am taking the week of Thanksgiving off. I'm going to use the down time to catch up on the BIP Project. Stay tuned!
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Scratch that. Just two more flakey assholes who call themselves artists. I've come to the conclusion that being an artist is actually a form of mental illness. No smilies there, take note.
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Most of these posts are pretty old now, but what do you need illustrated? Two of my players are very good artists and I could ask them to do a few pictures.
That's exactly the problem. What we don't need are "a few pictures". We need an artist who can commit to the project on a full time basis, who can commit to doing regular work and crank out 40 top-quality illustrations. Crazy how we can find everything else other than artists.
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Gotta see some samples first. I'm not too concerned with speed as long as they keep cranking out two pieces or so a week. We need commitment and regularity more than speed. We keep having setbacks, but we keep moving forward. It's just that the art needs to catch up as well.
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Can he ink them? Pencil art won't work, we need it inked. Although if need be I can probably do that in Photoshop (or Gimp) myself. That's not a big deal ultimately.
So now the question is (as always)...can he crank out top-notch work (ie his best effort) on a regular basis and complete about 35-40 images? Keep in mind they need backgrounds for the room depictions, although many of the needed pieces would be similar to this one in total detail or amount of artwork:
Slade, let your friends know that their art will be seen by (hopefully) thousands of people. This is a great opportunity for any artist who would like to promote their work to a large audience.
I have let them know that and the idea is very appealing. Hopefully my other friend will post some soon as well. The one who drew these is not sure how well she can do backgrounds, but we will see.
My friend is working on a few more drawing for you. She doesn't have any experience with ink drawings, but is going to try. She can not guarantee getting drawings out at 1-2 a week as they are done in her spare time in between work, tending her farm and general life stuff. She does want to do the drawings though. She has asked me to get some room descriptions so she can draw those and see what you think.
Considering it's been a month without another sample, I think we can rule this artist out. We need life in our artists. Excitement. Enthusiasm. Ain't gonna work if it takes a month to get just one sample since the last one. Again, this is the ongoing artist problem.
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here are a few in pen, she has never done pen drawings before. the last one is from a room description i gave her over the phone of RoU1 lvl1 room3 Nimraith's rest.
A room description or list of what you want drawn would also help as she doesnt know what you want drawn.
Unfortunately, her style is far too 1E, so it won't work for the level of detail we're looking for. And yes, I tried elfwood.com, which is where I found a lot of crazies, a lot of MIA artists, and one guy who posted copyrighted material from the project on the elfwood site despite an NDA, when we signed him on.
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