We may have some artists

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:53 am

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!

Post by **Algolei** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:33 am

Eeeeexcellent.

I just got back online after suffering through a week of computer-downity. The computer seems to be back up now.

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:08 pm

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.

Post by **Beowulf** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:32 pm

That sucks!

Hang in there, Halaster- your luck is bound to turn.

Post by **Algolei** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:25 pm

Halaster Blackcloak wrote:I've come to the conclusion that being an artist is actually a form of mental illness.

I can absolutely guarantee you, you're right! The trick is to find the loonies that you can actually work with.

You don't wanna end up with an ear in your mailbox, after all.

Post by **slade88green** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:01 am

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.

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:28 pm

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.

Post by **slade88green** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:42 pm

hmm, 40 is quite a few, i'll talk to them and see what they say, they might be willing to do 40.

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:47 am

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.

Post by **slade88green** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:08 pm

I have one of my friends drawing up some samples and scanning them. as soon as I get them I will post them up and see what you think.

Post by **Varl** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:08 pm

Hey slade. I noticed you're from my old stomping grounds. Which town?

Post by **slade88green** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:08 pm

Sandpoint. What town did you grow up in?

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:32 am

Looking forward to seeing the art.

Post by **Varl** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:48 pm

slade88green wrote:Sandpoint. What town did you grow up in?

Post Falls. I had a girlfriend back in high school (82) that went to Sandpoint.

Post by **slade88green** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:14 pm

Images fixed and reposted on later post.

Post by **Doirche** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:50 pm

Fixed the links for you but they are showing up as 404-Not Found

Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:15 pm

Same here. Nothing but 404 Not Found errors.

Post by **slade88green** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:16 am

Well lets try this again. maybe it will work better since im not so tired.

http://imgcash5.imageshack.us/Himg682/s ... &ysize=480

http://imgcash3.imageshack.us/Himg682/s ... &ysize=480

http://imgcash5.imageshack.us/Himg682/s ... &ysize=480

http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/Himg682/s ... &ysize=480

http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/Himg510/s ... &ysize=480

http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/Himg510/s ... &ysize=480

http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/Himg510/s ... &ysize=480

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Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:26 am

Wow! Most of those look pretty good!

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:

http://imgcash5.imageshack.us/Himg510/s ... &ysize=480

The latest (last) artist seems to have dropped the ball entirely.

Post by **Doirche** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:31 am

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.

Post by **slade88green** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:47 pm

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.

Post by **slade88green** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:19 pm

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.

Post by **Halaster Blackcloak** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:24 pm

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.

Post by **slade88green** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:40 pm

Understandable. Have you tried putting word out to the site elfwood.com? perhaps an artist from there would be interested.

http://img686.imageshack.us/i/horsejoke.jpg/

http://img402.imageshack.us/i/alcoveskeleton.jpg/

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.

Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:43 pm

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.