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#TTRPG Open Art Call: Gorean Adventures Moon Dance

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UPDATE:

Several people have applied… by producing the art and presenting it to me. That’s not what an ‘Open Call’ means, it means I was open to applications to do the work, and was anticipating people willing to do the work contacting me via the comments or email ([email protected]) and then finalising the deal.

You have put me in a very awkward position, where you have done work that I haven’t agreed to and haven’t agreed to pay for, or perhaps, isn’t to a standard I would use for publication. I hate having people do work that they won’t get paid for, and I hate having to rebuff people, especially if I support their endeavours, work and growth, even if I don’t think they’re at a standard I would use (yet).

PLEASE, contact me with samples at the above email, and don’t do any more unpaid work, and please don’t take insult if I don’t choose you. I root for everyone. I am sending this updated link to everyone involved, so that nobody feels singled out.
Love, G

All B&W, 300 dpi, base page size A5

Must be OK with adult (soft) art and themes of BDSM/Fantasy.

Adom & Yasmina – A5 – $75

A hulking brute around 7 feet tall, his face covered by helmet and desert scarf, hairy hands, a beautiful woman, veiled and robed, stood before him, the robe clinging to her body enough to show her figure without revealing anything.

B&W 300dpi

1. Desert slave – naked but veiled w/pierced ears, portrait, 1/4 A5 – $40

2. Kailla, rider and dunes, landscape, 1/4 A5 – $40

3. Landscape, a desert work camp around a rocket ship buried nose first in the sand, square, full page width – $75

4. Spot illustration – Skull covered in tailless scorpions – Small square $20

5. Spot illustration – Broken gladius – small square $20

6. Spot illustration – Date palm with arabic man sitting beneath it – portrait $20

7. Spot Illustration – Arrows in the sand – Small square $20

Total budget: $310 starting, some room to negotiate.

Zelart Scholarship Seeks More Entries! Win $500!

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The Zelart Scholarship fully funded, but we have still had very few entries. While you would think artists would be clamouring to get a $500 award, especially in times like this, social media algorithms and over-sensitive spam detection make it hard to get this in front of anyone. Sharing this post would, in that context, be greatly appreciated, putting it in front of more artist’s eyes.

Here’s the short-short version:

This is a scholarship fund, intended primarily for college and university students with an interest in genre art.

It is also open to any artists who are in reduced circumstances (long-term unemployment, homelessness, disability etc).

To enter all you need is a piece of print-quality art, to which the rights are available and which you have created.

You send that to me, explain your circumstances and if you win you get $500 and the art you submitted goes on sale as stock art within the RPG community to help support next year’s scholarship.

For more details contact [email protected]

#RPG – Open Art Call – Comic Cover

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Art only, text will be handled, so a bit of space will need to be left at the top to fit in a title.

Looking for a 300 dpi, A4, basic colour (shade and highlight) at around ~$200, but this is negotiable. Digital delivery required and payment via Paypal upon delivery, with the artist retaining rights to resale or re-use the art.

The cover is for an introductory comic, to explain RPGs as a concept to new players, parents, friends or children. Perhaps to become part of a series, depending on reception.

As such I’d like the cover to evoke the basic wish-fulfilment quality and appeal of games. Perhaps fantasy archetypes bracketing a d20, perhaps a player, looming about their character like a god while their character faces some peril. Those are my two main ideas, but I’m open to pitches.

Apply at [email protected], preferably with a link to any online portfolios or similar.

#RPG – Stock Art – Celtic Smith

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257764We have a new piece of stock art, by a new artist, up for sale. This piece depicting a celtic-style smith, hard at work in his forge.

Postmortem Studios sells a metric shitload of stock art, so if you’re a budding (or even established) games studio or want to add a little flair to your handouts, we’re your one-stop shop for all things artsy fartsy. There’s even a 400 piece bundle, which makes a great ‘starter pack’ for amateur publishers, and a 100 piece bundle with a more varied array of artists and styles, sales of which go to support our artist scholarship.

If you’re an artist we’re always looking for more contributors and if you need to make some quick cash, we might be willing to buy unsold art you have to sell on as stock art. You get money short-term, we get money long-term, and you get The Dreaded Exposure to a potential audience of new clients. Don’t hesitate to get in touch, and follow us on social media for opportunities.

Please do get in touch if you’re interested.

#RPG #Art #Cosplay – ZelArt Scholarship Commissions

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000564-Free-logomaker-Pencil-Tree-Logo-01The ZelArt Scholarship fundraiser has paid out and combined with the private donations there’s about $600 to play with. As I’ve covered, this year we’ve done things a little differently. To increase the sustainability of the project and the scholarship, this year the money will be going to as many art commissions as possible to be sold as stock art to support the scholarship into the future.

To that end, I am now looking for artists to commission.

I would prefer, still, to hire artists who are at school, college or university or who need the money due to some hardship or necessity. I’d still like to help people, even doing things this way around, as much as possible.

  • Obviously, the cheaper people can provide work the better, as we can get more work to sell. That said here’s what we’re looking for…
  • Original content – you can provide suggestions or we can.
  • Fantasy, science fiction, horror, post apocalypse, steampunk, modern cop/spy/soldier, occult and other genre material.
  • Characters, weapons, ships, vehicles, anything that fits. Spot-art for pages would also be good, several smaller pieces (like spot art) on a page would also be acceptable.
  • Quarter, half or full page at 300-600 dpi, colour or black and white (B&W sells better).
  • We’re opening up to cosplayers too, the same sorts of requirements apply and your content must be original. There isn’t the money to commission costumes or shoots, but you would be helping a good cause and making a little bit of cash!

Commissioned art will be paid on completion and your contact details and portfolio link will be included as part of the stock license. This means that any company or individual using your art will be given your information and must include it in any products that they produce. ‘Exposure’ has a bad rep, with good reason, but on top of being paid it can’t hurt!

If any artists want to DONATE art, they can also do that and it would be greatly appreciated. We’re open to that all year round.

Contact HERE for more details or to put yourself forward.