Call for prompts! Crowdfunded illustration for independent authors
I am pleased to announce that the project I was developing in my last post is now live! For those of you who may have missed it, hi! I'm Meeks. I'm trained in illustration, and I'd love to produce more art, but I'm sadly short on ideas, so I am seeking to collaborate with writers whose creativity matches my craft.
All you have to do is send me a short scene description or story excerpt to base a sketch on, and I'll draw it for you and post it on my journal for free. If you're happy with the rough sketch, and want to use it as-is, please do! I'll be posting images under a creative commons license, so just be sure to give me credit and a link back to my site. Tips are very much appreciated, but not required.
There are, however, a few perks for both donating and audience participation, so if you like what I do, please tell your fans!
Anyone can donate toward additional work on the sketches they like, and for the next month, I will post a cleaned up (construction scribbles erased, edges refined, shading blocked in, etc) version of any sketch that gets $30 in tips, or receives feedback from 6 or more people.
I will do a full value study of any sketch that gets $75 or more. This is basically a monochrome version of the final image, and can be considered a finished illustration in itself.
I will do colour studies or ink drawings of all images that reach $100 in tips, and full-colour paintings of any images that reach $150. (These amounts may be increased for particularly complex or labour intensive scenes eg. battles between armies of individual characters.)
Tips of any amount can sponsor specific revisions or details you'd like added at any stage before the final painting.
As an added incentive, if total donations within the next month reach $200, I will do a value study of any image with feedback from 12 or more people, regardless of the amount donated to it.
If total donations in that time reach $500, I will also do a full painting of every sketch with 25 or more commenters.
Feedback is important! To encourage participation, I will be choosing a random commenter each week to receive a custom icon. Every substantial post you make gives you another chance to win! (Substantial posts are anything beyond 'that's ugly', 'nice!', or emoticon-only type posts. These posts are welcome, they just won't count as entries in the draw - my goal here is to reward constructive and thoughtful feedback.)
Guidelines for prompts:
Page 3 text: When a hedgehog's up, everyone else is in bed.
Description: (bright-eyed hedgehog peeking out from under a thick quilt on a bed so soft it resembles a giant pillow. Glasses lie on wooden nightstand along with old-fashioned round alarm clock with hands pointing to 10:30 [short hand straight down, long hand halfway between 9 and 12] Visible window somewhere in shot with view of starry night sky and crescent moon.)
Which resulted in this illustration:
That's it! Prompts can be left as comments on either LiveJournal or Dreamwidth, or sent to me by e-mail at meeks-at-mikaspace-dot-net. Thanks in advance to everyone who participates or helps spread the word!
All you have to do is send me a short scene description or story excerpt to base a sketch on, and I'll draw it for you and post it on my journal for free. If you're happy with the rough sketch, and want to use it as-is, please do! I'll be posting images under a creative commons license, so just be sure to give me credit and a link back to my site. Tips are very much appreciated, but not required.
There are, however, a few perks for both donating and audience participation, so if you like what I do, please tell your fans!
Anyone can donate toward additional work on the sketches they like, and for the next month, I will post a cleaned up (construction scribbles erased, edges refined, shading blocked in, etc) version of any sketch that gets $30 in tips, or receives feedback from 6 or more people.
I will do a full value study of any sketch that gets $75 or more. This is basically a monochrome version of the final image, and can be considered a finished illustration in itself.
I will do colour studies or ink drawings of all images that reach $100 in tips, and full-colour paintings of any images that reach $150. (These amounts may be increased for particularly complex or labour intensive scenes eg. battles between armies of individual characters.)
Tips of any amount can sponsor specific revisions or details you'd like added at any stage before the final painting.
As an added incentive, if total donations within the next month reach $200, I will do a value study of any image with feedback from 12 or more people, regardless of the amount donated to it.
If total donations in that time reach $500, I will also do a full painting of every sketch with 25 or more commenters.
Feedback is important! To encourage participation, I will be choosing a random commenter each week to receive a custom icon. Every substantial post you make gives you another chance to win! (Substantial posts are anything beyond 'that's ugly', 'nice!', or emoticon-only type posts. These posts are welcome, they just won't count as entries in the draw - my goal here is to reward constructive and thoughtful feedback.)
Guidelines for prompts:
- Any chapter, scene, flash fiction, narrative poem, etc. that you have written, that is in the public domain, or for which you can show that the copyright holder has given explicit permission to create derivative works (eg. a creative commons attribution license or an author statement encouraging fan art.)
- Nudity is okay, but I won't post anything explicitly erotic...I'd rather not get any complaints from scandalized parents whose kids found my work through a children's book.
- If you plan to use your picture for anything that requires a specific aspect ratio (eg blog header, book cover) please let me know. The best way to avoid awkward cropping is for me to draw at the correct size to begin with.
- Story text may be accompanied by additional description, photo reference, suggestions for composition - basically anything else you think I should know about the characters and settings you're asking me to draw.
Page 3 text: When a hedgehog's up, everyone else is in bed.
Description: (bright-eyed hedgehog peeking out from under a thick quilt on a bed so soft it resembles a giant pillow. Glasses lie on wooden nightstand along with old-fashioned round alarm clock with hands pointing to 10:30 [short hand straight down, long hand halfway between 9 and 12] Visible window somewhere in shot with view of starry night sky and crescent moon.)
Which resulted in this illustration:
That's it! Prompts can be left as comments on either LiveJournal or Dreamwidth, or sent to me by e-mail at meeks-at-mikaspace-dot-net. Thanks in advance to everyone who participates or helps spread the word!