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Post by calithena on Jan 20, 2009 8:02:05 GMT -6
Hi everyone! This is the thread for artists who want their work to appear in Fight On! Remember, the work stays yours, you can re-sell or re-publish it to your heart's content, even before I do if you want. We just ask for the right to publish it in the form its originally published in in the issue it's originally published in in perpetuity. Ownership and all other rights stay with you.
Here are outstanding things from the old thread that could still use doing. I think Kesher is going to take the Mistworld gondola, a floating metal airship in a world of strands, but if someone else wants it please pipe up - we only need one of these. Also:
- animate metal monsters that look like giant springing bear traps with small, powerful legs
- terrible haunted mansion on a lake, maybe with an elasmosaur peeking out of the water
- a party fighting said elasmosaurs and a giant maggot-thing (maggoth) on the shore by the mansion
- a wizard's library inhabited by a flesh golem and 7 skeletons (maybe with slight hints of electrical energy around a couple of the skeletons)
New post shortly with some new stuff that would also be useful.
Fight On! would not be what it is without its artists. Keep up the great work!
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Post by calithena on Jan 20, 2009 9:21:16 GMT -6
- a water naga in a room of green serpentine columns
- all of Sham's cool Troglodyte characters (trog warriors, hordes of trogs chasing adventuring parties, troglo-knights on riding lizards, etc.) - level 2 of the Darkness Beneath by yours truly is in the issue, and it's full of trogs.
- patchy trog monks with flaming fungus bombs would also be a plus
- a halfling-sized or smaller mole-man talking to human adventurers in the mouth of a very small tunnel entrance, that a human would have to crawl through
- a tolkien-style barrow wight
- adventurers carousing between adventures (wine, women, gambling, song, you know the drill - one of those would be nice)
- Tekumel art! Jakalla's foreign quarter.
- Tsolyani officials with elaborate hats.
- a horrible, ghoulish tekumelani sorcerer almost all the way to becoming a Shedra - he serves Black Qarqa - with optional mrur attendants
- a dilapidated clanhouse, with optional nakome squatters
There are a couple more pics we may need, but this will be most of it. Thanks and let us know what strikes your fancy!
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Post by geoffrey on Jan 20, 2009 9:48:31 GMT -6
Tsolyani officials with elaborate hats I really hope someone draws this. I love the clothing styles of the Five Empires. |
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Post by kesher on Jan 20, 2009 10:59:25 GMT -6
I got the gondola. I have no idea how it's gonna turn out, but I got it.
Mist World is a tremendous milieu; Mr. Marsh shared a pdf of his original manuscript with me a couple of years ago after a conversation on a forum. I'm glad to see it finally appearing, even piece by piece, and especially appearing in Fight On!
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Post by labsenpai on Jan 22, 2009 11:51:54 GMT -6
Has a deadline been given for the current issue artwork? I may try some Trog pics if there is still time. Somewhat off topic, but I wanted to say my new-ish gaming blog is now part of the RPG Blogger Network! I will use it on occasion to expand upon my submissions to Fight On, compel visitors to buy issues ;D ghosttower.crithitcomics.com/ |
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Post by calithena on Jan 22, 2009 16:41:45 GMT -6
We need at least a few trogs, so the deadline is 'as soon as you can get them to us.' Thanks!
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Post by ant on Jan 23, 2009 5:20:33 GMT -6
Cal, what do your trogs look like? Like the ones on the back cover of the module B1? I've got some half-finished trog art that I could redo that may be suitable.
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Post by calithena on Jan 23, 2009 6:09:13 GMT -6
Hi Ant -
Please finish it! Your vision for trogs will be fine.
In my mind Trogs look sort of like the D&D standard image of them, except maybe a little more crusty and inhuman. We've developed a little trog under-society that includes warriors, lizard riders, big chiefs, and flaming puffball-throwing patchy monks as a subspecies, so that leaves lots of room for imagination. Sham has posted about some of this stuff and his vision might be good if you want a more detailed guide - this material is on his blog ("Sham's Grog 'n Blog").
I wish I was a visual artist so I could understand the process better. My main advice is just to take an idea, make it your own, and have fun with it!
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 23, 2009 18:08:09 GMT -6
flaming puffball-throwing patchy monks as a subspecies I quite fancy having a go at this one. By "trog" do you mean the newt-like troglodytes? |
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Post by calithena on Jan 23, 2009 19:02:49 GMT -6
Sure! Have at!
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Post by labsenpai on Jan 25, 2009 14:58:40 GMT -6
Sent in a lizard rider & Trog peon drawing! The warrior looks pretty bad-ass on his giant monitor lizard  |
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Post by blissinfinite on Jan 27, 2009 9:41:29 GMT -6
I'd like to work on the mole-man and the adventurers image.
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Post by calithena on Jan 27, 2009 14:11:03 GMT -6
Thanks, blissinfinite! Welcome to the boards. If you have any questions you can email calithena or iggyumlaut at gmail, or just send the finished product along when it's ready!
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Post by carjack on Jan 28, 2009 10:22:08 GMT -6
I'll get going on the naga, the barrow wight and the carousing adventurers.
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Post by calithena on Jan 28, 2009 18:05:20 GMT -6
The legend returns!
Thanks carjack. We can use all of those but I have an image I can use for the barrow wight in a pinch already, so maybe do that one last.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2009 7:04:20 GMT -6
Hello,
Has anyone taken any of these:
- terrible haunted mansion on a lake, maybe with an elasmosaur peeking out of the water
- a party fighting said elasmosaurs and a giant maggot-thing (maggoth) on the shore by the mansion
I'd like to start drawing one of these. Of course I have no idea what kind of mansion *exactly* you are looking for...
Also I could draw the metal-legged beartrap-like things if you want.
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Post by calithena on Jan 30, 2009 0:05:41 GMT -6
Hi Motor!
That would be awesome. If you could do the house (with elasmosaurs, maggoth, however you want it - general image the way you vision it is fine) ASAP and then follow up with the metal 'bear trap' golems that would be tremendous. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2009 11:23:11 GMT -6
I can do the Flesh Golem in the library and/or a Troglodyte monk.
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 30, 2009 12:26:34 GMT -6
I've got a very basic sketch of a troglodyte monk throwing a burning puffball, but I don't know when I'm going to be able to get back to it to finish it, so if someone else wants to take it, go ahead.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2009 15:26:25 GMT -6
I'm working on a trog monk right now...
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Post by blissinfinite on Jan 31, 2009 11:26:42 GMT -6
Hey Cal, I just emailed the Mole Man image to you. I just want to make sure you got it.  ~Bliss |
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Post by ant on Feb 4, 2009 15:01:48 GMT -6
Trog art sent to Cal.
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Post by calithena on Feb 4, 2009 15:49:18 GMT -6
I think I thanked both you guys offline, but if not I got it, thanks! Good stuff.
Motorvinen, please let me know how those pics are going! I need them ASAP so if you can finish either or both very soon that would be highly appreciated. Sorry to rush you, it's just where we are in layout.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2009 4:03:36 GMT -6
Right. I'm working on the Maggoth-fight picture. Hopefully it'll turn out fine... I'm also interested in the magic-users chamber with the skeletons and the flesh golem, but I really can't promise it's going to be very "accurate" (for example: I have no idea about the size of the study)...
-mikko
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2009 4:07:32 GMT -6
I'll send the finished Maggoth tomorrow.
-mikko
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Post by calithena on Feb 7, 2009 8:58:10 GMT -6
Cool, thanks!
Motorvinen, after you finish that maggoth pic I guess I'd say hold up on those other two. We're in way double OT getting this issue out and we don't go back and reformat that text any more than we have to.
There may be some other pics later in the issue (do you do Tekumel?) that you could do instead, if you're inclined. Thanks so much for your help either way and I look forward to the mansion/maggoth tableau!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2009 3:30:02 GMT -6
I'll try to do and send the library-picture tomorrow. Unfortunately the Tekumel world is totally new & strange to me...
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Post by calithena on Feb 9, 2009 8:13:13 GMT -6
Cool. As it turned out last night got eaten by tax returns (my wife somehow thinks that's more important than gaming - hmmph!) so I could definitely take the pic today. You're a mensch!
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Post by calithena on Feb 9, 2009 8:15:36 GMT -6
I think we need a pic of James M.'s 'mysterious crystal hemisphere' for level 4 of the Darkness Beneath. Contact jamesm for more direction if you're interested in illustrating some of his work.
People working on trog pics should know that they're likely going to be delayed for issue 5 along with this decision. I have to get FO #4 out this month and there's already a huge dungeon of mine in it because of the Arduin crossover. Putting the finishing touches on TDB 2 may be more than we can handle. Apologies to all trog artists and you will get a free PDF of 4 as well as 5 for your trouble.
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Post by kelvingreen on Feb 9, 2009 15:05:51 GMT -6
Is it too early to say what you might need for #5? I'm keen to contribute more art, but I've missed the boat for #4 for various reasons.
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