HellHound
ENnies winner and NOT Scrappy Doo
This is an open call for art for the sequel to the award winning Portable Hole Full of Beer.
please email your interest in any of these items to editrix@dreadgazebo.com
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art call
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Please specify that when I make a suggestion as to what it could look like,
it is merely a suggestion, and if the artist wants to go in a different
direction, so be it. Here's what I told the other artist:
"This is going to be a PDF, though we're planning on doing a print run of
100 copies to bring to GenCon and Origins. This means we'd like it 300 dpi
(minimum, 600 maximum). Colour works best in PDF, but it's got to have
enough contrast that it'll translate well to B&W. OR submit the black and
white piece before you start adding colour.
No need to submit sketches if that'll slow you down, but if you've got
stuff scanned, then please send it along so I can get a sneak peak!
Style really doesn't matter. This is a comedy book, so characters can look
more cartoonish or stylized if you like. Stick to what makes you happy and
what you feel reflects your talent, honestly... since you're not getting
money for this, the least you can do is milk some exposure, and if you
submit stuff that you're not proud of, then it's not going to work well for
you. You can download a copy of last year's portable hole from RPGNow for
free and take a look at what was in there, if you like. We've got the
artist from last year's (Squidhead) who'll be doing a bunch of pieces
again, so you can expect to see some of that style.
All I ask is, no gratuitous nudity or bulging bits unless specifically
called for in the text. This is a free product and gets around, so we have
to shy away from sexually or graphically-explicit violent adult themes (you
should see some of the submissions we received that we can't use- youch!)
Definite deadline 100% last day is noon Monday, March 24th. This product
has to be laid out and ready to go for April 1st. Anything we can get
before then is a godsend and has us raving about you to other publishers!"
3. The Party Bitch, dedicated to doing all the crap that parties don't
like doing but needs doing- someone who'll heal everyone, pick all the
locks, check for traps, search for secret doors, create food and water,
etc. I see a party of adventurers, one lying wounded, another kneeling at
him turning behind him shouting "MEDIC!" as our Party Bitch in the
background turns from where he/she was listening at the door/picking its lock.
9. The elemental plane of Candy home of Candy elementals: ("Candy
elementals have bodies entirely composed of candy. Their limbs are made of
chunks of mint candy, and they have licorice for joints. Two multifaceted
pieces of rock candy serve as eyes.") Sweettooth Dwarves ("This is a fairly
uncommon dwarven subrace. The affinity that most dwarves have with stone
and metal is with candy for sweettooth dwarves. They generally have orange
skin and green hair, and they like to sing lessons to people." Think
Oompaloompas.) and Marshmallow Golems.
12. Prestige Class: Poodlemancer
( see
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?threadid=8961
for the spell list)
13. Leo's Tiny Chariot: think a clown car, but a carriage with lots of
characters piling out of a really small carriage.
14. Legendary Class, Mime. A mime, possibly running from a bunch of
people, climbing up an invisible rope, or getting trapped in an invisible
box...
15. The Clapper Torch.. I envision an elderly wizard lady in bed,
clapping her hands, a torch in the room for her.
16. An entire selection of novelty items, from the ring of buzzing grasp
that does one point of electric damage to anything it touches, whoopie
cushion, itching powder (inside someone's armor- them itching like crazy).
17. The lost penguin colony: a bunch of penguins sunbathing in an
obviously tropical setting.
please email your interest in any of these items to editrix@dreadgazebo.com
---
art call
---
Please specify that when I make a suggestion as to what it could look like,
it is merely a suggestion, and if the artist wants to go in a different
direction, so be it. Here's what I told the other artist:
"This is going to be a PDF, though we're planning on doing a print run of
100 copies to bring to GenCon and Origins. This means we'd like it 300 dpi
(minimum, 600 maximum). Colour works best in PDF, but it's got to have
enough contrast that it'll translate well to B&W. OR submit the black and
white piece before you start adding colour.
No need to submit sketches if that'll slow you down, but if you've got
stuff scanned, then please send it along so I can get a sneak peak!
Style really doesn't matter. This is a comedy book, so characters can look
more cartoonish or stylized if you like. Stick to what makes you happy and
what you feel reflects your talent, honestly... since you're not getting
money for this, the least you can do is milk some exposure, and if you
submit stuff that you're not proud of, then it's not going to work well for
you. You can download a copy of last year's portable hole from RPGNow for
free and take a look at what was in there, if you like. We've got the
artist from last year's (Squidhead) who'll be doing a bunch of pieces
again, so you can expect to see some of that style.
All I ask is, no gratuitous nudity or bulging bits unless specifically
called for in the text. This is a free product and gets around, so we have
to shy away from sexually or graphically-explicit violent adult themes (you
should see some of the submissions we received that we can't use- youch!)
Definite deadline 100% last day is noon Monday, March 24th. This product
has to be laid out and ready to go for April 1st. Anything we can get
before then is a godsend and has us raving about you to other publishers!"
3. The Party Bitch, dedicated to doing all the crap that parties don't
like doing but needs doing- someone who'll heal everyone, pick all the
locks, check for traps, search for secret doors, create food and water,
etc. I see a party of adventurers, one lying wounded, another kneeling at
him turning behind him shouting "MEDIC!" as our Party Bitch in the
background turns from where he/she was listening at the door/picking its lock.
9. The elemental plane of Candy home of Candy elementals: ("Candy
elementals have bodies entirely composed of candy. Their limbs are made of
chunks of mint candy, and they have licorice for joints. Two multifaceted
pieces of rock candy serve as eyes.") Sweettooth Dwarves ("This is a fairly
uncommon dwarven subrace. The affinity that most dwarves have with stone
and metal is with candy for sweettooth dwarves. They generally have orange
skin and green hair, and they like to sing lessons to people." Think
Oompaloompas.) and Marshmallow Golems.
12. Prestige Class: Poodlemancer
( see
http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?threadid=8961
for the spell list)
13. Leo's Tiny Chariot: think a clown car, but a carriage with lots of
characters piling out of a really small carriage.
14. Legendary Class, Mime. A mime, possibly running from a bunch of
people, climbing up an invisible rope, or getting trapped in an invisible
box...
15. The Clapper Torch.. I envision an elderly wizard lady in bed,
clapping her hands, a torch in the room for her.
16. An entire selection of novelty items, from the ring of buzzing grasp
that does one point of electric damage to anything it touches, whoopie
cushion, itching powder (inside someone's armor- them itching like crazy).
17. The lost penguin colony: a bunch of penguins sunbathing in an
obviously tropical setting.
