D&D Outsider - Wilden & Shardmind

[Incenjucar]

Didn't they actually do some?

Maybe?

If they have, it certainly hasn't been very often. I think that the sense of brand ownership would benefit greatly from having art contest as often as Blizzard does for WoW.

 

[Klaus]

Didn't they actually do some? I vaguely remember a call for submissions to pick art for the ... uh ... catastrophic (?) dragons.

The 4e shardmind art is kind of okay, though I'd prefer them looking more weird (i.e. not bipedal, symmetrical humanoids) or even undefined (transformer-style).

The wilden art sucks big time, though. I'd prefer either something like the Wood Woads (or the Sylvans from the Dark Age of Camelot MMORPG) or something more sinister looking similar to the 4e dryad battleshape or 'Swamp Thing'.

WotC's Senior Art Director, Jon Schindehette, runs an artists' community/blog named ArtOrder ( theartorder.com ). He has run several challenges there (two of them were official "winner illustration is published in Dragon/Dungeon").

 

[Incenjucar]

WotC's Senior Art Director, Jon Schindehette, runs an artists' community/blog named ArtOrder ( theartorder.com ). He has run several challenges there (two of them were official "winner illustration is published in Dragon/Dungeon").

That's pretty useless though, since barely anyone would be aware of it, especially the new folks who haven't discovered the larger gaming community yet. You need to give random 13 year olds a chance to send in sloppy drawings, not just a hidden pocket of professionals who you are buddies with. It would be like Bioware throwing a contest on Elfwood.

It's fine if only professionals get any recognition, of course, but it should be on the main page so D&D fans of all art sites can find it.