Artists and writers needed

I'd like to be a writer for this project as well, if you'll take me. I'm especially interested in writing about the Hordlings -- the most adorable flesh-rending terrors on the planes. Just let me know what you need, want, or think would be cool and I'll get to work. Otherwise, I'll just hang around here looking over people's shoulders until inspiration strikes.

Yo count me in! I'd love to do a bit of writing. Especially if its about the lower planes. My writing seems strangely good when its full of sadistic and monstrous evil. I could also draw some stuff as well just let me know what needs to be done the guidelines etc.

'Razibone' wrote:

I'm not very computer savvy. I have a lot to contribute but I have very little patience with computers. How do I get an illustration on the site without a scanner. Do I have to take a digital image of the drawing and size the image to fit (what are the size specifiations?)? Thanks for your help.

Hi! Have you ever put any of your images online before? I ask so that I know how basic my directions will need to be.

The first step is getting your work into some sort of digital format:

So you know - a scanner is the best and primary way most artists have of getting their work online, so you may want to consider picking one up. If you are very good at taking pictures of your work with a digital camera though, that will work as well. And of course if you work in digital media (Painter or Photoshop) then your work is already in the digital realm.

Size and quality requirements are low online - I would suggest just saving it at a size and quality where the viewers can see it and it doesn't take a lot of scrolling around the screen to see the whole image for them to do so.

There's a lot of folks who won't have powerful connections who will try to view it, and the larger it is the harder it is to find a place to store it online.

The second step is getting your digital image up online:

All you need to do to get it up on the internet is to find a place to host it. A lot of folks will use deviantArt ( http://www.deviantart.com ) , some will use Flicker ( http://www.flicker.com ) or Photobucket ( http://www.photobucket.com ). Some folks will use a personal website like I do. It all depends on what is easiest for you - the main goal here is to get your image off your hard-drive and up on the internet someplace to be viewed. After all we can't see what's stuck on your hard drive someplace.

Once you have your image living on the net someplace - you just need to tell us where to find it:

That can be as simple as posting a link directly to it here in a thread and saying "Go look!". A little more fancy would be to create an image link to it so that it will appear within the thread itself automatically. Clicking on the button labeled "Img" and putting your link between the tags that appear for you would do that.

If you need to get your image into an *article* for the site or for any of our PDF releases as opposed to a forum post - I can give you a little more information on that, just ask. I don't want to overwhelm you here though.

I've started sketching some designs for hordelings. I was gonna make my first one the first stage of the species. But I think I'd prefer it if instead that we make the original random generic sort of anything their first stage and then it goes on from their. What do you think?

Well I just finished writing out every single bit of info on hordling and night hags from both faces of evil and the monstrous compendium. My hand is killing me. Lotta good stuff there.