You guys always pleasantly surprise me. I was expecting maybe a couple of people to apply, and I was completely blown away by the response to the call for guest artists XD Thank you all so much!
Let's give a big welcome to our new guest artists!
Xenon
Harroway
silvermoondragon
rekyrem
seraaches
Pristine
Unyko
Delicious
Janalee
Dray
LakotaWolf
I'll be sending PMs out tonight to the guest artists with more details and your theme, so keep an eye out! These are going to be some fantastic Samanayrs, and I can't wait to see them
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For the first time ever, I'm looking for guest artists to draw and color Samanayrs! Whoa!
These Samanayrs will be used in a 'Twelve Days of Christmas' event that will take place in December. All events will be free, and there will be 12 Samanayrs available, each based on one of the items in the Twelve Days of Christmas song:
12 drummers drumming
11 pipers piping
10 lord a'leaping
9 ladies dancing
8 maids a'milking
7 swans aswimming
6 geese alaying
5 golden rings
4 calling birds
3 french hens
2 turtle doves
1 patridge in a pear tree
I'll be doing the partridge in the pear tree Sam, so I'm looking for guest artists for the other 11 Samanayrs! Here's some more information for potential artists:
- Each guest artist will get to choose their most preferred and least preferred theme. I'll try my best to accomodate everyone.
- These Samanayrs will all be Samanayrs, Lamanayrs, or Northerns. If you'd like to do a different species because you think it'd fit better with your theme, please let me know.
- All guest artists are required to go through a 3-week introductory period on PI. I'll set up and maintain the intro post, and all the artists will need to do is make sure they've completed their Samanayr for the Christmas event on time.
As payment for their guest coloring (besides my utmost gratitude ;D ), each guest artist will also be allowed to create a Samanayr for themselves. Some more information on that:
- The artist gets to choose what to do with their second Sam. It can be kept, gifted, traded, or sold.
- If selling their Samanayr, the artist is responsible for setting up the sale, receiving payment, and contacting me with the Sam's information so that it can be certed.
- The Samanayr can't be auctioned - if it's being sold for $, the artist must set a firm price.
- The second Samanayr cannot be sold until the 3-week introductory period on PI has been completed.
And some general information that applies to both Samanayrs the guest artists will produce:
- Quality
does count for guest artist positions. Please don't be hurt if you're not chosen to be a guest artist, since my stands are quite high.
- The highest species and trait rarity that can be used is rare. New species or traits can't be created.
- All Samanayrs must be hand-colored (any traditional medium is fine) and the size of a typical Samanayr. If your image is too large, it will be shrunk down.
- Before working on the actual art, each artist will have to provide me with a description of their concept.
- The artists will be responsible for sending me the Samanayr images so that I can cert them.
- All artists will be credited on the cert and in all posts that include their Samanayr's image.
- All Samanayrs created by the guest artists for these events will be considered 'official' Samanayrs. They can join Songs, participate in all Samanayr events, breed, etc.
- Once accepted as a guest artist, this doesn't allow you to create as many Samanayrs as you'd like. You'll just be creating two, one for the Christmas event and another for personal use. You may be asked to participate in future guest artist events, though!
The personal Samanayr can be created whenever the artist finds the time, but there will be some strict deadlines for the Christmas event Samanayrs:
November 16 - Guest artist applications close at
3pm PST (23:00 PI time). I'll try to contact all accepted artists the same day.
November 30 - The completed Christmas Sams are due by
9pm PST (Dec 1 5:00 PI time) so that the adoptable intros thread can be set up.
December 14 - The events will be set up! Although the guest artist Sams will still be in intros at this time, since all the events they'll be in will be free this won't be an issue.
Phew, I think that's it XD Please let me know if you have any questions!
If you're interested in applying to be a guest colorist, please send me a PM with the subject
Guest Artist Application and the following form filled out:
Username:
Please provide links to at least three examples of traditional art that you've done (a link to a gallery would also work):
Would you be able to make the November 30th deadline for the Christmas-themed Sam?
Do you think you'd keep, gift, trade, or sell your personal Sam?
Top four theme choices (from the Twelve Days of Christmas song):
Bottom four theme choices:
Would you be willing to do more than one Christmas-themed Sam if I don't have enough guest artists?
Anything else?
Applications will be open until
November 16, 23:00 PI time (3pm PST) - good luck!
