Just look at my blog post history, and you’ll see that something new comes out maybe once a month. Do you know why? Because it takes me a long time to do this stuff, and most of the time I lose it’s because of maps. Problem is, I’m not even all that good at drawing maps, so they’ll be decent at best.
Fortunately, after the article on Ararraf several artists contacted me (and many others I contacted), allowing me to use their maps and drawings as long as the nature of the articles published with their stuff inside remains non-commercial, a simple personal passion and attempt to help other DMs.
This will undoubtedly increase the quality of the material I publish, but artists are never enough. So, summing up …
Do you like to draw maps (by hand, with Dungeondraft …), NPCs, magic items, whole scenes? Do you want to share your dungeon, your article? Maybe you have a Patreon too, or maybe you post on Reddit and Instagram just to share your art. In all cases, it would be cool to collab with you.
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Terms of collaboration
It is actually simple. You send me the material following the directions below, and sooner or later I use it in a setting, an encounter, etc. The image, whatever the name with which I will use it, will always have your artist name inside, which will also be present in all the captions of the drawings in the documents. Furthermore, in each article where there will be even just a single contribution of yours, all your channels (Patreon, Deviantart, social networks …) will be linked according to your indications.
All your material will be used under this license (click on the image):
This means that whoever downloads the articles (and therefore also your art) will be able to use it exactly the way I am using it in my articles: no commercial license, no permission to modify, transform or exploit your art in any way, and the obligation to mention you wherever it is shared.
What do you get for it? Advertising and people seeing what you do. What do I get from it? Pride, because this way I end up with beautiful art on the blog, and time gained, because if you share dungeons, places or entire cities, I will have even less to work, having just to adapt them to the style of my documents.
How to contribute?
Easy. Create a folder with the stuff you’d like to share, and attach it in a mail to
peristalsinarrativa@gmail.com.
Object: Blog collaboration – Your artist name
Body: A brief description of what you are sending, and the channels / social media / profiles you would like to be cited with.
Attachment: Your material. If it weighs too much for gmail (it happens often), feel free to attach it via dropbox or similar.
Collaboration example (drawing)
This is an example of a drawing used for a statblock. You will be mentioned in the documents, in every article where there is at least one of your contributions, and your nickname will obviously be added to the name I will give to the image to use it.
In case of maps, you will be mentioned in the documents and in the name of the map, usually the name within the map itself is already present, because most of the contributors have a Patreon and they do it by default. If, on the other hand, you contribute with a place / dungeon (a text document, in short) you will be mentioned in the title of the article and in all downloadable materials.
See you in the next article… maybe you’ll be in it as well! 😀