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Nowadays Internet grants an amazing power both to artists and Art Directors (AD). Recently I’ve stumbled onto a blog running by Senior Art Director at Dungeons & Dragons® Wizards of the Coast, Jon Schindehette. That’s amazing how much ADs you can find these days online at blogspot, twitter or facebook. And most important, there are great opportunities to showcase your work or get a portfolio review.

ArtOrder is one of such opportunities. It’s gonna be a compliation of various artwork picked by the guys at Wizards of the Coast. Participate in the Tuesday Challenges, and become eligible to be included in the upcoming Best of ArtOrder book. Ground Rules are:

1. Sketches must be a new creation (no digging up stuff out of your archives that happens to meet the concept)
2. The sketch must be yours
3. If you were inspired or riffing on some one else’s work – be kind enough to give credit
4. The concept must be submitted before the deadline
5. To be considered for inclusion in the posting you must submit the following information: (as applicable) Name: Website: Blog: Other Site: Copyright Line:
6. Submit the url or sketch to ArtDrop and put the name of the Concept Challenge in the subject line
7. Have fun!

You can visit Jon’s blog for more details and see all the work submitted for the challenges!

This event is running from July to September 2009 (with the final deadline set to October 10th), so you still have time to jump in and have some fun.

And don’t forget that you can also send your art submissions to Wizards of the Coast at ArtDrop Submissions. Just make sure that your submissions is less than 5 Mb, or your email might get bumped.

Jon also provied some thoughts on how to get noticed by Wizards of the Coast:

• Submit you work so that we know you exist. (see the bottom of every post for links)
• Meet our minimum quality standards
• Show you understand our content and genre
• Provide contact information
• Hit your deadlines
• Be professional (even when we aren’t…AD’s can be such children at times!)
• Be patient (he have hundreds of artist in our rolodex…we can’t use every wonderful artist!!)
• remind us you are still out there!
• I hate to say this, but we are a english language team. You need to have a basic understanding of the english language, or access to someone that can translate for you – because our communications will be in english (or american, as some of my english friends point out)

For more information and scary stories, please visit:

http://artorder.blogspot.com/