As before, as well as giving examples of classics and masters, they want to showcase the latest contemporary talent in the genre and so are calling out for anyone who may have relevant works (in digital media – or traditional media, but it must be supplied digitally) that they would like to send in to consider showing in the book – you would of course be fully credited.

They will also pay a small fee of £30 for the use of each artwork, and each artist will of course get a copy of the book.

All submissions must be send by the middle of February.

For any questions on submissions please contact Catherine Taylor cat@flametreepublishing.com. Any big files are better off sent to the following address: cat@foundry.co.uk, or she can provide the details of their FTP site where images can be uploaded.

Good luck everyone!

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While browsing the official website I saw fan art contest announcement. If you’re happen to live in US and at least 18 years old you can participate and maybe win.  The organizers are looking for some amazing artists to create Muramasa-inspired Japanese-style fan art. The submission deadline is set to September 1, 2009 11:59 p.m. PST and there are plenty of time. For more details and rules, please, visit the Muramasa website (look for fanart tag):

http://www.muramasathedemonblade.com/

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/

Running since 2003 ChinaJoy is designed to be another top event in global game industry. Everyone knows how big China market is (about a half of WoW players are from China), so such events attracting many companies from Europe, North America, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The goals of the event are similar to others – promoting new products and services, attract public attention etc.

To get some attention you need magnets. Besides all these geeky electronics the best magnet is always been girls. And if you turn these girls into elfs or other fantasy beauties, man, you’ll got all the attention you want. I know it may sounds cheesy but I’ve been painting females for videogames for years and I don’t recall clients saying well, we’re tired of these ladies, let’s put some boyz or monsters on that poster. There are examples of bad design or bad layout however (I remember doing elf mistress for russian mag cover and it was a disaster!) but if done right it’s very rewarding.

Well enough talk, hyperjump to China Joy 2009 Showgirl & Cosplay compilation created by  mmosite guys or, if you’re serious, visit the official conference website.

So it’s great to see Jason Manley, ConceptArt.Org and MassiveBlack founder, kicking off a new training course covering that topic. The event is going live this weekend and you don’t need to travel anywhere because it’s online at Live Education forums on ConceptArt.Org.

You’ll be asked for tuition fee ($95) to get an access to the course and live broadcast. From what I’ve heard you’ll also be able to access these materials within next 30 days. For more information, please, refer to Jason’s post on CA forums.

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=164421