Final Call for llustration Contest

Only 9 more days left to send in your images for the illustration contest. Check out the rules here.

Only some of the entries to give you an idea of the contest:

Illustration Contest: Moved to own blog!

I´m moving the contents of the Illustration Competition to its own blog. Participants have (thankfully) started sending in their work and I want to post all the images in the blog. As that would be too much for my own blog, check out everything here.

PS: The contents will be updated by tomorrow.

Illustration Contest: Kathleen York (First Entry!)

Kathleen York is the first participant to send in 2 images for the contest. I´m so glad that finally someone dared to join in. ;)



The designer said, she was thinking of submitting these two black and white subway drawings to show her style, and would do something more specifically geared toward the topic should she be chosen.
However these two images do fit the topic too. A subway train drives you from station to station and you discover or arrive at new places. That´s somehow like reading literature weblogs, you discover new places by jumping from one link to the next.
Kathleen agreed to the idea of visiting blogs being similar to stops on a train line, connected together. There is a line that runs through how you visit/access and find new blogs, a line of communication, a line of transport if you will, transport of ideas . . .
Check out her blog and her Flickr profile. Then you could also have a look at her Greeting cards and other drawings. Thanks Kathleen!

I´m looking forward to seeing the next contributions. Tomorrow evening, I´ll be posting a message from one of the publishers of the magazine.

We are off to Spain!

Wanna see my view for the next 12 days? Just click here!

I´ll be back on June, 19 to (hopefully) post a lot of images for the illustration contest.
Take care.

Illustration Contest: First participants!

I´m glad that now people are starting to show some interest in the contest. The first participants have said that they will send in some entries. I´m happy about this. I had already thought that I wouldn´t be of any use finding an illustrator or artist for the magazine.

So I have decided, as long as there won´t be too many entries at once, I´ll write one whole post about every artist who sends in some images. So hurry up and be the first to send in your winnig illustrations.

Illustration Contest: Pro Bono DOES Work!

In my last post I wrote about an illustration contest. It is for a paperbook which will be published by a German literature print & online magazine called „spa_tien".
To find more participants I asked a few magazines, forums, blogs and illustrators where else I could post about the contest. I got some replies and suggestions. But then I was very surprised about quite some negative messages I got: Telling me that if I'll be making money off of this, so should my contributors. And no professional would participate!

• First of all: I´m just helping the publishers of the magazine to find an illustrator. There´s no profit I get from this (except I do hope to get a free copy of that book ;) )
• Second: The whole production is privately financed by the publishers. They do not earn a single penny from this. They all have their regular jobs and do this in their spare time! The book will be sold at cost.
  
• So it´s all voluntary service - even by the authors who contribute to the magazine and the book.

Today I received a wonderful message from Alyson B. Stanfield from Stanfield Art Associates. She said that she would be happy to post about the contest on her blog this weekend. Thanks! I needed that to hold up my positive commitment for the contest.

BTW: I would be happy about more links and specially about some more participants! :)