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Creating Artwork

Most methods of creation of your Artwork are acceptable as long as it is provided to the webbies in electronic format. However, The Council will not approve unaltered and/or obvious photographs of real people.

Acceptable Mediums

1. Pencil/pen drawings
2. Paintings
3. Photographs altered either in Photoshop or another graphic program to resemble paintings or drawings.
4. AI generated images

Unacceptable Mediums

1. Unaltered Photographs

Types of Artwork

• Persona Pictures
• Dragon Portraits or images
• Location maps and overviews
• Heraldry
• Charts and Graphs

Programs and sites that can Help

• Inkarnate for maps
• DeviantArt (find an image and ask the artist permission to use it)
• FotoSketcher (Freeware to turn a photo into artwork)
• Photoshop (Adobe product for altering Photos)
• Night Cafe AI Art Creator

Submitting your Art

This can be done by emailing your artwork to the webbies. Suzee or Estelle

1. Send your original art via email with a pixel width of at least 800px. You can find this information in various places depending on the software you are using.
2. Please use either .png or .jpg format.
3. Include a description of the artwork and what ever the origin is. We must make sure we attribute any copywrites to its owner.
   1. Sample: Wingsecond, Dolphin Cove Weyr ~*~ Original drawing of Clive Ownen by khinson on deviantart.com, used by permission. Link
   2. Sample: N'vanik, Weyrleader of Dolphin Cove ~*~ Original photo of Josh Holloway by unknown photographer. Deviation by Suzee
   3. Sample: Dolphin Cove Weyr Bowl ~*~ Artwork by Suzee ©2013

How to Link the image to your Persona

The image must be uploaded into the site database by the Webbies before you can link it to your Persona. Once it has been uploaded you will be able to add it on your persona by clicking +Picture tab at the top of the page and picking the image from the dropdown.