Following recent talks with DTRPG and assurances, I have made the EroTech gazetteers available for sale there.
You can also find stock art by Designs of Doom, a collection of hapless goblins and their evil overlord.
There’s a new section on the Drivethru page for each, DoomArt and TableTopless.
Check them out HERE.
The winning piece for the ’20-21 Zelart Scholarship is in, and available.
You can get it HERE, and use it for your personal and professional products for a small fee. All proceeds go to next year’s Zelart Scholarship fund. There’s also a bunch of new stock art up, if you’re looking for something else to fill out your projects.
Here’s Mike’s story:
I am an adjunct faculty member teaching courses in Art and Game Design at a local college and university. When the world is normal, I am also working as a Graphic Designer and selling prints and drawings at various conventions. It’s been a ride of year to say the least! Schools are looking at major cutbacks, with enrollment plummeting. This means I have no confirmation if I will be given any courses to teach in the Fall. My Graphic Design job also dried up when the shop I was working for suddenly closed. And well, conventions, those are on an obvious holding pattern. Needless to say, it’s been disaster management for the last 12 months, with an unknown recovery time expected for the near future.
That was the glum reality, not far what many artists have faced this year. Now for the art. I focus heavily on monsters – both designing them mechanically as well as illustrating them. On occasion, I may dabble with other things like a map, full scene, or even portraits, but it always comes back down to the monsters. My artwork is mostly digital these days with some pen and ink to keep my hand still working with some traditional material. The creature I included here is a Greater Wisp from some game and world building I do on the side. These act like vacuums for living energy and will suck areas dry of life. That is the shorter description, I won’t go into lengthy detail here.
So onto the main thing. That “What will I do with this money part”. I am holding on financially. This means I can maintain a rent, food and a vehicle, but it’s difficult to keep the business functioning at all. Recent issues relating to poor service forced my to get rid of my webhost. Some of the money would go into resurrecting the site and giving it a functioning store. I would also like to get into setting up a mentorship and moving at least part of my studio into art content creation. This will take a few pieces of new gear. Anything left over I would place into printing new inventory. Sounds ambitious but a quick breakdown of how the funds would be spent – Website is around $250 for the first year. Capture card and new mic are around $150. And the remainder would go into prints. I can probably get together 2 new prints with runs of about 25 each.
I hope all this helped Mike out. That’s what we try to do with the scholarship!
You can use these highly graphical beauties in your personal and professional projects (subject to the attached license). Each is suitable for use at up to full page at 300 dpi.
GET THEM HERE
It’s only January the 6th and I’m already a bit overstretched. Despite one of my resolutions being not to let that happen.
This is for good reasons at least! I used the end of last year to raise money for my friend Jamie’s wheelchair – which he should be getting soon, but we do need a bit more funding to cover fitting and customisations should you feel generous.
I’ve also done a couple of things and have given money to help fight the Australian Fires. I’d encourage other people to do that too.
I’ve also had to help out a couple of hard-up friends (worse off than me) over the holiday period.
I don’t know that I have the energy to do justice to another fundraising campaign right now, and there’s always a great deal of negativity from certain quarters when I run the scholarship. Negativity I don’t feel as equipped to tackle as usual.
I did, recently, discover some of Zel’s art that hadn’t been published yet. I will be putting the usable parts of this art up for sale, piece by piece, in the coming weeks and days.
Sales raised just about $100 specifically for the scholarship last year. I will invest that money in new pieces of art, from people that need commissions.
Otherwise, I throw this open to artists associated with the game industry or fandom, if you want to donate any pieces to the cause of raising money for next year and helping more young artists, it would be greatly appreciated.
You can contact me at grim@postmort.demon.co.uk
Collections of fantasy and historically themed stock art for you to use in your personal and professional projects, subject to the attached license.
Note that some pieces are repeated in other collections, where they suit multiple genres. Even so, these are cheap at half the price!
There is a miscellaneous pack of Rob Necronomicon’s art up for sale now at Post-Mort.com, and Drivethrurpg (just search for Postmortem Studios).
This art is available for you to use in your personal or professional projects, subject to the attached license. Rob’s art is especially great if you’re looking for a dark, contemporary, highly graphical feel.
Much of our stock art catalog is now up at post-mort.com. The art there is available for you to use in your personal and professional projects – subject to the attached license.
If you’re starting your own imprint or want some art to jazz up your websites, games or hand-outs, this will give you a really cost-effective leg-up.
And the winner is (after many trials and tribulations)…
Morgyn McDonald!
Morgyn’s piece depicting a sexy, smoky genie or djinn is now available for purchase (to support next year’s scholarship) at RPGNOW.
Don’t forget, you can also support the scholarship by buying other scholarship supporting art. There’s even a megabundle of the first 100 pieces.
You can also support monetarily during our year-end funding drives, or by donating art to be sold to support the scholarship.
Who are you? Where are you from? Where can people find your work?
My name is Morgyn McDonald, I am a 22 year old Métis Canadian Graphic Artist living in the Greater Toronto Area.
Where did you hear about the scholarship fund?
I was scrolling through my Twitter when I saw a friend of mine share your grant and I immediately jumped at the opportunity.
What made you take the leap to enter?
As a creator who has only recently started trying to get into the industry I feel like I am scrambling to apply everywhere for every opportunity I can get to gain exposure. I just want as many eyes on my creations as possible, you know?
Can you confirm that you’ve received the money?
Absolutely! Everything went smooth as butter and I received the grant without a single issue via PayPal. Thank you so much for this opportunity!
What do you intend to spend the money on?
RENT. Oh my gosh, rent and groceries is all it can go to at this point. I am trying my hardest to get my name out there in hopes someone might need my brand of imagery in the world of digital art and design.
Will you help us spread the word next year?
Absolutely, I would love to share the chance!
If people want to contact you to commission some work, how can they do it?
My email is MapleBaked@hotmail.com and my username is @Sokawahtik on Twitter.
Is there anything else you’d like to say?
I would like to encourage new artists to seek out chances to join competitions, draws and contests whenever and wherever they can. Any opportunity to share your creations is a chance to make waves! Luck and light to all.
My email is MapleBaked@hotmail.com and my username is @Sokawahtik on Twitter.
Welcome ‘Rob Necronomicon’ to our stable of stock artists with his two collections – Dark SF and Dark Fantasy.
These gritty, highly stylised and grim images can be yours to use in your personal and professional projects, subject to the attached license.
This art can be bought and downloaded from our POST-MORT store, or from RPGNOW/Drivethrurpg. Singles will be available on the latter site – at a higher cost than buying a bundle – on an ongoing basis.
We have a new piece of stock art, by a new artist, up for sale. This piece depicting a celtic-style smith, hard at work in his forge.
Postmortem Studios sells a metric shitload of stock art, so if you’re a budding (or even established) games studio or want to add a little flair to your handouts, we’re your one-stop shop for all things artsy fartsy. There’s even a 400 piece bundle, which makes a great ‘starter pack’ for amateur publishers, and a 100 piece bundle with a more varied array of artists and styles, sales of which go to support our artist scholarship.
If you’re an artist we’re always looking for more contributors and if you need to make some quick cash, we might be willing to buy unsold art you have to sell on as stock art. You get money short-term, we get money long-term, and you get The Dreaded Exposure to a potential audience of new clients. Don’t hesitate to get in touch, and follow us on social media for opportunities.
Please do get in touch if you’re interested.
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