![]() I don’t care if you pass me on that climb another’s success shouldn’t define our own. Often rejection is simply not knowing your audience, and I want the artists who use this service–which is entirely free of charge and limited only by spots and demand–to feel encouraged, to grow roots and to climb that damnable wall even I’m still scrabbling up after four years. If your creation is accepted, I will email you with a post date that you can share on social media. So if you’re new here, I’d suggest looking around, seeing what I like, what my readers like, and determining if your stuff is a good fit. But curation ultimately comes down to taste. ![]() That’s not a judgment call on you–the artist–or the quality of your work. Because this is a personal space, with defined visitor tastes, I will choose the work that I feel will be most appealing to my readers. Please include a short bio, as well as all of your social media handles, so that my readers and others can share and connect.Īnd finally, as those artists among you hopefully know, dealing with rejection is part of the creative process.Only submit one creation for consideration.Self-published works and (clean) first drafts are fine.If you have something larger than my contact form prefers, touch base via this form and I’ll reply with an email to which you can send larger files–not listed publicly, on account of spam. Digital art should be under 1MB in size for easy viewing.Original artwork, comics, poetry, short stories around 10K words and under (not novellas), music are all acceptable submissions.Work should be in the fantasy, dark fantasy, horror, fem-lit, suspense, paranormal romance (not erotica), epic genres.I won’t be editing or uploading revisions. Anyway here’s a quick checklist before submissions: Just trying to be a nice person–novel idea, that. ![]() Why do this? What’s my angle? There isn’t one. If you’re a master of pointillism flower portraits, mine probably isn’t the best platform for submissions. ![]() I will accept physical (digital), musical or literary art stuff related to the genres in which I work. Once per month, I will dedicate an entire post and week-long Facebook advertorial to my over 6000 followers, to promoting someone who isn’t myself : ) Another deposit was made, and this one never to be a source of regret, for this is the masterpiece now upon my arm: George’s attention to detail and sense for arrangement was mind-boggling to me, as was the notion that I could have such art on my flesh. I was enraptured by his dazzling sword & sorcery and superhero designs hero-fantasy darkened with a Gothic twist. Prose and voice can be striking and unique and this is doubly-true for visual art, since its message is wholly conveyed through presence. As well, what initially sold me on his work was simply the “look” of it. George’s, on whatever line-work I’d likely pulled him away from at that moment. Mine, usually lost in prose and fantastic set-pieces. But what you have to realize about artists, real artists, is that as present as their bodies may be, their minds are always elsewhere. Now artists are a curious bunch, and after having had so many bad experiences with tattoo artists beforehand, I wasn’t sure what to make of his short sit-down, check out the design, say it looked like something he could do, then move on. The intake rep (Brianne) was lovely, organized and professional and we discussed my idea and browsed through the work of artists whom she felt would be a good match. My fortunes finally changed in February when I booked a ‘last hurrah’ appointment at Chronic Ink. Six months and many failed connections later, and it really started to feel as if this was one dream that I couldn’t achieve. I had Leo draft up an initial concept and brought it with me when visiting various tattoo parlors, putting down many a deposit that I may as well have burned, and generally being frustrated at trying to convey my vision for a specific piece of body art. An undertaking of mine this year has been to celebrate the milestone of completing the Feasts series with a very specific memento: a tattoo.
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