Illustration proposal for Methods of Rationality
Which scenes in the book should be illustrated, according to your point of view? Could you share your opinion, because it can help potential illustrators to choose theme and to draw something. It would be great if you can propose several scenes from the book. I believe we should find at least one good moment to be illustrated in the each chapter with combined efforts.
I think the book will get more illustrations if people can simply choose from the list of proposed scenes, and not from the whole book.
If you notice someone with the same proposal you are thinking about, please support this proposal by commenting it with quoting. In this case I can later make a list of proposals with the number of people supporting each one. However, if someone have made several proposals, but you want to support only some of them, please cite only appropriate proposals.
Please also make new proposals as first level comments. Thank you in advance.
Are you personally an artist/illustrator looking for ideas? There tends to be a high supply and low demand for ‘suggestions of things other people should make’.
I am, but only the beginner.
I also think that the list of such a suggestions will not be “what people should do” list but “what people could do, if they want to help” one.
I don’t know, doesn’t this have the possible danger of turning a delight into a chore? It seems to me that fanartists already have some idea of what they are inspired to illustrate—and the scenes that personally interest them are the scenes they’re most likely to illustrate well.
Unless we were offering commissions, or unless a fanartist specifically asks for suggestions to use, I don’t know that it’s actually our place to volunteer suggestions to them—this may seem unappreciative on our behalf of their own ideas.
Plus, how do you explicitly say somethng “this scene has been illustrated 5 times already, but all of them were crappy, so I’d like one more illustration of the same scene, this time a better one” without offending and thus discouraging the fanartists that made the earlier art?
I do not want to say it to anybody. I think about creating the list of possibilities.
You are right, but artist may also consider the scenes most interested by readers, who aren’t artists. For example, some artists come to “Fan Art” section at hpmor.com and see several links to illustrations. They may think not to draw the same scenes because it is already drawn, but to find something different. And they see a link to our list and think “I like the scene from chapter 46 which is mentioned in the list, people also want it to be illustrated, let’s draw something.”
There’s already quite a bit of fan art.
I know, but don’t you think there could be more?
The magenta acorn potion. Getting the colour EXACTLY right should obviously be top priority.
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