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Hello all, I'm assembling a team of creative artist and writers to work on a number of projects. What I propose is that once assembled we can put our writers ideas together to get a count of stories we have completed our near completion, or writers will begin working on scripts from artists ideas. Than we will break up into smaller teams to get them done. We all will work cooperatively in getting each other's work done. My vision is to create a one stop hub of writers and artist that people can come to to get help with their own personal projects and not have to worry about hunting down people and hoping that someone will work with them. This will be a true artist community where all are welcome and all are ready to lend a hand. Critics are welcome too, we all need an objective eye. I am an artist writer so I'm willing to do my part in helping anyone that needs an artist or writer.

In the mean time I have a project ready to roll crimson the prophecy.

Logline: A warrior haunted by demons from his past, reunites with his brothers to battle the Dark Lord and his plan to unleash Wrath over the seven realms.

Tagline: His story shall be History.
Tagline #2: Bound by blood.

“Crimson the Prophecy”, is an epic fantasy that follows 3 brothers separated early in life through tragedy and death as they discover their true destiny. The first part of a trilogy, “Crimson the Prophecy” tells the story of Sage, a warrior bent on avenging his father’s death. On his journey he has many obstacles to overcome, including his own weaknesses, as he defends the realm against the Dark Lord Sett and his quest to possess the 4 Emperor stones of power.

If you are looking to be paid, pass on this. If you are looking to be a part of this new creative team that WILL EARN money as a team, this is the place for you.

Update: we are a growing community, please contact me if interested, all skill levels are welcome.

Dante.washington@gmail.com[/list]

Might be a good idea to actually pitch your plan. As a scripter myself who has found himself making looking for artists pitches for a good five years I find that because writers far outnumber artists that you're going to have to put out all the stops to get any interested parties. I know that many writers don't want to broadcast their ideas due to the chance of someone stealing them but you really don't have much of a choice. Next to no artists are going to want to approach you just because you say you're an available writer, you're going to have to show that you have a good idea going for you.

Even then you have a good chance of being passed over. This leaves you with two choices, offer to pay for your project to be drawn or give multiple ideas covering a gambit of themes and genres. In addition to that offer to work on an artists own project, because the truth is if you're not paying and you have no experience as you seem to be you are going to need to cater to the artist as much as you can (Writing short stories or novels does not count as experience since scripting is a totally different medium. Trust me I do both). The multiple choices are because you can never predict what an artist will want, I remember once I had three ideas that I liked that I put forward in my post and as an afterthought I created a concept involving a boy and his talking cloud. I was very surprised when not one, but TWO artists wanted to work on the comic with the talking cloud. Also giving examples of your work, either prose or script-wise, can be helpful, but that isn't necessary. I know when I started out I certainly didn't have any of that and only started to cite references when I had some comics under my belt.

At the very least be clear on what your working on, because at the time being you are going to get no interest. If you haven't noticed as I mentioned there are MANY writer looking for artist posts and almost no artist looking for writer posts, and those posts are often swarmed. It's a competitive world out there for comics in general and this also applies to finding an artist. I consider myself lucky I even got into even the amateur field and that was because I responded to an artist who wanted his third language English translated to American English. The artist was so impressed I ended up doing multiple projects with him, and yes many of them sucked being that I was just learning. So definitely don't feel let down if your only responses are from artists that are still developing, trust me you can't be picky. Even a less than stellar artist can provide you with a start to a portfolio of work which you can then show to artists as proof that you are experienced. It's a long road ahead to develop yourself as a scripter, I know it has been a long road for me and I still have a thing or two I can improve on and it's been five years for me! As with any craft you need to have a decent amount of dedication to learn it and especially to find artists to work with. I wish you the best in the beginning of your journey.

Sincerely
Ruyei/Robert

Dante,

You have got to go into your story a little on your posting. Save the twists and big reveals... just give a potential artist something to visualize. They need a hook. Ruyei is right, the are far more writers than artists in here, so you have to come up with a pitch that really stands out.

You may find an artist willing to work for free, but you'll have better luck finding one if you can provide at least a modest page rate.

In my pitch I attached a link to the short film I made that the comic is based on. I also made scripts of my first drafts of issues 1 through 5 available to interest people. It definitely helped. I posted this pitch on several different sites hoping to find an artist for my series... and as of now, it appears to have worked, as I am now working with a great artist who believes in my story as much as I do.

From your post, it's difficult to tell your experience level as well... not that it's terribly important, but it helps to have some background in visual storytelling. I'm relatively new to comic writing, however I do have a lot of experience writing film scripts... not exactly the same thing, but still captures the visual storytelling method.

And beware, there are a lot of people on some of the other boards who will lash you negativity instead of constructive feedback.

Good luck to you,

Chuck/neuralclone

Thank you both, your help is invaluable. I will be posting more info soon.

This is a peek of the main characters of the story. I just became a member of diviantart so more to come, synopses will be up.

http://axemanomega.deviantart.com/art/P ... e%3A1&qo=0