SYMBOLS PROJECT UPDATE - Back at it - and I made a decision!
Terraformer_Author
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Hi kids...
I am feeling a little better - and have found fresh inspiration to start working on my symbols set afresh (afresh? Hmmm - is that really a word, or a just a literal embellishment, and didn't I already say "fresh"?) - Which - I must warn you - will be MASSIVELY, HUMUNGOUSLY, MONSTEROUSLY, HORRENDOUSLY HUGE!!!!! I am already up to 909 symbols - and I haven't even really started yet. I am keeping the slightly "cartoonish / comic booky" style - and establishing it as my own - BUT WAIT KIDS - THERE'S MORE!!!
I have decided to GIVE this package to the community freely (when it is finished) as a set of symbols catalogues, and also perhaps sell them individually as clipart art in other venues later on (we're probably talking years down the road) as part of my own art portfolio - IF I were ever to decide to sell them in some manner.
I'd license them to Profantasy for free, no pay, no royaltys, - and other folks out there in other venues possibly would buy them from me to silk screen onto T-Shirts, Print out stickers for there bumpers and rear car windows, have them put on coffee mugs - whatever, lol. Basically only the characters - and a few symbol types would be feasably useful for that anyway.
I'll write it into the license package about how maps that you make with them will be your's to sell, incorporate into other works, or distribute however you want to in the universe, but the images themselves are mine, mine, mine, miney whiney mine - and they are not to be distributed EXCEPT as parts of your maps, and Profantasy shall of course rank as the authorized distributor of these symbol catalogue(s) - should they choose to do that (I'm thinking that if that's the case - then it could be via registration, or via the Annuals, or a combo of both - whatever they might decide - it's all hypothetical and academic at this stage)...
In short, and to get the abbreviated version - somehow - you guys are getting these. I just have to FINISH them first - which hopefully will not be sometime in the year 3047, when as everyone knows - the Earth will be invaded by giant, carnivorous, intelligent bees from Alpha Centauri, Lol. After they are FINISHED - I will officially release them for use and distribution.
I also have to get away from drawing too many mermaids - which is a compulsion stemming both from my lonliness, and my fondness for sea food, lol
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I would - HOWEVER - appreciate any donations of ICY HOT therapuetic cream, any bottles of Absorbine Junior, or any tubes of Ben Gay or Abaulm that you might have laying around your medicine cabinet, because I am going to have one DOOZY of a case of "Pen Cramp", lol
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I just got a few new pens tonight, and I am in scribble mode. I'll crank out a couple hundred more of these before the old Attention Deficit Disorder kicks in - and I switch to something else, lol.
I am feeling a little better - and have found fresh inspiration to start working on my symbols set afresh (afresh? Hmmm - is that really a word, or a just a literal embellishment, and didn't I already say "fresh"?) - Which - I must warn you - will be MASSIVELY, HUMUNGOUSLY, MONSTEROUSLY, HORRENDOUSLY HUGE!!!!! I am already up to 909 symbols - and I haven't even really started yet. I am keeping the slightly "cartoonish / comic booky" style - and establishing it as my own - BUT WAIT KIDS - THERE'S MORE!!!
I have decided to GIVE this package to the community freely (when it is finished) as a set of symbols catalogues, and also perhaps sell them individually as clipart art in other venues later on (we're probably talking years down the road) as part of my own art portfolio - IF I were ever to decide to sell them in some manner.
I'd license them to Profantasy for free, no pay, no royaltys, - and other folks out there in other venues possibly would buy them from me to silk screen onto T-Shirts, Print out stickers for there bumpers and rear car windows, have them put on coffee mugs - whatever, lol. Basically only the characters - and a few symbol types would be feasably useful for that anyway.
I'll write it into the license package about how maps that you make with them will be your's to sell, incorporate into other works, or distribute however you want to in the universe, but the images themselves are mine, mine, mine, miney whiney mine - and they are not to be distributed EXCEPT as parts of your maps, and Profantasy shall of course rank as the authorized distributor of these symbol catalogue(s) - should they choose to do that (I'm thinking that if that's the case - then it could be via registration, or via the Annuals, or a combo of both - whatever they might decide - it's all hypothetical and academic at this stage)...
In short, and to get the abbreviated version - somehow - you guys are getting these. I just have to FINISH them first - which hopefully will not be sometime in the year 3047, when as everyone knows - the Earth will be invaded by giant, carnivorous, intelligent bees from Alpha Centauri, Lol. After they are FINISHED - I will officially release them for use and distribution.
I also have to get away from drawing too many mermaids - which is a compulsion stemming both from my lonliness, and my fondness for sea food, lol
.I would - HOWEVER - appreciate any donations of ICY HOT therapuetic cream, any bottles of Absorbine Junior, or any tubes of Ben Gay or Abaulm that you might have laying around your medicine cabinet, because I am going to have one DOOZY of a case of "Pen Cramp", lol
.I just got a few new pens tonight, and I am in scribble mode. I'll crank out a couple hundred more of these before the old Attention Deficit Disorder kicks in - and I switch to something else, lol.
Comments
Great work!
Great symbols though. But instead of creating multiple apples (and other symbols) in different colors, I would recommend you simply make them varicolor instead.
It would be cool if you could do mountains, forests, and structures in this style as well. I would love to make a few of my maps using your style.
Production Methodology:
Phase 1 : Brain Storming And Planning.
Phase 2: Draw Them Up - Digitally Colorize Them And Them Prep Them For Transparency / Symbol Conversion.
Phase Three: "Cherry Pick Them Out (of the multiple images where I might have 7 mermaid type images for example - keep the "good" ones - ditch the "so so" ones.), Alpha Them, Prep A Few For Varicolor Possibly, And Then Convert Them All Into CC3 Symbols / Catalogues.
My goal is to basically create a "mapping kit" for fantasy and medieval type maps that covers almost any type of factoid that you might need on a wargaming, RPG, or fictional literary overland map in the Fantasy and / or Medieval genres.
So far I've got:
Crops & Livestock,
Farms & Farmland,
Mines & Resources,
Food, Dining, & Water,
Knowledge & Information,
Magical Items,
Various Monsters & Creep Crawlies,
Major Fantasy Genre Races,
Numbers, Letters, Arrows, "X" and "+" markers, And Pointers,
A basic Cartouche and a few Compass Types.
I have also been designing fonts that I'de like to throw in there as well I guess - I am already uploading fonts to the library here so I'm kinda waxing and waning on that idea.
this kinda stuff I do for fun. Here's an example of the kinda stuff that I'de like to get paid for some day:
Footnote - I'm making a Camper for the hovercar, lol.
Back to the topic at hand - I have added a few symbols to my CC3 symbols project since this thread originally debuted - and I'll probably start concentrating on the main core symbols here shortly. been getting info on GIMP shadow effects and alpha masking and such.
When I scaled them the details got garbled. The "Manta" - or "Bat" - or whatever - is my idea of a space shuttle that can take off and fly like the B2 until it reaches near sub orbital altitude - at which point it shuts down its jet engines and fires up it RAT boosters - and becomes a space craft.