Hi All,
One of my backers suggested I post here. I actually didn't realize how active this sub-forum is!
I've got a Kickstarter that I genuinely hope will help other 3rd party publishers (or any publishers for that matter, as well as myself!)
The plan is to do 100 new monsters as stock art. Earlier this year we did 150 monster images (about 100 different monsters, some were variants). This Kickstarter will generally not have variants of any particular creature. It will also be better in three other ways:
1. Each color monster image will have a black & white line art version.
2. Backgrounds are also an option for each piece.
3. We plan to get feedback from backers on each artist's initial sketches and hopefully also on their works in progress.
You can get the line art and color versions plus the backgrounds for all 100 monsters (and more if we do more creatures as stretch goals) for $200. Or if you want to be more selective (pick only certain creatures or only certain artists or only the line art) you can get 100pts of art for just $40. (The full-size (at least 1/4 page @300dpi) line art for a creature is 2pts. A full size color creature is 5pts. 6 pts gets the color creature and either the background or the line art version while 7pts gets you the line art, color and background of a given creature.
A sample creature from each artist, a list of creatures planned, more on the points and the license terms are on the Kickstarter's project page.
We're also doing a PDF of minis and a laminated cardstock minis of the creatures, but I'm not sure how well that will do here due to the Bestiary Box.
I am a $200.00 backer on the project as I was very please by the work on the first Stock Art Kickstarter.
What Rite said. I backed the first kickstarter and I am a $200 backer for this as well. This is definitely a good an worthy kickstarter to back if you are looking paper minis for your home game or if you are looking for a significant amount of high quality stock art for publication.
I missed the first KS by about a day or so and have been kicking myself ever since picking up singles as they hit RPGNow...we jumped on this one as soon as I found it. Good quality artwork at an excellent price, hard to lose on a deal like that.
Thanks for the support, all!
KTFish7: If there is a bunch of art you still want send me a message and we can do a bulk discount. support@inkwellideas.com should get to me.
Ends Monday evening! We are only about half way, but hopefully we can get there especially if we make an addition...
I've added some rewards for more art:
Some folks have asked for line art versions of the prior Kickstarter's creatures. So we're going to do some! If you were part of the prior Kickstarter or bought the color versions since then, you'll get the matching line art version. We won't be doing all the creatures, but hopefully this will be a nice bonus.
Of course, we're hoping this increases pledges: if you missed the prior Kickstarter you can pledge for all the prior Kickstarter's stock art and get these new line art versions. Or you can pledge at a higher level for extra points to pick some of the prior color creature art and/or the new line art for specific creatures.
