Artwork

Triad Weyrs respects copyrights of authors. Both writers and artists. As such we want to be certain we are obeying general copyright principles for any art created by others outside of Triad and displayed here.

Creating Artwork

Most methods of creation of your artwork are acceptable as long as it is provided to the webbies in electronic format. However, The Council will not approve unaltered and/or obvious photographs of real people.

Acceptable Mediums

1. Pencil/pen drawings
2. Paintings
3. Photographs altered either in Photoshop or another graphic program to resemble paintings or drawings.
4. AI generated images as long as the images resemble paintings or drawings (no photo-realism)

Unacceptable Mediums

1. Unaltered Photographs
2. Cartoons
3. Anime characters

Types of Artwork

• Persona Pictures
• Dragon Portraits or images
• Location maps and overviews
• Heraldry
• Charts and Graphs

Programs and sites that can Help

• Inkarnate for maps
• DeviantArt (find an image and ask the artist permission to use it)
• FotoSketcher (Freeware to turn a photo into artwork)
• Photoshop (Adobe product for altering Photos) Advanced and expensive software.
• Night Cafe AI Art Creator

Submitting your Art

This can be done by emailing your artwork to the webbies. Webbies

1. Send your original art via email with a pixel width of at least 800px. You can find this information in various places depending on the software you are using.
2. Images should be submitted as 900px, 300px, and 100px wide. They should be labelled "Character", "Character_small", and "Character_thumb".
3. Do not include an apostrophe (') in the name if the file even if it is a dragonrider.
4. Please use either .png or .jpg format.
5. Include a description of the artwork and what ever the origin is. We must make sure we attribute any copywrites to its owner.
   1. Sample: Wingsecond, Dolphin Cove Weyr ~*~ Original drawing of Clive Ownen by khinson on deviantart.com, used by permission. Link
   2. Sample: N'vanik, Weyrleader of Dolphin Cove ~*~ Original photo of Josh Holloway by unknown photographer. Deviation by Suzee
   3. Sample: Dolphin Cove Weyr Bowl ~*~ Artwork by Suzee ©2013

How to Link the image to your Persona

The image must be uploaded into the site database by the Webbies. The Admin team will upload the photo to the attached character sheet.

See Also

• Picture Gallery
• How to put a picture in the gallery (administrators)