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Comment by John Armstrong on December 11, 2009 at 5:16pm

Get Your Art Samples In A New Book

SciFi Art Now Book Gets Green Light

ILEX Books (www.ilex-press.com) have given the green light to SciFi Art Now, a book project being edited by British author and editor John Freeman. It should be published in Autumn 2010.

"We want the book to feature the very best samples from new and established illustrators," he says.

The chapter headings for the book are:

- Sirens of SciFi (Think women in space or on alien worlds or alien situations)
- Aliens and Alien Worlds (The weirder the better!)
- Radical Robots (Obvious, I hope)
- Incredible Cities (Ditto) - Spacecraft and Spacenauts (The technology and hardware chapter)
- Future War (All-out action, hand-to-robot conflict etc.)
- Steampunk (advanced technology in the altered past)

There are a few restrictions on what will be considered:

- The art must never have been published in another art book (Spectrum, Ballistic Publishing or an artist's published sketchbook).
- It must have been created in the last 18 months.
- You must own the publishing rights to the artwork (you'll need to secure permission for use for art commissioned by a third party, see release form for details).

Editorially, ILEX would prefer to see more aliens and human SF visuals -- i.e. the characters of modern SF -- rather than spaceships and alien vistas, but there will be space for those too.

Technically, what's needed are colour or black and white images to be supplied at 300dpi to at least trim size, which in the case of this book is 247 x 247 mm (roughly 10" x 10" imperial).

It would be great to have your art by 8th January 2010 if possible.

Words-wise, ILEX also need just 75 to a hundred words or so from you, outlining briefly the inspiration for your work, how you created it, digital or 'real world', etc.

They also of course need the work's title, your name, whether it's a book cover or whatever, medium, and, if you have one, your website.

If the work you're submitting for consideration is owned or part-owned by a third party, they'll need a copyright line too.

There is no payment for the use of material. As you know, there are several 'creative directories' out there that charge artists for submissions, but ILEX took the view to make its 'Art Now' series, which includes Comic Art Now, Fantasy Art Now etc., editorially based, offering a free platform to give artists a free 'platform', in print, for their best sample work.

Featured contributors will, of course, receive a free copy of the final book.

Contributors to the other books in the series have secured work as a result of being in the collections, which I hope is further incentive.

Send work via johnfreeman6-scifiartnow@yahoo.co.uk HeI'll send you a permissions form after the art is received). If you have any questions, please ask via the same address.

Comment by Chris Birch on April 29, 2009 at 3:13pm

hi everybody from sunny ol' London - yep spring is here finally. Just working on the new fashion collection for Joystick Junkies, hope you're all having a good day

Chris

Comment by Daniele Luciani on January 16, 2009 at 11:35pm

Hi Illustrators!

:)
DanielComics
www.danielcomics.eu

Comment by Katherine M. Reiner on October 11, 2008 at 11:50pm

Hello and thank you for the invitation.

Comment by Samuel Flegal on October 9, 2008 at 4:45pm

Thanks for the invite.

Sam Flegal
Illustrator
www.samflegal.com

Comment by Marco on October 9, 2008 at 3:53pm

Hi John, thanks for the invitations.

Currently I am very busy and I have hard time to follow this network and LinkedIn, though I will update my state on LinkedIn soon.

Bye

Comment by Eric Hammond on October 9, 2008 at 3:33pm

Thanks, John, for the invite.

Comment by MiniKim on October 9, 2008 at 1:28pm

Thanks for the invite :)

Comment by Jim Schaffer on August 14, 2008 at 2:08pm

ROK Comics Creator Kind of reminds me of Comic Life (don't have the link handy right now).

Comment by Sky Sister on August 14, 2008 at 1:03pm

Thanks for the invite - I will check out the ROK Comics link!