We’re looking for comics, illustration and other forms of sequential art for the third issue of our anthology zine, BEARPIT. Details as follows:
Theme: “Other”
Deadline: Monday 7th May
Format: The zine is in black and white. It will be reproduced on a laser (or risograph) printer, so don’t get too carried away with the greys if you can help it. Max pages per submission, 6; minimum, 1. Only one submission per contributor will be included.
Paper size: The zine will be printed at A5 (148 x 210mm). Your artwork should fit to these dimensions.
Contents: All contributions that take the theme of Other. Whilst this is fairly broad in some senses, through the conversations we had we wanted to suggest ‘other’ in the sense of terms such as ‘mirror’, ‘reflection’, ‘counterpart’ and ‘multiplicity’. Although we do emphasise the comic/sequential-art nature of Bear Pit Zines, any comibination of words and pictures will be considered. Finally, we are open to submissions from any and all, but we do ask that the contributor and/or their work retain some kind of connection to the city of Bristol.
Please send your submissions as .tiff, .bmp or .psd at no less than 300 dpi to bearpitzines
@gmail.com.
March 2012
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Put a number in my ask box!:
- When did you get into art?
- What art-related sites have you ever signed up for?
- Show us your oldest piece of art you have on hand.
- What defines your artistic style?
- Do you practice other styles/have you tried other styles in the past?
- What levels of artistic education have you had?
- Show us at least one picture you drew or sketched recently that you did not put on a public site.
- What is your favourite piece that you have done?
- What is your least favourite piece that you have done?
- What do you like most about your art?
- What do you like least about your art?
- Have you ever considered taking commissions?
- Are you looking to pursue a career in art?
- What do you like drawing the most?
- What do you like drawing the least?
- Do you draw more fanart or original art? If fanart, what fandom do you draw the most of?
- What would you absolutely refuse to draw?
- What is your purpose for drawing?
- What medium/program do you use the most in your art?
- How would you rank your art? (poor, mediocre, good, etc.)
- Do you believe there is such thing as “bad art?”
- List at least one of your “artspirations.”
- What do you think you could stand to improve on?
- Do you have a shameful art past? (recolour sprite comics, tracing art, etc.)
- Draw a picture!
You know what, lets do this. And on my work blog rather than my reblog-blog too, since it is relatively relevant. Fill that inbox and I’ll do your answers tomorrow (I’m currently dressed as Tom Selleck as Magnum P.I. for a friends party. Oh dear.)
I generally post more and more as I get closer to the end of a project rater than the start, so it’ll be a month or so before you get more uni stuff I think.
In the mean time, you could start reading Private Study, or I have another blog where I reblog stuff and apparently now rant about how gender is a stupid concept but I can’t bothered to do anything about it being stupid beyond idle blogging.
It should be a pretty good point to jump on if you’re a new reader, it’s all about fresh starts and you don’t need to know too much about what’s happened in the comic so far. I.e. barely anything. It’s a bit in media res but I have faith you your ability to keep up, you clever folks.
If you DO already read the comic, it’d be amazing if you could spread the word and try to get other people to start reading.
Rather than reblogging the whole lot of them, here’s some links to the posts I did earlier today of the final photos of my latest uni project
http://mrgjohnson.tumblr.com/post/18732565209/visit-prypiat-1
http://mrgjohnson.tumblr.com/post/18732918648/visit-prypiat-2
http://mrgjohnson.tumblr.com/post/18733175241/visit-prypiat-3
http://mrgjohnson.tumblr.com/post/18733565742/visit-prypiat-4
(Will probably reblog this a couple of times over the week though. Really like those photos, and the badges n stuff aren’t AWFUL)
