What’s Outside This Here Box?

What’s Outside This Here Box? Matt Lichtenwalner 5/2 '23

Jill "xtingu" Knapp said something in a brief chat recently that has me thinking about other folks who might appreciate the kind of illustrative stuff that I do.

So I decided to do some brainstorming, and this is the list I currently have:

DMs / Players
Developers (ttrpg)
Developers (apps / digital games)
TTRPG Adjacent Companies (Think Role Play Grow interviews)
Authors (children's books)
Authors (fantasy)
New Artists
Librarians / Bookstore Owners
Social Media Profile Owners

Anyone else have any ideas that I should add to the list?

5/2 '23 13 Comments

Librarians.

Lindsay Harris Friel

Bookstore employees. Literacy campaigns. After-school programs. If you drew a picture of your nephews reading a big hardcover book, surrounded by a big male lion, a cool-looking elf archer, a mermaid, a giant robot, a lady scientist, a jungle explorer and a witch, you’d have every librarian, teacher and bookstore worker buying that t-shirt, poster and mug.

Lindsay Harris Friel

These are great - I'll add them to the list!

Matt Lichtenwalner

Now that everyone works remotely, and they all rely on Slack or Discord or some equivalent service, I think there's a market for someone to come draw avatars for everyone to use on their comms channels.

Robert Bryan

I’d use that.

Lindsay Harris Friel

Thanks guys - I'll add it to the list. A couple years back, I did these, and they might work.

Matt Lichtenwalner

I like these a lot.

Robert Bryan

Thanks! They're even fun to do. :)

Matt Lichtenwalner

Considering the trend of creepy AI crafted avatars, I’d much rather have an artisanal hand drawn avatar that makes me look a little younger and healthier than I am in real life, especially if it has a real artist’s signature on it.
On Slack our avatars are so tiny that they might not work for promoting the artist much, which is a problem. But I have to have a team bio picture and I often have to have a professional picture for work presentations that are open to the public. How much do you charge for social media avatar images?

Lindsay Harris Friel

Something like what I did above would be between $30 and $60 (depending on complexity etc).

If you just need some "Photoshopping" of an existing pic to *ahem* 'remove imperfections' I'd happily do that for you for free. 😁

Matt Lichtenwalner

I like the idea of these, but for me the lightning bolt split down the middle makes it hard to see the person’s face.

Lindsay Harris Friel

Yeah - I thought about that a bit too late. You can see if a bit in the pics for the ladies. In theirs, I reduced the 'haze' given off in the area of the face. In the future, I would likely do even less there.

Matt Lichtenwalner