Paperlegends

[einahpets]

So if any of you don't know, paperlegends had their announcement post today!  Yay! 
I've met the best people through this event, seriously. 

Anyway I was looking through the schedule and I noticed artists now have to submit drafts.
This is actually pretty cool, cause it makes artists more involved. 
But I think there's probably more that would make it a little more involved/better for the artists.

Question for my writer friends and artists too!! --
As it's done now, drafts aren't due until after artist/author matchups happen. 
Before matchups, the 15K word counts are taken in faith.  I can't tell you how many of my artist friends got burned because the author didn't have the suggested amount, and ended up dropping out or the artists were not able to make art to the fullest of their abilities since time is shorter for artists.
I was wondering if submitting a minimum 15K rough draft before match-ups is something you think would benefit your Big Bang experience?
As an artist, I see it as more of a guarantee that you're serious about finishing and I have more confidence going into the anon matchups.  ALSO!  I have so much more material to work with and create beautiful art from.  And please tell me of a writer who doesn't want to see beautiful art?

Question for my artist friends --
How would you feel to have betas required for artists too? 
There are so many talented artists in fandom who would be more than happy to take a look at your in-progress work.
In the past year I started sharing my IP work with fellow Merlin artists and it makes a world of difference. 
Be it for anatomy, composition, perspective issues, coloring, the atmosphere in the piece, how to do a certain technique, etc. 
Having an online critique makes such a difference, and it created such a supportive community. 
It's like an art class, but for free, and on your time!!
Would you guys be interested/supportive of this?

I've already talked to a few friends, but I wanted to see if there were similar/different thoughts from my flist/the Merlin community.

Feel free to pass this along!

Comments

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Details always are the tough one. Sometimes I'll have descriptions that are fabulous and then other times it's just hazy and I have to pick the writer's brain for more.

I think making a support com for artists is a fabulous idea.
But for PL I'm think it would be cool to set up a post just for artists in the paperpushers community.

[itzcoatl.livejournal.com]

I totally agree that one couldn't spring a major change like the time schedule one onto PL at this late stage. Maybe it's just something to think of for future events. (I didn't even think of these things until your post...and then I suddenly thought...well...in an ideal world....)

However an artists support group shouldn't impact or change anything. (So long as the artists agreed not to share any spoilers outside the group.) Then I would think it would be very easy to incorporate into this years BB.

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Oh that's true, I forgot that unlike snippets from a story, you'd be able to see the whole piece of art. Even if it was a work in progress we don't want to tell the secret early.