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A Contest For An Artist

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*a few flyers have been left around the gate and Naskiel*
A Contest For An Artist

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The Inner Circle is seeking Artists to help them design a symbol to represent the guild its self, there are no restrictions on the design its self so long as its not to detailed and able to be placed on cloak or shield.

For those of you who are not already aware The Inner Circle is a guild based around the advancement of the arcane in all aspects more information on the order can be found in Naskiel if you look around.

Designed will be Voted on by the Inner Circles leaders in a tenday and the winner's design will be used by the inner circle and they will receive payment of, to admit your design simply send it to the circle in naskiel or leave it at friendly arms inn for Lisanna

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///to put a design in simply post it here or pm to me in an IC fashion aka letter or personal delivery
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// A little more information would help give shape to a new symbol. Is there anything else you could tell us? From what I've read I have a few ideas. But I'd hate to waste a lot of time and effort on something that doesn't fit with what you're lookin for. :oops:
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///the guild information can be found here http://www.bgtscc.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=42369, the guild tends to favor light blues and purple, the guild is to end up running an arcane academy and arcane research facility
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Here is my submission for the guild image:

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((I made it larger and reworked it to be brighter and more detailed for the forums.))
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Thanking you !
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*Vera walks into the Nashkel Inn and leaves a letter*
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the Circle of the darkmoon?
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Thematically this guild is focused on arcane magic, therefore I suggest paying tribute to Mystra through using her star symbol in the guild banner. I myself would not use something that looks like a Shar-inspired solar eclipse.
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"A not very well known bard walks into Nashkel and leaves a note, with two drawings attached, at the Guild Hall of the Inner Circle."

/// PM sent
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Boddynock folds his drawing into a paper plane and throws it at Lisanna's head.

((I essentially just taught myself GIMP to make this, I suppose I could fool around with the colors, but essentially, a circle, with a hand grasping a book. Book has Mystra's star on it. And I know Lis likes purple.))
Edit: The grey parts are actually transparent, so you can put it on any color background, although I had white in mind when I made it.
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((wasn't happy with that... Take two))
And take three, because Lisanna "didn't like the color" even though I specifically chose it with her in mind. *sticks out tongue*
Seriously, this is what is like working for her... :lol:

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(( The concept of my submission could be an eclipse, which has absolutely nothing to do with Sharran beliefs other than a vague resemblance to the poorly drawn, overly simplistic symbol that comes in the handbooks. I was actually inspired by the pupil and iris of an eye because of the circle inside a circle effect it gives ie, The Inner Circle. Surely we all agree that we should crush creativity in favor of thematic purity though and we should stick with the wonderfully drawn deity source material for any inspiration. Even though this is not a religious guild nor does it make any specific reference to Mystra.

Ohh and lastly....we wouldn't ever want a symbol that could possibly be construed as evil...we don't allow any ambiguity or room for interpretation around here.))
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arakes99 wrote:(( The concept of my submission could be an eclipse, which has absolutely nothing to do with Sharran beliefs other than a vague resemblance to the poorly drawn, overly simplistic symbol that comes in the handbooks. I was actually inspired by the pupil and iris of an eye because of the circle inside a circle effect it gives ie, The Inner Circle. Surely we all agree that we should crush creativity in favor of thematic purity though and we should stick with the wonderfully drawn deity source material for any inspiration. Even though this is not a religious guild nor does it make any specific reference to Mystra.

Ohh and lastly....we wouldn't ever want a symbol that could possibly be construed as evil...we don't allow any ambiguity or room for interpretation around here.))
Don't sweat it, your submission is in the running as well.
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///A small extension has been requested by a few people and so the 27th of the 8th will be our last day to accept submissions
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A quick technical note. Most of our cloak models use a 256x256 image file for the appearance. This is front and back of the cloak. So any icon added should be scaled to be about 100-pixels wide. Much more than that risks the chance of clipping off of the icon's edges.

Also, just because you create it does not guarantee it will go IG. I know Luna is greatly backed up, a large portion of which is due to AppChanger submits.
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