Yazirian Art

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jedion357
November 9, 2011 - 11:17am
This is a call for yazirian art from anyone out there with skill. I've got two different specific request out there with one positive response. This is just a general call for Yaz art needed for the next 3-4 issues. The old saying is beggars can't be choosers but if I had my way I'd like to see inked sketches. A black and white image will print nicely whether on personal printers or via Lulu. Color that is light in no problem too but darkly saturated color ends up too dark when printed. Subject can be anything and only a hint of background is needed. Masterpiece level artwork will not be turned away I you find you must do that as well.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!
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jedion357
November 11, 2011 - 12:25pm
Show me your inner Yaz!
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Ascent
November 11, 2011 - 2:34pm
jedion357 wrote:
Show me your inner Yaz!

Go bite a rock, worm bait. *growl*

Oh, wait, you mean you want art, right, sorry. Foot in mouth

I'm trying to get some practice in with this Wacom before I do the pro quality stuff. I'll try to do an ink sketch or two. If there's anything specific you have in mind, let me know.
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jedion357
November 11, 2011 - 3:09pm
I have a Yazirian Para Jumper archetype article going in 19. Need a Yazirian jumping or diving or using a parawing archetype covers special forces through rescue jumper.

yazirians doing anything will likely help,

Could use illustrations for the items or at least some of the items in at these locations:
http://starfrontiers.us/node/5924
http://starfrontiers.us/node/5915
a yazirian singing or playing a musical instrument would be icing on the cake.

The 2nd Hostile WEather article will be in 19 and its subtitled "Don't Go into the water" so art with a Water spout, characters swimming (fighting a rip tide or whirl pool), whirl pools, hurricanes, storm surge and tsunamis will be good for that. a beached ship left on top of a hill after a tsunami was an example in the article. Would like 1-2 pics to illustrate that article.

There is a character race submission (actually there are about 5 race submissions slotted into issues 19-25) could use race illustrations for those. To sum them up: a humanoid dog race, 2 humanoid cat races, a humanoid wolf race, and a pale skinned silver haired weird but human like race that can actually mate with humans- I can get details if your interested in drawing these. IIRC 4 of them came with system briefs so I'll use my new capabilities with CC3 software to do nice system maps.

I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Ascent
November 11, 2011 - 11:31pm
Sheesh. I'll pass on the "don't forget to spay and neuter your alien" race submissions. The Yazirian para jumper is up my alley and so are the weather images. I'll see what I can do.
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Malcadon
November 12, 2011 - 3:26am
I have been working a Yazirian biker chick, if you're interested? You know its cool when a laser pistol is used in-place of a cigarette lighter. But just a heads-up, she is sorta topless.

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jedion357
November 12, 2011 - 6:41am
Malcadon wrote:
I have been working a Yazirian biker chick, if you're interested? You know its cool when a laser pistol is used in-place of a cigarette lighter. But just a heads-up, she is sorta topless.


Not sure what sorta means, I'll send you my email, let me see it and I'll tell you what I think.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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Malcadon
November 12, 2011 - 9:58pm
Sorry, I got the e-mail alert, but there was an error in getting your message.

"Sorta" (sort of) means that you can see her boobs - all four of them - but they do not draw too much attention to themselves, and they are droopy ape tits at that. Its tasteful, but folks tend to object to really silly things. She was a character in a cyberpunk-styled SF game I was running.

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jedion357
November 13, 2011 - 7:30am
Malcadon wrote:
Sorry, I got the e-mail alert, but there was an error in getting your message.

"Sorta" (sort of) means that you can see her boobs - all four of them - but they do not draw too much attention to themselves, and they are droopy ape tits at that. Its tasteful, but folks tend to object to really silly things. She was a character in a cyberpunk-styled SF game I was running.


Without seeing it, it sounds ok to me but then because we're trying to run a family friendly publication I think that we might need to err on the side of caution. Despite the fact that it sounds like its not even close to human anotomy as depicted there is a lot of art that is patently a human female body covered in fur and given a cat or wolf head and would be classified as soft porn (you dont have to look hard to find it) and someone might try to make the case we should allow that if we allowed yours.

-that statement is just me trying to imagine the worst case scenario, probably would never happen but you just have to lean to the right with this sort of production (this from the former Year book editor who had to get a sticker printed and cover up an ad that two students paid for in the yearbook and slipped a comment in that cuased all sorts of problems with the college administration and trustees).

I'd still like to see it if possible but I'd perfer to not post my email publicly, I'll PM you with my email address.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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AZ_GAMER
November 14, 2011 - 9:25pm

You can always thicken up the fur or possibly add in a Yaz Bra. Seriously though, the easiest fix is to crop out the controversial portion and offer the head shot only for the scene. As an artist I dislike censorship too. I got some flak onetime on the Frontierspace Site for having a cartoon characture female that some of the community thought was either too well endowed or too suggestive. I pulled the image and replaced it with a toned down version (The one saving grace of digital art is that you can alter images post render without a huge amount of wasted time). It didnt offend me to pull the image but i was mystified that an audience that grew up on conan, elfquet, D&D, and Valejo were so easily ruffled by a fantasy female characture who was fully clothed and not in a sexually suggestive pose. I have considered doing some pin-up nose art for use in players campaigns but ditched the idea based on my frosty reception with the aforementioned image. Art is a tricky, thing, even though I am a conservative I wouldnt be fast to call cartoon characters with animal heads and feminie bodies soft porn. If the art depicts sexually suggestive acts then it may very well qualify - it all depends on context, interpretation, or audience. Obviously you can open any national geo-graphic issue with a story about an aboriginal tribe and find images that someone somewhere will find too revealing or suggestive. I would err on the side of caution and offer as tasteful of an image as possible without showing discernable nudity and you should be fine. However, There were many of female robot illustrations in the frontiersman that definitely crossed the suggestive threshold and never even so much as blush or an "oh my" from the community. Its tricky, if you doubt the suitability then consider submitting an edited version or the head shot only.


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Malcadon
November 18, 2011 - 5:11am
Forget the Yazirian biker chick - I had that lying around. I also been working on a pic of black-suited Yazirian commandos. I forgot about it as I'm a little disorganized. XP Basically, its a team of black-ops ninja-commandos dressed like Snake-Eyes (the classic '82 version) from G.I.Joe, who are gliding to a roof-top, with two who are searching around. Any interest?

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w00t (not verified)
November 18, 2011 - 8:59am
Lots of interest here. Are these images on your deviant art site? Smile

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jedion357
November 18, 2011 - 10:15am
Submit everything you have to the zine, making sure we have enough art in each issue is always a sticking point, we'll find a place to use everything eventually and with the Yazirian Files being a new article series they'll be invaluable.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!

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thespiritcoyote
November 24, 2011 - 10:04pm
OMG!!! Surprised THAT VRUSK CHILD IS NAKED!!!
Oh humans!! Innocent We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".
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so...
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if you square a cube does it become an octoid?