Trump Artist Tips

(Nov 2001)

For those who want their trump portrait drawn, here is a list of what I'm looking for. You don't have to specify every last little thing - in fact, I may get bored or carpal tunnel and have to stop. But you should specify the part that's most important to *you*. I aim to please. :-)

- Your friendly neighborhood trump artist

Mood:

If you have a vision for your character's trump, I'd like to make the portrait in line with your vision as much as possible. If you have a couple of words which describe the feeling of the trump, that'd be helpful. Examples could be "Defiant", "demure", "Bored", "sad", "perpetually dazed". This affects the face and the pose (see below).

Face:

The face is what I like to concentrate on. If you have a picture you could send me or a famous person I could do a search for, that'd be good.
Checklist

hair color
eye color
skin color
Hair length.

Here are a couple example links.
Contempo Models - male, female
Fashion Model Directory - female only, usually just 1 shot per model, but has tons

Pose:

A picture of the pose you want, even if it's not the right person helps a lot. I have a hard time with hands so a reference image can cut an hour or more off the total time.

Clothes:

It's useful to specify modern or medieval/renaissance. That mostly helps on the clothing detailing.
Renaissance Clothing Links:

Jonathon Earl Bowser - amazing "Goddess Art" (female mostly)
The Renaissance Faire Junkie - has a HUGE number of good photos
A Festive Attyre - has a "pick of the week" that's actually good. We'll see how long that keeps getting updated.
Lindsay Fleming - amazingly nice custom celtic dresses (female, wedding, a few dozen styles in all)
Yosa.com - Silks and Velvets (female only, about a dozen styles)

Backgrounds:

I'm not doing complicated backgrounds at this time, but suggestions are welcome.

Contact Info:

You can contact me directly via the remailer, set the XSTo field to "trump-artist". Instructions on using the remailer can be found here.