The ArtOrder: Switching Tracks

I'm very pleased to announce that I've joined Jon Schindehette's website The ArtOrder as a guest contributor! Jon's site has been a go-to for fantasy illustrators across the industry, with a heavy focus on developing talent through challenges which often feature some of the industry's biggest names as jurors. In-between, there is simply a wealth of information there regarding this crazy industry.

Being Senior Creative Director for Dungeons & Dragons, Jon has become swamped with the work underway in developing the upcoming Fifth Edition (along with his usual duties), so he put out a call for some help to take some of the load off his blogging efforts, which are considerable. No lazy once-a-week posts like yours truly, with him!

I thought about it a bit, jotted down a few ideas, didn't quite have twelve (he was hoping for a year's worth), got busy instead and figured he'd found his people. Then out of the blue Jon contacted me regarding another issue entirely, and I mentioned that I'd considered giving it a shot, and gave him some of my topic proposals. He enjoyed them and offered me a spot.

After changing my diaper--Art Order gets a ton of readers, after all--I set to work on hammering out the full schedule of topics. Some of them I'd intended on writing about here, but have now expanded them into longer articles. I've also favored an interview format for most of them, because I didn't really want the articles to be about me and my experiences, necessarily.

So, for the foreseeable future, I'll be writing one monthly blog post for the purpose of posting it over at The ArtOrder. When I do, I'll be sure to link you up so you don't miss any. So it won't interrupt things here, except that that week will require one extra click. The rest of the month it'll be the usual nonsense here at Exit Within.

I greatly look forward to seeing you guys over there, and thank Jon for the opportunity!

The first article was a preview really, and sort of introduced the series and my goals for it. You can find that here.

The first actual topic is called, "Switching Tracks." I hope you enjoy it.

So that partially explains the paltry entries here recently, as I've been doing a lot of the front-end work on that series. Hopefully now the content can flow more regularly. Plus, there's new art to begin showing, which I'll begin with next week. Until then, enjoy the articles and I'll see you next week!