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I have doubts, but, then again, when don't I have doubts? Also, it'd need promotion, somehow, but as long as the request is there, it can't be doing any harm. My only advice would be: just advertise the basics (artists for our series wanted; what kind of pictures we need, etc.) to round up interest for the time being; if any potential candidates show an interest, we can share Izzy's art with them and tell them, "This is the sort of style we want," personally, or something like that.
I'll leave you to it, for now, since I need to go and sleep, for I have to JAAAAAAAYNE!! on the morrow.
I have four thoughts on the matter:
1) create a thread somewhere, stating our request and requirements. I'm not sure how infractionable that is, though.
B) create a blog post about it. Fewer people will see it, but it's less likely to earn any kind of punishment for a misplaced post.
う) ask a whole bunch of random people via VMs and suchlike.
Δ) hope that an artist reads this and gets in touch.
...Or pray that Izzy comes back and/or Annie will gladly assist.
Come to think of it, perhaps we can divide what recruitment work there is. If you can handle transmitting our request to...well, to BMGf, to begin with, then I'll handle seeing if I can't win Annie over.
The ether! Let's find a way of throwing our request out there, and see who responds.
...And this is by no means whatsoever a substitute for that, but I could ask my potentially-soon-to-be girlfriend. I just remembered-- she's an Art student. That would help quite a bit, would it not?
(I guess it's proof that we either don't have fans, or that the fans we do have are either very taciturn, don't care that one could interpret the Great Djinn as offensive (though He's not meant to be), or simply haven't found the appropriate page on the wiki.)
We should, as a partnership, actively try to seek out a new artist. Maybe hold auditions. Hire on more than one, maybe, if they have similar art styles. Of course, it'd help if they could read up on everything we've written so far, even though Ain't Nobody Got Time Fo' Dat. Also, they'd need to see Izzy's art to know what sort of thing we're after. After all, if you don't ask, you don't get, right?
(One could argue that that makes the Great Djinn a 'bigger person' (to quote GLaDOS) than the various iterations of the ancient God of this world, existent or not, but the Great Djinn, though it may seem otherwise, isn't there to comment on religion in our society. He's just a stylistic choice to add culture to the Neptuniverse.)
(I mean, expressions like 'my god' (note the lowercase 'g') do exist, too, but they're considered a little more blasphemous than 'my Djinn', since it technically implies polytheism. Within cultures, that's a bit rude, though the Great Djinn doesn't give two sh*ts whether His name is taken in vain or not. To Him, they're all just words that His creations feel are necessary to use to express themselves.)
Bah...again. It'd be a godsend, of sorts, if some brilliant artist happened to be spying on this very conversation right now. But what are the chances of that?
(Oh, and for future reference: in the Neptuniverse, they still have words like 'godsend' and 'godspeed'; though they refer to their deity as the Great Djinn, in terms of species, He is referred to as a 'god' or a 'deity'. So they still have those sorts of words.)
Bah. It's so complicated. It'd help if we already knew a high-quality artist, like Izzy, on here personally, rather than asking someone out of the blue or, Djinn forbid, commissioning someone.
...I don't like the idea of commissioning art because A) the service is highly impersonal, and 2) I'm cheap.
Well, how do we go about it? And do we want someone with the same art direction style, and the same frequency of production? It'd be nice if the new artist could make TEE manga (BTEE, if nothing else), but that might intimidate potential artists with the scale of the project...
Also, how, practically, can we recruit someone? I kind of asked Izzy on the spur of the moment, since she randomly messaged me one, and I thought 'well, why not?'. I doubt such an opportunity will come up twice.
I did email her last month, but I didn't get a reply. Either she's busy with IRL stuff, or she can't log into here and/or her email, or she's dead. And I hope she's not dead.
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