Right, sorry for the delay, exam season and all that leaves little free time, and I've had some trouble doing the initial piece (idea and motivation mostly).
So, rules and guidelines first:
This is a worldbuilding project, while it's great that people improve their artistic skills that will only be a secondary goal of this thread. The primary one is to develop design and storytelling abilities trough art. Learning how to best convey a particular idea or story trough an image. Well that and build an awesome world in the process
With that in mind, critique will still be greatly appreciated, just don't be overly rude
In addition, the time will be 1:1, so a one week turn corresponds to a week of traveling, keep that in mind when/if doing multiple pieces in regards to changes in enviroment, of course it can be done suddenly if he has some sort of transport.
Anyways, general stuff:
-Everyone gets a week to do their turn, extendable by a couple of days if someone doesn't think they can make it, otherwiise, if you don't deliver your turn passes on to the next person in line
-We'll be doing turns in batches of four, don't want to turn off newcomers with a giant waitlist, they are given out according to the rule of dibs to the first four who claim them
-If you finish your turn early that's great, the next person in line can start their week right away in that case
-In regards of the world itself, no limitations except some common sense (ducks aren't purple, but if you elaborate it in a good enough way they can be) and consistency (no retconning, both to keep it relatively simple and to keep the FUN factor)
And now to start it off:
"The end of winter brought with it the opening of the passages to the lowlands, and with them the rest of the world. Now, with some basic provisions I set off on my journey, hopefully I will reach the great temples of the east by the end of the year, but much has changed in the last few months, so even that is uncertain."
So here we have the guy, a late 30-ies dude, setting off, it's implied he lives either in the higher reaches of the mountain or some valley that gets cut off from the rest of the world. He's a bit smaller than I'd initially made him to be but he was proving too much of a nuisance to draw when compared to the rest of the image, and shrinking him solved most of the problems. The writeup serves as a setup of the rest of the trip, something that would have been a bit harder to convey in image form only, and something I encourage others to do if they want to elaborate certain parts of their image that they especially like or that they couldn't really show in any other way than text.
And with that the season is open, first four entries are eagerly awaited.
ADVENTURE HO!
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