Hitotoki Illustrators wanted
During the initial sculpting of the Hitotoki concept, Paul, Craig and I did our best to keep our focus squarely on the written word, almost to the exclusion of everything else. Our initial creative wranglings mostly happened in a text editor, while visuals were cautiously added later, once they proved their worth as supporting elements.
One such element, the image that accompany each story, has since become one of our favorite challenges. While we receive some images from the writer and borrow others from the Creative Commons pool at Flickr, we began asking volunteer illustrators to help us fill the gaps late last year, resulting in some quite beautiful and clever interpretations of the stories they accompany.
If you’re an illustrator who enjoys Hitotoki, and want to take a shot at an upcoming story, please send samples of your work to what [ at ) hitotoki dot org. Assignments are short, sweet, and accompanied by loving praise and gratitude from us editors and a link back to your website.
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