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Artist's Guidelines

| Introduction | Colour Work | Future Projects | Graphics | Layout |

| Submitting | Rights & Copyright | Payment |

Introduction
Hogshead Publishing Ltd. has regular requirements for various types of art, both for covers and black-and-white interior work, and we depend entirely on freelancers to supply us with pictures and maps. We even have occasional need for fancy logos and the like.

You should not expect an instant commission from us, even if we think your portfolio is the hottest thing since sliced toast. Hogshead attempts to give all its projects a cohesive feel, unifying text, art and presentation as much as possible. This means matching artists to suitable projects, and getting them to work closely with writers and editors while the project is being written. As a result we’re likely to keep your work on file until a suitable project comes along, rather than throw a completed manuscript at you and tell you to produce twenty pages of art for it.
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Colour Work
Our colour requirements are low. Nevertheless, we are always interested in seeing samples of colour work from artists, with a view to commissioning covers for forthcoming works.

Colour samples should be submitted as colour photocopies, printed copies of the work, or as digital sample on a CD. On no account should you email graphics files to Hogshead without contacting us first and getting our explicit prior consent, or we will delete them. We will accept website portfolios as links only.
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Future Projects
At present we are looking for an artist with a versatile style and a strong feel for contemporary culture to work on shaping the visual side of a new RPG line. Applicants must live in the UK, preferably close to London, because they will have to liaise and meet with the writer and editor of this project regularly. Be warned: we already have a shortlist. You're going to be bloody good to get a place on it.
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Graphics
We always need good, crisp maps, plans and diagrams, and from time to time we also need logos, icons, crests, badges and symbols. If you can do this sort of thing to professional standard, then please send us some samples. For this kind of graphics work, we need artists who can not only produce crisp, clear designs, but can also imbue it with some of the atmosphere of the background world, whatever that may be.
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Layout
If you have experience of preparing layout designs to a professional standard (i.e. you have been trained and/or paid for it) then we may be able to use you. All Hogshead’s books are prepared using Pagemaker (v6.5; Mac or PC), and sent to the printer on CD. If you are unfamiliar with this software, or do not have access to the relevant hardware, then I’m afraid that we cannot use you. Please send samples of previous work by post, to the address you'll find on our homepage.
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Our book covers are also created electronically. Once again, we prefer PageMaker users, but if you use other software then we can get around that if need be. However, you must have professional experience of cover design and some impressive samples of previous work before we’ll let you loose on designing a cover for us.
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Submitting
Please send us a portfolio containing copies of not less than four pieces of your work, by post. Photocopies and good-quality print-outs are fine. If you wish to have your work returned then label it clearly with your name and address, and include a suitable return envelope or package. Make sure that all art submitted is suitably packaged to survive the postal system. Hogshead Publishing accepts no responsibility for artwork or materials sent to it.

Colour artwork may be submitted as colour photocopies, slides, transparencies or computer graphics files as follows:

Do not email graphics files to us without getting our permission first.
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Rights and Copyright
For most art, we purchase first world rights. While the product is in print, we reserve exclusive rights to the art. Beyond that, we reserve the right to reprint the book with the existing artwork, but you can reprint the work elsewhere. Artists are always credited in full, and on larger projects are given a short biography and/or a space for a portrait. We will print studio names but not agent's names, nor addresses or any other contact information.
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Payment
We pay a fairly standard per-page rate for the artwork we commission, compared to the rest of the games industry. For new artists it tends to be slightly lower; but once you've proved that you're easy to work with and understand the meaning of the word 'deadline' then rates rise accordingly.
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Payment rates for cover illustrations vary enormously, depending on the budget of the individual project, the nature of the cover and the reputation of the artist.

Thank you for your interest. We hope you have found these guidelines useful.

If you have any further queries, please email us at: enquiries@hogshead.demon.co.uk