Anonymous asked: Uncle Mod, I have a question and I direct it toward you because you always seem to have a nugget of wisdom to offer. Do you think object head characters are better kept to a visual medium? Sorry if I come across as blunt (quite frankly I'm not sure how to be anything but blunt). Take your time answering, if you feel like answering, and I wish you nothing but the best luck in all your endeavors. Sincerely, an anon who loves object heads but can only write.
I think you can do whatever the heck you want, and a character that’s described well can look like anything! In fact, it’s probably even cooler, because the way one person imagines, say, a person with a clock for a head, will almost certainly be different from someone else’s idea of that same object. I don’t think you should feel object heads are only limited to pictures, any more than any other type of character is!
Part 5, I think I’m only missing 2 pictures? (My own book was a test page for inking and testing what would work so not really worth showing off.) Hopefully they’ll be shown soon!
FLORA AND FUNGAL is our topic for the Object Head Zine 2018 edition! Explore the depths of your forests, the backyard woods, your balcony garden. ALL submissions will be accepted so long as they follow the guidelines below. Each person has a limit of up to 3 submissions. This will be a DIGITAL ZINE ONLY and will be available free upon completion (donation optional). The guidelines are as follow:
- Illustration-quality works in either digital or traditional mediums. Both colour and b/w acceptable; background required. *BG can be as simple as a pattern or colour block! Avoid utilizing a camera to submit your images, please use a scanner.
- The default size will be 6″x9″, 300 dpi (1800px x 2700px) but feel free to go larger or smaller, so long as it follows those proportions. Please work in a vertical format.
- For consistency’s sake, keep faces to a minimum (You can have eye(s) or you can have mouth(s) but don’t have both in a humanoid arrangement.)
- Please go for original characters (or fanart of your friend’s characters) and not so much established floral object heads.
- If you want to include humans, that’s fine as well but keep the ratio of people to object heads 1:1. Same goes for non-plant/fungal object heads. If you want to include both non-plant/fungal and humans in your image, make sure the majority goes to floral object heads!
- Content should be at most PG-13: Romance is fine but after hours business should not be implied, Blood is fine but no gore. In the end, use your common sense.
Feel free to draw a comic or just an illustration! A comic counts as one submission.
Note that if a submission does not meet the above guidelines, I will either reject your submission or suggest improvements that would help your piece fulfill them. Please email me at objectheadzine(@)hotmail(.)com if you have any further questions and I’ll do my best to reply promptly. If you do not receive a message from me within a few days, please send it again. We’re also available on twitter. Join us as well on the official Object Head Zine discord chat! Click here to be invited into the chat.
Final pieces submitted should be either in PNG or a one layer PSD file format. Also send in your email/website/name you’d like to be credited as. (Feel free to omit emails if that is more comfortable). When you’ve finished your piece(s), you are allowed to post them to your blogs as long as you link back to the zine blog!
THE DUE DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOVEMBER 2ND.
The Zine features these wonderful people people!
|| Potentialforart || 2-ee || Rezllen || Nighthead || Modmad || 0Chromat || Raveninblue || Artic Blue || Tigercubmia || Sellerdoor || Wallabri || Kalkie || Theholeyness || Jessica Pamintuan || Khantaya || Drew Rausch || Pengosolvent || Aaron Alexovich || Melyssa Denton || Audrey Kare || Ver || L. Razo || Derekhetrickart || Chickenwithtie || Mindkiss || Hobermen || Shibara || Prismato || Miru Lee || Carlos Nicolas Zamudio || Kiwi S || Francis Marshall || Crystal Curtis || Gorillaprutt || Hamilton Molg || UrsadaeMajor/Kayla || Eleonora Bruni || Corviday || Feriowind || Gretshelle/Cosmicloak || Slitherbot || Cacoethic + Lenalis || Moon || Alexis Moore || ॐ (Ohmdo) || Pleg || Yan Awayan || MerriMonster || Lye Lawrence || Shima Masoumi ||
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The physical book will be available in March/April of 2017.
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A new artist feature with @modmad ,come check it out over on the kickstarter and back it while you’re there! Your money goes towards printing the books and giving artists like Mod a fair payment.
aaa I it feels weird being interviewed for a feature HEY GUYS this kickstarter is still going and I’m so pleased to have been asked to take part y’all should get in on supporting this amazing project! :D
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(image by raveninblue)
THE KICKSTARTER FOR THE SPOOKY OBJECT HEAD ZINE EDITION IS UP AND RUNNING ALL JANUARY.
|| Potentialforart || 2-ee || Rezllen || Nighthead || Modmad || 0Chromat || Raveninblue || Artic Blue || Tigercubmia || Sellerdoor || Wallabri || Kalkie || Theholeyness || Jessica Pamintuan || Khantaya || Drew Rausch || Pengosolvent || Aaron Alexovich || Melyssa Denton || Audrey Kare || Ver || L. Razo || Derekhetrickart || Chickenwithtie || Mindkiss || Hobermen || Shibara || Prismato || Miru Lee || Carlos Nicolas Zamudio || Kiwi S || Francis Marshall || Crystal Curtis || Gorillaprutt || Hamilton Molg || UrsadaeMajor/Kayla || Eleonora Bruni || Corviday || Feriowind || Gretshelle/Cosmicloak || Slitherbot || Hal Preece/Cacoethic + Lenalis || Moon || Alexis Moore || ॐ (Ohmdo) || Pleg || Yan Awayan || MerriMonster || Lye Lawrence || Shima Masoumi ||
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Finally got around to starting this object head meme due to finishing that page early :’D Sorry if I don’t do one a day like the rules say I’m more of a ‘draw it when you feel like it’ kind of person when it comes to these things, ahaha.. ha.
Vicky hugs everyone. Erica doesn’t hug anyone because she’s worried about straining them with her pipette fingers. Vicky doesn’t give a shit and hugs Erica anyway.
Characters of specified height I found in the fandom!
(From left to right: Anter, @potentialforart‘s Baccus, @hobermen‘s Clive, @modmad‘s RGB, @potentialforart‘s Ashley, @chipper-smol-dragon-tamer‘s Cygnus and Trotter, @doorstoplord‘s Romi, @0chromat‘s Magnus)
TOO MANY LOVELIES
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GUYS LOOK WHAT ARRIVED aaaaa it’s so beautiful! So glad I got to participate in this, and eternal thanks and mad props to Izu for organising the whole thing!
You can get hold of a free download version of the Object Head Zine over here! Just type in 0$ as the fee and it’s all yours and gosh so many pretty pictures by clever lovely people aaa