Herald Report #1 (November)

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Herald Report #1 (November)

O hai 2 u

I'm Orv Dessrx d'Tana Arconae and I've been a member within the DJB since 2007 where I've held a handful of jobs within Arcona and had two runs as Seneschal. As Muz mentioned in his post, I'm your new Herald. While I'm a Software Engineer in my day job, I have a real love for digital drawing/painting that lends itself to a creative position such as this.

If you are curious about my credentials for this position, you can see my work in a few places around the Brotherhood. I've done the art/design on a few of the past Great Jedi Wars - though those sites are no longer accessible. In my real life, I've done a few book covers; illustrated a children's book; and play around with Photoshop in my spare time.

I am extremely excited to exercise the creative aspect of my life by producing images in an official capacity.

I'll need help

At some point in the future, I will need more Magistrates - probably not until I find my footing and get a feel for the workload.

I do need a Praetor, though.

I'm looking to fill that void sooner rather than later. If you have a desire to be my second, then please send me an application. Here's what I'm looking for:

  • Requirement: Someone who can give constructive criticism - I like artistic insight to help me grow as an artist
  • Requirement: Someone who can take constructive criticism - I need to be able to give insight to help maintain the quality of what we produce.
  • Requirement: Someone who is experienced with Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator.
  • Requirement: Someone who can communicate their ideas in a reasonable fashion as well as be able to interpret the ideas of others in order to bring to life an assigned artistic task.
  • Desired: Someone who has been on the Herald staff before.
  • Desired: Someone who has been on the Herald staff before.

If you plan on applying, send me an email explaining who you are (artistically); why you want the position; which Ninja Turtle is your favorite and why; and provide art references. Deadline for applications is next Wednesday (November 6th).

Note: If you don't like the Ninja Turtles, don't bother applying. You are dead to me.

So far

I've never held a Herald-like position before so be prepared for some fumbling. I'll be asking questions as I get ramped up, but I'm a quick learner. I've been working on a few things:

Warbanners & Sabers

Here are the 10 (one of them is mine, but I'm counting it) that I've produced to date:

Warbanners
Sabers

There are a few requests that have come in, but these take a bit longer than warbanners. I have done one so far:

  • Aabsdu Dupar - This is based on a previous saber Aabsdu had. I duplicated the saber, darkened the metal on both and added wear-and-tear on the "older" one.
Misc
  • I drew a news banner for my news/reports! Check it out!
  • I'm working on a custom icon font for the DJB site that includes the Clan/House logos, DJB logo, and a few other Star Warsy icons.
  • As I mentioned in a news post, I have blessed and James has launched the Google Doc-driven Lightsaber and Warbanner forms that he and Kazmir created respectively. You can find those on your Admin Dashboard! (Thanks, guys!)

What's on the horizon

  • Headshot Selector: This has been on the To-Do list for a while. Muz informs me that there's plenty of art that needs to be generated for this, so it'll keep me busy for a while. Basically...I will be drawing a metric ton of head/face/accessory images.

  • Possessions: There's some art that is still needed for the Possessions system. I'll be helping out with that, too.

In closing

I try to be fair and approachable. If you have questions or concerns regarding me, my staff, or the art that we are producing, please let me know. Be gentle!

Bork, bork, bork!

- HRLD Orv Dessrx d'Tana Arconae

Nice report, brother. Always been a big fan of Orv's style. Also, your GJW comics art lives here now...

You rock. I love my new-old lightsabers. Very excited for future art from your team!

Stoked. Glad to see Orv back on the DC and glad to see a host of HRLD projects.

Great first hrld report!

pats orv good gfx monkey, gooood

Michelangelo > All

Looking forward to seeing more Orv-art!

That news banner is so creepy...its like Orv is staring into my soul shutters

:D Great report!

hmm, apparently actions become italics in markdown

Quejo has a magical girl staff warbanner.

I can only hope to one day be as uguuuu

<3 Orv That icon font is truly awesome!

Yeah, those icons are amazing

oh! oh! just wanted to bring something to your attention: apparently the HSP icon isn't showing up. Maybe a spacing issue?

Glad to see that you are back man. Congrats on the position, I know you will knock it dead.

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