Questing for Semi/Customs
Before starting your quest make sure you've read the other stickies in this forum! You'll need to know what books and stories are prohibited or already taken as well as the basics of how character applications work.
The Stuff!
A semi custom is a pet whose story and gender you can choose. You can also customize some parts of their appearance. Keep in mind with semi customs what you are doing is putting together a list of suggestions. The artist will honor most of them, but will alter the design or discard suggestions as they see fit.
With full customs your detailed design is followed to the letter. The exception is for things that are, well, breaky. Even if you purchase a full custom you cannot, unfortunately, give your Book Child six giant beautiful angel wings that allow them to swoop gracefully from tower to tower. Remember that Book Children are mostly human so they're stuck on the ground like the rest of us (even if they did get a cute little pair of wings), and though they can have inhuman elements here and there those elements are going to be cosmetic only.
The Thing You Need To Do To Get The Stuff!
Fill out the forms for a character application as you normally would, but make sure you put the vital information about your Book Child (story, gender, apparent age) at the top or where it's easy to spot and add the form below to your thread. Make sure you've got a good idea of their personality, because that's important for drawing their posture, expression, etc.
You can get your quest critiqued and even approved, but you can't actually go ahead and start RPing until you've won artwork for the pet somehow. Still, it's encouraged that you open your quest up for crits so that any potential problems (such as six giant beautiful angel wings) can get sorted out BEFORE you submit your design to the artist. If your character and design are approved beforehand your art will get done much faster with no delays or redesigns.
[b]Hair (color and style): [/b]Any color! Any style.
[b]Eye color:[/b] You know.
[b]Skin tone and features:[/b] Are they a round-faced person? A pointy person? Don't forget about their body type.
[b]Outfit:[/b] Semi customs - Your character's clothes are pretty much a mystery, but you can influence it a little bit here! If there's an element, time period, or style you'd really love to see you can mention it here. Suggest some colors, or a general idea that appeals to you, and enjoy the ride.
In both cases - Remember that the story they're spawned from will usually influence their design, some pets will be a little more obvious than others.
Full customs - It's all up to you. Well, unless you want to leave certain parts of it up to the artist. But go into detail! Do you have picture reference? EXCELLENT. Picture references are great. Be clear about what you want! That applies to the other fields in this form as well.
[b]Eye color:[/b] You know.
[b]Skin tone and features:[/b] Are they a round-faced person? A pointy person? Don't forget about their body type.
[b]Outfit:[/b] Semi customs - Your character's clothes are pretty much a mystery, but you can influence it a little bit here! If there's an element, time period, or style you'd really love to see you can mention it here. Suggest some colors, or a general idea that appeals to you, and enjoy the ride.
In both cases - Remember that the story they're spawned from will usually influence their design, some pets will be a little more obvious than others.
Full customs - It's all up to you. Well, unless you want to leave certain parts of it up to the artist. But go into detail! Do you have picture reference? EXCELLENT. Picture references are great. Be clear about what you want! That applies to the other fields in this form as well.
The Way You Get That Stuff!
Having filled out and designed your custom/semi-custom, there are a number of ways to get it made.
1 - regular raffles and auctions
2 - random quest selection
3 - opening speed slots
4 - RL slots?!?! maybe
