Want To Illustrate An RPG That Doesn't Exist?

Some of you may know the Game Chef contest, an RPG-writing contest that's been running annually since 2002, with over 120 people participating in its last year. This year, part of the contest is "Artists First!", where the writers receive 3-5 original illustrations and then create an RPG using them as inspiration.

Where do those illustrations come from?

That's where you come in. If you're not up to designing a game as part of the contest, you can submit a series of illustrations that someone else can design a game around. Pretty cool. More details:

To enter, artists must draw a series of illustrations for a role-playing game text that doesn't exist!

1. There must be 3-5 original (created for the contest) black and white illustrations, suitable for the interior of a book

2. B&W only, size should be from 1/4 to a full 8.5x11 page, although strange form factors are A-OK (everything doesn't need to be contained in a rectangular bounding box)

3. Each illustration should showcase a place, mood, person, idea or event. The illustrations shoud be thematically connected in some way.

4. Submissions must be posted in the Game Chef forum as a unique thread in the Art Submissions category, or as an e-mail to gamechef08@gmail.com by 12:01am April 6th, 2008

For complete contest information, go to their forum here. There's a thread in there that answers questions about the rights to the work, too, which should always been a concern at the front of your mind!