Intro to Designing Your Series
Now that you’ve been invited to submit a full series on NeonMob, let’s get to the most important part of the process: creating. Create your art cards using a tablet, computer, pen, pencil, brush and more. As long as the final work can be shown on a computer, you’re good!
Every NeonMob series has its own special kind of magic — from a spellbinding story to mesmerizing artwork. The special ingredient is YOU and the story you have to tell with your art. If you are still working to complete the artwork for your series, here are a few helpful reminders as you embark on your NeonMob adventure …
Ask for Feedback
One of the most important parts of the creative process is sharing your work. This one simple act makes the whole thing real. Make sure to ask people you admire for feedback on your work. Share your process with your friends, family, strangers, the world — all via social media. Don’t forget to include other NeonMob creators and collectors in your outreach. Here are a couple places where creators can get helpful feedback from the NeonMob community:
The NeonMob Discord Server: Share your work with collectors & creators alike
NeonMob Creator Studio: Share your work, ideas, and struggles with other creators for honest feedback & never-ending support
Make Creating A Habit
Create something small every day. Get in the habit of making art by making the process of creating a daily ritual, even if it’s just for 15 minutes at a time.
If you're at a dead end, take a deep breath, stamp your foot, and shout "Begin!" You never know where it will take you.
— Twyla Tharp
Find Your Inspiration
Inspired by other artists’ work? Take periodic breaks to refresh your mind by pouring through other people’s creations. Scroll through the popular submissionsto see what your peers are working on. Dig through portfolios on ArtStation,Behance,CGSociety,DeviantArt,Dribbble,Instagram,PixelJoint, and Pixiv. Then, get inspired to get back to the grind by watching artists (like NeonMob co-founder & designerRogie King) stream their process on Twitch Creative.
Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.
— Austin Kleon
A variant is a special type of rarity and can be used to indicate a card is a variation of a core card in the same series. To qualify as a variant, the underlying artwork in the card must be the same but you have presented the image in a meaningfully different way from the original core series card (e.g. different coloring, alternate crop, animated, sketch, etc.) In the example below, you can see "Cooz" and its variant "Cooz [Sketch]" from Infinite Totem by Graham Erwin.
Submitting Your Series For Release
After completing a final review of your series and are ready to submit your series for publishing, click the “Submit” button. Please note that you cannot edit your series after you submit. Please ensure that all images and descriptions are finalized before you submit your series for NeonMob review.
After submitting your series it immediately enters final review by NeonMob’s content and community teams. NeonMob will optimize your series and may update rarity distribution, series order, titles, descriptions, et al where applicable. If your series requires a specific order or rarity distribution, please include this information by including it in the card description (ex: 01 - name) or by letting us know at support@neonmob.com prior to publication. We’ll do our best to accommodate this, though some series require reworking for optimization.
If your series includes all required elements and gets sign off from the reviewing team, it will be approved for release and added to the publication queue. Series are typically published within 15 - 30 days after being submitted by the creator.
If your series is not approved for publishing, it will be sent back to you for revisions or, in some cases, rejected and marked ineligible for release. Reasons for series rejection include, but are not limited to, offensive images or language, submission of a totally different series than the one proposed in your original concept submission, copyright issues, and/or artwork quality concerns. If a series can be published with only minor adjustments - such as renaming, reordering, or removing a few cards - the NeonMob team may proceed with these revisions without returning the series to you.
