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Now you can discuss FARP related questions on Fantasy and SciFi painting and writing at our Forums. There are severeal boards dedicated to these topics to be found at http://forum.elfwood.com/viewforum.php?f=13

Work For Hire

Lost article found again! It sounds innocuous, but the term 'Work For Hire' is one that every artist should know backwards and forwards before they sign any contract. This article By Ellen Million is now again listed and available at FARP, after being... well.. lost... Go Read!

Cleaning up the FARP

I am currently cleaning up all FARP articles, making sure they are readable and follow a shared style, and that they're acredited to the right elfwood member and placed in the right area, etc, etc. This will take a while,but I am already through all of the Art sections, now working with the writers section. I have noticed that the FARP area has lagged behind, that's why I am doing this. The next step would be to implement a new process on how to get new articles in place, etc. //Thomas

Help Elfwood to Improve

The tutorial section, FARP, has always been a much appreciated part of Elfwood. We are going to make it even better and one of the improvements will be to feature tutorial type film clips in the tutorial section. There are already many good ones at youtube.com, and we are going to display them in our tutorial section. Now we would like tips on nice YouTube tutorials that align with our tutorial section and would be useful for our visitors. Here is an example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSqCr8P1Hs&eurl=http://www.elfwood.com/farp/airbrush.html If you want to submit a film clip tutorial yourself, just upload the clip and send us the link for review. Please use this mail address to propose clips: farp(a)elfwood.com Thanks//Kenth

Finally an Update!

I've been really sick. Sorry you guys missed a month of update because of it. To make up for it, I've posted all the chapters of the "Create a World" tutorial
Chapter 5 - Let There Be Lights in the Sky: Astronomy
Chapter 6 - Let the Land Produce Living Creatures: Zoology
Chapter 7 - Let Us Make Man in Our Image: Anthropology
part 1
part 2
Chapter 8 - The Rest of the Story
Also in "The Writing" section
Building Stronger Story Themes by Timothy Pontious
Writing Stories in Verse By Aubra Penner
And in "The Art" section an interesting gouache technique
Painting with Gouache Relief By Juliet Howland

New Tutorials Posted

Sorry about missing the updates last week, but we're back on schedule!

In the Art section

Coloring with Corel Painter's Oil Brush by Alvina G. Lee

(all you Painter artists out there, we could sure use more of these!)

In the Writing section

A short and sweet article on Creating Worlds by Emma Lydia Bates

and the next chapter in Michael Liljenberg's "Creating Science Fiction and Fantasy Worlds: Chapter 4 - Let Dry Land Appear: Geology