“Swim On”
A shark zine for charity
Edited by J.Pawlik
Hello everyone! I’m posting an open call for illustrations
and writing for a small zine themed around sharks. I’m looking to do 10-25
pages depending on the response. All proceeds will be donated to sharksavers.org
to help stop shark finning and killing.
For this zine, my vision is to show lesser known species
living and happy. While I want to show people why I care so much about sharks,
I don’t want to leave them sad. I want to show that there’s more to sharks than
death, so please don’t include content like finning or the negative effect of
movies like “Jaws”.
The zine itself will be 6”x9” and will be sold as a PDF on
Gumroad. All proceeds that this zine makes will be sent directly to
sharksavers.org on a continual basis.
Submissions to the zine
-must be 6”x9”
-must involve a living shark
-traditional and digital artwork, as well as original
photography, writing, comics, poems and more are encouraged!
-lesser known species of sharks are encouraged!
-artwork must be sent as high res. as possible so long as it
is 6”x9”
-no anthropomorphic sharks
-no nsfw content
All submissions should be emailed to juliepawlik@gmail.com and titled “Shark
zine submission”, with your preferred name, your website or artblog if
applicable, and an attachment or link of your piece.
I do also ask that you not post your final submission online
for a year after the zine is posted. Progress shots and sketches are encouraged
though!
People will be emailed back regardless if they were accepted
or not.
Submissions will close July 22nd at 11:59pm
Thank you for reading and reblogging!
-J.Pawlik
A drawing I really wanted to colour and then didn’t end up liking in the end anyway. I got really lazy but I spent too much time on it not to upload it. Don’t you hate that?
So that StevenBomb, am I right?
I couldn’t help but redraw Greg’s expressions, ‘cause damn if I’m not a huge sucker for that scene. Wow.
Also I’m trying a lot of new things with colouring and I think I’m getting a bit better with that and backgrounds. But what do you all think? I’m looking for some critiques. What should I try? What can I do better or differently? What’s working? What isn’t? Let me know peeps!
Greg©StevenUniverse
Art©J.Pawlik
Just a quick doodle update for today, a page I did a few days ago that I really liked! I just really like middle aged versions of my characters! They’re a lot of fun! This is a fun au idea where Mikael is a single parent and JP sets him and Ulf up on a blind date.
Also are sketch pages an interesting thing to see? I’m curious. I’ve been thinking what if I sold PDFs of my sketchbooks? Or offered a Patreon to see them? What do you all think? What’s your opinion? Also, I’m always looking for criticism! If you have any for me, send me a message, an ask, anything! I want to get better and grow and I don’t know if I am. I’m sure I am, but I want to focus on it more. So what do you all think?
