Hey, guys. I’m Taylor over on Love Bytes, and I just wanted to say that we are accepting all kinds of graphic fanart and there are tons of free programs you can play around to create stuff!! Just because you can’t paint or draw etc. please don’t let that stop you from submitting something.

Some cool programs you can play around with:

1) Gimp
2) PicMonkey
3) Fotoflex
4) Pxlr
5) lunaPic
6) free version of Photoshop
7) Paint

There are tons of awesome things you can make with any of these and they are easy to use!

You can always take some pics that give you ICoS feels and upload into a program and play around with text styles or fonts, layers, effects, etc. HAVE FUN.

Here is Pinterest with the tag ‘fanart’ and some of the items that pop up. http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/… Obviously a lot of them are drawn but many are photo manipulated. You can also make a comic, or do a photomontage.

The only thing you need is permission if you’re using a photograph or anything from anyone else (so if it’s a model or something you probably can’t use the picture) BUT you can also find lots of stock model pics made specifically for artists to manipulate. You can just check the info on each pic. Some photographers let you use it no prob. Some ask you to ask them first. Some say you can use it just credit them.

Some places to use:

http://www.freeimages.com/ (used to be sxc.hu)
http://www.deviantart.com/?q=stock+ph…
http://www.deviantart.com/?q=stock+mo…

As long as you follow the rules of the individual people, those stock images are MADE to be used 🙂 And they’re free! (Just make sure that’s the case by the way, like sxc.hu used to have some that would cost $1 but it was clearly marked)

Good Luck !