Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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Hi, I’m Johan Nohr. I’m a visual artist, graphic designer and roleplaying game enthusiast from the cold dark of Sweden. This is a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of my personal art book: Art by Nohr.
A big thank you to Katla for letting me use their song Warcries from the fantastic album Warmongering Lucefarians in the Kickstarter video. If you like heavy, sludgy, Danish doom metal, don’t sleep on them.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been drawing like never before.
It all began with the release of my and Pelle Nilsson’s pitch-black, heavy metal tabletop role-playing game MÖRK BORG, and it kind of snowballed from there. Since then I’ve been doing more original art for game expansion books, freelance gigs for third-party designers and publishers, Twitter shitposts and a whole lot of random doodles and drawings inspired by this dark fantasy world of ours. Looking back, it’s actually wild how much I’ve drawn, and I figure I want to gather it all into one bigass book before all these art pieces are lost in the sprawling, trap-filled maze that is my hard drive.
So I’ve decided to make my own coffee table art book.
It contains basically every piece of art I’ve drawn since the release of MÖRK BORG in 2019 and some stuff from before that (Barkhäxan, Mutant, etc). And the thing is, most of these illustrations were drawn on a much larger scale than they were intended to print in, meaning I can now show them in full size, enhanced and polished for the occasion. And I have plenty of behind-the-scenes stuff: sketches, refused versions of freelance pieces, scrapped ideas and art for projects that never got anywhere. Things that were never released or shown publicly until now.
Oh and hey, another thing that’s pretty significant: I’m quitting my day job and switching over to doing this (drawing skulls and making role-playing games) fulltime by the time this campaign launches. So it’s very symbolic in a way. Which is pretty neat.
As of September 28th, this project has raised $60,000 of their $27,127 goal. This project has 15 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $59, you will get one book. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jnohr/art-by-nohr?
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