The Mud Map

Draw this world

Artwork from readers of Trials, and the reference anyone needs to draw something that looks like it belongs here.

Canon plates

The reference set — the chart, the cast, the places. Published before submissions open, so there is something to draw from rather than a blank page to guess at.

Reader gallery

Not open yet.

Submissions open once the canon plates are up. The first pieces in a gallery set the look of every piece after them, so this one opens with references rather than without.

The brief

  • Anything goes except passing off someone else's work. Traced, AI-laundered, or reposted art gets declined — not because it is bad, but because the credit line has to be true.
  • You keep your copyright. Submitting grants permission to show the piece here with your name on it, and you can withdraw it whenever you like.
  • Under 16 needs a guardian's say-so. There is a consent step on the form, and a guardian can pull a piece at any time.
  • Everything is read by a person before it appears. Nothing goes up automatically.

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