Greetings! About a year ago, I posted about wanting to create a FFXI webcomic (technically a graphic novel) on Reddit ( https://pay.reddit.com/r/ffxi/comments/wu970/currently_preparing_to_create_a_weekly_ffxi/ ). Well, the plan still stands, but due to several RL responsibilities, I've had only little time to practice my drawing for this endeavor.
So, while I'll continue practicing and working towards creating all of it on my own, I thought I might as well ask around on the off-chance there's a capable artist willing to put this humungous amount of effort and time into what is pretty much just a hobby.
The art style I'm going for would be something like this ( http://i.imgur.com/JqYEXSM.jpg or http://i.imgur.com/CM0tlfW.png ), albeit slightly more realistic/serious, particularly with regards to the eyes and obviously less overkill with the details and shading. Also, since coloring requires a quite significant amount of additional work, black&white is absolutely fine.
The storyline will be considerably darker and more violent/bloody than in the game, and there'll be lots of magic effects. Decent backgrounds are certainly necessary, as well.
As you can see, this is asking for quite a lot for nothing in return, hence why I don't expect any takers. But it doesn't hurt to try, especially since Square-Enix basically gave the official go-ahead just recently: http://support.na.square-enix.com/rule.php?id=20&la=1&tag=authc.
I'll also be cross-posting this to Reddit for visibility.
Thanks for reading!
PS: If anybody could get me a dump of the game dialogue/script, I'd be insanely grateful.