Greetings and welcome to my guide for submitting images to the Nudevember 2024 drawing project. The theme this year is simplistic black and white digital ink images based on doing nude activity in the outdoors. These activities can be pretty much anything non-sexual or non-erotic, including but not limited to: Work projects, role play, sports, games, chores, errands, etc. Images submitted should be no smaller than 2480 pixels on the long side. Images can be newly taken, or chosen from images that you have in your archives. The following are guidelines to what I might be looking for in any images submitted:
- Since Nudevember is a project focused on the BODY, the body should be the focal point of the photo. Do not hide yourself behind equipment, tools, props, etc. The body should be fully in frame, no cutting off of heads. feet, hands, legs, arms, etc. This makes for far less interesting finished works.
- You do not have to worry about your identity, as the style of these drawings leaves identifiable features out of the final image, and no images shared with me (unless done so publicly) will ever be made public. If you simply aren’t comfortable with sending me images showing your face, you can always submit images showing yourself from behind, or can blur your facial features. Please do not blur the entire head, however, as this can mess with the proportions of the final piece.
- Images should be taken or submitted where the body is well lit and in a state of active motion or engagement. Images where you’re flatly lit or statically posed simply aren’t as interesting to draw or view in the final pieces, which rely on dynamic line-work to really pop.
- Do NOT submit images with erections, sexually suggestive poses, focus on genitalia, or sexual activity of any kind. They will be immediately deleted, the sender blocked where possible and called out for it.
- If you are taking new images for this project, I would suggest using a photographic device (if possible) that is capable of shooting burst shots from a tripod. I use a phone mount attachment on my tripod that works wonderfully. When timed right, burst mode can give you a wide range of images from a single movement that can really give you great choice when it comes to a dynamic shot to submit.
- Family and children submissions are welcome, but for this project I would ask that any image that contains children stick to the following criteria:
- At least one adult should be in the image
- always blur children’s faces. It’s probably best to blur genitalia as well, but it’s not absolutely necessary.
- Comfort level is first and foremost, if you are a nudist but your children are not, and you wish to include them in your submission, that is perfectly fine. I’ll work with it.
- Children in the image should be actively engaged in an activity, no posing, no posed group photos, etc.
Images should be submitted no later than October 31st, 2024. I realize that we are entering cooler weather in the Northern Hemisphere, so getting out there to get new photos may be challenging, but I would encourage it regardless. A few moments in the chill can be invigorating. However, if it’s just not possible, please look through your archives to see if you’ve got anything you would like to share.
All images will be permanently deleted as soon as the artwork is completed, or immediately if I deem them unusable or don’t choose them as part of the project.
You can send images to me via the following methods:
- the user MisterBionic on Bluesky via DM
- My email arty mous at gee mail dot com (all together and parsed correctly)
- If you have discord, send a friend request to misterbionic and state what the project is and that you wish to submit to it
Happy photographing, and I hope to get enough images for the full month. I will need 30 good images before October 31st, 2024 or I will be reverting to my back-up plan. I will let everyone that submitted images know by mid-October if I am nearing the goal, and if not, I will let people submit secondary images to hopefully fill the gap.
The following are but a small example of the type of imagery I will be looking for for this project:
Happy photographing or photo hunting through archives everyone. Spread the word to all your nudist or nude-adjacent friends and families and lets have a happy and successful Nudevember in just over a month!