So while I’ve been upgrading this site I’ve also been working on another little site designed around the idea of little info sheets pinned to a door or table, called Discworld Informer.

It’s nothing all that remarkable as the text is just vaguely rehashed from Wikipedia and the Discworld Companian, only with any reference to reality removed from the descriptions – as if it was all real.

So the text may be nothing new, but I’d like all the pictures to be original pencil drawings that haven’t appeared in any of the books and aren’t copies of any official Discworld artists’ drawings – just our impressions of what we think the people and places look like.

I’m going to have a go at drawing some stuff myself, all just black pencil on white paper so it can be added to the text like this one Discworld Informer - Susan Sto Helit that HalfJack agreed to add, thank you HalfJack.

Anyway, so obviously, I wondered if anyone else wanted to add any. You can draw anything you like, a person, a place, a building etc – so long as it’s just in pencil or black ink, on a white background (so I can add the pale green background for the site easier), to fit the theme. You can choose any of the topics/pages from the site to add a picture to, including ones that someone has added to already – as if a reporter has gathered sketches from different sources. If there isn’t a page for the character or place you want to draw for we can make that page, assuming we can come up with a bit of text for it.

Any pictures can have your name, or pseudonym, on them and the site will be linked to from this site and, or course, this site will be linked to from that one.

As well as being a place to add some nice pictures the site will serve as another instance of Discworldyness that connects back to us and will eventually, perhaps, bring us some new victims members.

Looks good, I'll say more when I have had time to had a good look at it but it looks like a good idea... Well done Mal !

Cooool! If I find the time, I'd like to draw some sketches. I'm not going to promise any partiular drawings so I can pick some when ...er... inspiration strikes, or something like that.

This is my first go at one: Gaspode

Aaaaw...

I had a go at a City Watch House. I'm not sure I like it though, it's a bit messy.

Thanks Mithras-Kosmokrator for adding your picture: Lord Vetinari.

I've stickied this thread in case anyone missed it, and so new people in the future can have a go if they want.

I'm guessing it will take years to fill all the pages, so there's no rush.

At the moment I'm wondering what Dibbler might look like, or perhaps one of his culinary delights...

Very nice. Wish I had some artistic talent to lend to your project.

Here is a one-off drawing of the Unseen University in Ankh Morpork - it's a one-off because the background magic means that it never looks quite the same from one day to the next.

Unseen University

Like it, Mal!

I hope to contribute to this eventually, by the way.

It's me! (well, sort of.)

Good drawing!

That's wonderful! Would you, or someone else, be able to write a little paragraph about her to go with it? There is no page for Polly Perks yet.

Well, I gave it a try...

Polly Perks would be perfectly content to stay home and run "The Duchess," her family's inn, if it weren't for the fact that in the fanatically religious and war-mongering country of Borogravia, women can't own property. Polly's somewhat simple big brother could inherit, but he's MIA in the war against the "evil Zlobenian oppressors." Polly does the only thing left to her, and becomes an "abomination to Nuggan" by putting on men's clothes and heading off to war. Life is complicated by the other members of the regiment who all have secrets of their own, and through a convoluted chain of events, Polly finds herself taking command, leading an invasion against their own castle, and more or less saving the day.

Thanks Ozzer, I'll have to reword it a bit so it's in the past tense, as if she were a real person etc.

Would you like to put your real name on your drawing, a pseudonym or just Ozzer?