Couple things to keep in mind when you're making requests.

1. MOST IMPORTANT: Look through the galleries, and see if there's something acceptable for your needs already, there are search features and classifications included in the site for a reason, to help you find the images you're looking for, so please check the galleries before making request
2. Remember that artists choose you, so your request has to stand on it's own merits
3. SWAG tries very hard to be a "PG" site, we want to display requests, so don't request something that doesn't qualify as "PG"
4. Anything you request is probably open to artistic license, if you're too specific, an artist may not take it, if you're not specific enough, an artist may not take it. Every artists differs so it's really what about what appeals to the individual
5. Give some idea of who the character really is, what's at the heart of the character, it's great that they use a double-bladed lightsaber... that doesn't exactly set them apart, who are they really?
6. Location, location, location... sometimes giving a setting in which your character is comfortable will make all the difference as to whether an artist takes it or not
7. Details are GREAT, but be negotiable, an artist has to have some leeway to make the art "his/hers"
8. If you're requesting something technical like a starship or something, detail is often a VERY good thing
   • how many weapon emplacements?
   • crew compliment?
   • size? reference other ships of similar size/design

You get the idea... Just remember there's not ONE way to do it. There are a thousand different ways any of this could be done, but these are pretty good rules of thumb.

Eclipse