So...

I'm not an artist. Not the kind that draws pictures anyway. I'm a very capable writer and I've been honing my craft for years. I'd like to think I'm as good with words as some of you are with your pictures.

I have some stories I'd like to continue, namely "The Beowolf Project". I have a lot of interesting ideas for the story. It's always been my contention that a story that includes heavily adult sexual situations doesn't have to skimp on story and content. Quite the contrary, but our culture very rarely combines the two, even such stories as Ann Rice's Sleeping Beauty series are little more than masturbatory fantasies with some plot to string it all together. As humans we live our lives in these two very secret and separate worlds. The worlds of our 'normal' lives and the world that is our sexual lives. In fact, I've often noticed in these two factions of our lives we take on very different roles and personalities. At the same time, it's something all humans do and deal with. I think people are often more driven by their sexual needs in their lives than many other motivations and factors, yet somehow this all goes undiscussed and explored. Most modern books even tend to fade to black, or have very demure sexual encounters between characters, when often times most people would be getting out the furry cuffs and the anal lube. This schizophrenia of our personalities is a very interesting concept I'd like to explore more, but I wonder if there is an audience for such things?

My problem isn't so much that, as I would like to eventually develop character sheets and drawings for all the characters in my story, perhaps even design some story boards, comics and even some flash animation, except for one major problem. I don't draw. I don't draw in the way that I've noticed a lot of the good artists here have a hard time using the English language. Sometimes one skill doesn't beget the other. What I've noticed when I read over artist's commission notes is that they want some kind of drawn character reference sheet to go off from. I can WRITE you endless reams of what I see the character looking like in text format, but for me to actually try to draw something would just be a travesty. I know what good art looks like, and I don't make it.

That being said. Are there any artists out there that might be up to the challenge of drawing some character references with out first having a drawn character to draw from?