Community Art
Many hands, many styles, one plant. Card art is made by the community, guided by TerraDex entries thorough enough to draw from.
Submissions are not open yet. The guidelines below are the standard the first call for art will use. No card art has been approved for publication.
Why many artists
Great card games are illustrated by a whole community of artists, each with their own hand. Compassion Seed is built the same way: the TerraDex describes every species in enough detail that different artists can interpret the same plant, and every good interpretation can become a real card.
The one rule: draw the whole plant
- Work from the plant in its natural state — roots, fruit, multiple heads, seed structures, and all — not just a tidy portrait of a bloom.
- Let the creature grow out of the plant's real role, offenses, and defenses, so its class reads true to the TerraDex entry.
- Any style is welcome. The consistency comes from the botany, not from a single house look.
- Draw the species as it is; do not blend it with another species or a real brand's character.
Submission & licensing standard
- Every submission names its artist and the exact TerraDex species it depicts.
- Art must be the submitter's original work, with a clear license for card and web use and credit to the artist.
- Each accepted piece gets a factual caption, alternative text, and a review date before it is published.
- AI-assisted work must be disclosed and must still meet the whole-plant and originality rules.
No card art is published yet. This empty state is intentional until the first submissions are reviewed and licensed.