Looking at more magazines/publications that have open calls for submissions, I found Art Doll Quarterly. This is a very niche magazine with a SPECIFIC subject: art dolls. I make art dolls, so why shouldn't I submit my work to be featured? The worst that can happen is they say no...
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Unlike Beautiful Bizarre magazine, Art Doll Quarterly establishes dates, deadlines and outlines challenges that they want submissions to answer. This means I'll have a direct plan to stick to, which i reckon will help me with timetabling, but it will also provide me with a theme to follow in my creation of the art dolls (e.g. one of the current themes is Powerful Women, in which I would have scope to research, plan and design a doll specifically in response to the brief).
My only concern is that the magazine does have the tendency to be a bit twee at times. There's a lot of craft fair/farmer's market sort of things. Just a little prim/not quite as I see the edgy, alternative scene of ART dolls. Not all the content is like that, there are some wonderful examples of what I would define as art dolls, hence the images I have picked out. To me, an art doll is different to a traditional doll because it is new, alternative and handmade. It breaks the mould a little. One of a kind.
Scratch that, I have two concerns. My second concern is WHO IS THE AUDIENCE? Is it just people who like art dolls? Perhaps these are potential customers, but is that enough? ARE THE READERS ALSO MY COMPETITION? I'm heading straight for consumers instead of the big wigs in the industry here...
Do professionals read these magazines? Am I heading down the wrong track?
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