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An Indecent Proposal? (Art for PHP Commission)

DaosX

By DaosX,
Posted on: 2007-03-02 07:54 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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Hello artists!

I've had this concept floating around my head for awhile now, that just sticks with me - see, most of my characters are named *Phoenix (ie, SapphirePhoenix, JadePhoenix, CobaltPhoenix, etc)

My concept is a portrait where 3 or 4 of my hero Phoenixes (Phoenii? Phoenixen?) are facing off against my Bot MM Phoenix (like the portraits you see of States vs. LR, where they are leaning towards each other with an antagonistic pose), with all her bots deployed around her - so like 10 individual "characters".

Obviously the standard rates for such a portrait would be quite high - higher than I am willing to pay. Not because I don't value the artist's time. I do. My wife does some graphics work, and I know how time consuming it can be. I just don't have the disposable income.

What I do have is I skillset of my own - HTML/PHP/mySQL. I think I'm pretty good, but you can look at my site for yourself and see what you think.

So what I propose, for any artist that is interested, is a barter of time - I am willing to work for you - hour for hour - for as long as it takes to make my portrait.

I'd prefer one of the digital color jobs, but beggars can't be choosers.

If anyone is interested, please send me a PM or email. Or if anyone thinks that this proposal is a waste of my time, you can let me know that too.

 

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SAPPH! Glad you took my advice! Also I'll would gladly ink the piece for free if you just a got a pencil or sketch . Don't know if my coloring skills would be up for it though, they still need work.

 

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Could we see some screenies of said characters?

 

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This sounds like a great deal to me. Wish I could help you out. Good luck.

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I will procure some screenies when I get home tonite.

 

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That is an incredibuly brilliant idea. Site galleries are such a pain to set up and look professional, and most artists would rather spend (vaulable commision time) working on art.

I hope this bears fruit for both you and the artist!

 

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I disagree with the site in your sig though CityInfoTerminal ftw! :P

I now return you to your regularly scheduled threadjack :P

BTW it's not a bad proposal to ask for art in exchange for services. It's all the same. I mean that's what the original economies were based on, just people started using money as a way to represent what they could do. So say a baker who needed shoes could give the shoeperson some money instead of bread, but what if the shoeperson didn't need any bread then the baker would be outta luck.

 

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I disagree with the site in your sig though CityInfoTerminal ftw! :P

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We'll just have to agree to disagree, then, since I own and operate badge-hunter.com and vidiotmaps.com. And you can't disagree with the #1 part - numbers don't lie

 

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Hehe...I did the same thing with Kai...she worked on the PHP for my site...however, I could always use the services of a professional graphic designer, though...

 

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Any takers?

 

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I disagree with the site in your sig though CityInfoTerminal ftw! :P

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I'm sure we'll just have to agree to disagree, then, since I own and operate badge-hunter.com and vidiotmaps.com. And you can't disagree with the #1 part - numbers don't lie

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Well here we'll agree to disagree. Higher numbers don't prove that you're #1. If they did, we could go claim that we're #1 due to the fact that we have a MUCH higher number of characters tracked. But enough thread-jacking from me.

 

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This is not a bump.

 

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Sapph - check out the artists in my gallery, or buckeystar's, or thors assassin's... if you see someone you like, ask them if they'd be interested in your services.


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Thanks, I am looking at them now.

 

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I sent out about a dozen emails / messages. Fingers crossed. Oh yeah, and if anyone was curious as to my coding abilities - when we took over badge-hunter and vidiotmaps, I recoded everything from scratch and rebuilt the DB from the top down. Every line is my code. And the database runs like a dream with well over 2 million records.

 

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Time for some necromantic bumping. I made a number of attempts for this proposal based on DA gallery's provided to me in this thread. . . with no results.

So I'm really hoping that someone in the CoX Fan Art Community might see this for the first time and realize its exactly what they need.

Thanks, all.

 

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Bartering is actually a great idea... g'luck with it. I'm more in need of someone to redesign my website and gallery unfortunately as I don't have the time myself right now.

 

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Don't get too down Sapph, I once offered my writing for art. I had 2 takers. Don't regret it in the least either.

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