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Hello peoples!  I am a freelance graphics artist with over a decade of experience, and I can create for you anything you'd like me to.  Please feel free to send me any offers, and I will get back to you with an estimate.

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All of my work is created with open-source software (Antergos & Krita.)

How much would you want for a digital painting with the following:

Me (the coolest lesbian in human history) climbing a rocky cliff by the ocean, and I'm towing in-hand a chain with a bunch of naked and scantily clad women leashed to it behind me touching themselves and fawning over me as they climb (4 - 5 women). I'm pointing out to the sea like something's out there -- and I intend to own it! Over the stormy ocean there's some eagles flying around, one catching a salmon with its talons and even the salmon looks like he's enjoying it. A guy who looks sorta like Josh Hutcherson will follow behind my pack of ladies, and he's like a human pack mule carrying a bunch of fishing tackle. Either in realistic/Napoleon's self portrait oil painting style, or pop. I'd enjoy either.

What do you think? Maybe in a size appropriate for a Facebook cover image, and ~300ppi would be rad.

(I know this sounds crackers but, man, I'd love to have a self portrait like this)

God. Such imagination!   :P

OP, do you draw with a tablet or physically on paper?

Ha ha!  This sounds too epic  ;D  Can you PM me a pic of you to use as reference?  Afterwards, I'll send you a rough sketch and we'll take it from there  :)


I draw on both, but I generally like to stick with digital for unlimited undo's and don't have to worry about scanning anything in.  The sketch is deceptive since it looks like pencil, but it's actually a custom pencil tool in SAI  :D  I do have a sketchbook tho that I'll draw in when I'm out and about or at school.  Mostly just for practice, but some of them result in finished pieces.

Do you have much experience drawing MMORPG-style 2D art for a browser game?

This is a pretty big project, happy to pay a fair price:

Base character images for different races, classes
Clothes, like helmets, armor, weapons, needs to go on the character images
UI designs, banners, menus, inventory slots, etc
Map of the game world, maps for specific areas

Let me know if you can handle this.

Don't have much experience, but I have done some practice with a friend after picking up game dev (he was the coder :P)  As long as you're crystal on what you need for your game, I can definitely give it a go.

What kind of artwork are you looking for?  Pixel art, vector?  Something like Maple Story?  Or something more isometric, like Ragnarok?

Do you have any experience with propaganda style painting? Like in the older style of world leaders? In particular I have in mind this picture of Kim Jong-Il: http://walmerconvenience.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/kim-jong-il-vs-north-korea-artistic-propaganda-posters-6.jpg

I would love to have a self portrait similar to that: standing calmly and cooly in front of crashing, thrashing waves in that propaganda-style of painting (it also makes me think of presidential portraits like the famous JFK (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/John_F_Kennedy_Official_Portrait.jpg) portait).

If you think you could do something like that, let me know and I can send you a photo of myself to work with.

Do you have any experience in logos and/or dragons?

PM me ASAP.

Thanks :)

Sure thing. I've got some stuff to get through today but you'll get a PM from me in the near future with pics etc. woo!  8)

I think I see what you're going for; you want a portrait that essentially makes you look important and amazing and, excuse the terminology, totally badass  ;D  If you can get me a full body image, preferably in the pose you're aiming for (but any photograph should do the trick if you can't) I'll see what I can do for you.

You are absolutely, 100% correct XD I'll PM you a picture in just a moment!

One happy client served!  ;D

Currently halfway through with the next.  Currently seeking more work!  Happy to negotiate pricing :)

snapsunny did an amazing job on my portrait. I love it, and I'll be posting here again if I ever need more artwork done! +1 :D

Updated with another example of my work.

You have an awesome talent!  :o
I always admire those that can paint, because I paint like a 3-year old...

Thank you so much brotha  ;D  If you ever want some pointers on drawing and painting, I'd love to help you out.

Another client satisfied ;D  Always seeking more work.

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Here's a WIP of some album art I'm doing for a pal of mine.  If anyone's interested in artwork, I'm always taking new orders ;D

the examples, so beautiful :)
since how long are you enjoying ur talent?

Thank you for your kind words ;D

That's a tough question to answer.  I've been drawing since I was a child, like most people.  When I hit puberty, I was obsessed with an anime called FLCL, and for whatever reason, I wanted to draw just like they did.  So I got a How to Draw Manga book for Christmas and tried learning from it.  I was fairly mediocre for years...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/Mechaman/furikrui12431.jpg <-- Supposed to be Haruko.

And I stopped drawing for VERY long periods of time, for months at a time between works.  But when I did draw, I tried, and kept trying, and got frustrated every time.  I still do get frustrated :P  But around the time I turned 18 or 19, I saw on deviantArt certain artists which knew how to paint beautifully using tablets on PC, specifically Mike Henry (http://zatransis.deviantart.com) and Genzoman (http://genzoman.deviantart.com/).  So I decided to get one of my own.  I still wasn't very good, but I was definitely picking up a lot of different techniques.  The first time I ever attempted to paint was through Photoshop.

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So I'd say I've been painting seriously for at least 2 years, max 3.  But I've been drawing off and on for at least 8, not including anything I did pre-FLCL :P

keep us updated if you create something new :P

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Another WIP of the album art.  Open for more work :)

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Something goofy I made for an art class :P

Nice work dude!

Thank ya sir ;D

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"Dog Soup" -- Thanks to Matthew N. Wright (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=24749)

Amazing mate! Talent with Coins Keep going :)

Glad you enjoyed ;D

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Here's a little something I've been working on for myself.  It's the cover to a novel.  Not sure what I'll add to it or if it's fine as it is, but I'll probably not be done writing this book for a while so I guess I got time to think on it.

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Seeking more work!

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Random sketch; still available!

Mike Christ was absolutely great to work with. Very patient, and took the time to get the technical details correct.

Thanks again!

And then suddenly, an influx of graphic designers.

Sorry Mike  :P

Very nice work though, your style of illustration is seamless. I'm envious of concept designers and illustrators; the line of work I originally wanted to go into when I first went to art school!

I'm glad you like ;D  You shouldn't envy me however, this kind of art is incredibly challenging and time-consuming compared to the pay and frequency of work, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone :P  But if you have a resistance to both pain and depression, it's never too late to start; check out these books (http://alexhays.com/loomis/) by Andrew Loomis, they'll teach you everything you would ever want to know about drawing.

You have talent! Any good at landscape at medieval guards?

Thanks you kindly ;D  I don't paint landscapes often but I am capable; what do you have in mind?

Very nice work, keep it up!

I've bookmarked this page for future reference.

Glad to hear it ;D

I love drawing I think the problem is i don't know the best way to clean up the line-work of a scanned drawing. Tracing the work as paths in Illustrator never seems to retain the organic-ness of the original.

Yeah lineart is a really tough gig; fortunately I'm a painter so I never have to worry about having clean lineart ;D  The best way I know how to do it is to take an opacity brush at 75% hardness in photoshop and clean it up by hand; vector paths always makes it look way too perfect, and you can't do much about line thickness (at least as far as I know) so I try to avoid it, unless I really gotta use it.  I think I'd go crazy having to clean up lineart, it's such a time-consuming process, but for those who can go through with it, the results look really nice; some artists are incredible at lineart.

Excellent work you got there something tells me your not gonna have alot of trouble finding people here that are interested in your work.

I'm very happy you like it ;D

Very nice work. I bookmarked it as well.

How much do you charge for your service? Can you deliver a paint on a paper or you just draw on the PC?

Really nice and original art, i enjoyed watching every painting. Who inspires you to make paintings like "dog soup"? Is it your original idea? If your are not doing any order what kind of themes you draw the most? Thanks.

I enjoyed watching your art would you do some kind of video tutorials of how you draw what is the best program for that etc?

That would be pretty cool, I'd watch it :)

I also support this idea, you could make maybe not a tutorial but how you makes these painting in fast motion because i bet they take alot of time.  ;)

Sorry guys!  I neglected to check this thread for a little while ;D


Thanks so much!


It depends on the subject matter; I charge roughly $10 per working hour, so really simple stuff is relatively inexpensive and really intricate works such as book covers can run up to $100.  The average painting will typically be around $45, but I give my clients a concrete estimate of what the painting will cost from the start so there are no surprises.  I do all my work digitally but you're free to have the original .psd file for printing purposes.


Thank you for your kind words.  Dog Soup was actually commissioned by Matthew N. Wright (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=24749), who was unfortunately banned some time ago.  He'd given me a whole BTC out of charity so I insisted I paint something for him in return ;D  The idea of there being a dog in a soup bowl was possibly a funny on his part considering he lived in SK at the time of this.  For personal art, I usually do sketches of my own character designs; I have aspirations to become a video game artist and so spend much of my free time doing mock concept art.  I have a very ambivalent view on art for art's sake, so it's rare to catch me doing any sort of art that doesn't serve some ulterior purpose, if not for my own improvement.  But I believe I tend for "darker" themes when left to my own devices, i.e. Nightmare Before Christmas sort of designs or demons and such :P


I've always wanted to do something like this, I certainly do love to teach.  I'll see about recording my paintings for you guys.  The tools I use are: a Wacom Intuos4L with old drivers because the new ones are messed up (:P), and Photoshop CS6 with a small set of custom brushes I've made tailored for drawing and painting.  I use an image size of A4 when painting and shrink down to post on the nets.  I'll update the thread with a video whenever I get the chance ;D

Same here I am impressed with your work good job and giving you a free bump as well

Thank you kindly ;D

Impressive works and reasonable price.
Good luck!

Really nice to see you're still going with this Mike (and that you're still using my logo  :p)

Thank you :)


Nice to see you're still around Eddie ;D  I saw your thread hadn't been bumped since November, thought you stopped working.

Unfortunately I had stopped for a while. Back for good now though and raring to go.  8)

Great to hear it man, your designs are some of my favs :)

Looks interesting :D

Really impressive, congratulations !

Thank you :)

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Here's a simple cover I did some time ago.

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"Introspection"

And as promised, here's a corresponding timelapse video (http://youtu.be/NxAx8zlD6Po) to show how I went through creating it.

Cool art work, keep them coming, would like to see more of them.

Glad you dig it ;D

Sweet service! I didn't think I needed a drawing until I came here, really compelling work. I'll definitely  be asking you when I'm in need of such a service.

I'll be waiting ;)

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Drawin' comics

this op has awesome talent . i liked all your post in here . looks nice design
good work.

Very nice work !!

Different and good.

Good luck and will be reverting back to you soon.

Regards

Duke

Thanks guys ;D

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I never finished this because my PC crashed while it was saving, and while the backup file was saving (apparently.)  As a result, the PSD file was corrupted, but luckily I saved a jpeg copy sometime prior.  It's too small to continue working with it so I figured I'd just let it be.

Still, it looks pretty good. :) Out of curiosity, what more were you going to do with it?

I needed to finish painting the background; you can see that the surrounding area of the fire, the trees, and its "leaves" have no detail; the rock-looking things (perhaps they were supposed to be bushes?) look blurry as well, I was probably planning on doing something with them.  And of course there's always tweaking to do once everything is painted; messing with the hue, levels, contrast, textures, and whatnot.

I just realized I never made a post here. Mike did the cover of my thesis and I was very satisfied with the result. Mike is great to work with, hard working, punctual, open to suggestions and generally great to work with! :)

I highly recommend him. Thanks Mike! :)

Glad I could be of service, you're very welcome ;D

Hey Mike.  Please get in touch with me. Thanks :)

Amazing artwork right here, looks great man.

Great work on the Fluttercoin avatars (http://fluttercoin.us/team-flt/) , people are really impressed about your work (me included).

Hi Mike!

Just a little word to say thank you. Amazing work on the TeamFLT avatars.  ;)

+1

Many thanks and awesome job  :)

I just wanted to say that you have done an outstanding work on Fluttercoin Team avatars.I can't describe how awesome they are.
You have a gift.

Regards

Thanks for the TeamFLT avatars, they look great :)

Thank you!






I'm very happy to have pleased ;D  Thank you for the opportunity!

Hey Mike.  I dropped you a PM about your awesome services.

Please get back to me when you can.

Excellent work !

Glad you liked it ;D

Would you be able to create flat ui illustrations aim addition to creating vectors? I am looking forward to working with you.
Please PM me

I like it, is it a painting? Or digital?

Glad you like it; all my work is digital

^ these look very cool. :)

I'm just not sure what I'm looking at in the last one. Is it somebody's torso viewed from the side, with a sword instead of an arm, and some sort of helmet?

If I knew, I'd tell you lol

Great job you are doing there. Will not hesitate to come back here if I need anything.

Keep it up ;)

Thanks man, will do

How many bits for a bull in a Bitcoin outfit owning a bear wearing a banker suit?

Depends; a sketch would be around 0.17 BTC, a full painting around 0.7

Amazing job, thank you! :)

You're welcome  ;D

Truly truly awesome. Even professional comics I read ever have not such awesome character design so often. wow !

By the way how much time it takes to do a pic like the first first in your thread ( 3-4 people looking at some ghost thing ) ?

Thanks man, I really appreciate that ;D

That one took me about 15 hours total, split up by 4 or 5 days.

How much is it usually cost for a fully finished image for Computer Wallpaper?

Can you show me an example of what you're looking for?

Very imaginative , original and amazing work mate. Wish i had such talents and imagination.

Thank you ;D As Bob Ross said:

That's true but imo some people are born with it. Makes it much easier for them to catch up. People like me may need to grind for years :D

I mean a computer wallpaper, with 1280x768 resolution.

That the image is a computer wallpaper is irrelevant; the cost stems from the work hours required to produce the image, which varies depending on what the image is: simple images could take less than an hour, complex images could take a whole week.

Available for work!

awesome,and i really want to learn make that..
is that all of you make that with very good device?

You can learn from this website: http://drawabox.com/

Yes, it's all made on the computer with a graphics tablet

I sent you a pm with a very special request.

Do you do 3d Modelling? Or are you offering only 2d art services?

Only 2D I'm afraid

Could you do a sketch of this guy's (http://steamcommunity.com/id/qpwoe) avatar? It's an SFM poster, I might be able to provide you with the HD image if needed. Also, is it free, or will you give me a quote?

if for instance, i acquire a character art from you, we'd have the full rights claiming i did the work right? :)
I might have some people in our team to have arts in their portfolio just to have reference for their future clients, its a pretentious thing indeed but will help them gain clients. they may upload these arts to their deviantart page too.

something like these below would be good. how much are you asking for such?
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what a nice work dude..anyway may i know how much it cost for 1 picture?maybe i need one picture..
please pm me...

Not sure if I have seen this before but your work is magnificent dude! Call me a Sig spammer but I could't control myself from posting here.Absolutely genius!Like there is so much feels in those night themed pictures.I think 99 designs or fever is the place for you.I will surely keep you in mind if my friend or I have any such work in the future.

Thank you ;D

How much does something like this above cost? and did you create this off an original photo or something someone sent you? Only reason I ask is I was thinking about having you do something like this of one of my family photos :-)

You have some REAL Talent man, VERY NICE! You can PM me if you don't want to post cost here.

Wow ! You are so talented ! Just wonder how can you make such real-life sketches. Keep up the good work  ;) :D

Thank you ;D  Just takes lots and lots of practice

Keep up the good work bro, that's awesome.

Thank you ;D

I'm working on this decentralized freelance market and am thinking a digital painting might be interesting to do through the platform. The artwork would be something freedom-inspired. The project is called Rein after "free rein", or a horse that is free to roam. I had a logo done with a Bitcoin, digital eagle wing as circuits that you can see on the project's Twitter @ReinProject. As I searched for some imagery before I thought seeing an eagle over a beautiful landscape would be nice but never found the image. If it goes more literal, then maybe a digital interpretation of such a scene would make sense. I'd probably use it for our Twitter cover image so wide aspect, SVG if it can be vector or hi-res PNG if not.

If you do the job it'll have to be through the platform which requires setting up a the python-rein program and creating an identity with a couple of Bitcoin signatures. In any case, I would like to know your bid taking into account that you may spend 30-60 mins getting setup with the platform. All data on the platform is public so you'd have to have some contact info you'd be comfortable sharing publicly as well (There are no strict rules so a bitcointalk account name would work as well as anything). http://reinproject.org is the project's website.

Thanks for working for Bitcoin!

Your artworks bloody brialliant how long have you been drawing for ?

Thanks man; it's been a little over ten years now, started when I was young

Available for work!