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Off topic, but the person posting this mentioned the artist who did the avatar and of course I love their art style, and of course they aren’t taking commission
by IgorPartola 6y ago
Off topic, but the person posting this mentioned the artist who did the avatar and of course I love their art style, and of course they aren’t taking commissions right now. How does one find good pixel art artists who might do a small commission or three?
- scrollaway 6y agoDeviant Art used to be a good start a few years back. For pixel art you could also look at r/gamedev, lots of artists looking for work roam it.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoThey have some awesome artists, there, but I have had bad luck getting through to them on DeviantArt. There's a couple of artists that definitely could have made some money from me, but couldn't, because I couldn't contact them (or they ignored my contacts).
- krasin 6y agoFiverr? I've had a generally decent experience with it, but I also follow the rule of three: always hire 3 different freelancers for any task, unless when I have established relationships with an artist who did very similar things in the past.
- IgorPartola 6y agoOh that’s a good point. I’ve used them before. It was neat.
- aviditas 6y agoThis user does small commissions on occasion. http://imgur.com/gallery/qszHeHe http://imgur.com/gallery/qszHeHe
- IgorPartola 6y agoLove the Slavic turtle tax, thanks!
- opencl 6y agoTry searching on skeb, it's a site specifically for art commissions and there are at least a few people doing pixel art on there.
- IgorPartola 6y agoOh this is a super cool concept! Thanks!
- qbasic_forever 6y agoI'd go spelunking in indie game dev forums and spaces. There are almost certainly artists looking for a little bit of side work.
- wlesieutre 6y agoYou might find someone for hire at r/gamedevclassifieds https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevclassifieds https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevclassifieds
- IgorPartola 6y agoOh cool. I’ll look there.
- DownToSky 6y agoIt's usually not hard to follow a few pixel artist and get a bunch suggested to you on Twitter. I know Kiana Mosser should have commissions open within a few weeks. https://twitter.com/kianamosser https://twitter.com/kianamosser
- tubularhells 6y agoTry pixelation.org
- hoten 6y agoYou can find forums where pixel artists look for work. Here's one such forum: https://pixelation.org/index.php?board=8.0 https://pixelation.org/index.php?board=8.0
- IgorPartola 6y agoOh wow exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
- strogonoff 6y agoFollow good artists you like on various platforms, get in touch as appropriate (use your best judgement).
- junon 6y agoGo to the Aseprite discord server. They have a channel exactly for what you want.
- asadlionpk 6y agoI recently found one for a side project via instagram. Look under #pixelart tag.
- ryan-c 6y agoI found Brian when someone I follow retweeted (or perhaps liked?) this post: https://twitter.com/cmmrc2/status/1329991505524690944 https://twitter.com/cmmrc2/status/1329991505524690944 I'd been looking for an artist for months at that point, and looked through his work and saw some nice portraiture and dropped him a DM. I can't figure out who shared it, but I think it was another pixel artist who I liked and was hoping would open up commissions again. I wish it were more common for artists to auction off at least some commission slots.