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The thing about custom artwork (FAQ & rant)
Vigo:
Hey, send him my way. For $100 I can pump out 60 video game characters in the timeframe he wants.
Of course, this is the style he would be stuck with.
I find it crazy how many people just don't get how involved art is. I'm only an adobe designer, and still I scratch my head at how many people at my office think I must be just selecting from some presets or templates or something. About anytime I make some random bit of art for an office function, IT tells me they get install requests for stuff like "That t-shirt designer that vigo has" or "Vigo's clipart library". Really? like a effin' clipart library is gonna have images custom to our company related to the specific function we are doing?? You think a logo of chef playing poker in Minnesota is a common thing to find pre-made?
My own boss doesn't even get it, and I know that is a big reason why I am paid horse ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. I recently released a new safety campaign for the company and I designed a team of safety mascots, created a series of themed posters around this, started a series of training videos, restructured the program from scratch, the whole 9 yards.
I show my boss all my work, "Hey that program you have is nifty. You can even pick what heads those people can have? I like the background patterns program lets you choose from!" I then try to tell him I designed the backgrounds, characters and everything else from scratch. Drew everything myself, etc...and how many hours it takes to do this kind of work. He just shuts down and doesn't listen. Flash forward 2 weeks later, he writes me up for time management, because I have been clocking in a lot of overtime to get my work done. :banghead: Somehow he manages to forget that before I was doing this, we were outsourcing $20,000 a year for a company to paste one picture on the same background once a month.
OK, so I might have turned this into my rant as well. Bottom line - I hear ya brother! :cheers:
SNAAKE:
why does he want "CUSTOM" drawn artwork then?
his goal his cartoony art then get him some cartoony STOCK art that is already available and charge him to put everything together. send him my way if he wants me to do it. for his budget he can't get "CUSTOM" anything. its that simple.
Ive done entire sets for 100-200 before. even those "easy" type work is tiring with revisions, changing colors, background, etc :dizzy:
in case anyone wondering why I even bother. I look at my own personal struggle lol. back in the day when I was making cabinets I must have emailed like 20 people trying to see if I can get someone to do some photoshop work for me. didn't get a single reply then kinda had to learn photoshop. SO I figured there are other people on the same boat on a budget and I will sacrifice my time and energy for a small fee to do some photoshop for them.
SNAAKE:
"you are a scammer and i'm going to report you to the mods so that other people dont get scammed by you"
what did I just read :laugh2: :laugh2: :dunno
yotsuya:
I hope the cheap bastard moves on to another hobby. Opt2Not is the furthest thing from a scammer.
Vigo:
I need my entertainment. I'm hoping for one of those "ripoff alert" threads where everyone just ends up telling the OP to STFU.
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