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Who?I'm a skilled amateur artist looking to earn some pocket money from his work. Thus I'm putting this up for people who like my work enough to spare a pertinent amount for a new piece.
What?
Art: Works commissioned should have both general subject and technique already present in my gallery. As I will not snail mail originals let alone sell them, you will get your choice of a 300dpi *.psd/*.png/*.tif file uploaded to Sta.sh, the link to which will be subsequently sent you and will be valid for 3 months. You will obtain the right to display and modify for display the aforementioned work and I'll at least retain those rights. I will have full rights to the work, if it includes no copyrighted material including likenesses. Science: You can hire me as your consultant within my areas of academic expertise, Biology and Geology. As best as I can and as the references allow, a list of them will be provided along with a distillation of the knowledge they contain. Acknowledgement of my work for you will be required but otherwise you may disregard my advice as you wish. When?There will be only one commission/consultancy slot open at a time. If more than one person applies, it's settled on a first come, first served basis. My schedule priorities are commissions/consultancy and personal work by that order.
How?My standing rate is (Euro) € 5 per hour of work. Final prices will be agreed upon when the work is finished and will be payed via Paypal to Dracontes@gmail.com . The details of the progressing work may be discussed as the commissioner/consultee wishes. If privately, preliminary work will be uploaded via Sta.sh and linked to in the private messaging venue of your choice.
Why?In short, I am between jobs and I'd like to have a source of revenue on my own terms and doing something I like.
Where?The money I earn with the commissions will be used to, among other things:
pay the bills and put food on the table support The commission/consultancy slot is closed.
And that was that for chats
Some more context on my Facebook profile.
It's nice to have a private place where you can bounce ideas off similarly-minded people and generally be sociable but I've come to realize, as for other Web 2.0 modes of interaction in the past, that there's a risk of that becoming all you do. So after a year or so testing the likes of Facebook and Discord as chatting platforms I've decided Skype is the chosen one (for now at least) and it seems to me that the first chat group I've joined on there has an activity level I can keep up with.
So all invites to join chats elsewhere are preemptively declined (as are for other venues like forums and sundr
Say No To Art Contests
Let's see if I can summarize this ramble of mine on why I am turned away from most art contests into easily digestible points.
:bulletred: Always read the rules in detail. Overwhelmingly you'll find an item that says you relinquish your commercial rights pertaining to the submitted artwork or even all of them to the entity holding the contest just to participate.
:bulletred: All things being equal, a contest corresponds to a ballot where a "ticket" is something for which entrants likely worked hard for and yet only three of them at most get a one time payment, resulting, if that hasn't already happened, in the complete forfeiture of the win
A Speculative Palaeobiology Group
SpecPalaeo (https://www.deviantart.com/specpalaeo)
Hopefully one of the more productive community-oriented efforts stemming from #buildabetterfaketheropod. I hope those of you approached by the administrator can exercise forbearance regarding the pertinent recent bout of querulousness over Brian Engh's modest proposal, but that exercise, with time, has have given Lediblock2 (https://www.deviantart.com/lediblock2) a better appreciation for those that like their speculative fiction with a bit more inventiveness. That said, I'm sure the more conservative imaginings will also have their place there.
Meanwhile at the Paleoartists Group...
...an admin wonders about the point of it all.
So beyond all the issues pertaining to my livelihood that take precedence over most community efforts I can part-take in, there's this failure of communication I don't understand and consequently can't figure out a way to tastefully resolve and frankly leaves my charitability tattered and frayed far too quickly. So unable to be agreeable enough in this situation most of the time I move on to other things.
Let's see for how long I can avoid that tropism this time around.
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i cant do anything online with money at the moment, sorry 
if i could i'd help out
if i could i'd help out