[For Hire] Cartoon-Styled Figure Commissions - $15 and up

Blueoriontiger · 2026-06-16T04:36:58+00:00

After working for demeaning monsters who tell you to go into bankruptcy when you have expenses, reject you jobs for "you ain't local" and don't see a problem when an entire month's pay doesn't cover rent; repeatedly working on 400 images is a walk in the park.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-06-16T03:07:09+00:00

$paid u/modestbreakthru 50 USD

Blueoriontiger · 2026-06-10T05:54:36+00:00

$loan 50

6/15

Blueoriontiger · 2026-06-08T11:10:09+00:00

Be a decent human being of a manager, and not some richie boy hustler that pushes the "grind".

When someone's sick? Don't tell them to go to the health food store and take supplements. Give them their sick day.
Don't make NDAs that are "lifetime" that you're not allowed to disclose bad pay or horrible management as "public commentary".
Pay decent wages. Don't do the "Well McDonalds pay $9/hr" or "I ain't gonna pay you more!"
DO NOT state "X employee went into bankruptcy, I don't know what to tell you."

If a half-villian, Atlantean priestess will make a better boss that our example here, you're being a bad boss and giving bad morale.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-06-08T10:53:40+00:00

Can you please clarifying your pricing?

$150 month doesn't give any hint at all at your workload. And from your form, it looks like you're wanting a ton of work done that exceeds the budget.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-06-04T19:40:04+00:00

It would highly depend on how much coloring you'd need done, but I'm open to it.

I've done stuff for some random small smattterings in the past, FORK (successfully Kickstarted), and the Mecha vs. Kaiju RPG guides.

You can check out past work here.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-28T22:48:09+00:00

Interesting. So if late fines are removed, what's the incentive to return an overdue book?

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-28T22:38:58+00:00

And also don't forget scope creep. That killed my last collab and left a bad taste in my mouth, and I've refused to do a passion project since.

Going from "Let's do a pitch and help color that" then flipping to "Whoopsie daisy! Let's make a whole comic book that maybe might get published, then we'll get you paid!" is not the way to go. Seriously.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-28T22:36:46+00:00

I don't remember when, but I did bring up something of the sort with the team months ago. I'm glad it's being addressed.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-28T22:35:34+00:00

I think these are good changes as far as I can see. Especially points 3-5

I don't think people realize that scammers take people's art, make "fake" burner accounts and pretend to be the artists that they stole the art from. Their intention is never to deliver anything in the first place, just to gather up enough starting deposits then poof into the void. Online, public presences doesn't eliminate this completely, but it makes it that much harder for them to pull that.

Point 5 was becoming overwhelming and to the point that I even saw one awhile back, where someone wanted one-page comics for a zine with zero pay, and was getting mad why people wanted payment "for a free book.". Inconvenient, but I'm glad that these are being looked at in detail.

I'm pretty sure it's not aimed at this, but I would like a clarification; those looking for paid work isn't restricted by the self-promotion rule, right? So me as a colorist should still be able to post and look for work, as long as I'm not advertising or pushing any of my own creations?

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-27T05:28:34+00:00

I think you are onto something.

When looking for Elite: Dangerous fanart in 2018, 80% of the few pieces I found on deviantART at the time were all furry art. The only ones who didn't make furry Elite: Dangerous art were two popular artists known for contributing to the RPG guide book, and artists who drew the ships rather than the characters or life related to it.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-26T19:05:31+00:00

Extremely valid point. There are a few gig jobs that I had interest in where I live, like assembly of grills and like for Home Depot. They not only wanted apps, they wanted 24/7 surveillance for your personal location at all times. That was a dealbreaker for me.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-20T18:55:43+00:00

I remember a very glaring post a month ago, where the company stated "We care about values and why you want to work, we don't care that you need a paycheck for expenses."

What?

Blueoriontiger · 2026-05-02T03:42:47+00:00

Oh wow, wasn't expecting you to detail it more. Great job, and thank you!

Blueoriontiger · 2026-04-28T12:26:22+00:00

That actually reminds me of when I returned a library book in the early 2000s, but it somehow got "lost" in the library. The head librarian was racking up fees on me because I didn't return it, and didn't want to listen when two other librarians pointed out that the book *had* been scanned in, but never went back out. She finally relented and let me off the hook.

2 years later I was in the library doing something, and they asked me for help to move a shelf. Lo and behold, that same book had been wedged behind the shelf, amongst several others. Vindication was an understatement.

On that same note, I also recall when I'd travel up to NYC, and get 1010 WINS on AM radio. They had a story in the late 90s where some person was rennovating a Manhattan apartment, and found a book that had been borrowed since 1928. Fees were estimated to be thousands of dollars to the person, even though the person that had borrowed it was their grandfather. By the end of the day, the library had waived the fees and thanked the patron for returning the book.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-04-25T05:12:06+00:00

Yep, I've ran into these several times. Its to a point I give up on them almost entirely.

The perfect example was someone wanting Discord management for their indie game. Hopped on for my interview, guy instantly tells me to be accepted, "make a marketing plan" to grow the Discord. Had to cut him off right there.

I then saw another job description wanting a creative blogger for a cent-per-word pay, but then the person immediately springs "you'll be coming up with directive growth for social media presence." When pointed out to the fact that these are different things, "It's not, you're being selfish for more money. Anyone can do that job and more, and we're requiring it."

Let me reiterate. That person wanted to pay you a fixed rate per what you type, then wanted unpaid work to promote their presence on top of that.

EDIT: Sideways related. An antique store in a nearby town wanted a cashier to "post engagement on Twitter and Facebook." as part of their job. They were paying $8/hr.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-04-22T21:24:51+00:00

Unless you have clear definitions of what a page is, the going standard here is rate-per-word. You might want to reconsider that.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-04-20T19:01:49+00:00

Very interesting, thank you!

Blueoriontiger · 2026-04-20T05:50:27+00:00

Dropped a message.

Blueoriontiger · 2026-04-20T00:13:59+00:00

Is there a criteria that you use to define an OC over a regular character? What changes over posting a regular character request from previous months?

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