ATTENTION (GRAPHIC) ARTISTS ON MY F-LIST

[seventhe]

...ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU LOOKING FOR A LITTLE EXTRA CASH?

I have a friend at work who is looking to have a graphic reworked so that it can be printed on a t-shirt. In order to be printed on a shirt, there needs to be a little bit of space between sections of different colors, apparently, so that the colors don't bleed together when printed. The original also uses a lot of colors, and I think that would need to be cut a little bit so that there are only 1-2 blues and 1-2 greens in the actual image.

He is totally willing to pay! Right now he's looking for a QUOTE from someone as to how much it would cost to have the graphic reworked.

More under the cut --



Jon's exact words: "Krash,
Here is the image I wanted to be able to put on a t-shirt. I was told that there should be a little distance between each color so there is no bleeding. I basically want this image to be clear with no pixelation and some distance between each color. The final image should be in JPEG format. I am just looking for a quote right now. Thanks for your help.

When we talked about it in person we also discussed cutting down on the number of colors in the final image. I told him that printing shirts with lots of different colors was expensive, and while he didn't seem overly concerned about the cost he DID say that it would be nice to reduce the overall number of colors in the image. I'll probably leave that up to suggestions from my wise F-List about this.



Anyway. I could probably take a stab at it, and maybe do a decent job, but I know there are a lot of you out there who kind of do this thing for a living (katmillia, I am initially thinking of you) and could probably do waaayyyy better than I could.

If you're interested, just let me know how much you'd charge so I can get back to Jon about it. Thanks! XD

Comments

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

It doesn't look super hard, just a little bit time consuming to do all those curves. How does $40 sound to him?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

XD Let me ask. I assume that would be totally fine as an estimate (if it ends up being harder, obvs you can charge him more).

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

Ok! ^_^ Let me know.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Talked with Jon, he says it is probably an excellent price - he's getting confirmation with the captain of his boat (this is the logo for the boat he sails with), and will get back to me soon!

YOU ARE AWESOME.

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, he sails?? Awesome. XDDDDD I sail too, I was wondering what the shirt design was for!! Yay!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

He does sail! I have never been out on their big boat, but a friend of his owns a smaller sailboat and took us out on Lake Erie last summer... it was awesome!

Also, Jon says it's a go. He is going to give me the $40, and then I can either send it to you or PayPal you or ...whatever you want. Just let me know!

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

I just read the comment below that the image is copyrighted...not sure if he still wants to go ahead with it? It makes me kind of nervous to be modifying a copyrighted image.*

*as for something like this that is not fanart!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeah... I just, uh, informed him of the fact that it was copyrighted, too. He's going to get in touch with his printer and see - I don't think the PRINTER would be keen on reproducing a copyrighted image, either. It's not a big deal if you don't want to do it, seriously. It's up to you two.

He had no idea. Weirdo. D:

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it makes me a little uncomfortable. I would have no problem if he wanted me to make a new image or logo kind of in the spirit of that one or whatever, but I don't really want to touch all the legal stuff associated with me modifying someone else's art for profit (and I would also feel bad as an artist).

If he would like to talk about an original logo or whatever, that would be cool though.

And yeah sorry!! O_o I was kind of excited about doing this too, it seemed like a fun project. :( Hope it's not too much of a hassle on your end. I feel bad.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Well, the shirts aren't for profit - they're just for his boat - but he's still a little weirded out. I think he's going to go talk to his boat and some other people, and I'll get back to you about what gets decided!

I'M SORRY TOO.

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

Ahh. Well that makes me feel a little bit better. Yeah, let me know then. WEIRD.