Album Cover

[McDugals]

Hello art people I have a machinima series called "The Last" on youtube and we have about 3 bands now that will feature their music in the rest of our show. And I'm hoping to do an album cover for this series. The album cover is suppose to feature the characters of the series and showing the antagonists. It should look a lot like the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring movie poster. Yeah know with the characters and the hooded riders. Like the one below.

I would like to see samples of your work. i'll also send the pictures of the characters from the Halo game. The date of when i need this by is unknown because the final season wont start till Halo 4 comes out.

Thanks for reading these are some ways to get a hold of me:

Skype- McDugals
Youtube- Night4466
Email- [e-mail]
Xbox- McDugals

Have a nice day!

-McDugals

[Nae]

At 11/7/11 05:35 PM, McDugals wrote: a lot of stuff...

You left out the part about pay! ;)

[McDugals]

At 11/7/11 07:30 PM, Nae wrote:

At 11/7/11 05:35 PM, McDugals wrote: a lot of stuff...

You left out the part about pay! ;)

Well the pay is undetermined obviously we want to be sure the artists does the job right. Second i need to see how the 3 bands want the money to be organized i know one band doesnt give a shit so that just leaves two. One is rising in popularity and another is selling songs on itunes. So yeah at this moment its unknown i will do some research and get back to you on that. But i will say originally their wasnt going to be a pay we were hoping the artist would like to use this as a way to get their work out to the public kinda like an investment if you will. But if it comes to the point where we get no where we may have to go into having to offer a price.

[lovingthedark]

At 11/7/11 10:26 PM, McDugals wrote: Well the pay is undetermined obviously we want to be sure the artists does the job right. Second i need to see how the 3 bands want the money to be organized i know one band doesnt give a shit so that just leaves two. One is rising in popularity and another is selling songs on itunes. So yeah at this moment its unknown i will do some research and get back to you on that. But i will say originally their wasnt going to be a pay we were hoping the artist would like to use this as a way to get their work out to the public kinda like an investment if you will. But if it comes to the point where we get no where we may have to go into having to offer a price.

You're going to have a hard time persuading an artist to work for free, and there will be a correlation between the quality of work and the amount of money offered.

A standard formal art commission might involve an advance of say 1/3 to 1/2 of the overall pay, which is nonrefundable in recognition of the time, effort, and materials an artist puts in to a piece. Commissioners should be familiar with an artist's body of work, so that they won't be surprised by what they get. A contract is an excellent idea, to avoid "he said-she said" arguments later. It's also good to set a limited number of do-overs- that is, if the commissioner is unhappy with the work, there should be a limit to the number of times that the artist is expected to start over from scratch, but this situation can easily be avoided by good communication between both parties. If the artist shows the commissioner frequent works-in-progress, unpalatable results can be avoided with minimal wasting of time.

Your request doesn't seem nearly so formal, but I thought you might want to know how it's usually done- the above system is set up to protect both parties, and you might consider elements of it if you do end up offering money.

[jeeshwa123]

bro, we all have our own prices, but you can't expect someone to do art for you, and then pay them if you like it. That's not how it works. You tell us what to do, we do some sketches, you give us the money, we do the whole piece tit for tat. that's just how it is.

[McDugals]

I apologize for my lack of knowlege guys this is he first time I've asked of this and I'm sure you can tell I'm inexperienced if theirs anything else I'm doing wrong I will honestly fix that the best I can and hopefully I can reach the proper terms

[McDugals]

At 11/8/11 01:58 AM, jeeshwa123 wrote: bro, we all have our own prices, but you can't expect someone to do art for you, and then pay them if you like it. That's not how it works. You tell us what to do, we do some sketches, you give us the money, we do the whole piece tit for tat. that's just how it is.

I like the sound of that. That seems very negotiable and easy.