[HIRING] Painterly liminal hedge maze illustration for website homepage: $100-300, commercial
Hi! I'm looking for an illustrator to create custom homepage artwork for my website, starting with one hero image, with more matching pieces to follow if it's a great fit.
The vision: A digital oil painting type of a lush green hedge maze that feels like a liminal dreamscape aesthetic. (Think secret garden-meets-Alice in Wonderland). Earthy. Hand-painted look with soft oil-painting brushwork (I'm open to other styles, but this is kind of what I have in mind). The feeling is calm, magical, mysterious, and otherworldly, but never dark or spooky. Liminal and dreamscape are the two words that really come to mind here, but with a warm earthy twist. (Is that possible? Let's find out!)
Composition for this hero image: An eye-level view from within the maze, where you can see the maze pattern and green hedges around you, but with a hedge wall close in the foreground so it feels like you're standing in it. Important note: this is NOT a view of someone standing at the entrance looking at the maze from outside. It's more immersive like you're already inside with the maze visible around and beyond you, and open sky at the top where I'll place floating text. (This first image will lead into additional images that continue down the hedge, so the composition should feel like the beginning of a journey deeper in.) One important detail: the bottom of the image should be filled with the hedge (up close and textured), so that it can visually flow into the next image below it, I want the hedge to feel continuous as the page scrolls, like the bottom of this image and the top of the next are the same hedge.
Palette: muted, dusty, earthy tones, sage, moss, warm grey, deep teal, aged cream, with soft golden or dawn/dusk light that feels like it comes from within or beyond. Dreamy and slightly desaturated, but crisp and clear, not foggy or blurry.
Specs:
- Media: digital painting/illustration
- Purpose: background image for my business website homepage (commercial use)
- Size: tall/vertical, high resolution, suitable for a web background (needs to work on desktop and mobile, possibly two versions/crops, happy to discuss)
- Static image only, no animation (but if you can animate, let me know!)
- No text in the image (I'll add words myself)
- Deadline: flexible, ideally within 2 weeks, but I'm not in a rush for the right artist
Budget: $100-300 for this first image, with commercial rights. If it's a great fit, I'd love to commission the same artist for additional matching pieces to complete the homepage, so I'm especially interested in someone who enjoys creating a cohesive set and might want an ongoing project.
I have some style and mood references I can share with interested artists to show the palette and feeling I'm going for (they capture the vibe, not the exact composition, which is described above).
Please reply with your portfolio and rates if this sounds like your kind of work. THANK YOU!!! 😊