r/starvingartists

[Hiring] We need a skilled artist to make us a 45 second video for a contest where we can win up to $1500. Comment or Dm me if interested. We don’t care if you use ai and we will pay 80% of the prize money 1500 for first 1000 for second 500 for third. The contest is pretty easy to place in.

I am developing a wiki tied to some world building I am doing for a series of fantasy books I am writing and would like some artwork for it. As of right now I am needing 12 different characters which I will be willing to provide the wiki information and any other details requested, all half body. May need more characters in the future, or even world maps. I am willing to pay 100 per piece, with the understanding that it will be going on a wiki as official art work for the universe, although how much traffic the wiki may get, is probably next to nothing, I am not that popular and still in the world building stage, and as I am still building the wiki, it's not yet publicly viewable. I will pay extra if for copyright if needed. I could probably do a maximum payment of 150 per piece, with half given when provided with a sketch and the other half after each finished piece and tweaks have been made, but before delivery of the final piece. WILL NOT REPLY TO ANY DM's

Hello. I have a character mod for Slay the Spire 2 that is doing pretty well on NexusMods. I hate AI art and used it as a placeholder while the character was in beta. But it is pretty close to a full release, and I am determined to get rid of the AI garbage and bring in REAL artists. You can check out the mod here, and there are some examples of the card art on that page. I need:

• Art for 82 cards
• Art for 10 relics
• Art for 7 potions
• Art for 15 power icons
• Character model with Spine work in Spine2D

Luckily, the character is called the Artist, so it doesn't need to follow any particular style, as long as the art is ORIGINAL. Multiple artists are welcome to contribute, so if you want to do just 10 cards or something, that's fine. Also, feel free to sign the card art so that you can get some credit, and I'd be happy to credit each artist on the card itself.

I don't know what a reasonable cost per art image is, but let me know what you think you might be able to do and how much it would cost and we'll talk. I can't afford a fortune and the mod itself is free, so I can't recoup any expenses. Please do not DM me. Just post here if you're interested and what you'd be willing to do, maybe with links to examples of your work, and I'll message you.

Thanks everyone!

I’m looking for someone who can bring the world of Ambrosia to life. Ambrosia is basically a fantasy neo greco-Roman massive city on an isthmus.

If this goes well, I’d absolutely be willing to bring you on for more art within the same world.

My range is between $25 - $150, but definitely willing to pay more for high quality work. Reach out in comments, I won’t respond to direct messages, leave an email or preferably discord!

Thank you.

This is an invitation to Artists and Illustrators.

Somewhere between the moment the Declaration of Independence was signed and the world you woke up in this morning, something was lost. Not all at once. Slowly. Quietly. A right here. A liberty there. A freedom traded for convenience, or fear, or simply because nobody was paying attention.

Revolt N Reign was built because someone was paying attention.

This is a two-player competitive trading card game — 355 cards — drawn entirely from the founding documents of the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence. The Constitution. The Bill of Rights. The Federalist Papers. Every card in this game represents something real. A right that was argued. A liberty that was defined. A principle that men pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to put on parchment — for you. Not for a king. Not for a government. For you.

Every card needs a face. A real one.

Right now those faces are AI-generated placeholders — and honestly? They need to go.

Because AI has no soul. Because these cards deserve better than what a machine can imagine. A machine does not know what it felt like to stand in a field in 1776 and decide that dying free was worth more than living on your knees. A machine does not feel the weight of a right being quietly erased. A machine cannot look at a card called Declaration and feel something catch in its chest.

You can.

These placeholders exist only to say: something belongs here. What belongs here is your vision — your hand, your instinct, your rage, your reverence — of what that right looks like. What that liberty feels like. What that moment in history means to someone who still believes these documents were written about real people facing real injustice.

I am not looking for artists who will reproduce what a machine imagined. I am looking for artists who will look at a card that says Liberty Points and feel something. Who will look at a card called Declaration and know exactly what image belongs there — and why. Who will look at a card about the right to petition and understand that the fight on that card is not just history. It is happening right now. It happened to you. It happened to someone you love.

Replace the placeholder. Tell the story. Make someone feel it.

I am also not here to debate the past. America was built on land that was already home to people who had their own laws, their own liberty, their own sense of justice. That truth does not disappear by looking away from it. It also does not change what the founding documents represent — a framework for human dignity and self-governance that has never been fully honored and has never stopped being worth fighting for. If you can hold both of those truths at once — the complicated history and the enduring ideal — you are exactly the kind of artist this project needs.

The injustice that the Founders documented was real. The injustice that followed — against indigenous people, against the enslaved, against anyone the government decided did not count — was real. And the injustice being done right now, quietly, in the language of regulation and administration and statutory code, against living men and women who never surrendered their rights — that is real too. Revolt N Reign does not look away from any of it. It puts it on the table. Literally. And it asks: do you know how to fight back?

I am launching in 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The timing is not coincidence. It is a statement.

I need artists who see this project and think: I want my work on this. Not because of what it pays today. But because twenty years from now, when someone picks up a Revolt N Reign card and learns something about their rights that their school never taught them, your vision of what that right looks like will be the first thing they see.

That card will carry your name.

If you are an artist who believes that art can teach, that history is not settled, that the documents this country was founded on were written about real people with real rights that belong to you right now — I want to hear from you.

This is not just a card game. It is a record of what we were promised.

And it needs to look like it was illustrated by people who refuse to give up those rights.

I am a traditional furry art collector, and looking for new artists to add to my collection. Not wanting to commission at this time, but would love to buy sketches, or finished pieces, and have them mailed to me. These would be things you've already drawn, not commissions. NSFW or risqué artwork is preferred, but cute stuff is great too! Looking to spend around 20 USD a piece. Amateur artists encouraged to reach out! I will pay for shipping as well. Mention a bat, so i know you actually read this please. If you ask me about commissions, I will ignore your message

Hallo, wir suchen eine/n Illustrator/in für ein Kinderbuch. Die Hauptfiguren sind drei Mädchen und ein Junge, etwa 13 oder 14 Jahre alt. Sie können die Figuren ganz nach Ihren Vorstellungen gestalten; sie werden in der Geschichte kurz beschrieben, aber das kann noch geändert werden. Wir wünschen uns ein schönes Cover und einige Illustrationen im Buch.

Wir bezahlen die Illustrationen, und Ihr Name wird natürlich auf dem Buchcover erscheinen. Die Geschichte spielt in Deutschland. Leider weiß ich nicht, wie viel eine Illustration kostet. Maybe 200 euros for the cover, and 50 euros each for the illustrations inside the book? These should be small illustrations here and there.

Vielen Dank!

Looking to get a ref sheet for an oc its from scratch

The character is inspired by honkai star rail

My budget is around 160-200

Main things I want in the ref is 2-3 expressions back and front view alt outfit and weapon and aside from that I'm also looking for a dragon form for her but that can be a separate com

Feel free to post your portfolio and prices.

My coworkers and I are looking to have a design made for a t-shirt we want to have. It'd be a limited run of t-shirts just for those of us who are currently in my office. Preferably we'd want an art Noveau/Alphonse Mucha style piece of colored art done. 50's style Americana would work as well.

It would NOT require any human faces or figures. There are a couple items which would need to be featured in the art. I can go into details if we decide to move forward. Mainly a coconut crab, an aircraft flying overhead, a great big billowing cloud sky, and a beach with coconut trees.

The art itself would need to be a photoshop file or equivalent so that it could be scaled onto the back of the t-shirt. I'm assuming it would need to be about Height x Width: 9in (23cm) x 5in (12.7cm) when printed. In terms of price we're willing to go higher if the art is better.

I'd like to see past examples of your work that demonstrate the ability to do clean line work and good coloring. There is a little bit of a time crunch on this, so preferably we'd like to have the piece of art done within a month's time as of May 18, 2026.

Hey everyone,

I’m currently looking for a 18+ NSFW artist for a private commission.

I’m mainly interested in a style heavily inspired by Arknights — similar vibe to official operator art.

Budget: around $70 USD

Payment via Kofi or VGen.

Looking for someone comfortable with NSFW artwork

Full-body or detailed illustration preferred

Feel free to post your portfolio and pricing in the comments or send me a DM. Thanks