r/starvingartists

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.

Hi and I am looking for someone, who could commission me foot art for a small/niche VTuber.

I don’t want to tell much about her, since she’s a small creator and I don’t want her to see that there’s nsfw of her publicly. That’s why the commission will be personal and will not be posted and I hope you respect that too!

But what I can say about her is that she has a “cute”and colourful anime artstyle. I hope that you can capture that with the foot art. And if you have a foot fetish, you could also advise and suggest how we could do the feet of hers like if she uses nail polish on them or not or if she should have huge or small feet. And idk if she should more 2D or closer to the 3D VTuber model.

I will give you the reference images, details and also a foot pose I want her to pose on.

So yeah I am looking forward about your portfolios and if you have drawn (anime) foot art before, that would be nice!

My budget is between 15$ to 30$ and I hope that the budget will be in between.

I also use Discord as well for communication.

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

As the post describes, I am looking for an artist for a series of personal pieces. Am opening to hire multiple artists. Please DM me your portfolio or examples with applicable works. If you don't have a piece, but are interested, I will provide a 'test character' and a selection of monsters for you to make a sample sketch for.

Personally enjoy the style of Dragons Crown and Unicorn Overlord, but am also a distinct fan of the Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest series aesthetic. Also partial to the style of the D. Grey Man and Black Cat manga.

Payment will be done through PayPal, 50% after the approved sketch, 50% after the piece is finished. Being familiar with Bloodborne, Fallout, Dungeons and Dragons, and other RPGs is a bonus.

Thank you for your time.

I have been working on a book project, and have decided that I would like one important scene from each chapter to be illustrated, perhaps acting as a header before the chapter begins.

I have already ironed out a lot of the character designs and environmental work with other artists, so I have good references to provide, which I will once I have chosen an artist.

Style: I would prefer a painterly style, but feel free to throw your work out there, because while I do have an idea of what I want, it is entirely possible that I may consider your style for the illustrations instead.

Scope: We will start with a few illustrations to get our footing, then if I would like to pursue this further, then we can go from there. I cannot really give you a hard number of how many illustrations, as I am still editing, so the number of illustrations needed may go up or down depending.

Duration: For a year if things take off, and perhaps more. Expect me to commission you, get the work done, pay you, then go silent for some time before I come back for the next one. As much as we would like to have one commission after the other, its not realistic with this price tag, but I will try.

Soft requirements (as in it may very well not be needed in these illustrations depending), I will need skills in illustrating simple, historical architecture, firearms, armor, nudity, and vehicles. I already have references and long, written descriptions (down to the props and furniture for each room) for all of these to help if needed, so there shouldn't be any guesswork if we need to illustrate a scene inside of a certain room or anything else.

Hard requirements are that you can illustrate unsavory elements such as gore and abuse, because it will be expected for you to be able to illustrate certain disturbing, apocalyptic, and tragic scenes. If you do not like that work, but think that you can just push past it, this still may not be for you. The reason being that while the first half or so may be more tame, it will be building in intensity relatively quickly towards the latter-half to the end. I don't want to skimp on them, so just consider on if you are willing and able to perform this.

There will be some business we will have to hash out since these may very well be commercial commissions.

Just a heads up on myself, I can be easy to work with in some ways, but also difficult in others.

Strengths:

• I am extremely thorough to avoid misunderstandings, so expect an extensive, organized brief.
• I provide many references, and can get quite focused in trying to provide as many materials as possible (I made a floor-plan once for goodness sake).
• I am quite fair in price and can negotiate easily, it's not as big of a deal with me.
• I try to give the best feedback that I can, though it can fall flat sometimes.

Weaknesses:

• My working memory is completely shot, so expect me to be quite long-winded, sometimes confused and forgetful to where I just vomit things at you to push them out of my mind quickly, along with repeating myself from time to time. Just tell me to slow down.
• I also can get attached to sketches or thumbnails, then be thrown off by the more "defined" render, but I will usually sit with it before I say anything to see how I feel about it later.
• While I try my best to give feedback, I can find it difficult to describe what I am trying to get at, to where I need some time to try and communicate that properly, especially with anything to do with vibes and the matter. Whoever heard of a "writer" who cannot find the right words?

Things I Dislike:

• Big one is lack of communication. I do not mind letting an artist go out and make a change or concept of their own interpretation (I actually respect that), I just need clear communication of what is going on or if there is any changes to something we agreed to previously, etc.
• I do not like uncertainty, so do not make the process or your communication ambiguous.
• For interpretive works, if I have to do a lot of the creative heavy-lifting that is your work, I will walk. I will accommodate you as much as humanly possible to give you direction, but I expect not having to stress over composition, lighting, or whatever else for a concept. I am not an artist. I order the chef's special because they know something I don't, not because I want to tell them how to prepare the meal.

Its probably tacky to put the strengths, weaknesses, and dislikes here, but I find it better to be straightforward about what you are getting into instead of us wasting each other's time. At least I will tell it to your face that I'm an anxious buffoon that cannot exercise brevity.