Looking for an artist?

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First one is NSFW-ish so BE WARNED!

hmm could you be a little more specific on what you're looking for? :P

You would actually be willing to pay?

Do you mean draw draw, like by hand, or edit some stuff to make it look cool?

I'm good at taking pics and recoloring them, adding brushes, adding cool looking text with effects, doing interesting things with transparency, collages, and stuff like that- but I don't actually draw draw stuff.

Some examples of stuff I did a LONG time ago is in the following Flickr folder, it was a long time ago, and I am just getting back into design, but I'm sure my skills are better now than they were then.

It all just depends on what kind of thing you want. I'd probably ask you to pick out something you like as a theme for the icon- (or banners too if you want any) such as a person, character, colors, design (like your dragon), or something like that. Then I would ask for the preferred colors you want featured in your tag- red, blue, multiple colors, multiple colors faded together- things like that.

Pretty much from there, I would take over with the artistic part, adding little things to it to give it some flare and to set it aside from other things out there. Basically to make it your own and make it very unique.

Here are examples of my work:

deviantART (1 NSFW picture in my gallery, be warned!)

Old Flickr Archive of Wallpapers (all are SFW, has a few things not listed on my DA page)

Here's examples of stuff I drew, just practices on my new tablet for now so don't have any coloured stuff - 1 2

You're still a little vague on what you're looking for.. do you want a completely original drawing? If so, do you have any ideas/guidelines?

Here's something I did for a group's contest here a few months back, this is more an editing/typography type of thing: banner, avatar

Here's my most recent sketch, for a friend's tattoo idea: sketch

This, is a foil project a year ago, I took hard foil, and a dull toothpick, and with that I made a fish. My teacher liked it, so she ended up putting it in an art show and I got an award.

This, is a real quick sketch I did right now, not anything imperssive.

Specifics? Pitch me an idea and I'll see what I can do.

I'm posting because I needed a place to brag about my new avatar >_<
I've been wanting to create a custom avatar for a while and finally got around to it.
It's nothing much - mostly text, so fairly simple - but it represents my interest in the original Mission: Impossible TV show.
The white text is a font similar to the original but I couldn't find a decent font file for the orange text. I had to craft each number from the letters here.
So I guess if that sort of avatar interests you, let me know. I had so much fun I've been offering to make my friends' avatars.