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I'm not gonna let this thread die just yet! Ms Marvel and Spiderwoman - Rafael Albuquerque Another cornerstone of my collection. I got this from him at 2011 SDCC. I've always loved the use of motion i both characters and how it fits perfectly into both's personality. He used it heavily when he was promoting his 2011 commissions and a couple weeks ago, I found it on Ramon Perez's "things I like" tumblr. It's one of those weird feelings of like happiness when you see stuff like that.
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Here's an Emma Frost I got from Rafael Albuquerque at SDCC this year. The grey wash done is fantastic. He's always a pleasure to work with and comes up with new awesomeness. I'm fearful I won't be able to afford him anymore at the rate he keeps increasing his commission prices. Either way, this plus the other one I posted are gems of my collection.  Picked this up at the same time as I got the Casanova piece. It's a great watercolour Loki from Natalie Nourigat. My wife's a huge Loki fan and wouldn't have let me leave if she knew this was available.
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gninjagnome posted:Not a drawing or a sketch, but a custom rocketeer sculpture I commissioned from Steven Defendini at NYCC came - check it out: That is really loving awesome. What's the medium he used?
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Six months after initially commissioning, I get this fantastic piece in the mail from Joelle Jones. Worth every day I waited. I was told in advance it would take about 6 months but it makes an excellent Christmas gift for myself.
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65k seems a bit low for a C&H strip but honestly, you get about maybe 10k and you have only probably 2% of original art collectors who can actually make that play. Then it just comes down to who wants it more.
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I can't stand his politics but I'll be damned if Ethan Van Sciver can't draw.
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That Joelle Jones piece is awesome. I almost got a Mike Choi piece last year but there was such a huge discrepancy in price between a bust and a full figure that instead I went with a piece by Matteo Scalera. I honestly think I walked out with a better deal; a cover quality full figure 11x17 piece from a rising star for the same price as a pencil bust. Yes, it's a Mike Choi pencil bust but I still feel like I came out ahead.
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StumblyWumbly posted:That's all good stuff, but the Jones piece is seriously good. Going to remember that name now. She does amazing quality poo poo. I posted further up the page with a great piece by her. She does general commissions but the wait time is very long (mine took 6 months) and she's very relatively inexpensive for what you get.
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gninjagnome posted:If you pay attention to her blog, she took pre-orders for the convention, so I just showed up on Friday, and it was ready. I actually saw your commission on her site, which is why I got one. Probably the best $50 I've spent for a commission in a while. I've dealt with Alburquerque twice with Con pre-ordering. Both were wonderful (as seen above) and waiting for me when I got there. I dealt with Templesmith via con pre-ordering. The finished product was gorgeous (again, see above) but it wasn't ready until the last day of the con. I do agree, being able to budget a commission via being able to just send the artist money is much easier. It also makes it harder to forget pickup. Last year at SDCC I commissioned an assload of art but at the end, i feared I'd forget something. I don't want to say it was nerve racking, but when you already paid a lot of money, you don't want to forget one but you can end up with a lot of balls up on the air.
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Ryan Kelly is liquidating a ton of Saucer Country pages at $60 per for the month of April. He's a fantastic artist and it's a great book. You should really buy some. Link: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110512061814280183442/posts/ActrkdrtJwP
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Backing kickstarter projects are good way of getting cheapish art. Got a nice Nancy Callahan from Steve Mannion for backing his new project. 
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:A part of me really wants to bid on this even though I don't really want an x-men porn pinup. (nws, obviously) This is absolutely amazing. I'm with you, I don't necessarily want an x-men porn pinup but a) it's Graham and b) gently caress, it's Graham.
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I know he sells Empowered pages because I saw him selling them last year at SDCC. It's just a matter of getting in touch with him to get them. I really really want a page from Supergirl from Mahmud Asrar, were can I get one?
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Con Season! From Denver Comic Con Phoenix from Jim Mahfood Great priced commissions if he's near you ($80) and amazing work. I'm a huge fan of the graffiti style, almost Paul Pope-ish.  Mary Jane Watson from Clayton Crain Really cool, was done in acrylics on art board. It looks better in person than here and that's saying something.  Izabel from Fiona Staples Fiona is a really loving cool person and great to even just sit there and shoot the poo poo with. I got this as a commission and Jason her art dealer sold me the already stretched and framed canvas print of the cover for issue 8 of Saga (there was also a huge mural of it done in loving LEGOS! there, if there's interest in pics, I can post that too). Turns of the canvas he sold me was also the printer proof for the set. The tip here is, always talk to and make friends with art dealers.
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Nodoze posted:RevKrule I am looking through your CAF gallery now, you really have some really nice stuff. It's getting me motivated to start getting art again Timm does great $100 head sketches at cons (he's been at SDCC for at least the past 3 years) but you have to get there first thing in the morning and be sure to pick it up at the end of the day. Otherwise that's pretty much the quality you get. Fast but very incredibly well done. He also does full body color commissions for SDCC through his art dealer (albertmoy.com). I almost choked when I saw the price ($1250) for an 8.5x11. I'm happy with the head shots. Thanks for the words about my collection. I'm a sucker for trying to get just rising people or alt artists. I'd love a Paul Pope piece but it's like getting a Kirby in some circles. The Skottie Young pieces were done a couple years ago, well before his baby Marvel covers skyrocketed. I love the McKelvie page I got (from Siege: Loki), it's shows off his style exceptionally with making sexy but not exploitative. It's got Mephisto with mutton chops and it's got Loki. I still have a couple pages and such that aren't up there. Honestly, there are comics I enjoy to read but I love owning art. I love having a piece of art that's just stunning to look at. It's such a rush for me to get a package from an artist or dealer and open it up and for the first time, get a hard look at the details of a piece. Or discussing with an artist on a piece and watching it go through process until it's finished. Here's another piece I got that I forgot about this weekend.  Gwen Stacy - Farel Dalrymple Unfortunate that he was pretty free most of the weekend. At first honestly, I wasn't super impressed with her face but it's growing on me and the rest of the piece is utterly stellar. If you ever see him at a con, get a commission from him. He puts a lot of detail and work into his pieces and again, he's stupid cheap ($20).
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gninjagnome posted:He was at emerald city two years ago, and NYCC last year. I know he was sketching at ECCC, and pretty sure he was at NYCC as well. I regret not getting something from him at ECCC, since it seemed like it was my best bet to get a sketch as the lines to get in weren't ridiculous. Unfortunately I didn't notice he was there until Saturday afternoon, and he was booked up. The first year I learned he was at SDCC, I didn't even run across him until Saturday afternoon. Obviously he was already booked up and he never shows up on Sunday. I made it a mission to get him first thing the next year but it was one hell of a long year. Edit: Also, his head shots are an open secret. I've seen them go on ebay for 2x the price easy which is a little weird to see knowing what they cost. It's the same with Adam Hughes head shots. I got a batgirl head shot from him, super rough, obviously con sketch quality but it just cost a donation of any amount to one of his causes. You check ebay and people will pay over $100 for them. RevKrule fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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gninjagnome posted:I could understand a small mark up if you can't make it to conventions he goes to- like $25 or something, but I just don't seem them going for what they do go for. It's cool to have something by him, and Adam and his wife were really nice people when I got mine, and it's nice to donate to charity, but it's not the greatest example of his work. Then again, I'm probably not one to talk, considering some of the questionable purchases I've made. Yeah, it's the most bizarre thing I've seen. You get that name attached to it and people go crazy, regardless of quality. I have one. It's a decent 5 minute sketch but you compare it to what he normally does and, well, it looks like trash. But it's got his name on it so people go loving insane. I have two J Scott Campbell sketches (side shot, rough pencils) and I'm tempted to sell one just to see how nuts people would go on the price. If I was an rear end in a top hat, I'd probably do this for a lot of artists but on the other hand I enjoy my art too much to sell most of it. I do love Dustin Nguyen. I loved his issues on Batgirl and his covers for it were incredible. He's probably one of the next new people I want art from. His watercolors are amazing.
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 Ryan Kelly had his annual art sale today. I was able to score this. Now I can't wait for it to show up. I also realized I have more pieces by Ryan Kelly than any other artist. Dude needs way more recognition for his talent. Especially cityscapes. He can draw cities like no one I've ever seen.
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funtax posted:My Ryan Kelly Art Sale score: You're a loving son of a bitch, I hope you know that right. (That was my first choice).
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Ok goons, SDCC has come and gone and I can't be the only one who got original art. But I did at least so here it is. Oh look! My annual Bruce Timm Headshot. Since I learned Bruce Timm not only attends SDCC but has headshot lists, I've made sure to get a piece of him every year. Last year it was Gwen Stacy so it was only apropos that this year was Mary Jane Watson.  Elizabeth from Bioshock - Chrissie Zullo I keep missing Chrissie Zullo at cons so this year I made a concerted effort to seek her out and get a commission. Her style utterly lends itself to stuff like Bioshock Infinite and as such, she came up with a gorgeous Elizabeth without being very familiar at all with the character.  Poison Ivy - Dave Johnson This is the first of two Johnson pieces I got this weekend. This was an utterly beautiful piece that I had had my eye on for a while. I spoke with his art dealer back in Denver Comic-Con and we worked out a negotiable deal on the piece. He would knock X off the price if I paid cash. I didn't have cash at the time but told him I would at SDCC. As part of the deal, he was free to display the piece for sale at Heroes as well as on the website and if he got a bite at full price, he was more than welcome to take it. That didn't happen and I was able to get this gorgeous piece at a discount.  Battle Pug - Mike Norton  Cassie - Tim Seeley Mike Norton and Tim Seeley were sitting around the Image booth for a signing. Like seriously, no one was coming up to them or anything, they were just sitting there. I felt really bad because they're both such great creators that I spoke to them each about a quick sketch commission (more than a free booth sketch, less than a full blown piece) and both of them were more than game. I had a great conversation with both that included everything from how this con was way more chill and had a much weirder vibe than previous SDCCs in recent memory and how the second season of Friday Night Lights was awkward as gently caress (really Landry? you can just kill a guy and go play football to forget about it?) to how Norton still hasn't seen The Wire because it doesn't lend itself to background TV watching (House and Law and Order are the best shows for this).  Viper - Matteo Scalera I'm a huge Scalera fan. I got a piece from him last year and have only seen his stock rise. Getting a second piece was a no brainer but what I really love was I got two different people with two different styles to do the same character. This is the first of two. Scalera did an ultra dynamic piece. It's gorgeously done and I'm always a fan of his awesome splatter process.  Viper - Jorge Molina This is the second of two. Again, I'm a fan of Molina but for different reasons. This piece is seriously cover worthy. While less dynamic of a pose than Scalera, Molina was able to capture the character just as well with an incredibly sexy, brooding style. Choosing a favourite between the two is difficult as hell as both are amazing for utterly different reasons.  Domino - Dave Johnson The second of my Johnson pickups this weekend. I seriously waited all weekend for this. I precommissioned with his dealer weeks before and checked in every day and it seriously wasn't until Sunday at 3:30 PM that I could pick this up and it was loving worth it. Not only is it an amazing Domino piece, I got a second character on there for no charge (almost unheard of). I love the way the blood pools too. It's really hard to choose a favourite piece from the weekend since there are so many amazing ones. But I would like to use this time to pimp out https://www.essentialsequential.com. I've dealt with them at two separate cons and at least once previous for purchases. The guy who runs it is an utter class act and if he ships stuff, it's sent in almost bend-proof packaging. Simple chatting him up got me money off the aforementioned Poison Ivy piece AND got me the Printer's Press copy of Fiona Staples' canvas print because I didn't want to pay for stretching. Seriously, do business with this guy if you're in the market for original art. He has some incredible artists and a wide range of prices.
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Maybe some discussion would perk this up. What's the best scanner for 11x17 art? I have a lot of 11x17 (or the bullshit slightly larger size DC has) and would love to get proper scans but the cost for something I really only use for art is prohibitive here. I'm not gonna use it for anything but art but I have a large enough collection, maybe it's worth it. Best place for display frames? Michael's usually has 11x17 frames but not really 11x17 pre-cut mattes for larger sizes. I don't mind necessarily sticking some art flat in frame but would love to know if there's better places, certainly for pre-cut mattes. Digital colors or on print? Call me weird but I get freaked out thinking about someone coloring on top of my art. One of those "if you gently caress up, the whole thing's hosed" kind of things I guess. I don't mind when the original artist does colors themselves because if they mess up, it's their work and they can start from scratch and or have a good idea how they want to fix it. Anyone had experience with colorists doing digital colors/prints? Anyone had stories of a colorist utterly ruining an original? Same concept with inkers on pencils.
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Gatts posted:If I recall years ago I got a full figure sketch from Adam still framed for about $100. At some point recently it was up to like $200 - $400 or something depending on how you wanted it done. Now he doesn't do any outside of head sketches. Sucks since I couldn't get another one from him, hell I'd pay for a commission up to $400 or $1000 if I was getting a full fledged quality professional piece. I wish he'd do more interiors or something. He stopped doing con commissions because he got tired of seeing his work go almost immediately up on ebay for 2x the price the second he handed it over. His last straw was a year or so ago, he had some guy who was super pushy about getting a sketch from him talking about how it was for his kid and all kinds of poo poo. He finally relented but the whole thing was kinda shady so he did it half-heartedly. Sure enough, he found that piece on ebay that evening. After that he said no more. I know shortly after that he did precommissions for a couple shows but it was one of those things where he'd put the opportunity on ebay and the price would immediately skyrocket to like $2-3k per so that always priced me out of the game. It's awful how basically even in original art collecting, speculators and money grabbers have ruined an amazing hobby for everyone. Rule Number 1 of collecting I've found, never own a piece because of what it might be worth some day. Don't get me wrong, you do it long enough, you'll end up with pieces that are worth a lot of loving money but always buy art you like to look at first and foremost. I have a Walking Dead page I bought for speculation purposes and every time I flip through my portfolio I kick myself for buying it. It's not that it's a bad page or anything, but I got it for all the wrong reasons and it's not one of my better pieces or even one of my better interiors. Edit: Ha, found the story. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/03/adam-hughes-ceases-convention-commissions/ RevKrule fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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Gatts posted:Yeah $2000-$3000 is an international vacation or something and as much as I love his art, I'm not paying that at this stage. It is an unfortunate situation the artists are in. I think Stuart Immonen feels similar and is part of the reason he doesn't do commissions. It's a really lovely situation because as an artist you spend all kinds of time on a piece and a lot of energy. On the one hand you know that when it leaves your hands, it's technically not yours anymore. But especially if you're a hugely popular person, every piece you do for one person, means a piece you can't do for someone else. You hate to see it go up on ebay when you KNOW there's someone who wouldn't turn around and flip it the minute they got it. As much as I don't like Immonen's decision, I fully respect it. The man won't even do quick sketches, that's how committed he is to the position. When I see pieces going for over $2k it makes me astonished. Covers I kinda understand. Important interiors (either artist, issue or character) I understand but just plain ol' specialty pieces going for like $2k is insane. I see it happen, especially with image co-founders, all the loving time.
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That's an awesome page! Great score. gninjagnome had some awesome tips about framing on your own. For about 50 bucks, you can matte and frame it yourself. Be careful, this is a super addictive hobby. There's been more than one time I've seen a page in a comic and been like "I must own that"
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To add some new art to this thread, I got this awesome Pichelli from her dealer last month.
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gninjagnome posted:NYCC is next week, my wife and I found out we're expecting, so I've been holding back on buying anything new, but I'm going to try and splurge a bit at the con. Plan for this weekend is to go through the artist alley list, and see who to check out. That Doom is awesome. Every year when it comes to choosing between SDCC and NYCC, I choose west because it's easier (have family and friends in the SD area makes for a yearly vacation) but one year I really want to go to NYCC. Especially considering it appears to be getting a lot more people I'm interested in. Until then, I'll just have to drool over stuff like that.
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gninjagnome posted:Joe Haley & T.J Dort Scarlet Witch: quote:Unfortunately, I didn't have more then $9,000 to spend to try and get the Adam Hughes Captain Marvel he did for the auction, but it was pretty impressive to see in person.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:The idea of owning a paul pope or frank quietly piece of original art, like just an interior page not even a cover, kind of feels like going to an art museum and asking how much something off the wall costs. And even if I did manage to get ahold of one I wouldn't even know what to do with it. I'd want to lock it in a vault.
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I love the "Character with an object" idea but I always freeze up and forget about it when asking for commissions. As many as I have, I still get scared a lot of times approaching artists. Sometimes the larger than life thing gets to me. I think it leads a couple people to think I'm just gonna sell their piece the second I get it.
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gninjagnome posted:I hadn't heard of her before, but found her while I was wandering around artist alley early on Thursday. She had a pretty short list, and a really reasonable price, so I jumped on it. She also had a couple of her own personal sketch books with her which were neat to look at - it was pretty cool looking at her progression over time. I LOVE getting commissions from up and comers year over year. It's awesome to see progression over time.
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I was unemployed for a couple months (thankfully after my con season ended) so I've been low on the buying front. I'm just starting to come back from that so hopefully I'll have new stuff soon but also it's time to start saving for con season again. I can absolutely speak to the awesomeness of Cadance Comic Art. They were the first dealer I ever went with and they rep a large group of amazing artists, mostly foreign. Every time I've dealt with them it's been utterly professional and I always get email responses about inquiries quickly. Check them out and buy with confidence. I've bought from Splash Page once but honestly what keeps me from being a larger buyer from them is the fact they don't normally take paypal and last time I worked with them they forced a markup on the final price to use it. I understand people can be burned from paypal but they're the only rep I've dealt with that didn't take 20th century online payment methods. I've talked up Essential Sequential before and I'll do it again. Class act all the way. Utterly friendly and worked with me on numerous purchases. The site owner shows up at a lot of shows where his artists are and twice has given me awesome deals on stuff (once the already framed canvas print of Saga 8 that turned out to be a printers print (he knew this at time of sale), the second he knocked off 15% a Dave Johnson piece for cash purchase at a show). There's a couple sites I'd love to do business with but I can't stand places that ask me to inquire about price. I don't want to loving email you every time I've curious how much a page is. If I want to haggle the price, I'll send you a counter based on what you have listed.
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Nodoze posted:I think it was Artist Choice who I had emailed about a page before and the guy told me I had to have two backup pages or he wouldn't check to see if he still had it because This just is ultra annoying. It's not that hard to setup a quick database with a front end to keep track of your inventory. In fact, it's almost vital to any business that wants to stay around. I understand that a lot of the people who've been in the original art game have been doing it well before the internet but holy poo poo do some of these places have antiquated systems. "Mail me a check" I haven't done that poo poo since I started buying just bullshit on ebay back in 98/99. Also, I have a Walking Dead page I kinda want to get rid of but kinda don't because I haven't put any effort into actually finding a way to sell it. It's from the prison era and has zombies on it (a rarity from that time). It's not the greatest page and honestly, I think I only got it because of the coming Walking Dead bubble at the time.
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If you look around a little, you can usually find out if an artist is reputable or not on getting stuff to people. The only time I had an artist mail me a piece after paying for it at a con was Amy Reeder (who knocked it out of the loving park btw). It seemed like she had a reasonably sized list and being a shorter con where she had a long line almost the entire weekend, I can't blame her and her price was sub $100 so if I had to write it off, it was ok. I think I got it like later that month. I've heard horror stories from people who've commissioned from Ale Garza though. Everything from him constantly pushing back his deadline to not responding to emails. And he's not exactly the most affordable of artists either and requires money up front. I'd love to have a commission from him but that's way to rich for me to write off. It just takes research like any other good purchase. It's a small community so if they're even remotely popular, someone's got a story they're willing to tell, good or bad.
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All this framing talk reminds me I've been lax in getting my works framed and even more lax in getting new art. Speaking of, con season is coming, who's excited?
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My wife is like yours, very supportive. The only problem is she wants me to get her stuff too which can be very expensive (the Pichelli Lady Loki I posted earlier was her choice). Also Oeming has been selling art weekly on ebay. It's all going for really reasonable prices. Follow him on twitter for up-comings and massive conspiracies. Years ago I bought a couple pages from Powers second hand. It was honestly the first time I'd ever gotten published art that didn't come on branded art board and at least one of them isn't even labeled for what issue/page but they're confirmed works. I've got Denver Comic Con coming up, gotta decide whether I want to go for a Mark Brooks or Tim Sale for the big piece from that. Then July is SDCC and that'll tap me out for the year. Maybe try and get some mail pieces from people going to other shows.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Just dipping my toe into this but I see that both David Finch & Bill Sienkiewicz are attending the Vancouver Fan Expo & I'm contemplating asking for commissioned artwork.I'd love to see some sort of Hawkeye vs Green Arrow piece in purple and green. While I commend your efforts, you're looking at serious coin for a commission for either of them, let alone colour (which they may not do) so keep that in mind. Also, some artists show up to shows and don't do commissions at all. Stuart Immonen is one of those. It also upsets me a little every time I see him knowing I'll never own a commission from him. I tend to judge commission prices based on how much they sell their originals, it's usually within 10-20% on either side of that number.
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Dead Snoopy posted:Define serious coin. http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/gallery.asp?sc=BSCM1&afs=T http://www.statueforum.com/showthread.php?t=91201 posted:David Finch - As Of 4/7/10
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gninjagnome posted:You can sometimes talk them into giving you a quick sketch for free, but then you won't have much say in what you end up getting. Both of these are good to remember. Quick sketches can turn out to be really good depending on how many people are around. You can get some solid free ones from people at smaller shows or if they have no one around.
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