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How y’all doing on this lovely Monday morning? You know the drill by now: I paid for a job listing on ArtStation so willing artists would offer their services. My goal: to end up with a good header for my site, one that I wouldn’t mind staring at for years to come.

The style I’m searching for is somewhere between the following examples, belonging to the portfolios of some of the artists who have offered themselves: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7

Here’s the latest batch of artists who have bravely offered their talents:

• Kirin Kar-Wai (portfolio): a unique, very interesting style, but one that clashes with what I want.
• Ertan Ceyhan (portfolio – instagram): super talented dude. Extraordinary attention to detail. Not what I want right now.
• Beau Madden (portfolio): I’m not sure what to say in cases like these (and I’ve had a few). Thank you for being brave, I guess.
• Giulia Minutillo (portfolio): very talented artist who does interesting stuff with color. I feel bad for not considering this one further, maybe in part because she said that she was “really fascinated” by my writing. Although I suppose that’s what someone applying to a job offer of this kind says.
• Nikodem (portfolio): a growing author who is unfortunately not on the level of the examples provided above.
• Tim Msibi (portfolio): a cool, dynamic comic book style that doesn’t match what I want.

The volume of emails has slowed down conspicuously, and disappointing so many artists by sending back “Sorry, but…” is making me sick. I think I’m going to shut down this job listing and choose the “winner” among those artists whose examples I have provided.