Comments on: Urgent Charity Illustration Projects.

By: velusamy

velusamy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:20:33 +0000

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By: Eric@Car Donation Program

Eric@Car Donation Program — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:33:37 +0000

Yep, I understand how this goes. I do a fair amount of free work for organizations I seek out but I rarely get involved with projects like the one above. Web people and designers need to eat too!

By: Jeff Scherr

Jeff Scherr — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:37:45 +0000

Being an illustrator of sorts myself, I had to smile when coming across this post. Friends, family, co-workers, and even people I don’t know, seem to think “hey you should draw a tattoo for me (for free)” or “hey you should make a logo for my new company (for free)” or “hey you should draw my awesome (lame) comic strip for me (for half of the potentially zero profit)” These are things I do for fun anyway right?

Keep up the good work, it is proof that quality illustration deserves quality compensation.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:13:33 +0000

And then there are those begging for spelling corrections at the same time.

…Please get back to me with <> decision as soon as possible as all images to be included in the (shirt) must be submitted within the next week.

Hmmm….

Douch’e

While I understand your plight to get quality design on you’re shirts, I also understand why you cann’ot afford them. Please contact you’re second grade’s’ grammar teacher and have her slap you’r silly $%^&’. Meanwhile, plea’se visit http://www.apostropheabuse.com/ in you’re spare times’.

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By: Burt

Burt — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:11:19 +0000

Not to play devil’s advocate but I’ve been on the flip side of that coin. I’ve sometimes asked for free stuff but as a trade in services. While 11 links wouldn’t be worth much, several hundred views of your link per day might be (if I said how much traffic my former site got it would sound like a lie, so I won’t say) but I was able to trade link and banner placements for free products for contests, books and software in exchange for reviews and even got some free programming done by people who wanted to have co-op stores on the site. Even then there were a few people who would have loved to get the free advertising but would get mad if I requested a copy of their product.

In the end it has to be an equivalent exchange of value for value. So if they sent you a years supply of beer it might have been a good deal. ;)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:58:31 +0000

Oops. I actually meant to confirm your point, not defend freebie seekers or poke holes in the analogy. My grocery experience made me think that whatever you do, there will probably be people trying to enlist your services into their cause. Even though I’ve been one of them, I think it’s kind of funny and I completely sympathize with your side of the situation.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:26:39 +0000

Hey Matthew, thanks for the thoughtful comment. Since food is such a basic human need, a grocery store probably wasn’t the best analogy to a logo design. I should have used something besides Twinkies that isn’t such a need. :)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:14:24 +0000

Actually, people do ask for free things at grocery markets. Last month my family was helping run a non-profit event. We had a budget for food but it was not very large, and we asked several large chains if they might be willing to donate. What we found out is that most stores receive constant requests for free stuff, and we were just adding ours to a large stack of them.