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Off topic, but the person posting this mentioned the artist who did the avatar and of course I love their art style, and of course they aren’t taking commissions right now. How does one find good pixel art artists who might do a small commission or three?

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You can find forums where pixel artists look for work. Here's one such forum: https://pixelation.org/index.php?board=8.0

Oh wow exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Fiverr? I've had a generally decent experience with it, but I also follow the rule of three: always hire 3 different freelancers for any task, unless when I have established relationships with an artist who did very similar things in the past.

Oh that’s a good point. I’ve used them before. It was neat.

Try searching on skeb, it's a site specifically for art commissions and there are at least a few people doing pixel art on there.

Oh this is a super cool concept! Thanks!

Deviant Art used to be a good start a few years back. For pixel art you could also look at r/gamedev, lots of artists looking for work roam it.

They have some awesome artists, there, but I have had bad luck getting through to them on DeviantArt. There's a couple of artists that definitely could have made some money from me, but couldn't, because I couldn't contact them (or they ignored my contacts).

I found Brian when someone I follow retweeted (or perhaps liked?) this post:

https://twitter.com/cmmrc2/status/1329991505524690944

I'd been looking for an artist for months at that point, and looked through his work and saw some nice portraiture and dropped him a DM.

I can't figure out who shared it, but I think it was another pixel artist who I liked and was hoping would open up commissions again.

I wish it were more common for artists to auction off at least some commission slots.

You might find someone for hire at r/gamedevclassifieds

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevclassifieds

Oh cool. I’ll look there.

This user does small commissions on occasion. http://imgur.com/gallery/qszHeHe

Love the Slavic turtle tax, thanks!

It's usually not hard to follow a few pixel artist and get a bunch suggested to you on Twitter. I know Kiana Mosser should have commissions open within a few weeks. https://twitter.com/kianamosser

Go to the Aseprite discord server. They have a channel exactly for what you want.

I'd go spelunking in indie game dev forums and spaces. There are almost certainly artists looking for a little bit of side work.

Follow good artists you like on various platforms, get in touch as appropriate (use your best judgement).

I recently found one for a side project via instagram. Look under #pixelart tag.

Try pixelation.org

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