draw cartoons

  • Status: Closed
  • Prize: $209
  • Entries Received: 77
  • Winner: manikmoon

Contest Brief

Project Title: Drawing Cartoons

- I am looking for a talented artist who can draw cartoons for 8-12 page pocket size comic books.
- The cartoon will be mass printed in black, with only a colored cover.
- I have a series of cartoons that I need to be drawn, and I am willing to pay for each individual cartoon.
- The cartoons will tell a fable called "The Bell" about a young person in a kingdom who angers the king. Then magical angels appear and give everyone bells. I can finish the booklet myself, but just need some cartoon drawings to capture the reader's attention:

- Here is an outline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxUDFnKKox0

I will add images from my sketchbook as attachments. (Note, the QR code part which I mentioned before was too confusing.) This is a story that introduces the concept of blockchain.


Description of Images:

cover.png (In the style of chick.com comics, "The Bell" and an image of a handbell.
1.png - child and dog walk up road in village. child has paper in right hand. Sun rising beyond mountains.
2.png - on literal soapbox, child reads pronouncements about unfair taxes. Dog sees that people are not paying attention.
3.png - in foreground, we see beer vendor ringing handbell. child and dog in background also see.
4.png - child and dog realize that they need a bell.
5.png - callback to image #1, but now child has bell.
6.png - from within King's carriage, we see child now gaining attention. King believes that he is hearing the beer bell.
7.png - King not happy with soapbox message of unfair taxes (and no beer).
8.png - evening in castle, knights bring king beer and bell (which they stole from child)
9.png - king reaches for handbell
a.png - the handle of bell burns the king's hand.
b.png - Angels arrive and bring everyone in village their own bell.
c.png - (no longer in story) Image of someone scanning this very booklet to gain Web3 access.

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  • RonaldoAVF
    RonaldoAVF
    • 4 months ago

    This is sad, the platform should do something to stop AI SPAM when it is totally unnecessary.

    • 4 months ago
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    1. aresrizkiwibowo
      aresrizkiwibowo
      • 4 months ago

      I wish there's like a big sign telling that an entry is AI generated

      • 4 months ago
    2. manikmoon
      manikmoon
      • 4 months ago

      Perhaps some kind of petition could be raised by contributors to this (and other freelance) sites to control the excessive (spamming), or even the whole format, use of aI generated submissions.

      • 4 months ago
  • NovusInkman
    NovusInkman
    • 4 months ago

    Hi, please check #157 . Thank you!

    • 4 months ago
  • Ibidove
    Ibidove
    • 4 months ago

    Please check all work in #136

    • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    Wow, what interesting responses. I think the main thing to understand is that I intend to figure out how to cheaply mass produce my own version of the "Chick Tract" format. https://chick.com So the images of the hand with the bell for the cover with the simple text that mimic the actual religious tracts are good. One color. The body will likely be 100% black and white and printed as cheaply as possible. So AI generated art probably wouldn't make sense.

    Having said that, I do believe that at least one useful AI/eastern image may be worth copying: The meta-image of comic with QR code where the phone appears to come from the bottom right of the image and is to instruct the reader to similarly pull out their phone and scan the code. After all, the story never ends in any normal way...because the cartoon pamphlet itself "is" the bell, just as the original Chick Religious pamphlets were all stamped with the address of some local church.

    • 4 months ago
  • Sami430
    Sami430
    • 4 months ago

    Shittt no real artist here? Only unethical Ai freaks

    • 4 months ago
    1. rivaro
      rivaro
      • 4 months ago

      The fake cheap scammer-artist from South Asia are killing this page

      • 4 months ago
  • rivaro
    rivaro
    • 4 months ago

    good contest but I see some submission doesn't met the quality standard needed.
    Definitely will submit a proposal tomorrow. Something in good quality and creativity. no IA o cheap art.

    • 4 months ago
  • masterlynx0
    masterlynx0
    • 4 months ago

    Kindly check #141 , 142, 143 and 144

    • 4 months ago
  • Babar9890
    Babar9890
    • 4 months ago

    please check #135

    • 4 months ago
  • hinakanwal50433
    hinakanwal50433
    • 4 months ago

    Kindly check #130

    • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    I bought a huge gridded sketch book and brought together some ideas. I drew the inside of a carriage with cut-outs for the windows. In this, the girl is both holding the bell and the Knight has gotten the bell from her, but nevermind. These are just ideas. Also, a bit of black screen at the middle as I flip the page.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQKcK0tsZrM

    • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    I am going to also do rough sketches and toss them out here:

    https://youtu.be/wQKcK0tsZrM

    This is a layered image which tells a big chunk of the story.

    • 4 months ago
  • masterlynx0
    masterlynx0
    • 4 months ago

    Kindly check #120

    • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    I have updated the "Details" of this and will add my own drawings to the attachments. Thanks guys.

    • 4 months ago
    1. oguzkann7
      oguzkann7
      • 4 months ago

      Thank you for your interest, I have started working

      • 4 months ago
  • oguzkann7
    oguzkann7
    • 4 months ago

    If you want to have drawings done by hand, eliminate the work done with artificial intelligence and you can get the result you want better. I'm currently undecided about participating in this contest. I don't want to waste my efforts.

    • 4 months ago
    1. jrigler
      Contest Holder
      • 4 months ago

      I do hope you participate. This is my first attempt at hiring an artist. I don't want an AI generated story. I now have a concrete story and have included it in a video.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxUDFnKKox0

      This showcases my own drawings, which I obviously don't want to use.

      • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    OK, I extended the time limit. I have provided a youtube video where I show my own rough storyboard, but I will also lay it out here.

    • 4 months ago
  • enriqueMatos
    enriqueMatos
    • 4 months ago

    Dear CONTEST HOLDER: did you NOTICE that nearly ALL ENTRIES look the same? that's how AI generates images, sourced from existing libraries ( robots don't draw anything ); hence they are horrible, generic, no personality at all ..... is that what you want?

    • 4 months ago
    1. jrigler
      Contest Holder
      • 4 months ago

      Yes, don't want pictures that seem to glorify the QR code itself in a tightly packed city scene of bedazzled people.

      • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    I laid out the idea that I want to expand on. If I can get at least a few frames of that, that would be good. In this youtube video, I describe a small "8-pager" comic book called "The Bell":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxUDFnKKox0

    • 4 months ago
    1. oguzkann7
      oguzkann7
      • 4 months ago

      Dear contest owner, can you extend the time and if you can prepare the visuals you describe in writing and share them here, better works will be produced.

      • 4 months ago
  • rli5903e7bdaf196
    rli5903e7bdaf196
    • 4 months ago

    You must require a rough sketch first for your approval before finalize it with lines, colors, shadows, highlights, etc.

    • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    OK guys. Yes I want hand drawings. They don't have to be dense. I have no idea what Freelancer does or doesn't do about AI. I just liked some images that were close to my ideas. This is for an actual printed "8-pager". The phone generally only shows the QR code briefly and then takes you to a site. The idea is to get people to use the pamphlet as a gateway. The story is that you are able to meet other "Web3" people without having to use google, facebook, twitter/x, etc. And that they are a sort of comic villian that the comic book/QR code/phone allows you to defeat. It is a story of the little guys finding each other with the little books. Maybe the story can be told with no words.

    • 4 months ago
    1. suhebat
      suhebat
      • 4 months ago

      Before you award to so called designers who only used AI generated software, see their profiles and see what they can actually do. Or else you'll end up awarding the prize to a wrong one

      • 4 months ago
  • rli5903e7bdaf196
    rli5903e7bdaf196
    • 4 months ago

    If you want an original cartoon drawings then you must require a rough sketch first for your approval before finalize it with lines, colors, shadows, highlights, details, etc.

    • 4 months ago
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    1. jrigler
      Contest Holder
      • 4 months ago

      This is something that I would want. Yes.

      • 4 months ago
    2. Sumangmail
      Sumangmail
      • 4 months ago

      Kindly check #21 , no ai free hand drawing. Check all images with line drawing color samples

      • 4 months ago
  • jrigler
    Contest Holder
    • 4 months ago

    I am looking for people for the long haul that can draw little cartoon books. I am in no way an "evangelical Christian", yet find the little "tract" cartoons of my childhood to be strangely compelling. Check out "chick dot com". The idea is that the story would describe a "Web3" use case. Maybe:

    1. person has an idea and advertise in Web2.
    2. they have no leverage.
    3. then they find the actual cartoon book itself and scan a website from QR code.
    4. next they see some sort of abstract Web3 graphics.
    5. From here they would transition to the phone (or computer). Some cartoons would then appear on the site.

    Story needs to grab attention, emotionally connect with Web2 frustration, and funnel people to online Web3 site.

    • 4 months ago
  • Sami430
    Sami430
    • 4 months ago

    Contest owner gonna get huge copyright issues By Microsoft

    • 4 months ago
  • oguzkann7
    oguzkann7
    • 4 months ago

    Dear competition owner, do you want the work to be done by artificial intelligence, or do you prefer the work done manually and with labor? If you prefer artificial intelligence, you can create artificial intelligence studies yourself using the money you spent on the competition. You won't waste your money. If you do not support artificial intelligence studies, please review the profiles and portfolios of the studies you gave 5 stars to see whether they have the potential to do this.

    • 4 months ago
  • bamz23
    bamz23
    • 4 months ago

    Freelancer needs to do something about these ai art submissions smh

    • 4 months ago
    1. djouherabdou
      djouherabdou
      • 4 months ago

      100%true.. let rise this to freelancer board

      • 4 months ago
    2. rli5903e7bdaf196
      rli5903e7bdaf196
      • 4 months ago

      I agree, Ai generated app is like a cheat code and freelancer use this effortlessly.

      • 4 months ago
  • andyrazi25
    andyrazi25
    • 4 months ago

    let's help him find the right artist!!

    • 4 months ago
    1. suhebat
      suhebat
      • 4 months ago

      Let Contest Holder know his 5 stars is made by AI

      • 4 months ago
  • andyrazi25
    andyrazi25
    • 4 months ago

    Our first step to keep him out from headache is by providing our sketches first before submitting the final versions,

    • 4 months ago
  • Babar9890
    Babar9890
    • 4 months ago

    #55 #56

    • 4 months ago
  • Babar9890
    Babar9890
    • 4 months ago

    #50 #52 #53

    • 4 months ago
  • Babar9890
    Babar9890
    • 4 months ago

    #48 #49

    • 4 months ago

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