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Freelance Illustrator for Vector Character Website Design

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I’m in the process of overhauling the look and feel of my current personal website. In the past, I’ve done most of the development and design myself, but I don’t have enough time to work on the design this time around. I’m looking for someone that has experience in vector-based character design and can take a concept I have in mind and transform it into a creative design.

With this new design, I’m really targeting a humorous geeky theme with subtle undertones of sarcasm all wrapped into a vector theme design with myself being the character. To give you a sense of the kind of illustrations I’m looking for, here are a few examples of sites that contain the general theme…

http://www.silverbackapp.com/ http://www.joyeur.com/ http://sr28.com/ http://www.banjax.com/ http://octwelve.com/ http://beta.envirospeak.tv/ http://dougdosberg.com/

In terms of the scope, this job would consist of designing the headers and footers for different sections of the site. As it stands now, I’m planning to have a main page, blog, music, and an about section. The header would be a “scene” that stretches across the entire top of the page (around 960x_{200 pixels or so). The footer would be a single image (}215×215 pixels) like a cartoon character of me with headphones on or typing on a computer depending on which page. Here’s a good example in terms of size, checkout the image of the character at the bottom.

<http://codecandies.de/>

When I say a cartoon of me typing at a computer, I’m thinking something like this.

<http://www.joyent.com/developers>

My preference for the design deliverable is that it be in a layered Photoshop format, but any format that supports layers and allows me to modify the design afterwards is negotiable.

Rather than be vague in this posting, I figured it was easier to describe most of it up front to give you some context and a sense for what the project entails.