Any interest in system maps/diagrams

A friend of mine started doing these about a year ago, originally just because he had run out of stuff to do in photoshop and was getting bored.

He wants to guage people's interest in these. There would be different versions. he could sell you the image, or bitmap file, which you could use to print out or have on a monitor at shows.

The second would be where he would print it out himself on photo paper, and mail it to you (you would still get the bitmap file sent to you to do with as you please)

The third version would be where he would print out the image, then sandwich it between two sheets of lexan, made to the size you want. These could be 8x10, or smaller if you wanted it incorporated into the install someplace.

Right now he's just guaging interest, if people seem genuinely interested he'll make his first prototype for his car. After that, if interest is still there, he would take people on a first come first served basis. These take alot of time to put together.

What would be required of you, would be:

A) What style you want, cartoony, straightforward, high detail (absolutely everything marked) What size you need, etc... As many of you already know, he can make almost anything in photoshop, so feel free to ask for whatever you want.

B) If you want your car in the background images, he'll need pictures of the car, preferably high res. He can find most any equipment pics, but cars are generally unique.

C) No pricing has been set in stone yet, this is just a fun project for him and he isn't looking to get rich on it. Figure somewhere around $20 for doing the image which usually takes a day to make, lexan sandwiched version or paper version would be more. He would probably ask another $5 for a photo paper version, and for the lexan version, you would pay for the cost of materials and $10 in addition to the 20.00. Obviously for multiples he would ask more. Add shipping and that's that. After taking your request, he will give you a low res blurry ass version. At this point you can ask for changes to be made, if all is well, you send your money (via paypal) and when received, he'll mail you the completed piece, along with a CD including the file, and maybe some sweet luscious porn.

You can respond with questions/comments or email myself or Luke (the artist) to ask questions.

honkeytonkmonkey at yahoo dot com (luke)
davidnewman at excite dot com (me)

Here are some quick examples he threw together. The finished product would probably exceed the quality of these.


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http://fototime.com/{DAE6BBB4-A4B7-46D4-8D...B0}/picture.JPG

http://fototime.com/{0A595EA3-6F53-42A1-9B...F7}/picture.JPG

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To a certain degree, I agree. But, his work is the best I have seen. I consider myself fairly computer literate and quite handy with photoshop and I couldn't do this work without spending a great deal of time, and even then, I probably couldn't pull it off.

 

No problem and I agree, I would rather have people email me or Luke rather than try to keep up with a bunch of forums... I really have no financial gain to be made from this. At the prices he is considering charging, there is little financial gain for him either. Thanks for letting the post stay!

 

Here is a message he sent me....