Need some piggie parent volunteers

[lesley825]

Hi Everybody!

I'm Lesley and I'm hoping to start up a piggie pet portraits business. Don't worry, I'm not spamming and trying to get you to buy anything! I'm actually hoping some of you might be interested in helping me out by letting me draw or paint your guinea pigs for free. I figured the best way to get started is to have some samples, and while I'd normally charge $100 and up, these would be free to you in order to allow me to use the finished product images as gallery samples on my not-built-yet website.

I'd then be happy to send you the original artwork in the mail (if you'd be okay with paying for shipping that would be wonderful!), or if you'd prefer I keep it, I can scan it into the computer and have it featured on the website for all to see regardless, and put it up for sale. Maybe a picture of your piggie will be hanging over someone's mantle! haha

My apologies if I've posted this in the wrong spot. I'm fairly new to this forum. I'm hoping to get maybe 10 or so at least and I didn't want to just take random pictures of guinea pigs off of Google images in case they were copyrighted.

If you think you might be interested and have some nice clear photos of your piggie that I could draw from, I'd be so appreciative. Just send a private message or reply to this thread. I can also show you some samples of my artwork, I just wasn't sure if URLs were allowed in posts here.

Thanks everybody!

[CF#5]

Start with this... do you work in color? How big will it be? I'll pay to ship it if you send me a snapshot of the artwork after it's done.

[Harrys Dad]

I sent you a PM Thanks for this offer!

[Maisiepaisie]

Hi Lesley, I'd be more than happy for you to use any of the pics in my photobucket album or my pigture thread on this forum

maisiepaisie/My piggies - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/...-pigtures.html

[wickedrodent]

I would LOVE to get a picture of my dearly departed Dudley...

Here are some of my favorite shots of him..





And if you ever want to try rats..



Heres my photobucket.. actually..

princessfionachanel/Ratties - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

[pigsforlife]

Will shoot you a pm in a minute!

[buttons]

I just sent you a PM.

I'd love to have my guinea pigs drawn by the way...
Buttons, Nelly and Linda.

And if possible my sister's Flower and Pumpkin.

Just reply in my PM, I'm already excited to hear from you!

[chexxy]

Would we be allowred to print the scanned copies? I am not alowed to give out my address so I would love it if I could print it but regardless, here it is, thank you! -
chexxy010.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

[lesley825]

Hi everybody! Thanks so much for your responses! Due to the overwhelming response from this and other sites that I requested volunteers on, I'm not going to be able to accept any more requests at this time. Everyone who has previously posted on this thread will have their requests honored, though!

I'm so sorry if anybody new is reading this and hoping for a free portrait. I just have over 20 portraits now and it's going to take me quite awhile to get through them all!

If you're still interested in a portrait, though, I'd be happy to offer a 25% discount if you mention this thread when inquiring. I wasn't sure if I was able to delete a thread so I'm posting this reply for now.

Thanks everyone for looking and for your interest!

- Lesley