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I just want to get rid of this gold

I've had this gold for a couple of years, I'm just looking for one quality picture for the gold, the picture might be a little involved, but I'm patient and I also tip very well.

I'm looking for one artist to draw one full-bodied picture of a family (mom, dad, son) based on art and pictures of ball jointed dolls.

Possible other commissions as well after I set things up- also have a bunch of 04-05 items and letters...


I'm also offering real money for an artist to colour a couple of really detailed pictures for me, I'm looking for colouring similar to:
http://graysapphire.deviantart.com/art/Salamander-59617441
http://kheleksul.deviantart.com/art/Deathnote-Changing-Winds-59465269
http://look.deviantart.com/art/Jack-of-Spade-On-the-run-40701172
http://shardglass.deviantart.com/art/The-Dashing-Dead-10650921

If you can colour in a style similar to the above, please give me a link to your gallery, if I'm interested I'll contact you. 3nodding

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1. Introduction
2. Rules
3. Shiny things/Looking for
4. Smartie
5. Dee
6. Connor
7. The family so far...
8. Commission List

Goodies

25 million pure gold
2005 letters
2004-2005 items


Looking for
Digital colouring
Painter style
Semi-realistic
Some background
Lots of examples of your work

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Dee Dimahira
Owned by Xi-feng, profile adapted from hers

Species: Alien, humanoid
Age: ~250-300
Hair: Dark brown, shoulder length
Eyes: Dark green
Height: 6'1"
Birthday: January 3rd

Personality : He's a chameleon, able to change to fit into any situation and mould his personality based on what he wants at the time and how he's working to get it. A very fluid persona, what he says and does is usually two or three levels removed from what he's really thinking or feeling. [He also tends be to be a big giant jokester.]

Likes : Rock music, redheads, books, alcohol, humans, space travel, eating with cutlery, languages, sunbathing, interesting facts, obscure knowledge, being amused, pasta

Dislikes : overly giggly people of either gender, long seasons, flies, the colour yellow, windy weather

More details:
Kaliaethi details (applies to Connor as well, to a lesser extent with ears and his teeth are thicker)
All Kaliaethi have three-pronged pupils that look like an inverted ‘Y’ ( http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/kokodolls/refs/ilueye.jpg ) and long sharp teeth that closely resemble needles. When their mouths are relaxed they look mostly the same as humans’, but when they grin their mouths stretch almost literally ear-to-ear and show off almost all their teeth. Finally, their ears are longer and more pointed than humans’, though they are attached to their heads at a more horizontal angle than typical elf-ears. There’s a chunk missing from the bottom curve of the Kaliaethi ear about halfway along it that arcs up almost to the top rim of the ear, though it’s natural and should look that way – see the curve in the dotted ear image here http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9628/image037emf.jpg and imagine a deeper version of it.

Dee is of fairly average height, though the size of his shoulders and hands suggest that he’d have grown up to be a lot bigger had he gotten enough to eat when he was still a child. His hair is constantly unruly: in front it falls to almost hide his right eye (it’s around chin-length on the left side, while it brushes his cheekbone on the right-hand side) and at the back it gradually tapers down to end up directly in between his shoulder blades at its longest point. His skin is noticeably tanned, and he’s most often to be found looking smirky, contemplative or a mix of both. He’ll usually have a book or two on him, and the other item he always carries is a large flick-knife in his jacket or stuffed into the back of his pants. He has a small mole just below the outer corner of his left eye, and small silver hoops in both ears. His features aren’t exceptionally pretty [and apparently look a little Hispanic], being a little on the strong side, but he has long fingers and his hands are relatively graceful (aside from an abundance of calluses and small scars where he’s banged them up over the years)

He tends to dress mainly in dark colours, usually dark blues, greens and black, and he’s a big fan of button-down shirts with jackets over them. He’ll normally wear dark pants and a shirt with sleeves that come down to cover his elbows at the least: when shirtless or wearing a sleeveless top he’s not a pretty sight. His entire torso, front and back, used to be completely covered in tattoos (starting at around his collarbones, extending down his arms to his elbows and disappearing down past the waistband of his pants) He’s had them mostly removed but the process hasn’t taken very well: most of the skin there has taken on a piebald tone, with random patches of his normal olive skintone bordering on patches that are a darker, more reddish colour and patches that are wrinkled and colourless. Fragments of some of the tattoos are still visible in places, and a few lines of what might be a gun, or a snake, or a face can be made out with a bit of imagination, along with faded letters in other places where a word has been erased. Over the attempts at tattoo-removal are his scars: mainly long white keloid scars from knife-fights that snake over his chest and arms, but there are more than a few circular puckers from healed gunshot wounds. The most noticeable scar is right in the middle of his stomach – the best way to think of it is someone gutting a fish. It starts below the waistband of his pants somewhere under his right hip, then arcs up into a straight line that cuts up through the centre of his stomach to just below the breastbone. It’s both deep and wide enough for someone’s finger to fit in the furrow quite easily, and the scar-tissue has fused over his belly-button and obliterated it.


References:
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/kokodolls/refs/xidee_final_jpg.png
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/kokodolls/refs/000ssy6c.jpg (note that his scars don't go past his elbows)
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/kokodolls/woefulinfinity-1.jpg
Xi's comment on the accuracy: His face is just perfect - I'm loving that little smirk there - and maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me, but you see the tiny pencil-mark just under the corner of his eye? Dee actually /does/ have a faint mole there, so that's brilliant! The only thing I'd say is that his hair in front is spot-on, but it should be a bit longer in back (just longer than it is at the front)

Pictures:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e187/maltecspider/seven/IMG_3551.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e187/maltecspider/six/IMG_0480.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e187/maltecspider/six/IMG_0477.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e187/maltecspider/seven/IMG_5581.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e187/maltecspider/seven/IMG_5583.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e187/maltecspider/seven/IMG_5585.jpg

In the beginning...

They met... in a bar, with a cheesy pick up line. Fortunately for Smartie, Dee seemed amused by it and they spent the night chatting and joking and exchanging witty remarks. They became fast friends. The best way to describe them is pretty much as partners in crime when they go out, they enjoy joking and teasing each other and enjoy annoying the people around them with their over the top jokes and "Cara Mia" routine. While they are sleeping together and are affectionate with one another, neither of them would say they are a couple. They are good friends at this point, and they both enjoy their time with each other...

And then
A few years after they'd met and become good friends, Smartie's best friend dies and leaves her in the hospital and a shell of her former self. Dee takes her in and cares for her, making sure that she's okay and helps her get over the loss of her friend.

Surprise!
As a part of trying to cheer Smartie up, Dee takes her on a surprise extended vacation to Greece, the one place she had always wanted to visit. While in Greece, Smartie gets pregnant and while this is hard for her to deal with she eventually decides to keep the baby (to Dee's delight). After that they get married on Dee's home planet and Smartie gives birth to a baby boy that she loves more then anything.

For the 15 million gold Picture
Connor should be sitting on Dee's lap sucking on the ear of a stuffed bear and looking up at Dee with Big Green Eyes(TM) and a slightly perplexed look perhaps. Dee is suppose to be talking about something Big and Important about Being A Man. Smartie would be leaning on a doorway and watching the two of them with a smile on her face.


Other options for smaller amounts of goodies
Dee teasing Smartie by nipping at her fingers (something that he enjoys doing and does often)- Dee’s an alien and his teeth are long, thin and very sharp pointy needles, and his mouth can stretch from ear to ear essentially. So it might be an idea to have him nipping at her fingers with a playful look on his face.

When they are on what has been dubbed their 'big bate'’ (right before Christmas) or at a gala event they are supposed to attend. This would be them pretty much all dressed up and looking pretty in a snowy street background- if you wanted to do one of these I’ll give you the details for both their outfits.

Smartie sitting sideways on Dee’s lap with his arms around her waist or hips or stroking her back and her playing with his hair (something she loves to do) and them being just affectionate with each other.

The three of them, Connor (as a toddler) curled up and sleeping on Smartie's lap, and Smartie curled up against Dee, Dee with his arm around Smartie or in her hair, they should be on a couch (either white or brown) with perhaps a Big Bird toy thrown somewhere.