Gentlepersons,
I've collated the following list of sites from numerous forum threads as well as personal research, and have currently organized them into eight general categories: broker sites, fixed-price assets, free art assets, freelance forums, galleries, job bidding, job opening, and miscellaneous.
Please correct the sites, suggest new ones, and tell me which are flat out wrong. Thanks for your help!!
--RE
P.S. I'm only interested in the mechanical labeling of said sites, not ethics and morality, which may be best discussed on the Scirra Forums here (Ethics of Job Bidding) and here (Find 2D Artists).
<font size="6">Graphic Artist Site List</font>
Key: <img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> Scirra Site Member; <img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/2sabdrs.png" border="0"> Construct 2 Licensee
<font size="5">Scirra Member Private Sites</font>
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> bladesquad Gallery, Contract
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> Debug Design Gallery, Contract
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> Indie Game Designer Fixed Price, Contract
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> Mateusz W?jcik Gallery, Contract
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> Quire Graphics Gallery, Contract
<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/2sabdrs.png" border="0"> RicoD Blog/Gallery, Contract, Royalty/Profit-Share, Elance, Freelancer
<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/2sabdrs.png" border="0"> Shadow-Embryo Gallery, Contract
<font size="5">Broker Sites</font> Client submits a project, site administrators match with artists.
DesignCrowd
Freelanced (contact broker only: payment via private arrangement)
Hire an Illustrator
<font size="5">Fixed-Price Assets</font>
<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/2sabdrs.png" border="0"> DravenX Games
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> EatCreatures
GameTextures.com
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> Graphic Buffet
<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2lsy5ux.png" border="0"> Graphics 4 Games
iStockphoto
<font size="5">Free Art Assets</font> Free-for-Use Art, subject to variable licenses.
letsmakegames Asset List (link list to free art, textures, sound, music, 2D graphics, animation, icons, fonts, text, and commercial resources)
Lost Garden Free Art Posts/Assets/Links
Open Clip Art Library (public domain clip art)
Open Game Art
Texture Freaks
<font size="5">Freelance Forums</font>
<font color="white">oo</font><img src="http://static2.scirra.net/forum_images/bullet.png" border="0"> Method 1: Artists post availability and art samples, and consider offers from clients.
<font color="white">ooooo</font>indiegamer Forum: Art Portfolios
<font color="white">oo</font><img src="http://static2.scirra.net/forum_images/bullet.png" border="0"> Method 2: Clients post jobs, and consider offers from artists.
<font color="white">ooooo</font>deviantART Job Offers Forum
<font color="white">ooooo</font>GameArtisans
<font color="white">ooooo</font>GameDev
<font color="white">ooooo</font>indiegamer Forum: Help Wanted
<font color="white">ooooo</font>Pixel Joint Job Offerings Forum
<font color="white">ooooo</font>Scirra Help Wanted Forum
<font color="white">ooooo</font>TIGForums Paid Work Forum
<font color="white">ooooo</font>Way of the Pixel Job Offers Forum
<font color="white">oo</font><img src="http://static2.scirra.net/forum_images/bullet.png" border="0"> Method 3: Both 1&2
<font color="white">ooooo</font>GameArtist Employment Forum
<font color="white">ooooo</font>indieDB Job Board
<font color="white">ooooo</font>Kongregate Collaborations Forumm
<font color="white">ooooo</font>Open Game Art Open Commissions Forum
<font color="white">ooooo</font>Programmer Meet Designer
<font size="5">Gallery Site</font>
Directory of Illustration
Hire an Illustrator
Newgrounds
zhibit
<font size="5">Job Bidding</font> Clients post jobs, contractors submit proposals.
Aniboom
Elance
Freelancer
Guru
oDesk
vWorker (frmr. Rent a Coder)
<font size="5">Job Openings</font>
CreativeHeads
indeed
Krop
Simple Hired
<font size="5">Miscellaneous</font>
Freelance Switch: The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites
Lost Garden List of Game Artists
Slated for Deletion
Imagine Animation
Animation Village Animator Directory
Yahoo Design Arts>Graphic Design
Illustration Mundo
World Artist Directory
Sources:
JACLEMGO
jogosgratispro
brunogruber
Knudsen
jchamplain
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DravenX