CREATE vector ICON for Chinese sign of Dragon for 2012

REQUIREMENTS: +++Artistic requirements: The icon should be in the same style and feel as our last year's icon which was done for the white rabbit. The new and old icons will be shown close to each other and should not be very different in style. The last year's icon can be seen here: [login to view URL] or in the attachment. We need both your creativity with the idea and execution. We are not sure what the icon should be like. Once the project is awarded to you, we will ask for a few quick hand sketches of your ideas and then proceed with one of the sketched ideas on. +++Technical requirements: - The sources have to be vector, preferably in Illustrator and they will be released to us upon completion. - The size we are targeting is about 50x50px. But it should look reasonably good if scaled to about 30x30px or enlarged to 200x200px. Upscale should not be a problem in general, but with downscale smaller details will be lost and the icon may look bad. We should be able to do the scaling ourselves without deep knowledge of illustrator. CONDITIONS: (READ before you bid!) 1. The work has to be genuine and authentic 2. You will release all the copyright for the artwork to us signing a document where you claim that all the rights to the artwork belong to you and you did not use/incorporate any copyrighted material or in any other way violated any existing copyrights while creating the artwork and you transfer irrevocably all the rights to the created artwork to us. 3. Please only bid if you are able to deliver within reasonable amount of time (say no more than a week from when we reach an understanding). If you feel that you are very suitable for this job but are swamped with work now - you can still bid, but please mention this fact. SUMMARY: You do not need to send samples now unless you really want to - it's totally up to you. Although sending existing vector samples of work you did would give us some indication as to your skill set. When we narrow down to a few candidates, we will communicate with those in more details and see if we can reach an understanding. We respect your time and don't want to waste it unless we are really interested in your offer.