Get the Drawing and Donateとは？


元々、『BrainBread』という、ゲーム『Half-Life』の内容をゾンビゲーム化するMODの公式フォーラム・ファンアートスレッドで、依頼を受けてゾンビの絵を描いていた際に思いついたアイデアである。元々無償で描いていたのだが、私に報酬を送りたいという依頼主がいたものの、私に報酬をくれるよりかはどこかへ寄付したほうが世の為人の為になるだろう、ということでこういう事になった。簡単に書くと；依頼を受けて絵を描き、絵を依頼主に送り、依頼主は自らの思想に合う慈善団体を選び、そこへ私への報酬の代わりに寄付をするというもの。

私が労力を使い絵を描くにもかかわらず、それに対する報酬が他へ行く、というのは一見すると意味を成さないかもしれない。だが、住居や食料に困らず、インターネット接続もある環境に生きる者が居る一方で、世の中にはまだまだ食べ物が無く死んでいく物や、教育が受けられないもの、治療困難な病気に苦しむものも居る。これを改善するには、生活に困っていない者が、余力を使うことが一つの道である。

自ら直接改善の助けをするのが一番良いのであろうが、直接改善の為に働く人/団体へ寄付する事もまた、助けになるであろう。


  What is Get the Drawing and Donate?


This project had started while I was drawing pictures of zombies by request, on the FanArt thread of BrainBread website, a forum of a modification for a video game called Half-Life.

+What is it?+
I draw pictures. I send those to people by air mail.
It cost $5 USD on an average to send a picture to a foreign country.
The person who received the picture have to find an humanitarian organization that he/she like to help.
The person make a monetary donation that is the same amount of money of the air mail to a humanitarian organization.


+The purposes+

1: People needs help
I want people to know there are many people all over the world who are in danger of their lives.
Starvation, malnutrition, war, cancer, human traffic, and so on.
Hopefully, through this project the members will have interest to save these people, and keep donating or take a part in humanitarian organizations.

2: We can aford that
Obviously. You have luxury of internet connection, so am I.
Some of you have luxury to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. We are not in a place that we starve to death today or tomorrow.

3: Too lazy
I'm too lazy to take air mail fee from you.
It's much easier to alter money to something else than transfering money.

4: Spread my name
I'm a artist. But as you know, I can't get money out of my artwork enough for me to live, yet.
So I consider sending people my artwork as an advertisement. Investment for my future.

5: Win win
We help phisically poor people (indirectly and there's no assurance though), and that mentaly help our selves.
Win win, right?

*It is my personal project. This project has nothing to do with any religion nor specific humanitarian organization.