I have been following the articles and videos produced by two people hugely advocating, promoting and investing in Steemit: @jerrybanfield and @craig-grant - they are both doing a great job of putting out quality, positive and informative content about Steemit; and I'm sure that it's helping to bring more organic content to the platform and along with that more users.

If you are followers of theirs, and happen to read all of the comments on their posts (super unlikely, I know!), then you might have noticed the following comments that I made:
One on @jerrybanfield's post entitled 10 Reasons for $10 Steem Price in 10 Months!:

And another on @craig-grant's post entitled STEEM worldwide fiat gateway with Payza, by Charlie Shrem:

The theme here being that I think that #steemgigs could be huge for the platform.

Why is #steemgigs so important?

Many of you will have heard about Bitcoin's Pizza Day - the day, in 2010, on which someone spent what is now an eye-watering amount of Bitcoin in order to buy two pizzas. Many people get caught up in the fact that the 10,000 BTC spent on pizza 7 years ago would now be worth a staggering $23,520,200 at today's price of Bitcoin and miss the key point to the story: it took someone spending 10,000 Bitcoin to get a product in the real world to make Bitcoin actually worth something. Without Pizza Day, or something similar, Bitcoin wouldn't be so valuable.

That is why I think that #steemgigs is so important for STEEM and Steemit; it's a great initiative, that really focuses on some of the key strengths of the Steemit platform:

We already have a reputation system
We already have an unprecedentedly fast and cheap, 24/7 payment mechanism
We already have a large, and growing, userbase
Peer-to-peer: No 3rd parties taking a cut anywhere along the chain

We need to make a concerted effort to get more STEEM flowing around the platform from service consumers to service providers - then Steemit will really hit the big time.

The gig

To those 13 people that viewed my post yesterday (thanks for taking the time to view my post and supporting me - it means a lot!), will have seen the somewhat laughable attempt at artwork (I was attempting to create an Ethereum mascot that looks similar to the Coin Telegraph's Ethereum logo mascot):

I know that there are artists, illustrators and photoshop wizzes out there that are hopefully willing show off their talents and to help me, but mostly the community - now is your time to come forward.

What I would like done is for someone to have a proper go at making the gray volume look more like it is climbing the wall.

You can be as imaginative and creative as you like: add more of the colorful, climbing, handholds or move them closer; add proper climbing gear to the character or even add some friend-coins enviously watching as Ethereum continues to climb. I can post the original pictures that I took, so that you can start from scratch.

I think that it's a great opportunity to show off the talent that the community has - and to be paid for your work, in STEEM.

I'm looking for quotes for what people are willing to do the work for in the comments below 👇👇👇 (and for the community to share this post far and wide so that more than 13 people view it).

How can you help?

Comment in the name of any artists or illustrators on the platform that you think might be interested.
Spread the word and direct users on the platform here and to #steemgigs