For Artists — Get in Touch
If you make generative work and you're curious about PD — whether you want to be considered, or you just want to ask a question before deciding — this is the page that tells you where to send it.
How: DM brendonrell on X — the only channel, no form.
Every artist relation runs through X
All artist relations are handled on Twitter/X, by direct message in XChat. That is deliberate, and it is the only channel: no submission form, no inbox to apply through, no queue to sit in.
Send it to brendonrell — the founder's own account, not the platform account. That is the desk artist relations run from, so a DM there reaches the person who runs the filter directly, with nothing in between. The platform account, pricediscussion, is where PD speaks publicly; it is not the way in.
The practical consequences worth knowing:
- Anything else is slower, not faster. A reply in a comment thread, a post tagging either account, or a message through another platform's chat can be missed. The DM is the channel that gets read.
- It is a conversation, not an application. Questions are welcome before anything formal — what PD is, whether your work fits, how the economics work, what the timeline looks like. Nobody expects a pitch on the first message.
- Nothing you send is public. The conversation stays between you and the platform, and so does the fact you had it. See What's Private.
What to say first
Keep the opening short. Two or three lines is plenty:
- Who you are and where your work has been shown.
- A link to the work — a site, a profile, a gallery of outputs.
- What you're after — a question, a conversation, or consideration for a Project.
If the conversation turns toward a Project, the full brief comes next — Submit a Project lists exactly what that brief contains, and it is worth reading before you write it.
What happens after
The first message opens the conversation; nothing is decided in it. From there it goes one of the ways described in Submit a Project — proceed, not yet, or not a fit — each of them delivered directly, with a reason.
There is also a second door that doesn't start with a DM at all: every whitelisted PD artist holds two vouch slots and can put you forward from their Studio. A vouch lands on the founder's desk and opens the same conversation.