Commissions
I do take commissions. There are two ways to go about ordering one, the first being useful for more simple pieces and the second being more for detailed/more involved pieces or even projects with multiple pieces.
1) Set time limit/price and work backwards. This is more useful for simple commissions like a single character with a plain background. If you give me the idea and say only use two hours, I will do all I can in two hours. This is also how I handle commission directly on my art livestream, consider catching me live!
2) Give me your idea, then we discuss and plan accordingly. There’s usually some back-and-forth to make sure I know exactly what it is you’re looking for, such as sharing references for details or style. Once we’re on the same page, a price is negotiated as well as any alteration requests built-in or what further alterations might cost. At the sketch stage you can make requests for changes pretty easily. If you want to be able to use the piece for more than personal use, that will be taken into account and included in the contract. If you do not wish the process of your piece to be public, I will work on it exclusively off-stream. With this option you have far more control.
PRICE FACTORS
Subject
First we need to figure out how much of a subject I’m drawing:
Bust portrait
Full-figure, simple or no background
Full scene, simple or complex background?
Multiple characters?
Weapons (I like designing and drawing weapons)
Layout/composition
Obviously, the more of a figure (or figures) I’m drawing the more it will cost. Creating a full environment takes a bit more time and effort as well. And weapons/props are just fun, so concepts like that go fast!
Color or not
Flat colors can look great beneath a good drawing, adding in simple lighting just takes a little more time, but fully rendered color with all the little texturing takes a lot of finesse and time to look right.
Art style
A clean sketch is much faster than a fully-rendered, realistically clean style. I can even be convinced to use traditional media like ink or pencil, if you want.
