Digital Art Commissions
You, the commissioner, make a commission request explaining and detailing the idea to your taste.
I will revise your request and upon approval, I ask for a downpayment of a sketch to begin design (reference price: 40€). This downpayment is included in the final price.
During this stage, I will provide you draft previews of the work in progress as the idea is designed to your preference. If the commissioner opts for a change while in this stage, it shall be done free of charge unless it’s a drastic change from the initial request.
Once the draft is approved, I will begin a more detailed sketch and keep you updated. From this point onwards, changes that require replacing elements of the art, changing poses or such may incur an added fee up to 30€. These fees for extra changes aren’t included in the final price.
When the sketch is finished and approved, I will request half of the remaining payment for the commission to begin the lineart (or painting of shapes, if the commissioned format is Render/Digital Painting). I am only bound, free of charge, to do corrective small changes upon request.
Once the art is finished, I will send a rescaled preview and request the remaining payment, and after that I will provide the full resolution PNG file, and if requested, a JPG/Jpeg compressed file, resized files, versions without background and even the Krita files (might not keep them for more than 60 days).
I reserve the right to refuse a commission request at the start without having to explain my reasons, although those will usually be related to the theme of such commission or elements included in it. As a rule of thumb, I will refuse most NSFW* requests, although artistic nudity shall be generally accepted. In any case, feel free to ask.
* Non Safe-For-Work defined as some fetishised and sexual content.
Please detail the commission request as well as you see fit.
Describe the character and provide reference pictures, but define one picture as the primary reference for style and shape when there might have divergence. Feel free to request a different form/shape from the reference picture, but in such case, please allow me some freedom to design as such.
I won’t accept to trace or make “replicas” of other art pieces. I can still do a parody or play on a classical piece, but please don’t ask me to replicate the pose and composition from another contemporary artist.
When requesting a commission, state also the general mood — both ambience and for each character, flow and theme such as:
General
Action
Adventure
Horror
Cute
Emotional
Pinup
Romantic
To display and reproduce so long as the purpose is personal and non-commercial;
To make modifications that don’t alter the outline of the art, which means the following is allowed: to recolour, add image filters, adjustments and the likes and to crop so long as the signature is not removed unless for display as an avatar, profile picture or thumbnail for a project or if given explicit permission;
To gift a physical reproduction (i.e. print) and grant the rights in this same category to anyone of their choice.
No permission is granted to use the art for purposes of training, feeding or employing any generative neural network! (That means, any use for "A.I")
However, commercial use and related rights are limited and should be discussed as specific case if required:
- Sell the ownership of such rights;
- Commercial printing, reproduction;
- Use of the art for commercial purposes (i.e. “for profit”) including advertising commercial products or as an element of such merchandise.
Notes:
Non-commercial printing means it can be printed and gifted to any number of recipients so long as they are not charged for the art itself. Printing fees and shipping costs are exempt from this limitation and can be paid by the recipients so long as the commissioner has no ownership claims and no relation outside professional grounds to anyone having such ownership claims to the related companies/enterprises providing such services, in which case the commissioner might still provide the art as printed gifts if they cover all the costs and charge nothing for the services provided by such companies.
By default I reserve rights to display the commissions in my portfolio and social media, by including watermarks or not.
Also by default for reasons to prevent fraud and to certify art ownership publicly, I will identify the commissioner by some social media profile, ID, nickname or URL when submitting it to the gallery unless explicitly requested not to.
Prices are to be defined on a case-by-case, but can be estimated from the table below. All values are in EUR - € and already account for the downpayment:
* Baseline price for one character. Each aditional high-detail character might add +50% to the price.
** Complexity fee is to expect if the motif figure (character) has too many complex fine details, such as a pattern, engravings, brands, markings, etc.
*** Background price is just a reference. For abstract backgrounds or those using photos provided, expect no cost.
I have no price baselines for the following commissions yet, but they might be negotiated.
I guarantee a minimum size of the central motif in the art to take most of a circle of diameter = 2000 pixels, unless in the very special case of very stretched aspect-ratio pictures, which will fit to an equivalent area rule.
In simpler terms, I usually work with resolutions around 3000 x 3000 or bigger for the central motif (I.E. the character) in a way which it can be easily adapted to a 3820 x 2160 screen (A.K.A ultra-HD or "4K") if done in landscape orientation.
The picture can have any aspect ratio from 1:1 to 1:3 / 3:1 (larger dimension being three times the smaller dimension). If you have a specific purpose for the art piece, such as a background image for some device, please clarify as it can help design a better composition with the exact aspect ratio in mind.
My default painting app is Krita (v5.1 or newer) and Inkscape (v1.3.2 or newer)
If the client has a preference for, I can use Clip Studio Paint Pro (v1.12 or newer) or ArtRage (v6.1.2 or newer), but such apps are honestly worse than the wonderful open source work of a large community.
I use only 24-bit RGB colour space (32-bit RGB with alpha channel).
