Kashika
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- Posted: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:00:34 +0000
Kashika's Art Shop!
After some careful consideration, I've decided to open up a mini-shop on gaia separate from my real life commissions, where I will accept Gaia Gold (GG) as payment. However, please note that these drawings are limited to 600x800 pixels at 300 dpi digital drawings, and I will no longer be accepting GG for my irl commissions.
Any characters welcome, as in: gaia avatars, original characters, or fanart. Yaoi, Yuri, or hetero couples are cool. Chibis welcome. Also note that by "additional character" I mean more than one character in the same drawing, not two separate drawings.
DO NOT PM ME ABOUT DOING MORE THAN WHAT I'M OFFERING HERE. Instead, click here if you're looking for bigger, traditional, and/or more mature art..
PRICES
So 600x800 pixels at 300dpi.
Just so you know, you're paying based on the size of the drawing, not how much of the character you can see. A bust of a character is going to take up the same amount of space as a knee up or a full body.
SKETCHES
Sketches can be of any color line art that you want. They will also take anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the number of characters and the complexity of the sketch.
First character: 6,000 GG
Each additional character: 4,800 GG
To turn your sketch into line art, it will be an additional 4,000 GG for the first character, and 2,200 GG for each additional character. (Pretty much just the difference between a sketch>lineart and a straight line art commission.)
Here's an example of a small sketch to lineart to flat colors. A drawing this small took about an hour total:

LINE DRAWING
This is for commissions that ask for straight-up line drawings - if you want me to turn a sketch I did for you into a line art, please look at the prices above, in the SKETCHES section. It can take anywhere between two to three hours to complete a line drawing, as this includes the time it takes for me to complete the sketch and draw the lines for it. It really depends on what you're having me draw and the amount of detail in the drawing.
First character: 10,000 GG
Each additional character: 7,000 GG
Example of digital lineart:

COLORING
You MUST have line art for me to color. I will not be coloring sketches.
Digital flat colors: it is an additional 1,600 GG. This will probably take somewhere between an hour and an hour and a half.
Here's that same drawing before with just the flats and abstract background:

B&W or monochromatic shaded drawing: it is an additional 10,000 GG. This can be either cel or digital painting. I'd wager maybe one to three hours to complete, depending on the complexity of the piece.
Cel/Soft cel shaded: it will be an additional 20,000 GG. Right now it takes me SEVERAL HOURS to just color line art at this quality, so be prepared to wait a few days for your colored commission to be completed.
Example of a recently finished cel shaded drawing:

Plain, gradated, or abstract/sky backgrounds only. NO borders (like the example above), traditional art, or full backgrounds. I may offer digitally painted art in the future, but that depends.
Visit my DA gallery to look at more of my art: http://upload-image-here.deviantart.com/ before you decide to commission me, and please read my next post on refunds, cancellations, my copyrights, and FAQ, and the following post for my availability, waiting list, and completed commissions.
TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT BY REPLYING IN THIS THREAD, DO NOT PM ME WITH WHAT YOU WANT. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING POSTS FOR MORE INFO.
AVATAR ART: Please, please, please, do me a HUGE favor and take a screencap of your avatar in its biggest form (inventory screen) so that I can see all the items well enough to tell what they are, and to also get swatches of the colors for color flats/shading.
EXISTING CHARACTERS: Please make the effort to find me references! I don't know every anime/manga out there and I certainly don't always know what I'm looking for in terms of references.
IF YOUR CHARACTER HASN'T BEEN DRAWN YET OR YOU DON'T HAVE MANY DRAWINGS OF SAID CHARACTER:
Name:
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Body type: (petite, large, athletic, obese, etc.)
Eye color(s):
Hair color(s):
Hair length and style:
Skin color: (Please don't say "white" or "black" if your character is caucasian or of african descent, say "peach" or "fair," or "dark brown" or "chestnut," etc.)
Distinguishing marks: (scars, tattoos, freckles, etc., if any...)
Clothes: (Describe the clothes in great detail, or with as much detail as you can. Accessories and weapons included.)
Personality: (Believe it or not, this is an important factor.)