This is a pretty rare opportunity to get your hands on my artwork. Considering I've never sold my artwork before—commissions or otherwise.

First and foremost, I'm gonna tell you all that I’m not extremely affordable. I'm a bit sad to say it, but my work doesn't fall within everyone's price range. I can be flexible though, and we can figure out some compromises with prices, but don't expect my prices to fall below minimum wages ($8 an hour).

— All artwork will be graphite pencil work.

Until I feel confident in other mediums that is what you will get. I don't want to risk disappointing anyone on the bases of me sucking.

— All sketches are free.

I won't charge you a cent for mulling around ideas, and I will try my very best to please you before we decide what direction to take the final image.

— Paypal only, please.

I might be able to work some other method out with you, but really, you should get a Paypal. It is super groovy and convenient. If you are having issues with payments too, I can try and work things out for you. Just talk to me, I want to work with you.

— Half payment up front.

Or, at least something. I'll work with you on this, but I don't want to invest as much time as I do on an image and then get burned. Oh, man, teh raeg.

— I ship anywhere for free.

Upon completion of payment I'll ship anywhere for free, including international. If you want insurance on your package I will ask for compensation on that particular fee.

— I will draw a lot of things, but not everything.

Please, don't ask me to draw in “such-and-such” style. I assume if you are commissioning me, that you are commissioning me based on my own merits and unique flavor in artwork. Plus, I blow at other styles, believe me. ;_;
I'll attempt almost anything you can think off, but keep in mind that particularly unusual requests and/or subjects that I am not familiar with may result in images that are not as neatly refined as some of the rest of my artwork. I won’t charge you extra based on my frustrations, but it might not be everything you hoped for.
I'm pretty cool with pin-ups, seductive poses, and soft-core images in generally, but I'm simply not comfortable or confident in my ability to draw hardcore drawings. :\ Thank you.
I will try my best to work with you, but, of course, I have the right to deny any commission request. If it becomes apparent that we cannot reach a compromise on an image, you might want to commission me for an entirely different idea, or perhaps simply seek out another artist.

— Be specific.

Details don't scare me, but if you aren't specific, or give me the go ahead to take my artistic liberties, you will get what you get. Traditional artworks are nearly impossible to edit on a significant level. Minor edits (if possible) are okay, but any major edits (if possible) will probably result in a lot of work, and cost extra, and might even ruin the image. If you are a picky personality, be as specific as possible from the very get-go in the areas that you care about.

— My artwork looks better in person.

I really can't stress this enough—scanners suck. I can almost promise you that you will be satisfied with the quality of pencil work when you view it for yourself. Which I hope may help justify my prices a bit.

Prices:

$35 = 1 sketchy fullbody character.
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$75 = 1 refined fullbody character.
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$100 = 1 refined fullbody character + simple/moderately complex background.
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$125 = 1 refined fullbody character + moderately/very complex background.
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$150 = 2 refined fullbody characters.
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$175 = 2 refined fullbody characters + simple/moderately complex background.
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$200 = Extremely refined fullbody character.
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$250 = Extremely refined fullbody character + background.
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— These are just general pricings, and I also hold the ability to adjust pricings on a case by case basis.

These prices are simply estimates for the purposes of determining initial payments. I work on an $8 an hour basis, so, for example, if I charge $75 for a "1 fullbody character" portrait that means I'm expecting to put 9 hours of work into the image. You would pay me something like $40 to start (five hours work) and if I only took 5 hours to do the work (unlikely, since you are paying for more work than that and expect refined result) you wouldn't be expected to pay the rest. On the plus side, if I worked 12 hours on the image ($96 of work), which is actually pretty likely, I wouldn't charge you any more than $75 which is my price cap, unless it was taking just an insane amount of time which would push it up to the range of an "Extremely refined fullbody character".
I can work cheaper than these stated prices too, but you'll simply get less bang for your buck (i.e. simple bust, or lineart drawing, etc). Also, lets say you want 2 characters plus a background but can only pay $75, right? I can work that out for you too, but you could expect the work to be much more gestural and unrefined, etc.