Hey hey all!

I'll be doing a special stream tomorrow for the holidays and to celebrate a few personal issues I've been working on over the course of the year. Feel free to tune in anytime from 2-8pm EST at https://picarto.tv/TengokuDoodles.

For those of you interested, I will have two slots open to take on new requests. While I'll be working on new stuff almost exclusively tomorrow, including two fun little nerd works, I think it's about time I start the whole "doing those free commissions' thing again. Should to join in and bring a friend, we'll see about getting you something doodled up all nice and pretty!

That being said, in order to keep the requests I'm sure I'm going to get relatively low and reasonable, I think it's about time I actually start thinking about charging for my work. Now, those of you who follow me at all know I absolutely abhor the idea of taking money. This is for several reasons, most of them personal, but the main reason is, I don't see art as a business. I see it as a hobby. I don't do enough art well enough or fast enough to make any real money off of it, and a lot of folks don't have that much to afford to begin with, so why bother? Also, as soon as something becomes a business transaction, I tend to immediately loose interest, which hurts the final product of whatever I'm drawing.

But, if I ever want to pick up on some of my personal projects and make a start here, at some point I'm going to have to bite the bullet and start in on the whole PayPal and art thing. So, with that in mind, I'm going to be putting up a comission guide for me including examples and prices for the work I can do and how to get it soon. You know, the same thing you see on every channel halfway dedicated to art. Here's what I'm thinking;

1. Blue-line sketches are done for free! - This is my staple. I am a firm believer that everyone should have art done for them, for their characters, and everything in between that they can call their own. I will now be limiting all free work to a first-come, first-served basis, and I will be limiting free blue line sketches to only one per person. No more showing up a week after your first one with a new character asking for a free ref.

2. Inked worked - $2. I actually like inking and lining in work properly, and it's a relatively relaxing process for me, however I tend to take the long way around while doing it, and I fill in details that I simply don't do on my blue line sketches during this process.

3. Flat Color - $5. Colors, as I've found, are hard. I'm not particularly good at them, nor am I decent at choosing them on my own, but there are folks out there with an eye for it and it tends to work rather decently when I can pull it off. However, since flat color can get a little tedious at times (I have had folks change colors on me mid-drawing before.0 I think five bucks for a fully lined in and colored work is pretty cheap and the standard for most folks here.

4. Fully shaded - $10 - This is where things really start to take time for me. I'm getting faster and better at this process, and I do a sort of burned/cel shading style that takes me less and less time to do, but when I do shading I also do highlights, color variations, skin patterns, and details that I can't pull off in just black and white. Considering I've seen folks on here who are...less than talented asking for ten quid for just a sketch, I don't think I'm pushing my boundaries here, and it's a low enough amount of money to keep me from the above listed loss of interest.

5. Additional Characters - Price doubles. - Now, this is where things get tricky. I'm not opposed to doing multiple characters in work, far from it, but I also am utter crap (for now) at designing layouts with multiple people in them. And, correspondingly, the work load tends to simple go off the scale when we start throwing in three or four people in a hot tub scene. I'm just not that good yet to handle those sorts of things yet. Not that I won't do it, but I am trying to work under limitations here to keep from becoming buried in things and killing my motivation outright.

6. Fully rendered - $20 - Full background, fully shaded. Now, I'm going to be drawing two of these sorts of examples of what I can really do tomorrow, so tune in to find out what I mean, but the short and long of it, if you want this, if you want me to lavish my skill on a single pic of work for you to this extent, I feel like I have to ask for at least this much. I'm lazy, often out of touch, and hard to work with as anyone can tell you, but for this amount of money, my pride as a person and my own moral compass will refuse to let me do anything less then my best. With that caveat that my 'best; is kinda only slightly better then what I do regularly.

Now, this is just the skeleton of what I'm think of as far as prices go, and like I said, I'll be putting up a visual referance soon to better explain things, but until then, I think I've droned on long enough. For now, I hope to see you at the stream tomorrow, and I hope this answers a few questions I've been getting recently. Until later, thanks for lending someone your time!