You're totally worth the money <3 :D

you have the CUTEST style ;n;

Flat colors cost more than soft OC tonals?

Yep, they're more work! Especially if the inks are kinda loose.

Should mention some differences between the two-
The OC color ones are in a lower resolution, never really bigger than 3000 pixels wide. The flat color ones are usually 600 dpi (4000-6000 pix wide or so). The flat color ones can be handy if you like to put them on things, because of the flat colors you can change the colors easily or make the background transparant. The OC color ones always have a white background. The flat color ones are colored with much more precision (time) which is what raises the price.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3240743/ComparisonBBF.png

I suppose, just feels odd. From a customer standpoint the added effort for me to get something that I would consider more functional but less interesting...I dunno just feel bizarre. But I am not complaining, was just curious and stuff. I just have a different point of view on it.

Yeah, I understand, more people told me it was odd. I personally often like flat colors better, but I'm weird XD I guess more people will go for the OC option then! (unless they really want colored lines)

Actually, the flat colored one looks best to me out of these - partly due to the colored background. Somehow the OC one stands out too much against the white.

You have NO idea how much better I feel now seeing this Zoom of your picture! D:
Because I always thought I would be too lame to do 100% clean lines when scanning, but seeing it's just the same like you my art doesn't look that crappy to me anymore ^__^;

Yeah, especially if you zoom in entirely on the pictures I draw on normal printing paper with a pretty dry brush, the lines can look rough. From a distance you don't see it, but those 'errors' are what gives a traditional drawing appeal, imho. (that, and I can't do digital inks to save my life)

looks reasonable to me

Agreed! Worth every cent! I just hope other FA users can see that :)

You know, it really is cool to see such a classical cartoon style like yours around here.

Hell, just a classical cartoon style period with all the anime junk around. No offense to anime of course, there's just seems to be an excessive interest it.

"there's just seems to be an excessive interest it."
*high-fives*

BUT I MADE A TYPO

NoooOOOOoooooOOOOooooo

>A> are colored lines really that much harder to do? I just lock the transparency on the linework and scribble all over the page.

SHHHH
IT'S A SECRET WAY TO GET MORE MONEY

In my own experience, they are pretty time consuming...

With the software/working method I'm using, yes, it's time consuming. Coloring the lines takes pretty much just as long as coloring the rest of the picture. I do everything on one layer, btw, don't use photoshop.

welp if you just split the layers, you could make it super easy for yourself. it's not that hard at all, and more than just photoshop has the feature.

i agree. the artist is just making it harder on themselves and making it less likely they are going to get commissions..

Or less likely that people will want colored lines, and will prefer to buy it without.

These are splendid! I haven't seen much of BigBlue in a long time, he's nice :D

So going to want one when you open

BFF looks like he just won the grand prize. :D

I did when I first met her! :D

Awwwwwwwwwww!

Omg FTW <3<3<3
I wish I could have money for this (stupid expensive school xC)...or I wish you'll be open for an arttrade someday :/

I'm sure we can arrange something sometime ;)

Ouchie! Your new prices hurt. Glad I got a couple of drawings from you already!

Hmm? My memory is probably failing but right now I can't think of any drawings I did for you? My prices also have been pretty much the same for quite a while.
Wish I could do it for less, I'd love to draw some stuff for you sometime.

Oh, God *embarrassed blushes* I think I might have confused you with another fur... eek. I did. I so sorry. Bad fox.

Haha, no problem!

Yikes, looks like your coloring method must be really time-consuming! Have you looked into alternate methods? Using Photoshop it would be very easy to color the lines, even if you did work all on one layer (which is nuts!), using the Color Select tool. The way the prices jump through techniques that visually vary quite little is odd and I kind of doubt you'll get anyone who wants to make the jump. Especially since it's so easy to apply colors yourself if you have the lineart in a way that looks no different than what you're offering.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS that the colored version you're offering is not a process that only you know how to do. So commissioning you to do it for extra money is kind of a waste. The flat colors are not a unique visual style that only you can offer (such as if it were colored and shaded in a more complex manner)

Of course, ignore all this if you have people paying you to apply flat colors, because that's a great way to make 20 bucks!

You're right (though I don't have photoshop or any software where I can work with good layers), so I don't really expect many people to go for the full thing. The differences in coloring are mentioned in a comment somewhere up there ^
I'm just offering it in case people really want it. Before I made this list I always decided per piece which method to use, and asked the same price for everything. I mostly went with flat colors because I like them better, but I thought that if people actually like the OC version better, AND it's easier to make for me, I could just let them decide.

All my smaller commissions like icons and such are also colored in OC, btw.

If only you hadn't already done the most awesome image of myself and CW, I would be so getting on your list... :)

Flat colors <3

I swear one of these days I'm going to nab a slot before they get full again.

Crabby people :B it's refreshing to see someone who doesn't work for what would end up as... idk slave labour (at least, I don't think! idk how fast you draw haha). Not that I can afford it but atm I can't afford to commission anyone, so it's not saying much :P

Out of curiosity, what do you do to colour lines? D:

Part of my price for coloring the lines is because I hate it so much, haha. But I think it looks neat so I do it often for giftart and trades.
I color them the same way as the base colors... I have b/w lineart, and then there's this tool (see really old MS paint) where you can pick a base color, and what you paint will only cover that color.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEj-i-1xqkA Here you can see how I color (not doing lineart), but this one was super quick and rough. Especially if a drawing has a lot of different colors in it, doing the lineart takes very long. I never really counted but coloring a picture like that definitely takes me twice as long as doing the whole sketch plus inking, and it can take even far longer. (which is also why I won't offer those lineless pictures like that Norf drawing... those take SO long I'd have to ask a super high price and I don't want to)

Oh man, if you're using PSP you can pretty easily extract the lines (from a picture with pure ffffff white and 000000 black at the extremes--doesn't necessarily have to be aliased/b&w) onto a separate layer by going to masks>new>from image and selecting source window: this window and create mask from: source luminance, and checking invert mask data. this way you can start with a simple floodfill and go over with new colours as much as you want :B it's still a pain but less of one.

I'll try that out sometime, thanks!

uhh you know you could use photoshop & get the exact same result, right? only quicker & less effort.
Oh, but that would mean less money, of course. My bad.

If you tell me where to get a legit copy of photoshop for cheap...