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Commission list

Digital Art
You will receive this art as a high-resolution image that you can print.
Commissions are for your personal usage only.

Physical Art
You will receive this art shipped to you, at your expense.  
Commissions are for your personal use only, unless prenegotiated.

8.5 X 11
Design or Convention Sketches
1 Character Pencils $10 Each additional Character or Scenario $5
1 Character Inks $15 Each additional Character or Scenario $5
1 Character Color $20 Each additional Character of Scenario $5
1 Character Design Pencils $20 Multiple angles, Turn-abouts, expressions, clothing changes, weapons, costuming
1 Character Design Inks $25 Multiple angles, Turn-abouts, expressions, clothing changes, weapons, costuming
1 Character Design Color $30 Multiple angles, Turn-abouts, expressions, clothing changes, weapons, costuming


Each level pricing includes the level before.  So if you want a color Sketch it would only be $20. Or if you want a color Character design it would be $30.


Drawings
8.5X11
1 Character fully rendered Pencils $15 Each additional Character or Scenario $5
1 Character fully rendered Inks $25 Each additional Character or Scenario $5
1 Character fully rendered Color $35 Each additional Character or Scenario $5


11X17
1 Character fully rendered Pencils $25 Each additional Character or Scenario $5
1 Character fully rendered Inks $45 Each additional Character or Scenario $5
1 Character fully rendered Color $65 Each additional Character or Scenario $5

Each level pricing includes the level before.  So if you want a color drawing it would only be $35. Or if you want a color 11X17 drawing it would only be $65.


PIN-UP PACKAGE

11X17
$65 Fully rendered Pencils
$115 Fully rendered Inks (pencils and inks)
$165 Fully rendered Color (pencils, inks, and colors)

Each level pricing includes the level before.  So if you want a inked pin-up would only be $115. Or if you want a color pin up it would only be $165.

When you choose this package, YOU tell ME the specs:

    * The Characters (up to four max!)
    * Description of Action
    * Description of Location

From these specifications, I create the final piece!  Several sketches and one revision before the final piece!

WHAT YOU GET!

    * The layout (on 8.5" x 11" printer paper)!
    * The sketch (on 8.5" x 11" printer paper)!
    * The final illustration, done on Bristol board, approx. 10" x 15".
    * For Color customers print files and digital image large enough to print on any printer!




COVER PACKAGE
$75 Fully rendered Pencils
$135 Fully rendered Inks (pencils and inks)
$195 Fully rendered Color (pencils, inks, and colors)

This includes cover recreations.  Lettering is Extra. Each level pricing includes the level before.  So if you want a inked cover it would only be $135. Or if you want a color cover it would only be $195.

When you choose this package, YOU tell ME the specs:

    * The characters (unlimited!)
    * Description of Action
    * Description of Location

From these specs I create a set of COVER CONCEPT SKETCHES. You get to review the CONCEPTS and provide editorial suggestions for your favorite choice!

I create a SKETCH from the edited CONCEPT. You get to review the SKETCH and provide editorial suggestions!

I create a LAYOUT from the edited SKETCH. You get to review the LAYOUT and provide editorial suggestions!

I create the final ILLUSTRATION from the edited LAYOUT!
WHAT YOU GET!

You get
    * The final illustration, done on Bristol board, approx. 10" x 15".
    * The layout (on 8.5" x 11" printer paper)!
    * The sketch (on 8.5" x 11" printer paper)!
    * The cover concept sketches (on 8.5" x 11" printer paper)!
    * The raw thumbnail sketches (on 8.5" x 11" printer paper)!
    * For color customers print file and digital image -- large enough to print on any printer!

Physical Art
All art can be shipped to you.  Shipping rates vary and are the responsibility of the buyer.

Commercial Rates

Are open to negotiation.

Comicbook Pages

$55 Fully rendered Pencils
$100 Fully rendered Inks (pencils and inks)
$155 Fully rendered Color (pencils, inks and colors)
$175 Lettering Captions, Dialogue (sound effects are part of the art)


1.- If interested send me an email with the title "Commission" and fill out this form:
Name: (DA name)
PayPal address: (To keep track of payments)
Commission: (Image size and commission level)
References: (Pictures or description of your character will be mostly appreciated)
Others: (Any extra information you'd like to add in relation to your request) Note any references that has design elements you want me to incorporate into your design as well as the description of your character (personality, height, body-type, etc). These will help me make the drawing closer to what you had in mind. I will let you know if your request has been accepted or otherwise, I will apologize for not being able to carry on with it.
- If your request has been accepted, I will let you know how much it will cost you in total. Negotiations may be taken into consideration at this point of time until you're satisfied.
- I will only start on your request once payment has been received.
- I will note you once your request is done!
2.- Depending on the complexity of the drawing, we can negotiate the price
3.- For several artworks, we can also negotiate the price
4.- The final works will have my signature as author. The final artwork is the client's property, with limited reproductive rights unless agreed upon in advance. I will use the artwork as part of my personal portfolio of works.
5.- Digital copies are provided, digital print files can be requested, they are sent via e-mail. There is shipping cost for the physical artwork and it is the responsibility of the buyer.
6.- The payment is in 50% advance 50% upon completion.
7.- All the payments are made using PAYPAL. You may only demand for a refund when your request is still in "Sketch" phase. For pieces with revisions, no refunds after final revision.

I've been hungry most my life.  Some artists win awards, find mentors, get discovered.  Me, I've had to do it the hard way.  Almost everything I learned I learned the hard way -- books, libraries, and in the new millennium online tutorials.  Big ups to Scott McDaniel -- the very first tutorial I read and simply the best out there.  When I started looking at art as a career -- animation was dead.  I graduated high school when there was no animation going on -- pre Little Mermaid.  Before Disney realized that little kids still watched cartoons.  The comic book industry was at it's heyday -- the industry was strong,  Black and whites just hit the market, regular retailers still carried comic books.  No break, no luck, no mentor.  I did background inks, spotted Blacks, backgrounds, ghosted pages, anything to keep drawing -- because I was hungry.  For years I've worked on the edge.  A few images here and there -- pin ups, character designs, toy designs, not enough to support myself, not enough to fill the hunger.  Try-outs, I've had a few.  I was finally told -- to show them that you can and want to work you have to work.  So this year I set out to self publish with a Xeric grant, rejected this time.  The experience was worth the effort.  Realizing that I could put together the project.  Realizing that I could make it happen for myself, because no one has tried to make it happen for me.  Not that people didn't want to work with me.  No one wanted to pay for the work is all.  Everyone wanted my time, supplies, and efforts, without pay.  "We get published you get paid." or  "I've got this ideal that's going to set the industry on fire!" or "I've got a deal with Image and you just have to do these pages, designs, and...."  Not that I'm a total mercenary, but I do want some respect for the time and effort I put into the work.  I'm willing to get paid back end, if the person is real about the deal, meaning that he already has the deal set, not "draw 1000 pages, then we'll see about getting it published."  I'm ready to get published in a comic book.  You see regardless of all that.  I'm still hungry.

I felt that this was the time.  I felt that everything was aligned properly to get things done.  However, everyone conspired against me.  Certainly it was all for the familial good.  Everyone thrived, and benefited, and flourished, but me.  My art time was stolen, my nest egg for art supplies was conscripted, my whine is sooo tired.

I benefited, explored different styles, rewrote scripts, perfected so much.  I've gone to work for the evil empire: Google.  I enjoy the work -- I'm a business photographer in my home town. Some of you suckers work for Marvel -- I laugh at you.  My art is my own and I suddenly learned to value that freedom.  My stories and scripts will be my own.  Would I work for the big boys?  Of course, its what most of us started with.  Getting our version of Superspider or Manly Captain Man published, would be a feather in our cap regardless.  Its just not my only goal.  I have a bigger dream than that, and family is a part of it.  Self publishing is about leaving my family something of myself, undiluted by the powers that be in comics.

So back to work, gather my funds, and prepare to publish.  I'm excited.

Time to do it right.  I am finishing the worst part -- getting my computer sites ready.  Cleaning up my posts and cleaning up my computer.  I will be upgrading my equipment and software. Preparing everything so that I can focus on the creative parts of my works.

Back online, but busy at the day job. Doing little sketches, but not the major works.