~CuddlyDemon

So hey, I wanted to make a new journal post to get rid of the George Carlin one because it depresses me a little everytime I check my dA main page, and I realized I needed to place updated Commission Info.

I could really use the extra cash once classes start next week, since it cuts down my time that I can work and I'll be driving a lot more. Gas hurts me, despite awesome mileage. ;.;

Before we even start: I DO NOT DRAW PORN. Okay? No porn. None. I still live with my parents and frankly I just ain't comfortable with some fetishes out there. Don't even ask as a joke. No porn. At all. Of any kind. If I recognize what you're asking for as fetish art, and having been an internet junkie since I was 9 years old I will, I will not draw it. Okay? Okay.
I may, MAY, be persuaded to do something like cheesecake, but as I've never done that successfully (and no one will ever see the failures), I give no guarantees there, either.

Despite its increasingly crummy value, I use the American Dollar for all pricing. Paypal is my preferred method, but if you can't do that, we'll work something out. Email address given upon request, if you can't find it.


Digital Sketches: 5 bucks, flat. I waste no supplies but my time, so these are cheap, but they are also sketches, which means incomplete and likely pretty messy. Keep that in mind.
I'm prepared to do just about any image for this price, but abusing the cheapness of this one by asking for, like, a gigantic epic battlescene or something equally stupid-huge will make me price it appropriately. This is still work, and I'm under-pricing myself as is (minimum hourly wage in California IS eight dollars an hour). Be reasonable, okay? (Here's a Reference!)
Normal Sketches: 10-12 bucks, depending on what I'm drawing (one character, multiple characters, backgrounds, action scene, you know). Also still a sketch, but on paper, with pencils. (This is A Sketch!)
Pen Sketch: 11-13 bucks, depending on what I'm drawing. These are drawn with an inkpen, nothing else, and are as a result very messy, thus 'sketch.' These have varying amounts of detail in them, largely depending on how much ink is in the pen I'm using. Because these are harder to do without completely destroying the image (since I can't erase mistakes), the price is slightly higher for a sketch like this. I don't think anybody will want one, but, just in case. Pen sketch also covers things like my squiggly "I'm bored" designs. (Pen-sketch Squigglies or Pen-sketch normal drawing)
Inked sketch: 15-18 bucks, depending on what I'm drawing. Cleaned up linework, pens added, you know. Still not a finished piece, still probably a little bit messy, no shading. Basically line-art. (This is an Inked Sketch!)
Complete Black-and-White: 20-25 bucks, dependent on content. Inked, cleaned up, shaded, everything short of color. (This is a Complete Black-and-White!
Complete Color: 30-35 bucks, dependent-blah-blah. Be prepared to wait a bit for one of these, I'm extremely picky, but the results seem to be worth the effort. (This is a Complete Color!)

If I wind up really liking how your commish is turning out and do more work than was requested, I will not require the next step up in pricing, because you didn't ask for it. I will, of course, ask in advance if this is alright to do.

While I'm working on your commish, I will periodically send you a small jpeg file so you can give me thumbs-up or thumbs-down to continue, so I don't wind up working all the way through on something you don't like. Unless I know you personally, these files WILL have a watermark in them, since the commish will be unpaid at the time. Upon completion (and payment), I will send you the non-watermarked file of whatever type you want--default will probably be photoshop, for quality's sake--of your commissioned work, signed and dated.
If you want the hard copy of your commission, if one exists, when it's completed, that will tack on whatever the cost of shipping it (safely) is, so I can't really quote you that one here. Postage is wierd.

I believe in fairness here, so unless it becomes a problem, I'm going to go with 'no payment until completion to commissioner's satisfaction'. You don't pay till I'm done. If, however, you do not pay for the image you commission from me, it will go to my gallery with one bigass watermark smack in the middle of it and stay that way. I don't do freebies unless it's an art trade or I happen to like you, so please don't take advantage of me. It's not nice, and I'm better at it than you are.

I retain rights to the created image, not to the character/characters/setting(s) rendered, and will not attempt to sell any image of a copyrighted character(s)/setting(s) unless I have express permission from the creator (or the character depicted is already mine, but I doubt I'll be commissioned to draw my own stuff very often). I probably won't ask to do that anyway, but I figured I should cover my bases here.

Reproduction of the image is, of course, frowned upon without the proper credit given where it's due. Don't claim you made it, and I'm happy. If it's your commission, I'm fine with you altering the image (coloring it if it's not colored, fixing broken lines, that sort of thing), but leave the signature or my watermark visible; credit where it's due, again.

That's all I can think of at the moment, so ...yeah. These are my rules, so they're subject to change, but I don't think I'll need to because you people are nice, right?


--The Cuddly Demon

Mr. Pesci, your only recourse is seppuku with your own baseball bat.

George Carlin is dead, and not even Pesci, the sun, or the countless masses of uptight yuppie parents or politicians he pissed off in his illustrious career will bring him back now.

Carlin was my main source of faith in humanity, and a great inspiration to me. He encouraged me to speak the way I feel and to stand for what I believe is right, and to consider words to be precisely that: words; The profanity of a word lies in its thought or intention, not the word itself.

I can only believe a man like Carlin went to Heaven, as any other option is, as he would put it, a fuckin' sacrilege. And that there are as few blondes in Heaven as possible.

The 'Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television' should be permissable, without restriction, every year on June 22nd. If and when I make it big, I will become a major proponent of this particular idea. I promise.

Rest in Motherfucking Peace, George.

-- The Cuddly Demon

So, if anybody's paid attention (or cares) to my gallery of late, they might notice that a few of my gallery pieces have watermarks across them now. Though I wish I didn't feel it necessary to do so, as it messes with the pictures, I want to avoid the possibility of art theft if and whenever if comes up. I'll be adding watermarks to all my submissions, though I've no idea how long it will take.

I am an avid supporter of intellectual property and laws regarding it. If I ever see my work under somebody else's name, you can bet your ass I'm going to do something about it, up to and including legal recourse if I must. I like to go on the assumption that most people, when called on art theft, will own up and take the picture down, but I am not entirely naive. Better to deter it as best I can before I have to deal with lazy, heartless asshats who think the sole reason my hard work is put into the public eye is so they can steal and alter it. Sorry, no, that's what stock photography is for, and even that has rules. I put my work into the public eye because I want to show people what I can do and I think people enjoy, at a very instinctual level, looking at cool pictures and interesting stories. The desire to take those cool pictures or stories and pretend that you made them yourself is not instinctual; it is cruel to the people that put all that effort into the art, and it is born of the desire to be praised for skills that you don't have and certainly didn't work to achieve.

In short, I hate art thieves. Art theft is one of the most spineless activities I've seen in the almost 12 years I've spent on the internet. If you've done it, or are thinking about doing it, I suggest you consider how you'd feel if something you worked your ass off to make, build, or do was taken credit for by someone else and/or utterly raped by the ones that did it.

To those of you that haven't done it and never will, kudos on you. I would hope that you also pursue art thieves where you find them, but I'm content with the knowledge that not everybody is a bastard. That kind of thought is reserved solely for management or government.

-- The Cuddly Demon

First ten people! Reply with ONE word. Something you want me to doodle (doodle means simple black-and-white drawing that doesn't take me long). Just one word. Not hyphenated-to-be-funny-and-include-more-words, not allruntogether. Just one word, like "tree" or "penis."

(Don't pick penis.)

Explanation copied from 's journal, except for the following:

No, god dammit, I will not draw porn or genitalia, nor artistic nudes, because this is not my Life Drawing class and I know better than to pretend you guys just want to see me do an anatomical study. Don't even try, I'll just ignore your post. Other'n that, fire away.

*shields face*

I got bored earlier today and felt like checking on a package of mine... I felt like announcing this one:

I will have a tablet at the end of the day (barring some bizarre circumstance that keeps the UPS guy from getting from their building in Ventura to my house in Oxnard in one day). I intend to put it to good use. Maybe once I've gotten good at it, I'll start doing commissions again.

That is all.

-The Cuddly Demon