Have you ever commissioned art for a character in a game you've played or run?
How did it go?
Pic not related, just the first picture I could find in my folders that looked like it could be from a character design process.
>>46496955
It was from the draw thread but the artist took me through the entire commission process.
i explained in detail what I was looking for he sketched up a few poses I selected my favourite, we sent emails back and forth as he requested details or nuances of the character being portrayed.
Had I the art on my phone I would post it but Bentusi was a real gentlemen about the art. Absolutely fantastic. That character turned into one of my favourites, but for the ending of the campaign.
>>46496955
Normally I'm the one drawing. Hell, I got started drawing because of playing tabletop games and wanted to draw characters. Now it's sort of come full circle.
>>46497002
Damn right Bentusi are gentlemen!
>>46496955
Sure, here's Legion, from an old forum RP thing during my edgy days.
A friend and GM I game with gave me a commission for one of my characters as a christmas present, pic related. The same artist has drawn almost our entire group as well as a good chunk of our NPCs, which gives the game a really nice consistent theme.
I've also got an ongoing commission at the moment, an artist was doing half priced magical girl commissions during April, and I jumped at the chance to get some cheap art done for a character of mine. It's pretty cool to have nice custom art of one of your characters.
>>46497378
It's shredder shredding soldiers with his shredder body.
What is a reasonable price range for commissions? What did you pay for yours?
>>46497840
Depends on the artist.
I tend towards 'At least $50 USD if it's a full colour character'.
I recently commissioned Weremole for $90 USD and don't regret it at all.
You can find cheaper but they are either not very good artists or dramatically underselling themselves.
>>46497840
It's down to the artist's skill and what you're requesting. For uncoloured line-art or a sketch of a single character, the max would be 25USD. For full colour, I'd say 50USD is a reasonable, and if you're asking for a background, 75 to 100USD. Add between 50 and 100% extra for each additional character.
>>46496955
You got any links to the artist?
>>46498109
http://scorpdk.deviantart.com/art/Hairdressing-563106604
expect furries and lewds. I haven't signed in to look at what the mature content is but there's a lot of it.
>>46496955
Haven't done one for a character in a while, and even then it was regoruso's draw thread on here, which yielded fantastic results. (shitty color job is mine)
>>46497840
The most I ever paid for a single character was $140. But that was a semi-lewd where the artist also designed an outfit based on some random references.
It's just best to look around various sites and find artists, see which styles appeal to you, what their prices are, what their rules are (Some artists really try to boss you around) and ETA of completion. Like the artists Jadenkaiba does some pretty decent work for the fees they ask for but will take 3 to 4 months to get a single drawing done.
Just sharing a commission two of my friends got of their characters from their on going game.
Since /ic/ is mostly assholes who seem to discourage anything at all, I'll ask here.
What are some ways artists can set themselves up to offer commissions?
>>46499442
Deviantart journals, FB pages, Tumblr post shares. these are the ones i know of.
>>46499520
To expand on that, advertise with definite prices and examples of what you're willing to do for those prices. $10~ is reasonable for a quick sketch, but i've had them as low as $5 with some impressive results. the artist community will tell you to do what you're comfortable with, within your skill level. (i look at a lot of it this way: cheap sketches=getting paid to practice, and people eat up good ones)
now, you'll obviously need a paypal in addition to that. best way to take commissions is half or full upfront. never do a commission without getting something upfront. the art world is full of cheapass ripoffs.
after that, tell your network and ask them to tell their network through shares or journals that exhibit your examples. you should be fine to get commissions, and you will assuming your skill level and prices are decent
>>46499614
Also, a note on revisions: only do them for commissions that have a final product, such as lineart or full color. sketches shouldn't get revisions, so make sure to tell the clients you need good references. i recommend 1-2 revisions at most when doing a bigger commission. these ensure people won't waste your time not telling you exactly what they want (which is an artform in itself).
>>46496955
At first I thought she looks like Rarity. Then I googled the filename.I'm fine with that.
>>46500051But it is Rarity. And I actually commission that same artist for a variety of stuff including character art.
>>46500248I meant that yes, it actually is Rarity and I'm fine with that. Always appreciate good art, regardless of what it is.
>>46497840
dinner, movies and a blowjob
>>46496955
Yes.
Very well. It really helps to have lots of visual references, at least one to each detail you specify.
>>46496955
I like scorpdk's stuff, but that jaw/cheek area on 4 and 6 is out of control.
>>46500325
He does good work. I've actually had him do several of my D&D character. One of which has since become very attached with.
My DM commissioned this piece after our 4+ year campaign ended. Took these guys from level one to max in 4E.
Well, I took my Warforged from one to max. Everybody else changed their character a few times throughout.
>>46500325
>>46500590
>good art
Wait, people consider OP pic good?
It looks like something out of a "How to draw Manga!".
I mean look at that mandible, it could chew concrete.
>>46500549
They're obviously used to hair covering it up, and so never get practice drawing it.
Negative; I drawbadly, so no point.
>>46500616
...I look at that, and I can only think of one word:
"STORYTIME!"
>>46500897
By "good" they mean "big tits."
>>46496955
Whoever's character is in the OP's picture I just want to let you know that I would like to chain her up in my basement as a sex slave. Well I hope that helps.
>>46501122
Congrats dude you want to fuck a pony.I do too.
>>46496955
Yes, for christmas I commissioned an artist friend of my group to do a drawing of the party around a christmas tree, opening presents.
It went really well, but we already knew each other and I'd given her the details about the game/character beforehand so neither of us had to do much extra work.
>>46501207
its not a pony, bro
ill fap to eqg porn, but wont even touch lewd mlp porn
we haven't done commissions for our current game but half the players have drawn art for it and I've been experimenting with paint programs
>>46501207
I guess it's time to get a crop and tack.
>>46497405
Yeah this was my first thought, how is not the Shredder? He's probably even shreddier than the real Shredder.
>>46499361
What sites? I've googled before but never really saw anything I was looking for.
>>46496955
Commissioned a bunch of stuff for a homebrew RPG a while back. I found that some of the artists were goddamned awesome to work with, some were cheap, some were timely with their work, and a couple were all of the above.
If you comb through Deviantart you'll find a bunch of people willing to do small batches of custom illustrations. It seems to me that the trick is to work with somebody that puts up fresh work frequently and is mostly doing it as a hobby. It being a hobby keeps the price down; they were going to doodle something anyway, you're just subsidizing their art habit. Professional artists know what their time and expertise is worth, and that's probably more than you really want to spend.
>>46501436
Best bet is comb through DeviantArt. Try searching for characters that you like to see if you spot an artist that captures what you like about them. When you find some artists that look up your alley check their Tumblr to see if they link other artists they like.
Also, if you don't mind NSFW sites try something like Hentai Foundry. Found some good artists there for some safe drawings as well.
>>46502546
I'll keep that in mind, though I'm not a fan of DA.
It sounds like an awful lot of work to blindly search through a website for something that meets your criteria. I'm on 4chan though, so it's not like I don't have the time.
Any additional tips for commissioning?
>>46496955
Yes, but for online RP a long time ago, not a game per-se. She's a Lotus Elise.
>>46501235
The character inspiring that character is a pony.
>>46503643
Reading ain't your strong suit is it
>>46496955
Never commissioned, but drawfriends have treated me VERY well.
I've wanted to commission characters for stuff before, but it always seemed like a lot of work to find an artist with a style that I liked that I felt would be willing to take up a job.
I have never paid anything over $30 for a commission, mostly because I'm poor, but also because I think anything above $40 is pushing it (Unless they're *really* fucking good).
Anything above $100 and I'm immediately out.
I don't need to commission anything.Because my girlfriend is a commissioned artist, so free pictures for days.
Pic related, she drew her own character for her first real tabletop game a day ago or so.
>>46500248
Great, another stealth pony thread. Good job contributing nothing, OP. Rule 15
>>46504896
Not the OP, But it was just confirming the artist what it was and not to mention people have in fact discused about actually getting their works done.
>>46505023
Irregardless, rule 15 is there for any and all pony content, he could just as well, and should have, made this thread in /mlp/.
>>46504823
I try to aim for 40-50 depending on the style, options, and other details.
I always feel dejected when I consider commissioning art, because all of my requests would have references that basically boil down to "x anime character, but y."
>>46505056
Good job on that double negative.
>>46504894
For the crime of humble bragging about your girlfriend, she is hereby sentenced to taking load after load from the boys of /tg/!
>>46496955
I commisionned this big science-fiction/apocalyptic piece almost a year ago, it illustrated a very old game I had with my 3 best bros.
We don't play this particular game anymore, so I don't really know if it's on-topic, I had it done mainly so I could gift it to my one bro who was coming back from the military, each person on the pic has a copy of it.
It was super expensive and I don't recommend this kind of commission to anyone who just wants a visual for their character, but it brings me a warm feeling when I look at it, despite it being generic as hell and quite messy.
>>46505282
Don your armor I'll fight tooth and nail to preserve her purity.
>>46496955
>Have you ever commissioned art for a character in a game you've played or run?
No, but I once played in a game where the DM commissioned quite a bit of art from this one girl, eventually inviting her into the group, dating her, and making an absolutely incredibly disturbing comic with her which they then pulped for fear of legal repercussions.
It was an interesting experience.
>>46505564
storytime
>>46505483
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGWtVOKTkM
>>46502635
One thing when checking for artists, take a look at the journal/Tumblr entries. If they post status updates frequently you may want to look at that as a yellow flag... I've had two artists have mental breakdowns mid-commission on me due to whatever reason and the commissions got delayed for nearly a year. Both of them constantly posted journal updates about their daily bullshit.
Hell, you can also try the E-Hentai galleries; just filter down to Western.
>>46505694
I've told it a couple of times before. It was this weird, weird project, which started off because of a conversation I had with the guy about magic in gaming; how it operated as a kind of "fifth force physics" (His words, not mine) because you have to have mechanical representations of what PCs and NPCs can do, so magic has to be very structured.
He was interested in writing something where magic was fundamentally chaotic and unpredictable and random, and in thematic pursuit of this, children are the most powerful mages around. Not every child can cast spells, but magical talent usually manifests at around 4-5, and then steadily declines, to the point of being near useless when you're in your teens. (it never goes away entirely)
Then, (and I think this was her influence, but I'm not sure) it started adding a bunch of furry stuff, and you had what was actually a pretty well developed world about how various tribes of different humanoids get together and interact. The main story takes place in a quasi-venetian style state, where the protagonist Kentrith is a 5ish year old orphan who has the magic. He's about ordinarily powerful, but he's extremely, extremely bright, and as a consequence, can be far more effective at implementing what magic he has than most children. The city attempts to draft him, and it ends with him turning the current "guardian" inside out and installing himself as the new guardian. He drags along his surrogate mother, making her one of his advisors. He then leads the campaign, wins a battle, goes home, and has this extremely disturbing scene where it's not quite rape with the surrogate mother, but he does force her to sleep in his bed after he dissolves her clothes.
>>46505282
>>46505483
>>46505755
Hold it!
I volunteer as tribute!
I usually just draw my own, but I sometimes commission green. He's a cool dude.
I've commissioned for NPCs for my games sometimes.
I love me some commissioned art. These days I almost always got at least one person drawing something for me.
>>46496955
I have not myself, but one of the players in my group has apparently gotten pics of every PC and a few NPCs, barring my character. It's understandable, given my character is the token "out there" race and worries on how well the artist would handle something of such drastically different design wouldn't be too far-fetched.Still kind of upsetting they never bothered asking, but I'm not gonna be that poorfag that's like "hey, spend money so I can have a character pic". Didn't even have a vision for the character until a few months back.
>bepornartist
>party knows
>feel weird drawing own character art because of such
feelsbadman
>>46513136
I have wondered what it'd be like to be a porn artist. Is it your main line of income?
>>46496955
I wish it was easier to find someone to commission for a miniature paint job in my area (East Lansing)
>>46505457
I'm a lonely man with money to lose.
Who did you commission that from?
>>46513136
Show us some non-porn work and let's see if we can guess?
I'm gonna see if a talented fellow can give me something to jam on a wikipage/little rulebook thing.
No idea how rates work or what the etiquette is for these things, like a restaurant tip vs. an upfront cost at a subshop.
I don't pay for art, but I am lucky enough to have three members of my group be very good artists. One of them drew her druid in our current 5e game (pic related). I mostly DM, however, so I've got no characters to have drawn, in the first place.
>>46516691
No memorable NPC's or BBEG's?
>>46516749
There's the friendly dragon that hangs around, and the Druid's player likes him because she adores dragons. All the NPCs already have art already picked out to use for their tokens, since it's an online game, so even if they are memorable, it's not as if they need it.
>>46505457
drawfag here, if you paid more than 80€ for that you got buttfucked hard.
I got this DH2e character for $60. Blaz is pretty cool, but in retrospect, I feel like maybe I should've been fussier about the helmet.
>>46497404
Is that a Scaglietti Cyborg?
>>46496955
I paid $50 for this commission of my Dark Heresy assassin. The guy does a ton of Warhammer 40k artwork so I decided, 'why not?'
Quite happy with how it turned out but it wasn't 1:1 with what I had in mind.
$50 is usually what I'll charge for commissions too, but it depends on how detailed folks want their character portraits, or if they want it coloured or with backgrounds.
>>46518565
Yep. It's a game in the Nanoha setting, and my PCs backstory is that they were an unfinished Scaglietti Cyborg. Her incomplete body was found in a tank in one of Jail's labs after he was defeated, but she was deemed to be alive, so they completed her as much as was necessary to let her live normally, had her adopted by a couple who worked in the TSAB and saw how it went. The name 'Tazzari' was given to her by her adopted parents, but Jail designated her Quindici, or 15.
>>46518639
Did the artist get an okay before finalizing the piece and, if it was digital, did they allow for a limited number of adjustments in the tightened piece?
>>46518832
I'm not exactly sure, he sent me scans so it looked like he did the work on paper. However, it's pretty much my fault for not specifying things to an absolute tee. I had given him some reference material. In the end I was still really pleased with it, so it's not a big deal.
>>46515079
The artist's name is Nicholas Kay, pic is his most well known piece, search for black templar painting on youtube.
>>46516793
In that case I got buttfucked harder than any man has ever been, but I had to lower the quality of the piece to post it on 4chan, so some precision is lost.
Still, I think you're right, he did not put in the level of detail of pic related, if you know of other artists who are capable of this kind of stuff, give me their names because I'm definitely interested for future pics.
>>46518664
I'm surprised a GM would allow that but then, you are playing in an anime setting. Standards are likely low for that sort of GM.
>>46520565
Well, there are a lot of qualifiers, both in the game and in the setting. As an unfinished clone, Tazzari's augmentations were incomplete, so her actual combat potential was well below her elder sisters of The Numbers. Mechanically she was on par with the other PCs, a relatively weak linker core and magical ability supplemented by her Combat Cyborg systems. The game is set in a TSAB academy with a group of recruits, so our PCs are all well below the power level seen in the actual show.
I was thinking about getting our party drawn for a guy going into surgery soon, but I have no idea where to even start looking for people to do it, nor even a rough ballpark figure for cost.
