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Process

Process

Process

Process

How to order

Thank you for your interest in my work!

If you're unfamiliar with commissioning art from me, below is a rundown of my process.

STEP 2  Confirm and Pay

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STEP 4  Receive Your Artwork

By purchasing artwork, designs, or services ("work", "works", "artwork") from or created by artist SweetChimera (“the artist”) you as the client (“the client”, “they”) affirm to have read and agree to the following Terms of Service ("Terms") listed below. These Terms are subject to change without notice.Should you have questions, please email → sweetchimera.art@gmail.com
Updated: 14 Jun 2025

Section 1

General Terms

Section 2

Rights & agreements

Copyright

Copyright to all work produced shall remain solely with the artist.
The artist retains the right to use the work in any way. This includes but is not limited to marketing and self-promotion, publishing any components from its creation behind a paywall (i.e. on Patreon), or repurposing drafts not featured in the final artwork.The artist will not use the final artwork to create or sell merchandise without client permission.

Licensing

The rates listed on this site are for works licensed for noncommercial use. Unless permitted by a mutually signed commercial licensing agreement, all artworks produced are reserved for noncommercial, personal use by the client.The relevant licensing is conferred once the work is complete and paid for in full.

Use Permissions

The client is permitted use of the final version of the work only; use of preliminary concepts or drafts requires the artist's permission. Uses beyond the scope defined by these Terms require the artist's permission.The client's use of the work should be in in good faith and in a manner respectful of the original work.

Limitations of Use

Credit

The client must include author attribution whenever the artwork is republished, reproduced, or displayed.
Indicate authorship as:Artist: sweetchimera.art

Section 3

pricing & Payment

Pricing

Payment

Payment Plans

Payment Plans are available for artworks priced $200 USD or more, involving a 50% nonrefundable initial deposit, with the remainder paid in two installments over a set period. Details of the plan must be agreed upon with the artist prior to invoicing, and the invoice paid in full before the artwork will be delivered.

Fees

Clients may incur fees, priced per-request with payment due immediately, for requests that fall outside standard commission service, add excessive complexity, or introduce information not specified in the original order.
While it is uncommon to incur fees at all, the artist will warn if a client's request will incur a fee.Fees incurred by revisions implemented into the artwork at any point will not be waived or refunded, even if later altered, undone, or absent from the final artwork.Percent fees are based on the art type's main price (or on the low end of the price range if the art type is priced with a range) rounded up to the nearest dollar.
Fees may increase the total price of an art type past a listed range cap.

Simple Props and Background Elements

Simple Props

Simple Props are considered small or one-handed items with simple or nonspecific designs. Examples include bouquets/flowers, handguns, pocket watches, kitchen or hunting knives, magic staves, books, mugs, teacups, hand fans, controllers, phones, small instruments like panflutes or recorders, skateboards with simple deck designs, etc.

Simple Background Elements

Simple Background Elements concern themed patterns or effects that do not require the suggestion of a physical environment, such as sparkles, nimbuses, flames, patterns, etc.

Which props are considered simple is determined by the artist. Complex props will incur fees.

Complexity & Reference Fees

Complex Designs

Complex design fees typically do not apply to headshot or bust crop artwork.

Complex Props, Background Elements, Companions

Which props or background elements are considered complex is determined by the artist.

Inadequate Reference

Section 4

Cancellation & Refunds

Order Cancellation

The client may email the artist at sweetchimera.art@gmail.com to cancel the order at any time. The client will not receive any further artwork, nor any licensing or usage rights for the drafts produced by cancelled orders. Once cancelled, orders cannot be resumed.The artist retains the right to repurpose drafts or concepts from cancelled orders for public sale or personal use.

Refunds

The client must contact the artist to request a refund. By receiving a refund, the order is automatically cancelled.

SECTION 5

order Process

Order Details

It is the client's responsibility to provide all information necessary to complete the artwork when ordering.

References

The client is responsible for providing the best quality visual references available. The reference material should be:

Written references, or references that don't match this criteria in whole or in part are considered inadequate reference and may be rejected, may negatively impact the quality of the artwork, and/or in extreme cases may incur a custom design fee.Corrections or revisions necessitated at any point due to inadequate reference material will be done at the artist's discretion and may incur additional costs, priced per revision.

Style

The artist reserves the right to simplify character designs at their discretion for compatibility with the medium.The artist will take artistic and stylistic liberties unless requested otherwise. Requests for specific stylistic approaches outside the artist's default for a given art type may incur fees priced by art type and style complexity.

WIPs

The artist will provide at least one (1) Work in Progress Image (WIPs) during the sketch phase for client approval of the composition for all art types except all Pixel Art category commissions, Sketchpages, Emoji Customs, and Toyhouse Chibis.Certain artwork types involve clients receiving WIP images to approve before the artist can proceed.Additional WIPs are available any time upon request.The client will receive heavily watermarked or low-resolution versions of the artwork for viewing and review purposes until all outstanding balances are paid in full.

Revisions and Order Edits

The client is responsible for requesting any changes to the artwork. Clients are encouraged to draw over WIPs to indicate the revisions they'd like made.Revisions, especially major ones, that exceed the allotted number for a given phase will be declined or incur a fee, priced per-revision dependent on both art type and the type and scale of the revision.The artist determines the scale of a revision, and reserves the right to decline any request.

Revisions to Order Details

Revisions to In-Progress Works

Revisions to Completed Works

Error Correction

Error correction (mistakes such as uncolored areas, missing markings that were pictured on the reference, etc.) does not count towards revisions, and will always be done whenever requested, for free.

Deadlines

The client may request artwork be completed by a deadline for a fee determined by art type and proximity to the deadline. Some requests cannot be fulfilled.By imposing a deadline, clients acknowledge that additional revisions or requests for approval WIPs may delay completion. Clients that impose a deadline must remain available to provide feedback on any WIPs sent within 24 hours. The client concedes that the deadline fee will not be refunded if the deadline is missed due to delays on their part.

Turnaround Time

Orders are typically completed within 90 days. The artist reserves the right to take additional time to complete the work if no deadline was specified in the initial order. Commissions are taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Work is generally prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis, but orders for similar art types may be carried out simultaneously in batches.

Delivery

All goods and services provided by the artist are for original digital artworks, no physical product will be provided unless explicitly stated otherwise.Clients are not entitled to anything outside of what was specified and promised in the initial order, including unwatermarked copies, initial sketches, original files, or alternate versions.It is the client’s responsibility to save and retain the final product; the artist may not retain the artwork files following delivery.The artwork will be considered accepted and order complete should the art be delivered and the artist not receive a response from the client within 1 week.

Digital Art Delivery

Digital artwork will be delivered to the client's email as watermarked image file(s) in PNG format if static and/or GIF format if animated. Resolution is 300dpi in RGB colorspace, unless otherwise specified. The dimensions of the work vary with art type.

Physical Art Delivery

For physical artworks or those with physical components, the artist agrees to take reasonable care in delivering the product via mail. The client agrees to pay a fee for shipment costs prior to the product's mailing. Physical artworks require a valid address and addressee name to be delivered.

Publication

The artist reserves the right to freely publicize completed orders.
The client may request to remain anonymous when the artist publicizes the work.
The client may request their order be listed anonymously or kept private on the artist's public queue.
The client may request a delay in publication, lasting up to 2 months after the artwork’s completion date.
The artist does not offer the client the ability to keep commissioned work private indefinitely.

Section 6

Character Designs & Adoptables

The following are supplementary terms that apply to custom character designs, adoptables, and the artwork they come with/through.
The previous section's terms apply exclusively to the original artwork of the design.For all designs created via collaboration with another artist, or for Closed Species designs, please disregard these terms and refer to the respective species' or designer's rules instead.

Designer Rights & Crediting

SweetChimera retains all rights to the original artwork and design concept, including the right to receive credit for creation and the ability to create derivative or similar designs.The current owner must publicly credit SweetChimera whenever the design's reference or original artwork (original or modified) is displayed. SweetChimera must be credited as a contributing designer regardless of any edits made to the design.Provide credit like so:Original Design by: sweetchimera.art

Owner Rights

The current owner gains personal and limited commercial use rights for the design.
The original artwork of the design may not be used commercially.
Ownership and its rights are transferrable but may only be held by one person at a time (no co-owning).

Design Modification

The current owner may edit or commission edits of the design, applied in any reasonable manner, but not such that the design is changed beyond reasonable recognition (i.e. no "overhauling"). If the original artwork is modified to apply edits to the design and then displayed publicly, indicate how the artwork was modified.

Resale

The current owner may resell the design its initial sale price plus the cost of any additional artworks or content of the design they paid real money for. The initial sale price can be included in the design's value even if it was acquired through trade or as a gift. If the design was not initially sold by SweetChimera, its initial sale price is zero.

Limitations of Use

The artist reserves the right to revoke ownership of the design without compensation and publicly bar the offender from future services if the following limitations of use are violated by the owner: