sweetchimera

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Painted Illustration Commissioned by Darkthare—2022

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Painted Illustration for an adoptable—2022

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Don Quixote Book Design (Interior and Exterior)—2022

I enjoyed the Spanish novel Don Quixote and wanted to create a book cover for it. The design includes full internal (including EPUB) and external design, with custom cover art that makes use of references to the story’s themes of duplicity and falsehood, and a banner of Quixote's trail of disasters in his wake to capture the spirit of the work. What better for a fake knight than to seat him on a paper horse? Endsheets are a custom created pinwheel pattern, a nod to the story's famous giants windmills.

_{Colophon: Cover title font is modified Shackleton. Cover subtitle font is Balboa. Cover body text font is Garamond ATF Text. Interior typeset with Cochin and Big Caslon for titles and subtitles, and Garamond for body text.}

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Right Road Lost Cover Design (Front Cover Only)—2025

Cover design for the novel Right Road Lost, commissioned by author C.F. Cole; includes custom hand-lettered typography for the title and a custom illustration for the cover.
^{The novel is not yet released, but I have permission to share this art with you. Check back for a link to the publication soon!}The novel, as implied by the title, thematically relates to Dante's Inferno. The design concept intends to parallel the trouble the dual protagonists find themselves in, with one dragging the other towards the building that is the locational centerpiece in the story's conflict, paralleling Virgil and Dante's journey into Hell.The client requested incorporation textures from engravings sourced from French artist Gustave Doré's body of work for Inferno into the background and a graphic, mixed-media style. I made use of hatching to transition the custom painting into the engraved textures.

_{Colophon: Author and "a novel" font: Open Sauce Sans Black and Open Sauce Sans Black Italic by Hanken Design Co. The engraving manipulated for the sky texture is Doré's Virgil confronting the devils outside the city of Dis.}

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Thank you for your interest in my work!

If you're unfamiliar with my process, below is an outline of how I work.

Step 1—Check my Content Guide

Step 2—Submit an Order Form

Contact Email
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Art Type
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Composition Consider pose, style, expression, props, animations if applicable. You may link rough sketches of your idea if it helps!
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Have you read and do you agree to my Terms of Service?

Step 3—Confirm and Pay

You'll be notified via email of your order's acceptance or rejection within 48 business hours. After confirming your order's details, I'll provide a price quote. If approved, I'll then send an invoice for the order via Paypal.

Step 4—Wait and Provide Feedback

Work will begin as soon as possible following payment. There may be orders ahead of you, so please allow several weeks for completion. Most orders are completed within 30 days. Depending on the art type, I will share WIPs for your review at key stages and/or upon request. Email me at any time with questions, or track your order's status and see WIPs on my Trello Queue.

Step 5—Receive Your Art

Upon completion, I will send you the artwork for review. After you approve the work, I'll email any remaining files.

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Graphic Design

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Terms of Service

Noncommercial Commission Artwork

Please read these terms in their entirety before ordering.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 contact → sweetchimera.art@gmail.com
Updated: 11 Aug 2025

Section 1: General Terms

1.1 General

1.2 Subject Matter Restrictions

The artist SweetChimera will not accept orders containing the following subject matter:

Section 2: Rights and Agreements

2.1 Copyright

Copyright to all work produced and the ability to use it in any manner shall remain solely with the artist.
The artist reserves the right to publish any component from the artwork's creation to the public behind a paywall (i.e. on Patreon), or repurpose drafts not featured in the final artwork.
The artist will not use the final artwork to create or sell merchandise without client permission.

2.2 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.

2.3 Use Permissions

The client is permitted use of the final version of the work; use of preliminary concepts or drafts requires 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.

2.4 Limitations of Use

2.5 Credit

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

Section 3: Pricing and Payment

3.1 Pricing

3.2 Payment

3.3 Payment Plans

Payment Plans are available upon request 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.

3.4 Fees

The artist reserves the right to adjust all pricing appropriately to compensate for the work required. Requests that fall outside the standard commission service, add excessive complexity, or introduce information not specified in the original order will incur fees.Fees are priced per request based on art type and amount of work required with payment due immediately.
Percentage fee calculation uses the minimum price in the range, rounded up to the nearest dollar.Fees incurred by revisions implemented into the artwork at any point will not be waived or refunded even if later altered or absent from the final artwork.

3.4.1 Complex Designs

While it is rare to incur complexity fees at all, they typically apply to artworks where the majority the complexity is actually visible and require unique effort to implement into the artwork due to style, medium, or composition.

3.4.2 Props, Background Elements, Companions

Which props or background elements are considered complex is determined by the artist.Simple Props do not incur additional fees and are considered small or one-handed items with simple or nonspecific designs. Examples include bouquets, handguns, knives, mugs, small instruments like panflutes, etcSimple Background Elements do not incur additional fees and concern themed patterns or effects that do not require the suggestion of a physical environment, such as sparkles, nimbuses, flames, patterns, etc.Complex Props, Complex Background Elements, and Companions will typically incur additional fees.

3.4.3 Inadequate Reference

Section 4: Cancellation and Refunds

4.1 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.

4.2 Refunds

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

Section 5: Order Process

5.1 Order Details

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

5.2 Reference Material

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 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.

5.3 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.

5.4 WIPs

The artist will provide at least one (1) Work in Progress Image (WIPs), typically 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.

5.5 Revisions

The client is responsible for requesting their desired revisions.
Revisions may be declined or may incur fees, priced considering the art type and magnitude of change. The artist determines the magnitude of change and the scale of the revision.

5.5.1 Revisions to Order Details

Revisions to the order details that change the subject or overall direction of the composition are only permitted prior to the sketch phase's completion.

5.5.2 Revision Permissions for In-Progress Works

Major revisions in later phases of the artwork's completion, or those that exceed the allotted number for a given phase may be declined or may incur fees.

5.5.3 Revision Permissions for In-Progress Works

5.5.4 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.

5.6 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.

5.7 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 and typically prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis, but orders for similar art types may be carried out simultaneously in batches.

5.8 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 specifically promised in the initial order, including unwatermarked copies, initial sketches, layered files, or alternate versions.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.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.

5.9 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.

6.1 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

6.2 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).

6.2.1 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.

6.2.2 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.

6.2.3 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: