As of Nov 11th, 2024: Commissions are currently CLOSED.
★ ABOUT
Who is this guy anyway?
Hi! I'm an artist on the internet!I specialize in character illustration, pixel art, and character/creature design. I recently graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design; I love finding ways to incorporate the power of hand lettering and typography into my freelance illustration work.I have over a decade of experience working as a freelance commission artist, and I'm always interested in taking on new kinds of work for nearly any project. Shoot me an email if you'd like to talk about your project; I look forward to working with you!Email me at: sweetchimera.art@gmail.com
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★ ORDER
⚠ Private Commission Notice
By default, my commissioned works and artwork accompanying adoptables are licensed for non-commercial use by the current client or respective adoptable owner. Through commissioning me, you pay for the labor to create the artwork, not the copyright or licensing of the work itself.
⚠ Commercial Use
Commercial usage rights are not retroactively available. If you are interested in commissioning new artwork intended for commercial use, email me directly to discuss your project. Artwork licensed for commercial use may have different availability, terms and conditions, and/or rates than the ones listed on this site.
Questions? Comments? Concerns?
sweetchimera.art@gmail.com
Want a type of artwork not listed?
Just ask, I'd be happy to work with you! I'm able to draw a variety of art types and styles, but it's not practical to list them all.
Read my Content Guide and TOS before ordering.
Track your order's progress on my Trello Queue.
Very complex characters or prompts may incur additional costs.
New to commissioning?
Read this guide on my process!Looking for a quote? Email me!
sweetchimera.art@gmail.com
⚠ Content Guide
Will Draw
Robots, Mechs, Mecha, Armor (complex or simple)
Vehicles, Backgrounds, Props
Humans, Humanoids of any body type
Anthros, Furries, Monsters, Creatures
Any Animals, Pets (past or current)
Fan Characters (Fakemon, MLP, etc.)
Nonsexual nudity, Pinups
Violence, Moderate Injuries, Candy gore
Will Not Draw
Commercial work without prior discussion/notification
Copyrighted media or symbols (Pokemon, etc.)
"Closed Species" characters
"True Crime" or fascism related characters
Real people, characters based on real people
Artwork contributing to bigotry or bullying
Explicit sexual content
Explicit gore
ORDER PROCESS
STEP 1: SUBMIT AN ORDER FORM
Do this for each piece of artwork you'd like to order.
You can also email me order details directly if you would like to order many artworks at once.
Send orders to: → sweetchimera.art@gmail.com
STEP 2: WAIT FOR A RESPONSE
You will receive a response via email within 24 hours.
I will reply with a summary of your order to discuss it further. This will involve my asking you clarifying questions. Once you have confirmed your order's details, I will give you a price quote.
STEP 3: PAY
Once you agree to the price quote, I will set up an invoice for you. Once the invoice has been paid, I will start working on your commission.
STEP 4: WAIT WHILE YOUR ARTWORK IS COMPLETED
I will drop in with WIPs of the artwork if you requested them or if I need your input. Please be patient during the waiting process; your art may take a few weeks to complete. If you have a question about your order, or would like to see a WIP you are welcome to contact me about it via email at any time. You can track the progress of your order on my Trello Queue.
STEP 5: CONFIRM AND RECEIVE YOUR ORDER
Once finished, I'll email you your finished artwork with the opportunity to request additional changes or tweaks, as well as to confirm there are no errors in the composition. Once everything's finalized and confirmed completed I'll mark your invoice and order as such and send you the final hi-res files.
★ Digital Art Commissions Menu
Pixel Art Menu
Simple Icon
50x50px shaded pixel drawing in a shoulders-up headshot or fullbody view.
ITEM | FLAT PRICE (USD) |
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Static Simple Icon | $45 |
2-Frame Idle Animation | + $15 |
4-Frame Idle Animation* | + $33 |
CONSTRAINTS
*4-Frame Idle animation is only available for fullbody crops.
Max. one character per drawing.
Complex designs will be declined.
Isometric Pixel Scene
100x100px pixel scene featuring one character drawn in a fullbody view with in an isometric perspective.
ITEM | PRICE (USD) |
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Static | $150–175 |
Add 4-Frame Idle Animation | + $25–100* |
CONSTRAINTS
Max. one character per drawing.
Complex designs may be declined.
*Animation price depends on the complexity of both character and action.
Character Art
Fullbody Drawing
Fullbody view, lined, cell-shaded illustration on a plain or textured background. Stylized to the client's preferences.
CHARACTER COUNT | PRICE (USD) |
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One | Starts at $200 |
Two (interacting) | Starts at $385 |
Three or more | Let's discuss! |
ADDITIONAL INFO
Dimensions will vary. 300dpi.
Style is not price affecting.
May include small and simple props such as handheld bouquets, knives, etc., at no additional cost.
Complex props, character designs, and compositional embellishments will incur individual complexity fees.
SketchPage
A page of gesture-heavy, black and white, unpolished drawings emphasizing personality and characterization overlapping on a plain or textured background.INCLUDES (Per Character):
(1) Fullbody
(1) Bust (chest-up)
(1) Headshot (shoulders-up)
(2) Halfbodies (hips-up)
Want something different than the default? Just ask!
CHARACTER COUNT | PRICE (USD) |
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One | $325 |
Two (interacting) | $600 |
Three or more | Let's discuss! |
ADDITIONAL INFO
Dimensions are 2000x1600px. 300dpi.
Style is not price affecting.
May include small and simple props such as handheld bouquets, knives, etc., at no additional cost.
Complex props and/or character designs will incur individual complexity fees.
Illustration
Lined Illustration
Lined illustration of a single character in a detailed environment, rendered primarily with cell shading. Highly customizable to the client's preference on the level of polish, style, and dimensions.
ITEM | PRICE (USD) |
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Single Character | Starts at $300 |
Additional Subject Characters* | Starts at $150 each |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dimensions vary. 300dpi.
Style may be price affecting if client requests something outside of my usual approaches.
Starting price is based on a composition featuring a fullbody crop and a nature background.
*Crowds are priced differently than main subjects. We will discuss your vision to determine price.
WIPs are sent periodically for approval as part of this item's process.
Painted Illustration
Illustration of a single character in a detailed environment, rendered with a painterly technique. Highly customizable to the client's preference on the level of polish, style, and dimensions.Rendering style is price affecting. Client has the choice of a rough or polished rendering style.
ITEM | PRICE (USD) |
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Rough Style: One Character | Starts at $380 |
Rough Style: Additional Subjects* | Starts at $180 each |
Polished Style: One Character | Starts at $800 |
Polished Style: Additional Subjects* | Starts at $400 each |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dimensions vary. 300dpi.
Starting price is based on a composition featuring a fullbody crop and a nature background.
*Crowds are priced differently than main subjects. We will discuss your vision to determine price.
WIPs are sent periodically for approval as part of this item's process.
Graphic Design
CONVENTION BADGE Design
DESCRIPTION
A double-sided name badge design package, including custom typography and additional chibi art.
FRONT:
Lined cell-shaded, shoulders-up crop headshot illustration in a graphic style on a textured background.
Stylized, hand-lettered name design
Pronouns
BACK:
Front side's hand-lettering OR client-provided logo
Two (2) 200x200px character chibis + an accessory item to create a tiling background accent
Social Media username indicators (Text or QR codes)
Have something different in mind? Reach out to discuss options and alternative pricing! This item is highly customizable and I will work with you to reach your vision.I do not provide print services for this item. You won't receive a physical item, only digital files.
ITEM | PRICE (USD) |
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Convention Badge Design Package | Coming soon! |
ADDITIONAL INFO
Drawn at a default dimension of ~6" x 9", intended to scale to ~3" x 5". 300dpi.
Max. one character per drawing.
Inquire with the artist if you would like to convert the hand-lettered name design into a vectorized logo licensed for personal and commercial use.
Reference Sheet
A customizable flatcolor reference sheet of a single character, designed and posed to quickly and clearly communicate the character design.DEFAULT ORDER INCLUDES
(1) Fullbody Front View (3/4)
(1) Fullbody Back View (3/4)
Name, species, pronouns, personality traits.
Descriptive text callouts
Palette swatch
ITEM | PRICE |
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Default Order | Starts at $225 USD |
Add Fullbody Artwork | Starts at $150 USD |
Add Halfbody Artwork | Starts at $75 USD |
Add Headshot Artwork (expression, angle) | Starts at $50 USD |
Add Body Detail Callout (mouth, tattoo, etc) | $10–95 USD |
Add Outfit | $75 USD |
ADDITIONAL INFO
Dimensions will vary. 300dpi.
If your references are inaccurate or text-only, please consider creating a rough sketch with callouts to elaborate as needed, otherwise your order may be declined or incur additional fees
Complex props or character designs will incur individual complexity fees.
Any background images will be sourced from myself
Magazine Cover
A graphic character illustration loosely styled like a magazine cover in a given graphic design style featuring one character.Price and content is tailored to client's preferences.
ITEM | PRICE (USD) |
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Single Character | Starts at $200 |
Additional Characters | Starts at $100 each |
ADDITIONAL INFO
Dimensions will vary. 300dpi.
Clients must provide the copy for non-English or non-French text.
Complex props or character designs will incur individual complexity fees.
Any background images or graphics will be sourced from myself. Fonts will be from myself or free-use or open source.
★ Terms of Service
Information last updated: April 20th, 2024
By purchasing my art, designs, or services, you automatically agree to the following terms and conditions. You as the client are responsible for reading these terms in their entirety prior to purchase.Should you have questions or concerns, please email → sweetchimera.art@gmail.com
SECTION 1: General Terms
The artist rendering these services through the alias SweetChimera may be referred to in this document as any of the following: I, me, my, myself, SweetChimera, the artist.
Clients of SweetChimera for these services may be referred to in this document as any of the following: you, your, yourself, client, owner, buyer, commissioner.The artist will not serve minors. All clients must be 18 years or older.
All goods and services provided by the artist are digital unless explicitly stated otherwise.
SECTION 2: Rights & Agreements
2.1. Artist Rights & Agreements
Service:
The services I provide are up to my sole discretion.
I reserve the right to accept, decline, or cancel any order for any reason at any time.Copyright:
I retain all copyrights over my work. This includes but is not limited to the freedom to display, modify, and redistribute the work, anytime, anywhere, for any reason.While I am willing to post client work anonymously, I do not offer commission services that limit my ability to publicly display the artwork.
2.2. Client Rights & Agreements
Copyright & Commerical Use:
By purchasing a commission, the client pays for the artist's labor in creating an artwork.
Unless agreed upon prior to ordering, all commissioned artwork is reserved exclusively for personal use. Clients may not use commissioned artwork in commercial projects or profit from commissioned artwork in any way.Clients retain the right to their intellectual property depicted in commissioned work.
Clients may not claim the commissioned work to be their own creation.Personal Use:
Do not use the work in any involvement with NFTs or AI art training/generation.Clients may edit the artwork created for them in any reasonable manner (such as coloring sketches, adding backgrounds, etc.), but not in a manner that obfuscates the watermark or suggests my personal endorsement of the client or their use of the artwork (such as to promote oneself, a product, etc.).Clients may publicly display the artwork (such as through icons, site backgrounds, character image galleries) as long as the work is credited via a link to my website sweetchimera.art. Clients must also indicate if the artwork was edited from the original.Clients may not arrange for the redistribution of the artwork (Ex., via a public mass download page), nor use it in external projects, including noncommercial ones (Ex., clients may not make shirts to distribute with the artwork, but may make one for themself).
SECTION 3: Payment, Fees, Cancellation & Refunds
3.1. Payment
Payment
All prices and payments are in USD.
Payment is due in advance via Paypal invoice. Work will not begin on an order until payment is received.
Price estimates are not binding as prices are subject to change.Payment Plans
Payment plans are available for artworks priced greater than $250 USD.
Payment plans include a nonrefundable initial deposit, followed by a predetermined number of installments during a specified time period. The parameters of a payment plan must be agreed upon with the artist before the order can be accepted. Clients will not receive the full completed artwork until all payments have been completed.
Inquire with the artist if you are interested in a payment plan.
3.2. Fees
Fees:
Special requests or conditions outside of the artist's listed commission services may incur extra fees or otherwise be the basis for increasing the cost of an artwork.
This concerns things that add information not present at the time of the order, things that add great complexity to a composition or the artistic process itself, or contain sensitive themes.Complexity fees:
Complex character designs may incur a fee or be declined.
Large or complex props such as frames, furniture, mounts/pets, or intricate weapons may incur fees.
Complex or extensive compositional embellishments, such as frames or borders, may incur fees.Complexity fees may not apply to every order. The size of the fee depends on the artwork type and what element of an artwork is incurring the fee.
3.3. Order Cancellation & Refunds
Order Cancellation & Requesting Refunds:
The client may contact the artist to cancel their order and/or request a refund for it at any time. Receiving a refund automatically cancels the order.Orders cancelled by the client cannot be resumed at a later date.
The client is not guaranteed to receive any artwork from orders they cancelled.
The artist may finalize character designs from custom design orders cancelled by the client for public sale or personal use.If the artist cancels an order due to client misconduct, the client will not receive any artwork and will be barred from the artist's services.Refunds
For orders cancelled by the client, or by the artist due to client misconduct, refunds will be afforded based on the completion status of the artwork at the time of cancellation.For orders purchased with payment plans, refunds only apply to the amount paid up until the time of cancellation, excluding the nonrefundable initial deposit.If the artist cancels the commission due to personal reasons, the client will receive a full refund regardless of completion status.Refund Conditions:
Orders that are NOT past the sketch phase may receive a 75% refund.
Orders that ARE past the sketch phase or completed are ineligible for refunds.
Sketch-based commissions, once work has begun, are ineligible for refunds.
All premade adoptable and character design sales are ineligible for refunds.
Delivery
Commissions are delivered via e-mail as a full-size, watermarked digital image file(s), as a .png for static images and a .gif for animated ones.The client is not entitled to any commission assets outside of what was specified in the original order, including an unwatermarked copy or the original layered files, or alternate versions.The client can request that their commission remain anonymous upon posting.
The artwork may not remain private indefinitely, however publicizing it can be postponed for a short time if it was intended as a gift.Deadlines
Clients may request that an artwork be completed before a certain date, but this may incur a fee, with the amount dependent on how soon the deadline is from the order date.
Some items cannot be expedited.The artist reserves the right to take extra time to complete the artwork, unless the client paid a fee for the artwork to be completed by a particular date.Style
The artist will simplify character designs according to the limitations of a medium.
The artist will take artistic and stylistic liberties unless the client specifies otherwise.Reference
Unshaded, drawn references will produce the best results.
Clients may only send reference images that they have the rights to use.
Written or otherwise unclear reference images will be rejected or incur a fee.
The artist will not use AI-generated images as reference.
WIPs (Work in Progress Images)
WIPs images are generally available at any time upon the client's request. However, due to the artistic process of some items, they may not have WIPs available to be shown.Some items may have WIPs shown for approval. Clients ordering commission items that come with WIPs shown for approval must be able to respond within 24 hours. Clients are encouraged to draw over WIP images to more clearly articulate any changes they want made.Order Edits
All information necessary to complete the commission should be given at the time of ordering. Introduction of additional information may incur a fee.No requests for major changes to the pose, outfit, or other integral components of a composition will be accepted after the sketch phase. The artist determines what constitutes a major change.
No changes whatsoever can be made to orders with animation after the invoice has been paid.Edits to Completed Artwork
Clients may request minor alterations of completed commissioned artworks. Edits to completed artworks requested more than 1 week after delivery, that require major changes, or concern details not made clear in the initial order may be declined or incur a fee. The fee will depend on the type and scale of the edit.Errors (uncolored areas, information specified in the initial order that is missing.) will always be corrected, whenever, free of charge.
SECTION 5: Character Designs & Adoptables
The following are additional terms that apply only to custom character designs, adoptables, and the artwork they come with/through. The previous sections' terms still apply.For all Closed Species designs, please refer to the respective species' rules instead.
For all collab designs, please refer to my collaborator's rules instead.
5.1. Usage and Ownership
The artist retains the ownership to the original artwork of the character design, and ownership (that is, right to receive credit for) of the original character design concept, and through that, the ability to create derivative or similar designs.The client gains the right to use (draw, develop, or otherwise depict) the character design both for personal and commercial use. The client may transfer this right to another party.The client MUST, where possible, credit SweetChimera as the original designer (link to sweetchimera.art) wherever the design's reference or original artwork is publicly posted.The client MAY NOT: co-own the design or use the original artwork of the design commercially (said artwork is reserved for use as reference exclusively).
The client may not use the design to promote NFTs, cryptocurrency, bigotry (such as homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism) or topics like zoophilia or pedophilia; violating this rule will mean the design will be revoked without compensation.
5.2. Editing
Design Edits:
Design owners may edit the design at any frequency in any reasonable manner, but not in a manner that changes it beyond reasonable recognition. As such, the character design may not be completely redesigned or "overhauled." SweetChimera must be credited as a contributing designer, regardless of edits. If the original artwork is modified to apply edits to the design, it must be labelled as edited.Derivative Designs:
You may not use a character design I have created as the basis for new derivative characters, such as relatives, hybrids, or new or preexisting 'Closed/Open/Personal species'.You may designate the design as an alternate form of another different design (Ex: a were-form.)
5.3. Resale
The highest value you may resell a design for is the combined value of the price the design was initially sold for by SweetChimera ($0 if not initially sold) plus the amount you spent on commissioning artworks of the design. You may incorporate the initial sale price into the design's resale value even if you received the design for free or through trade.