My First Commission - Worth Every Penny!

Well, my cherry has finally been busted. I have the final on my first commission in my hot little han...well...hard drive. A big thanks to the mighty Randy Kintz over at Deviant Art.

Liberta a la Rantz.

Liberta in game.

I always figured my first commission would be my main (and male) character Attache but when I saw Randy's work, I was sure he'd be the one to bring Liberta to life. His women manage to maintain a certain innocent quality that's just perfect for this petulant woman-child/goddess. For the special armor pieces and sword, I just showed him a lot of reference pics of Roman hardware and he ran with it. I couldn't be happier.

I highly recommend Rantz for anyone thinking about a commission. He's easy to work with and very responsive to communication. A great guy and a great artist.

And for anyone who has ever run into Liberta, I regret I must inform you that she's not played by an Italian girl with a limited grasp of the English langauge. She's played by a rotund 30-ish male armed with Babblefish and far too much free time.

Attache

Excellent piece. Grats on the first commish.

Very nice! Rantz does do some great work lol armed with Babble fish!

Sweet! Great interp and toon...

She looks great! I like the liberties he took with her jewelry.

Awesome. I'l have to check his page out.

That's one of his breast works. Uh, I mean best.

Its very nice and you should be very happy to have such an awesome piece for your first commissioned pic , remember tho its a slipperly ,downhill slope .

watch as you have to force yourself not to by new art commissions as you wander around Deviant Art

*shakes head* Looks like another one has succumbed! *grins*

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She looks great! I like the liberties he took with her jewelry.

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I did suggest a necklace after I saw the roughs because I thought she would be a little bottom heavy with all the metal low but I can't take credit for any of the design. I just gave him some references and he took off! His work actually has me hyper to get someone else's take on Liberta because I think I'd be interested in seeing how someone else would interpret the character based on the same materials. If I ever do an artist guide for the character, I think I'll just focus on vague ideas and references and let the professionals handle how to pull that off. It worked out very well in this instance.

Attache

One of us! One of us! One of us!

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One of us! One of us! One of us!

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Yeah, I think I'm already one of you. I'm in Poison's queue at the moment for my main, am waiting for David Nakayama to get back to me with his payment methods so I can get an admittedly goofy semi in-joke marker sketch done that only a few people will probably get, and I'm looking for an artist to draw a scene from a Star Trek sim I wrote on a few years back.

Yup, I'm an art-o-holic.

Attache

He didn't draw her breats big enough.

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One of us! One of us! One of us!

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Yeah, I think I'm already one of you. I'm in Poison's queue at the moment for my main, am waiting for David Nakayama to get back to me with his payment methods so I can get an admittedly goofy semi in-joke marker sketch done that only a few people will probably get, and I'm looking for an artist to draw a scene from a Star Trek sim I wrote on a few years back.

Yup, I'm an art-o-holic.

Attache

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HA!


Welcome to the club then!

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He didn't draw her breats big enough.

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Here's what I said to him regarding breasts when I ordered the commission:

I like the way you draw cleavage and breasts so please tweak (!) them. I would have made them bigger in game but they look kind of funky when you get too crazy with the slider...you should feel free to go nuts. Well, maybe not Power Girl nuts...but you get the idea.

If you were being sarcastic, he was merely following my instructions. If you weren't and honestly think they're too small, he was only honoring my wishes.

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Its very nice and you should be very happy to have such an awesome piece for your first commissioned pic , remember tho its a slipperly ,downhill slope .

watch as you have to force yourself not to by new art commissions as you wander around Deviant Art

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Truer words....

Looks like you made out pretty well with that commission, the artist has alot of style! And the picture came out very nicely

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Looks like you made out pretty well with that commission, the artist has alot of style! And the picture came out very nicely

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My natural pessimism had me fully prepared to be a little disappointed by whatever I got. I mean, it seems like so few things are as awesome as you'd like them to be, right? I generally like to temper my enthusiasm about many, many things.

Randy's art easily surpassed even my pre-tempered expectations. It's absoultely what I wanted. I'm incredibly pleased.

And as commissions go by talented artists, the price is definitely right. I can't recommend Rantz highly enough. Visit his DA page and throw some love his way.

Attache

Awesome pic.

Looks like Aladin meets Conan.

I'm glad you like it, Jugg. And she's on Virtue so you know what commission will be coming down the pike eventually, right?

VirtueVerse - Liberta!

Attache