Stuff by Tinhead

Okay, so I started taking requests from the people in my SG a while ago and after a while I got to wondering if anyone would be interested in commissions-- likely fairly cheap ones, since the artwork is fairly simple and done with colored pencils on textured paper rather than with the use of a fancy graphics program due to my lack of a tablet and my hatred for drawing with a mouse.

The question is: how would I go about starting on something like that? I've never done commissions before, and I'm not certain on pricing or method or anything, really. I can manage a pretty quick turn-around, though-- I drew three pictures this week.

Here's some of my work:













Any thoughts?

Hey there Tinhead and welcome to the artz section of the forums.

Basically you will need:
1. A way to get paid (a Paypal account tied to your email/bank is the standard)
2. A pricing structure (which you cannot post here but you can link to a photobucket or DA account)
3. Examples of your work (so people know what to expect for what amount of money)
4. Customers (advertising that you are open for commissions here or DA/tumblr/etc helps)

The rest you can pick up along the way or ask.
Cheers!

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Okay, then!

1. I've got a Paypal account, so that's not an issue.

2. Here is a link to my DA account, with pricing structure and email for Paypal: http://unosombrero.deviantart.com

3. Examples are above; in the DA gallery

4. Umm..... hi, I'm Tinhead and these are the official forums and I'm now open for commissions >>

Also there is an CoH art contest going on right now. Might get you more views here and on DA.

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Some of the details and features in your work are quite impressive.

You've got a great knack for blending pencil colours. I especially like the Crab - particularly how the texture of his arms matches the "fleshy" bits of his claws.

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My suggestion is to start submitting pieces into the Fan Art competition!

OP: That is some very nice work. Thank you for sharing. Cheers.

Wow. So. I forgot this thread existed. But I have two more pictures and now that I have assured myself that the thread DOES exist.... well, yeah. I've been messing around with plain pencils and it's been quite informative!


Here is Paenitet, an alien who has never seen a hat before because his people all have quills for hair and use them to express emotion instead of facial contortions (and, incidentally, dissolve into nasty goo when exposed to oxygen, which is why he's almost never seen outside his armor like this but I wanted to draw quill-hair). He lost his lower arms due to a conflict of interests with a wall when he first arrived on Earth via teleport, and has since upgraded the crude Vanguard-provided claws you see here with some more refined ones. Lucky he's a whiz with cybernetics. We'll just ignore his equally refined knowledge of plasma weaponry and its many uses which mostly involve burning living things to death horribly, which of course he has never done. Here. Much. He also subsists on less than four hours of sleep a night and finds human chairs uniquely unsuitable for knees that bend backwards, a fact no one ever seems to remember until they invite him to "have a seat," at which point he sighs a little inside.




And here is the fellow who introduced the above to hats, because clearly human hair exists as a secure resting place for headwear. His name is Dr. Istvan Czernin and he is, as his title suggests, a licensed surgeon. Never mind that the license expired over eighty years ago or that he's been dead since an accident involving way too much electricity in the year 1900. Nowadays he's less of a medical doctor and more of a witch doctor, but don't tell him that to his face-- he's a revenant that feeds on pain and fear and what he does is "ethereal science," thank you very much. He doesn't see YOUR much-vaunted modern medicine returning life to someone who just drank lava, now does he? No, no, he doesn't. Aside from that, his propensity for following wars around, his unsettling appreciation for sharp instruments, and his hopelessly outdated sensibilities regarding gender equality and social class, he's a pretty decent guy (and nice to have around if someone, yanno, drinks lava).

I don't know which is better the narrative or the art itself. Very enjoyable post!

Oooo...very nice!

Dr. Czernin's belt and sash ought to be in the game! There could be a whole set of occupational belts and sashes. But do these first.

Truly awesome backstories and art.

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Wow, you are clearly blessed with incredible art skills!

Keep up the good work!

Thank you, and I shall!

And clamoring for some sort of ''occupational belt/accessory" pack might be interesting-- has that been suggested before? I know Vahzilok get saws and things...

*ponders*

good stuff! looking forward to seeing more!
...the curious birdie made me smile. ~

And now, a picture directly related to both Flash's Totally Nude Fortunata and a comment above that mentioned my Crab Spider, who is "a woman who just happens to be built like a concrete wall."

There is a story behind this. It all began when someone in our SG suggested making not a cheesecake calendar, but an ANTI-cheesecake calendar featuring 12 of the characters in the group who would probably not be found in your typical pin-up line. Oougel, aka The Totally Nude Fortunata, who is pretty okay except for OH GOD THE EYES, was one of the nominees. Auma, aka Persistent Whisper, aka That Lady Crab Spider Who is Built Just Like the NPC Version and Therefore Eight Feet Tall and Totally Massive was another one (the fact that aspects of her appearance are influenced by involvement with the Infected, the Snakes, and the Freakshow didn't hurt).

Now, as fate would have it, this very same Crab once participated in a sort of "perfect girlfriend" contest in Pocket D, mostly because I was passing through, saw the announcement, and was terribly terribly bored. Not ten minutes after she joined the line-up, a guy walked up and informed her that "dude, this contest's for girls."

She replied, "Yes, yes, it is," and stayed exactly where she was.

Auma here might be eight feet tall and weigh more than a quarter-ton and be in other words generally built like a concrete wall but she is a girl, folks. Do not exclude her from girl contests. She will be very sad.


(Larger version: http://cityofheroes.deviantart.com/g...29067#/d4x5jgb)

See, look at how happy she was to participate! Would you take that away from her?

Once again I bring you the notorious Dr. Czernin! With a companion. Her name is Eleanor Brightwick (aka the Illumineer) and she is totally creepy, you guys.



Eleanor is a time-displaced science-powered light-dispensing mind-controlling steampunk suffragette of justice. Her scheming, largely male, largely old and balding colleagues got rid of her around 1910 via a convenient time-machine accident (because she was too "uppity") and she has since embraced with a vengeance the right for modern women to wear pants whenever they feel like it. She is absurdly single-minded, can control light however she wants, possesses a grin the size of Manhattan, and is generally a hyper-dangerous bona-fide mad scientist.

Look at that grin. LOOK AT IT.

Now, as regarding her and Czernin, if these two didn't operate in totally different fields they would be bitter, bitter enemies. As it is.... well, it's only a matter of time. She's convinced that he harbors feelings for her and thinks that's hilarious, while he is unaware of this belief and mostly thinks she's creepy and weird. Also, she's an early feminist and he's Victorian. Which is awkward.