If anyone's interested, I will take some commissions for con badges this year.

They'd be the usual colored pencil/paper that I use for all my real media works and sized to fit in those plastic thingies that they give you when your boss sends you to a convention so that the vendors know your name when the time comes to leap on you and try to sell you something

What you'd be looking at is:

$5 for 1/2 hour piece (e.g. single-char, simple headshot)
$10 for 1 hour piece (e.g. single-char, complex headshot or simple full-body)
$4 each additional 1/2 hour.

I hit estimates pretty sharply on the head once I have an idea of what a person wants, so don't worry about me going over estimated time; if anything, I'll go under.

If you are interested in DIGITAL pieces, let me know. Prices are as above, by time, but I'll knock off 10% if you'll accept the file digitally and do any printing yourself

I'm sorry to say that I can't take PayPal (don't trust 'em). If you want to read details on what payment methods I accept and how my prices are figured (plus shipping stuff and things like that), I've got a page for that [link]

It'd be nice to cover gasoline to AC this way By July, I'm expecting just the traveling to cost me about $60, and I only live 3 hours away

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Just to let everyone know that I've update theredsetter .com with some new artwork -- all of it can be seen here as well, but the images are larger and sketchwork is included in some cases.

I've also fixed a number of images in my gallery here. Got the camera, tripod, and level out and did them right.

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In an attempt to pay for the 8,000,000 pumps* we bought to keep the basement from flooding, I'm opening up commissions for pet portraiture.

So here's what I sent around at work:

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I'm currently opening up commissions for pet portraits in colored pencil. Also, I can take one or two requests for acrylic paintings.

Colored pencil pieces are Prismacolor pencil on Hahnemühle mold-made paper and can be of any size from wallet to 18" x 24" (larger pieces available on request, but I need about a month lead time to special order the paper). Prices vary by size and complexity, but a single pet, quarter-sheet (9" x 12") head shot would run about $40. I can give better pricing estimates once I've seen the subject of the portrait and have an idea of how long the piece will take.

Acrylic pieces are sized to your choice on stretched canvass. Pricing is figured by time to complete and supplies used, but is comparable to that of the pencil pieces.

Commissioner gets to approve the sketch and should provide a handful of good photographs for me to work from. I've worked mostly with dogs, cats, and horses, but can handle just about any mammal and am willing to take a crack at birds and reptiles. Final works are shipped with tracking (shipping paid by buyer) upon receipt of payment.

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You DA folks know where to find any examples of my art that you might need Also of interest to you folks might be how I determine pricing and payment methods that I accept: [link] (bottom of page).

To get an idea of what you'd get for what dollar amount, "Squirrel" and "Mooowse" would be about $15-$25 pieces, "Mountain Sheep" would come in between $50 and $60, and "Horse" and "Unicorns" break into the $100s -- remember, these are all figured from time spent on the pieces!

*OK, so not really. More like 8.

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Launch a new website and forget to write the available artwork page: [link]

That's working now, for anyone who is interested in grabbing something I've got up there.

Also, if you're interested in con badges, I can do those as well -- use the nifty request form here: [link]

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She started it:

18 or lower means you’re not stupid.

[ ] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were talking.
[ ] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were NOT talking.
[ ] You have ran into a glass/screen door.
[ ]You have jumped out of a moving vehicle.
[ ] You have thought of something funny and laughed, then people gave you weird looks.
total= 0

[x] You have ran into a tree.
[ ] It IS possible to lick your elbow
[ ] You just tried to lick your elbow.
[x]You never knew that the Alphabet and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same rhythm.
[ ] You just tried to sing them.
[x] You have tripped on your shoelace and fallen.
[ ] You have choked on your own spit.
[ ]You have seen the the Matrix and still don’t get it.
[x] You didn’t notice that in the last question “the” was spelled twice
[x] You just looked at it.
[ ]Your hair is blonde/dirty blonde.
[x]People have called you slow.
total so far= 6

[ ] You have accidentally caught something on fire
[ ] You tried to drink out of a straw, but it went into your nose/eyes/cheek.
[x] You have caught yourself drooling.
[ ] You’ve fallen asleep in class
[ ] If someone says “fart” you laugh.
[x] You just laughed. (I don't laugh when people say it, but evidently I laugh at it in quizzes... I should get extra points)
total so far= 8

[ ] Sometimes you just stop thinking
[ ] You tell a story and forget what you were talking about
[ ] People are often shaking their heads and walking away from you
[ ]You are often told to use your “inside voice”.
[ ]You use your fingers to do simple math.
total so far= 8

[x]You have eaten a bug. (It wasn't on purpose. In a cucumber)
[x]You are taking this test when you should be doing something important (yeah, like working)
[x] You have put your clothes on backwards or inside out, and didn’t realize it (More than once)
[x] You’ve looked all over for something and realized it was in your hand or pocket
total so far= 12

[ ] You sometimes post bulletins because you are scared that what they say will happen to you if you don’t even when you know it won’t happen to you.
[x] You break a lot of things. (Can I blame that on early CTS?)
[ ] Your friends know not to use big words around you
[x] You sometimes tilt your head when you’re confused (I'm part dog. Shaddup)
[x] You have fallen out of your chair before
[x] When you’re laying in bed, you try to find pictures in the texture of the ceiling (Only if I can't sleep. Also in linolium, textured wall paint, and shag carpet)
total so far=16

I beat AWolf, but I'm still not stupid yet!

Kinda not fair, since most of my "stupididity" comes from thinking about something else when I should be paying attention to what I'm doing. Not really stupid, more distracted.

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