#hoiist does commissions

[hoiistart]

Commission for @magicrobins Commission link in source

#swtor #miraluka #jedi #hoiist does commissions

[previousjane]

anyway, @hoiistart is doing icon commissions and they are basically fantastic, you should give them your money.

#mass effect #glyph #me #actually hoiist does great commissions all the time #and i have never been disappointed by one yet #so really #get on this

[pestopascal]

how do you go about commissioning someone? i want to but i hear a lot of bad stuff every so often and ive seen you mention certain artists being behind on contact so im not sure what to expect

quite frankly commissioning someone is absolutely terrifying and needs to have a high level of communication from both the person you are commissioning as well as yourself. the one major artist i have said something about and to, turns out, have had a long history of disappearing for months at a time or not being good and running off with money. found out that after i finally got something from one of them, but the other who i’ve been waiting since january on a response from... im emailing every second week and @ ing on twitter constantly by this point considering it was an upfront payment. and like i said about the first one... if commissions are your primary source of income... there is a level of expectation. i know from social media the second one has been involved in a lot of public work and whatnot, which i do support, but all i need is one email to be like “hey sorry im busy with other work”. some people don’t tell you that. or you find out through their tumblr their laptop is broken. it can be very frustrating. or they run donation and commission sale posts in between not doing your commission. so...

and as for you the person commissioning i think people vastly underestimate what you need to provide vs what ppl actually do provide. if you have some specific pose in mind provide photo refs/explain it. you dont need to do a characters backstory, 3 pages, no line breaks. summarise. clear cut on colours and clothing. and if you leave it up to interpretation then you’re gonna end up with something you may have to be like hey sorry lets correct this, which wastes time and effort and money on everyone’s behalf. like spend time going through god like pinterest or whatever to actually source what it is you are looking for. you’d be amazed that people rly to appreciate it, and also esp when artists run limited spots, the ones that are actually providing references and so on are the ones that do get picked because it makes it easier to then provide a higher quality product. its not about remembering urls and favouritism that some people like to claim, its so that they can spend more time on something for you.

that said, commissioning someone and seeing something you have in mind come to life is brilliant. personally i do have a preference for commissioning friends, because well 1) communication (sophia is so good for it), 2) its so funny dropping into the dms like kicking down their door and throwing money at them to draw something for you (something i do to hoiist and daisy regularly) and 3) idk love and support friends!!! (always all of them) also with friends too i do ask people if theyre trying something out like animations, new painting style, etc. if they wanna test on my comm i dont mind because in some instances it also helps them like work out if they wanna use it as an offer on a comm yknow?

when it comes to artists (or writers in some instances) that you dont personally know, if i cant exactly find the information on their tumblr (which happens quite rarely but does happen) i just ask. what do they need. what do they want. also turnaround time. there are people out there with art/writing styles that you do adore, or something specific theyve done in the past you want to almost have recreated for yourself. talk to them! ask if they’re okay redoing like idk a deconstructed helmet or a watercolour tarot card or a 3k word third pov fic revolving around reconnecting 5yrs later (plummmmm).  but like too ask about payments, if you can potentially do half and half (a lot of artists are honestly open to this but you just have to ask), what are their routines like with providing sketches and changes (most tend to have information available on their tumblr but... still), etc etc. and dont be surprised if you ask for some heavy tattooing and jewellery and flowers that the price goes up? ive seen people be genuinely shocked like youre asking for heavy detail... hello.... but communication is key and its also on you to ask and tell the things you want and need.

as for writing commissions, personally, kind of almost in the same boat? if theres a particular scene, a visual reference helps to be like a guiding key to get to that point, but also specific words, like talking about hands, the colour purple. personally too with writing comms i have done, i do sometimes go and search for like oc tags for more visual stuff and then translate it to text. some of my favourite pieces have been exchanges more than commissions, with crashed-down through the dragon age pieces we’ve done, and utilising the tags there. also like i ask if you want the pov to follow someone specific, do you want first, second or third, any particular time of day, etc etc etc. like this does affect tone and flow. also with mine i offer snippets as i move through to see if the phrasing is right, am i doing something appropriate to the character/s, as with art you have the. pose and emotion in one position as such yknow? with writing its a movement and kind of links through it all. if like one sentence is off, the tone could be wrong, and changes everything.

also, if something is out of your price range, i have seen an upswing in people asking that just let someone know. inquire, work it out, but if its too much just politely turn it down. yes, emails get lost and tumblr is notorious for not flagging messages so there can be unintentional ghosting but yeah i think thats a good habit to get into.

tldr; dont be afraid to commission people, seriously, its very rewarding for everyone around. be polite, ask questions, keep on top of the communication. dont be an asshole, be clear about what youre after, be kind, enjoy

#replies #got long so under a cut #but yeeee hope that helps #ive commissioned a lot more in the last two yrs than i have before #like got over my fear of commissioning after having a few bad ones during 2015/16 period #and its been overall rly good like #you also find that one artist you keep going back to #like xla-hainex is someone i always recommend love maria #and also like take into account if someone runs like kofi commissions #and u cant afford their bigger pieces #theres no shame in doing kofi ones #its how i commissioned vika a few times #Anonymous

[commanderlurker]

Theron hates showers because his hair does this:

But it’s okay because Cats is there to make him beautiful.

He’s still grumpy.

THANK YOU @hoiist FOR CREATING THIS. And for your enthusiasm when I said something like, ‘Can I commission you to draw Theron’s shower hair?’ Go and commission her!

Theron’s flat shower hair is something I think about often, so when @previousjane also mentioned it, I knew I needed a visual, and I knew exactly who to go to. Thank you again!

#Theron Shan #Cats the V is silent #swtor tag i guess #I have been laughing so much

[jarael]

anierous-sunblade replied to your post “Sometimes I think about how I used to be friends with someone who...”

What

I’m not going to name names, but there used to be someone in the SWTOR fandom who had a Pureblood OC who was in her twenties, but was so small and skinny that she looked like a teenager, and they shipped her with Valkorion.

They also bullied a lot of my mutuals, including one who’s fucking suffering from cancer, one who’s a fan of Hunter from the IA story and is trans on top of it, and basically tried to pit all of us against each other.  They also made homophobic comments about Hunter, bashed the IA story like crazy, hated on Chiss...and also drew their versions of Raptus and Styrak very, very clearly having gay sex.

I did commission them to draw Sith!Ursulina once, and it was...not terrible, but not good.  They also drew Bralova and Ruusa with their Styrak and a descendant of Styrak who was then Ruusa’s half-sister, and gave Ruusa a huge nose.  If I had made the Teniir clan Space Jews back then*, I would have considered it anti-Semitic.

Speaking of Ruusa, I used to ship Bralova with their Styrak, and Ruusa was their child together.  They claimed to be okay with it for months, and then changed their mind one day.  I mean, it was easy to retcon, and Bralova/Torian makes much, much more sense, but still.

Then when I ditched them, they bullied me for a while and claimed I mooched free art from them.  I only ever sent requests when they posted art memes(you know, like hoiist, moonlitalien, and lazyartistwastaken and every other fan artist does), and like I said, I did commission them once.  Everyone knows I work in retail and that only recently I’ve been making more money.  Cashiering doesn’t exactly bring a lot of money in.

So yeah, to quote Caitlin, they’re a piece of work.

*Making the Teniir clan Space Jews is literally new canon for me.  I decided to go with it when I gave my Revan for that legacy Gal Gadot as a face claim.  I decided to retcon her descendants as well. :)

#anierous-sunblade #personal #replies

[hoiist]

Commission finished for private commissioner

#swtor #chiss #hoiist does commissions

[hoiist]

tarot card commissions from this batch

@galacticmenace @/shimoryu76 & @soulventure91

#tarot cards #d&d #dnd #swtor #sw 5e #hoiist does commissions

[hoiist]

Commissions are on hold for the next week due to health issues, I apologize for the delay

#hoiist does commissions

[hoiist]

commission for @flashedarrow of her jock mando mullet boy

#star wars #hoiist does commissions #mandolarian #mando

[hoiist]

This is going to include tarot card, character sheet discounts and new stuff like dnd Npc/character headshots packs and painted black and white portraits

#hoiist does commissions

[hoiist]

It’s that time again folks.

3 Slots available

Application Form here  

All references must be sent on the google form when applying  

Limited spots are available, also please specify if this is for gifts or there is time restraints.  

All prices in USD (and stated on form) 

Head shots: $25  

Waist up: $50  

Monochrome Tarot Cards: $40  

Tarot cards: $90  

Full Body: $75  

Painted Tarot Cards: $110- $150 (one available)  

Character Sheet: $200  

Extra Character: +$25  

Backgrounds: $40-$50 (depending on complexity)  

Notes: Will not draw; nsfw, mechas, excessive gore, characters under 18  Scars/Jewelry will be extra 

How this works: Head shots: very quick and will need to be paid for up front before I start. There will be no changes. Its pay and go. So please have all refs ready and clearly marked Everything else: I will send sketch, then line-art. I will not progress until invoice is paid. If changes are to be made after invoice is sent, I will only do 3 changes then I have the right to charge extra money for my time ($25 per hour)  

Have all ref’s ready, these include:  

face claim (if not a game character)  

(or) in-game screenshots(of character or BG)

refs of picture wanted (pose’s ect. Will accept very poor ms paint drawing if you cant find visual refs)

background refs

Please check spam folder if you haven’t received a reply. I reserve the right to refuse you submission via google forms

If you can’t commission me, please feel free to donate to my Ko-Fi

#hoiist does commissions #dragon age #star wars #bioware #mass effect #commissions

[hoiist]

Commission for @pestopascal

Always sunny in Lowtown

#hoiist does commissions #dragon age #dragon age 2 #carver hawke #hawke #I really do love drawing the whole cast of dragon age 2 and still never wanting to play it #guess the cast and you win a prize #which is nothing

[hoiistart]

Thank you for all your support

Application Form here

All references must be sent on the google form when applying

Limited spots are available, also please specify if this is for gifts or there is time restraints.

All prices in USD (and stated on form)

Head shots: $25  

Waist up: $50

Monochrome Tarot Cards: $40

Tarot cards: $70

Full Body: $75

Painted Tarot Cards: $110- $150 (one available)

Character Sheet: $200

Extra Character: +$25

Backgrounds: $40-$50 (depending on complexity)  

Notes: Will not draw; nsfw, mechas, excessive gore, characters under 18  Scars/Jewelry will be extra

Will draw most fandoms

How this works: Head shots: very quick and will need to be paid for up front before I start. There will be no changes. Its pay and go. So please have all refs ready and clearly marked Everything else: I will send sketch, then line-art. I will not progress until invoice is paid. If changes are to be made after invoice is sent, I will only do 3 changes then I have the right to charge extra money for my time ($20 per hour)  

Have all ref’s ready, these include:

face claim (if not a game character)

(or) in-game screenshots(of character or BG)

refs of picture wanted (pose’s ect. Will accept very poor ms paint drawing if you cant find visual refs)

background refs

Please check spam folder if you haven’t received a reply  I reserve the right to refuse you submission via google forms

If you can’t commission me, please feel free to donate to my Ko-Fi

#Dragon Age: Inquisition #SWTOR #Star Wars #dragon age #Bioware #Mass Effect #hoiist does commissions #long post #commissions

[hoiist]

If you’re still wanting to commission me in the future, please leave you email on this waiting list

Again, thank you everyone for your support!

#hoiist does commissions #swtor #dragon age: inquisition #dragon age #star wars #commissions #artist on tumblr

[hoiistart]

painted tarot card commission for Praestrom@twitter

#swtor #hoiist does commissions #tarot card #sith inquisitor

[hoiistart]

2/2 commission for @glitchy-npc

#hoiist does commissions #swtor #smuggler #jedi knight #ch: hal #ch: zen