Commissions? (Patreon)

I'll start off by admitting I mentioned commissions below somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as I've offered a couple of times before, when I've needed a little extra bill money or the like, and got basically zero response.

If you're genuinely interested in a commissioned piece, I'll state right up front that I have very little spare time for artwork- or nearly anything else- these days. I'd have to ask roughly what I ask in the shop for custom work, which is generally anything from $25 to $50 an hour.

I don't want that to sound mercenary, it's simply a matter that 100% of my income comes in either through the comic here, or out in the machine shop. If I'm not in the shop earning a living, I need to be at my art table earning a living. 

(And no, I don't make $50 an hour, eight hours a day, all week. :) A lot of my time is spent making production parts to be sold in my store, for which I make a lot less than $50 an hour. Sometimes less than minimum wage. :) I made the equivalent of about $4 an hour on the last book run. :) Overall in a year, I generally make roughly McDonalds' assistant-manager type money.)

Long story short, commissions would not be cheap. "Sitting Pretty" down below took me probably a little over 3 hours, all told, from sketch to upload. The "Extra" drawing, had I done that from scratch, would have probably taken closer to five hours.

The image with all the ladies in the lineup I bet I have close to 12-15 hours in, all told. The "Coffie" pic was at least eight, but there was a lot of sketch-erase-retry fiddling with that one.

Now, that's all assuming I was just idly fiddling with the art- I wasn't by any means trying to finish anything up in any kind of time frame.

Bottom line, a single-figure image would likely be around $200 and up. 'Pretty' is about 1600x1800 and 300 DPI. I can work larger and to finer detail, but that just takes more time.

I'll assume that anyone interested in a commission is going to want at least cheesecake if not outright nudity.  Both are fine, though I'll probably ask a bit more for the latter.

But, if you want actual porn, keep in mind I've never drawn any, I'm not particularly interested in drawing any, I expect I'd get most of the poses about as goofy and awkward as the recent collaboration pics down below, and I would be adding a heavy surcharge, or gratuity, or whatever you want to call it for the privilege. Like starting at $1,000 and going up from there.

If anyone is still genuinely interested in a commission, I'll work up some ground rules and generic-starting-point prices. Really, prices will likely be fixed (IE, $X for Y pic) rather than "Okay, this image took me 2.75 hours so your price will be..." Although I will say I've heard some minor horror stories from other artists, about picky commissioners and endless reworks and such. Just as a forewarning, I have a low tolerance for such things.

Doc.