The price varies based on complexity of character, background etc. and with how much ease I can draw it. So for example if you wanted something Steven Universe related, it would most likely be on the lower end. Whereas several characters of high detail, an unfamiliar subject matter and a complex background would be at the higher end.

Another factor is the amount of guidance you give me, if you just say you want a picture then it would cost more than if you provide me with ideas or sketches of what you want (things like brief character info too).

I’m quite happy to give you a quote if you send me an email at chicinlicin@gmail.com with references/ideas and such :) don’t feel obliged to go through with the commission if you don’t want to!

And it’s not dumb at all! I’ve been meaning to update my prices and overall listing, I’ll make sure to add this to the FAQ too!

Thanks! and probably not…I haven’t played Fat Princess, the one drawing I have was for a request thing I did at the time ^^’ closest I’ve got is playing as her in PS All-Stars.

My theme is just the default theme, Redux! :) I’ve got a tiny bit of html so I can have buttons on the side, and a custom tiled background…unless the default theme has changed or something :|

Hmm, yeah that’s tricky. Flash, TVPaint and ToonBoom are the major programs I can think of, all of which are a bit pricey.

Only alternative I can think of is Ulead GIF Animator, which is the first animation program I used. I think any version of Photoshop over 7.0 has the timeline function as well which you may be able to find somewhere. Or an old version of Flash.

Each has their ups and downs, Photoshop has better drawing but needs each frame as a layer, and Ulead has very bad drawing tools but a timeline somewhere in between that of Photoshop and Flash…if I’m remembering it right…haven’t used it in quite some time ^^’

I can give a rough breakdown. When I animate I’m always deleting layers, moving frames around and constantly redrawing stuff, so this isn’t a perfect representation of how I made it.

Luckily though I still have some of my breakdown layers for this!

I think throughout working on the run cycles I had this excerpt from The Animator’s Survival Kit up for a lot of the time. It’s helpful to look back on occasionally if something is looking weird.

First pass, getting the poses and timing blocked out. Sometimes I’ll do a few roughs on paper, I find drawing poses with a tablet can be fiddly without a base.

Second pass! her arms weren’t moving quite right so there’s a layer of that, her hair tentacles and shorts needed to be more floaty, so they have a layer too.

Usually I fill in the rest of the roughs, but for this I instead went straight to lines. First by filling in the frames I had drawn, then going to inbetweens.

When doing the lines I also had a copy of her model up next to my workspace as well, I have a habit of making things drastically change size for no reason, so I like to constantly check that sort of thing ^^”

…and then I just coloured it! oh, all of this was done in TVPaint as well!