It's Raining Pastels

Pastel/Nikkineeky She/They | 30 | INFJ | 05/02 | Taurus | Traditional artist with markers. :> Commissions Open! Block game is my hyper fixation

[nikkineeky]

Hello!!

I wanna try this again so, I'm opening commissions! :>>

Here's how we're gonna play: I have 5 tiers you can pick from. I'm very flexible.

I have two styles: Chibi and Full. I have a limited color palette due to copics and the need for ink.

Please also pick whether you'd like pages on 5.5 x 8.5 (14 x 21,6 cm) inches or 9 x 12 inches (22,9 x 30,5 cm). I'm traditional by trade and I'll be sending the finished art by mail (I'll honestly have trouble getting them scanned). :>

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First up is Tier 1! I offer colored pen sketches of either of my styles. Mostly concepting to fill a whole page.

$7 plus $2 for every different (additional) character.

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Tier 2: Pencil sketches in both styles. Chibi, bust or hip sketch lineart. Pencil sketches will NOT be colored.

$7 plus $3 for additional character.

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Tier 3: Inked line art of my full style.

$15 plus $5 per added character.

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Tier 4: Full colored. No more than five characters to a page.

$25 plus $10 for any added character.

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Tier 5: Full service. This includes a background that should fill the whole page.

Same as tier 4 ($25 plus $10 for any added character) with an added $10-$40 depending on page size and how complex your background request.

Example: A full 9 x 12 page with tier 4 character art (one character) and a complex tier 5 background will be $45 total.

I'm open to negotiation, but the base prices are set.

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WILL draw:

Humanoid

Furry

Monster

Animals

Objects/props/furniture

NSFW/Suggestive (I will not draw explicit sex)

Color palette challenges (please ask which colors I have or you want)

Blood, scars, light gore (I love coloring blood. It's neat)

Ask about armor

OCs

Characters from fandoms

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Will NOT draw:

Mecha

Explict gore

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Tier 3 and above: PLEASE do NOT pay me up front until I am ready to ink. I will always send progress photos.

You can dm me or ask for my discord.

Please provide a very detailed description and or photo references for me. If I don't have enough information I will ask a lot of questions. :>

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[knightofleo]

[herpsandbirds]

Common eider

[phynoma]

This needs to be immortalized because it's what made me turn on the sound. And they were right

[atlas-hope]

AO3 is having some difficulty with displaying the images I put on the site, so here is the fanart I made for Loading And Aspect Ratio!

[fluffmugger]

[leninthesixth]

you gotta include this photo

[cumpriest]

ağlıycam

[lilli-sturmreiter]

[walk-up-songs]

[one single bloodcurdling agonized scream] ok time to lock in

[intlbipolar]

[drtanner]

This post is almost 11 years old now, so I feel like it’s time for an update:

[unlikeechopearl]

Wanted to try a different artstyle

[edgebug]

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!

@joe-spookyy Ben and Socrates

@gooseontheinternet Chamomile and Beefy

@runawayy-rat Bartholomäus and Emo

@theunholystromboli Macrogryphosaurus, Xenoceratops, and Graciliraptor

@techlecticwtch Solas and Dorian

@merlyn-bane Roslyn and Rizzoli

@logictoinsanity Luna and Buttercup

@hagsthehag Orphie, Psyche, Calypso, Ariadne, and Eury

my sweet ladies Bonnie, Mira, An, and Tula

and of course, the irreplaceable

Neil,

who banged out the tunes

[squids-on-jupit3r]

A young man stands in his bedroom, it just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2023, is this young mans birthday. though it was 27 years ago he was given life, it is only today that he finds neil absolutely banging out the tunes

[xanmine]

my dash tried to show me something that wasn't homestuck. i shut that shit down. we're on a 24 hour homestuck lockdown

[garbagebabyjo]

it is 413 my dudes

[wheeloffortune-design]

you know you're good at your job when every single person tells you "thank god you're back"

[sharkangelic]

Boss makes a dollar You make a dime You read unsanitary pirate slash On company time

[animate-mush]

Look if you read fanfic on the clock and everyone is still relieved that you're back you must just be that got-dang good at your job

[lasrina]

Fam, some jobs are like being a firefighter. 90% of the time you're not doing anything that important, but by golly, when they need you, they need you.

Some jobs, you can fuck around for six hours a day, but you know what you're doing so well that the work you do in two hours would take somebody else ten.

Some jobs, you spend those two hours preventing other people from making mistakes that would take 100 hours to fix if you weren't there to steer them right.

So don't buy into the idea that if you're not working 480 minutes a day, you're not doing enough to get paid a day's wages. That's the capitalism talking.

You're a better employee when you keep your morale up, and sometimes you do that by reading fanfiction on the clock in between putting out your little fires.

[windandwater]

there's an actual term for this, it's called "waiting for assignment" and the day I learned it cleared up a lot of stupid guilt I was still carrying around for reading fanfiction on the clock despite being the person no one could live without.

essentially, at some jobs you are "engaged to wait," meaning something may not be happening right now but you are being paid to be around when it does. it's a real federally recognized concept and you are morally, legally, and within the bounds of business norms allowed to kill the protestant guilt tripper in your mind telling you that every minute not spent working is stealing from the company or being lazy. it's not. you're extremely valuable and your time being paid to sit there is worth every cent you're being paid.

also, I learned all of this from Ask a Manager, here's a piece where she talks about it, and if you're not reading AAM you should be, especially if you're job hunting or want to be soon.

[synergy27]

Me at 13: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

Me at 17: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

Me at 21: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

[showgirlshawn]

Me at 35: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

[avenger-nerd-mom]

Me at 51: "god I can't wait to go home and read fanfic"

[hannrum]

More photocards! Only 2 left after these🗣

[skaraptor]

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3