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HALLO EVERYBODY I wanted to announce I'm officially opening commissions now, any pricing/general questions should be answered through my strawpage but if you need anything cleared up you can feel free to DM me.

Here are some examples of my most recent works to give you an idea of the scope of work I do, remember it's all done traditional

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Redesing of a friend's OC as a gift, I'll get back to drawing soon.

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m0drar

Ludwig and ludwig

Re-watched emesis blue, worst mistake of my life

holipop-art

day 17: slime

brickylittle

oh my god I just realized this is the year people will stop being born and stop aging and stop dying

ghostgirlcara

A friend of mine went out of town, so I'm looking after their Houndoom until they get back. He is a joyful beast, but I have yet to meet another Pokémon with such sadness in their eyes.

bugtoucher420

There is yuri even in your backyard if you know where to look

ayalace1

office au doodles

prokopetz

The whole "absurdly dramatic framing of a game of chess" thing in comics gets a lot funner when you understand that the real reason it's such a frequent device is that it makes it less obvious that the artist is picking their angles to avoid having to draw the actual board.

prokopetz

You've got the ultra-close-up of someone's hand moving a piece (so you only need to draw that piece), the aura shot looking up at one of the competitors from below (so the board is off the bottom of the frame), the dialogue cut where it's just the speakers' eyes (self-explanatory) – lots of options there!

xidas128

I imagine this is just as much to avoid the work of drawing all the pieces as it is to avoid needing to construct a chess position that makes any sense (not that every comic reader would be able to call out a nonsensical chess position, but still).

prokopetz

It's 100% about drawing the pieces. Practically nobody in media actually constructs chess matches from scratch; if they care about making it plausible at all, they just look up replays of famous games and replicate their positions verbatim. Some readers even make a game out of spotting which specific tournament match is being referenced.