I am now accepting commissions for non-commercial artwork.

Based on how long I expect a commission to take, here are some price estimates. These prices may vary if your request is particularly tricky or complex in some way.

Pencil Sketch
One Character: $15
Each Additional Character: $15
Abstract BG: $5
Full BG $10

Pencil Shaded
One Character: $30
Each Additional Character: $20
Abstract BG: $8
Full BG $20
(example)

Inked Lineart
One Character: $45
Each Additional Character: $40
Abstract BG: $20
Full BG $35
(example)

Inked with Block Colors
One Character: $50
Each Additional Character: $40
Abstract BG: $20
Full BG $35
(example / example / example)


Cel Shaded
One Character: $75
Each Additional Character: $50
Abstract BG: $30
Full BG $45
(example / example)

Moderate Rendering
One Character: $100
Each Additional Character: $60
Abstract BG: $30
Full BG $45
(example)

Fully Rendered
One Character: $140
Each Additional Character: $80
Abstract BG: $40
Full BG $65
(example / example)


Half the commission fee will need to paid up front as a deposit. At the moment, I am only accepting payment though PayPal.

After receiving the deposit, I will do a very rough sketch and then show it to you for approval. If you accept it, I will finish work on the commission. If the rough sketch doesn't look right to you, I can do another one and you can select between the two sketches.

After I finish work, I will send you a low-res version for approval. At this point, you can ask for small alterations to be made. After I receive approval, you can send the rest of the commission fee and I will send you the complete, final version.

Commissioned artwork may be used by the buyer for non-commercial use only, such as for a personal website. If you want to use it for commercial use, you will need to purchase the rights to the image which will cost extra, depending on the extent of the rights.

Please send me e-mail at commissions@dovsherman.com request a commission.

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The progress on my currently accepted commissions:

Bunnification: Just starting
Changes: Just starting
Collector's Item: Just starting
White Tower: Just starting

I am now accepting commissions for non-commercial artwork.

Based on how long I expect a commission to take, here are some price estimates. These prices may vary if your request is particularly tricky or complex in some way.

One Character Pencil Sketch: $15
Each Additional Character: $15
Abstract BG: $5
Full BG $10

One Character Pencil Shaded: $50
Each Additional Character: $40
Abstract BG: $12
Full BG $25

One Character Inked Lineart: $45
Each Additional Character: $40
Abstract BG: $20
Full BG $35

One Character Cel Shaded: $75
Each Additional Character: $50
Abstract BG: $30
Full BG $45

One Character Fully Rendered: $140
Each Additional Character: $80
Abstract BG: $40
Full BG $65


Half the commission fee will need to paid up front as a deposit. At the moment, I am only accepting payment though PayPal.

After receiving the deposit, I will do a very rough sketch and then show it to you for approval. If you accept it, I will finish work on the commission. If the rough sketch doesn't look right to you, I can do another one and you can select between the two sketches.

After I finish work, I will send you a low-res version for approval. At this point, you can ask for small alterations to be made. After I receive approval, you can send the rest of the commission fee and I will send you the complete, final version.

Commissioned artwork may be used by the buyer for non-commercial use only, such as for a personal website. If you want to use it for commercial use, you will need to purchase the rights to the image which will cost extra, depending on the extent of the rights.

Please send me e-mail at commissions@dovsherman.com request a commission.

With the recent removal the Comment Deletion tool, it is no longer possible to delete any deviation comment, no matter how obscene, illegal, or harassing. The tool has even been removed for admins so, while complaining about a problem comment might get the commentator banned, the comment itself will stay.

I had someone post a clearly harassing comment on one of my deviations and include a large obscene ASCii drawing. Since the Help Desk insisted that there was nothing they could do about it, I waited for a week for the tool to come back.

Then I remembered that the Search Tool has been "in progress" for about a year with no change at all. (If you use the Search tool, it won't find any deviations posted since the day the Search tool was introduced.) So it seems like that the Comment Deletion tool may be a long time coming.

In the meantime, although the dA TOS forbids obscene, harassing, or illegal comments, that policy is no longer enforceable. I wonder if this is why the Weekly Development post says that there is a dramatic increase in Harassment reports.

I wound up simply deleting the deviation that has an obscene comment, sadly losing all comments and favs that went with it. Today, I realized that I can simply shut down the comments throughout my gallery for the same effect but it also prevents any new legitimate comments from being posted. This also means that existing comments are currently hidden but, thankfully, can be restored when it is safe to allow comments again.

An observation: In the anime series "Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou", there are a couple fo recap episodes in which they just show clips from previous episodes with narrative voiceover. The interesting thing was that, at the beginning of each episode recap, they showed some statistics for each episode. On average, it seemed that most episodes contained around 300 cuts and 2000 drawings. So a full half-hour episode only required 2000 drawings.

This is one of the key differences between Japanese animation and western animation - the degree of animation. While some people often to point to this difference as a reason to hold western animation in higher esteem, it does point out a very successful approach to efficiency and productivity. By careful reduction of animation, efficient reuse of base drawings and cycles, lots of pans and still frames, Japanese animators are able to produce much more footage in less time.

It would be interesting to try applying this technique to my own work.

I just received a jigsaw puzzle print of one of my works and was really pleased with the quality. I wanted something a little different for the art gift I'm giving my parents as a present this year and a puzzle seemed like a fun idea. So I ordered a puzzle of my deviation "Priscilla"...



It's a 252-piece puzzle and the format was a good match. The bleed edge seemed kind of big in the template DA provided but it lined up well and that particular print worked really well as a puzzle since it a very limited color palette. It arrived as a flat, pre-cut sheet, as if the puzzle had already been assembled. The print quality is very good with a glossy finish. The cardboard backing is a little thinner than I'd like but acceptable. There's no box with the picture on the cover but I suppose it would be easy enough to make one if someone wanted that for their own puzzle prints. The cut was very good although there were a few places along the edges where the cut didn't quite reach the side - easily remedied with an X-acto blade.

In this case, I had the puzzle sent to me instead of my parents. When I got it, I disassembled the puzzle and put it into one of those plastic boxes people keep their CCG cards in (about 4"x3"x3") and it was a perfect fit. Since I don't think my parents have seen this particular drawing before, I decided not to include a print of it with the puzzle because I'm evil that way.

To sum up, I like the puzzle prints from DA very much. I'll have to try to include them with my print options more often, just in case.... someone orders a print someday.