COMMISSIONS PRICES AND TOS

@Garrafa42 https://bottleboy42e.carrd.co/

Thank you for your interest in my art!

Please take the time to read the Terms of Service below.

By commissioning me, you are agreeing to the following terms:

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Working with me:

This is my full-time job and passion. If you desire to commission me you must agree to my Terms of Service.

I will treat you with respect, so please do the same for me.

I am a real person with real life obligations; events and emergencies come up from time to time. Keep in mind that delays are never my goal but may happen!
Nasty attitudes will not be tolerated – Your commission will be canceled, your money refunded, and you will be blacklisted.
I will always try to complete your commission as quickly as possible and in order of purchase. I plan to let you know when I’m busier than expected.

Work Schedule:

Sunday - Thursday – I will spend these days working on commissions.
Friday and Saturday – These two days are dedicated to myself.
Sick Days – Illness or emergencies can affect my work schedule.

Keeping you in the loop:

I typically post status updates (updates about my work schedule, my personal health days, sales, and health issues that keep me from working) to my Trello.

Subject matter:

YES, I will draw:

Anthro
Feral
Plant life
Horror
NSFW
Candy gore, plushie gore

NO, I will not:

Copy someone else’s style.
Copyrighted characters/species.
Color someone else’s line-art without the line-art artist’s permission..
Draw scat
Draw hateful artwork; racism, sexism, homophobia, or other harmful/offensive political or social propaganda.

Payments:

No work will be done without payment – After coming to an agreement on the contents/features/add-ons of your commission, payment should be sent to reserve your spot in the commission queue and initiate the commission.
Reserving a spot in the queue – Your commission will be added to the commission queue only if a downpayment is made. I will not hold a spot for your commission when there are customers making full payments upfront.
Customer Inactivity – if you make a payment (whether full or partial), I will start to work on your piece. If after starting your piece, I reach out to you repeatedly about questions but receive no response, this hinders my forward progress. Your commission will remain in the queue but will lose your projected due date. After a year of inactivity, your commission will be archived and you will need to be re-quoted for a new commission.
It is the responsibility of the customer to monitor their own finances before commissioning me. As a professional artist, I am not a piggy bank for commissioners to deposit money until they need it for a future purpose. I will not refund commissioners who want to back out due to their own poor financial planning.
Three edits rule – Three edits are permitted to any commission after the sketching process. Beginning with the fourth significant edit, the commission is entered into the design payment process. Additional edits will be charged.
“No reference sheet” fee – With the exception of reference sheet commissions: for any character that isn’t described simply in a sentence (i.e. multiple piercings, odd coloration, detailed markings, hybrids or imaginary species), $20 extra is required upfront to cover the time needed to bring this character up to the expectation of the commissioner. Commissions without ref sheets will also take longer due to the fact that I need to conceptualize your character from scratch or from various inconsistent reference images.
TIPS – “To insure prompt service” – Tips are always appreciated. If you tip at the start of a commission, your commission will get a little extra care and I will expedite your commission in the queue.

Terminating the commission:

I reserve the right to refuse a commission up front for any reason and without explanation.

I reserve the right to issue a refund for a commission. This can be done if the terms of service are violated or if I am unable to fulfill the assignment due to other obligations. I will issue refunds but only if no work has been done. Once work is started, partial refunds based on time spent will be issued.

No refunds for completed work. My goal is to work with you to make the existing artwork better until you are satisfied.

What I will need from you:

As the commissioner, you must supply to me:

Relevant reference images for your character up front when the project is paid for.
Whether this commission is meant to be a secret
Any other information I need to know (especially character changes if the reference sheet is not up to date.)

I will not be held accountable for information that the commissioner neglects to convey before beginning the commission. As much as I want to make things perfect, I do not have psychic abilities.

If the piece is meant to be a surprise gift, the customer must request upfront for me to keep the progress images secret in order to avoid ruining the surprise.

Any changes to the previously established commission specifications — i.e. change to the subject matter, content, or quantity of commission purchases — will not be granted after work has begun without additional charge.

Progress pictures:

Sharing progress pictures is my primary way of working with you as I complete your commission. I start just about every commission with a rough sketch. For most commission offerings, I send images at the sketching stage, inking stage, and coloring stage for customer approval before finalizing. I will also check for preferences of pose or expression if these are not noted at the planning stage prior to payment.

Review and Critique:

Digital: Sketches for digital pieces may be incomplete in some ways – just for a reference for me for pose and basic marking placement. It is not meant to be a perfect or accurate sketch as it will be completely redrawn.

Notes about reviewing and approving a sketch for digital work:

YES: critiques to general body shape, pose, angle of view, and expression.

Also if you want clothes to be added, that will be something I want to include in the sketch so I can render the details of the fabric. These aspects are necessary for the final piece and therefore critical for the sketch that the final piece relies upon. I require critique or approval on these aspects since they are significantly harder to change or cannot be changed when I digitally redraw.

Sketch is for planning general appearance. Subtle changes like proportion (length and width of limbs) and details (like markings or small accessories) will be changed for consistency (for a series like Telegram stickers) and aesthetic purposes in the digital process.

OK: bringing to my attention any accessories or markings to add in the digital process or small elements to remove.

Detail notes about your character are fine. Keep in mind that most of the sketches I do will exclude markings and small accessories in the initial sketch just so it is a little easier to see anatomy and expression.

Additionally I may include things to help evoke a mood/theme (accessories, props, or accents) that you may want me to exclude. I will typically consider this an approved sketch and generally won’t edit the sketch to remove these unwanted elements since they are easy for me to exclude when I redraw.

UNNECESSARY: bringing to my attention color, shading, line work, background.

This sketch is my guide for when I redraw. All of these elements will change or be added.

Digital File Delivery:

Digital designs and artwork that are approved will be sent in relevant formats (.jpg, .png, .pdf, and .eps) to the email address provided (Paypal email) unless otherwise specified.

Posting WIPs and the final image:

The final piece and any WIPs may be submitted to one or all of the following of my accounts:

Telegram: https://t.me/bottleboy42
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BottleBoy42?s=09
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/u/bottleboy42
FurAffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/bottleboy42/

As the artist, I have the right to create derivative works from commissions for our purposes of advertising. This includes but is not limited to: avatars, banners, and printed documents. Any canceled commission is forfeited by the commissioner to be used by the artist.

The “Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License” applies to the artwork created for this commission.

YES: You may use the resulting commissioned artwork for personal use (i.e. you may print it out to post on your wall, use as an icon or badge, site ID, etc.)
YES: You can share this work on your personal website, but please link back to one of my galleries so that proper credit is given – that way people can commission me for similar works and helps to dissuade people from attacking you for “stealing.”
NO: Derivative works (i.e. alter/trace/copy, repost, and claim as your work)
NO: Commercial reproductions (i.e. exchanging, printing, or otherwise selling my art for your personal gain on a mass scale.)