Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes~

Ahaha.

Ahahahahahaha. Wow. It's been a while.

The last time I updated my blog was... March?? Yikes. Since then I've been coping with and getting help with my depression and anxiety issues, I've gotten a job delivering pizza for Papa Johns, I've just finished playing the part of sand dragon Sooki in the Wave Theatre production 'Calypso in Cairo', I've started to have fun with my creative projects again to the point where I'm able to properly plan out Crumbs again AND I'm currently working on plans and designs to possibly open my own online store selling things from unique prints to keyrings and Wave Theatre merchandise.

Yep. Been a busy few months. And that's me being concise.

Like I said, I've got a lot to talk about and work through and I feel like I need a fresh start to do so. I will be taking the Emmature Content URL and attaching it to my new blog as I no longer want to just cover my creative projects. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to do a new blogspot account or host the blog on a new tumblr or what. Either way, I feel like I need to begin a new chapter in my online presence. If that even makes sense. Eh.

I'm sticking with the same Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages but my email, blog and tumblr will be completely new. I'm also planning on making some serious headway with Crumbs (my comic) and Sky Rat (my online shop) and I intend to share sketches and designs very soon.

In the meantime, I have a lot of tidying to catch up on. Being in the play has caused me to neglect the state of my room and my car so I need to get on that. Although it rained not that long ago so the car might be ok for another day. Bwaaaamp.

But yeah, just consider this a heads up for some changes. I'll keep you all posted!

Emmature Creative Portraits!

I've been having a good hard think about the commission service that I offer. Until now, it had been offering my services in any creative aspect, from portraits to logo and tattoo design. And while I've done work in both I think it's possible that there's simply too much clutter for people.

And at the same time, I think I need to seriously think about the kind of commissions I want to offer. Having all the services I offered previously, it looked like I was trying to do way too much and I think on some level that might have been putting people off. So, i am now instead going to offer portrait commissions exclusively yet still offer myself to be hired for logo/tattoo designs/animation work and so on. The price list will from now on only offer the prices I will share for the portraits but if you wish to involve me in an animated project/have me design something, we can work something out over email.

I simply do not have the time for unpaid work/work that will 'give me exposure'. If you have no intention of paying me for my work, I have no intention of working with/for you. This is my job and I depend on these commissions/creative projects as they are my only source of income.

The Crumbs Project: Makeoverssss

I think I'm starting to get to grips on this whole 'organising my work and life' thing. Here's hoping it takes.

After I finished my commissions (which I might share on a later date if I get permission from the commissioners), I had more time to plan 'The Crumbs Project' a lot more seriously, from story lines and notes to finalising character designs. I hadn't drawn or coloured the pigeons in Photoshop before now and used the opportunity to sort out colours and lineart techniques. I used to use Illustrator but while the lineart looks nice and crisp, I think it loses a bit of personality that the original sketch had. More often than not, I've found myself preferring my sketches to my finished work whenever I used Illustrator.

So hopefully I'll be able to train my wrist to master freehand lineart. I mean hey, a big reason I'm working on the comic is to experiment with storytelling, character design, art methods and so on.

Anyway, here is our colourful cast of main birbs:

And allow me to introduce (or rather RE-introduce, to anyone who read the previous comics) the turtle dove twins, Lilac and Pink!

You can thank the super spectacular Tor for the inspiration behind their redesigns. Lilac is her favourite and I was trying to think of a new pigeon breed that both she and Pink could be (with them being twins, they'd need to look the same, especially since I'd made them different breeds originally) before I remembered Tor suggesting I draw a turtle dove sometime due to them being her favourite pigeon.

So I decided to kill two birds with one stone (If you'll pardon the expression. Awkwaaard) and make Best Pigeon her favourite breed! Albeit rather simplified. You ever seen a turtle dove? Google those mothers, their plumage is nuts.

Now that the introductions are out of the way, I've got a little favour to ask of you guys.

While I was colouring all the pigeons, an error with layers gave me the idea to turn the whites of the pigeon's eyes red, similar to how pigeon eyes usually look. I'm half tempted and I think it looks especially god on Lilac personally but there might be people who are put off by the look, or think it makes them look too sinister. I MIGHT give the look to a certain mysterious pigeon either way though… perhaps...

So I've got a comparison of the white eyes and red eyes for people to look over. I'd appreciate it mightily if you could let me know of any preference you have! You should be able to click the pictures to get a closer look.

Red Eyes
(Drugs are bad, mmkay?)

White Eyes
 

Hurrhurr stoner birbs~

I'm leaning towards the white personally but if I'm able to shape the eyes a certain way, I could probably pull off the red if people preferred it.

I'm going to begin work on the human and dog characters from tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have them to share with you next week! I also want to play about with poses and expressions of the characters. I've only got the pigeons in similar poses for now to show off their design more than anything.

Tune in next week (maybe)!

Reveal: The Crumbs Project

So once again, Crumbs went on hiatus. And I'm not even surprised that it did. It's my own fault, really. I told myself that I had to make a story "right hugging now" whether I planned it through properly or not. And at first it went OK, I was able to burn through 9-14 pages but around/after then, I always lose steam because I realise that this is a boring story that I absolutely don't want to tell.

Or rather, it's a good story that I DO want to tell but due to the lack of proper planning and thinking things through, I'm not telling it right. Either way, I stopped uploading and the comic fell by the wayside. Again.

Crumbs has had way too many false starts and for the longest time, the site was just standing there with no activity on a design and page that wasn't even relevant anymore. Until now. I've trashed everything and replaced the homepage with a teaser image for, what will hopefully be, third times the charm.

Allow me to present: The Crumbs Project. Or Crumbs for short.

More like 'Coming Eventually', am I right? Hahaha… haha… haaaa...

As the page states, the story outlined in the simplest way is "A webcomic about a cancelled military project being given a second chance; to develop pigeons into tools of peace in the modern world."
I might as well reveal this now: in every single interpretation of Crumbs I've ever done, Jay (the dark blue one, in case you forgot/don't know) has always been a genetically enhanced pigeon created as a military project for any future wars, which often explained his wacky design and skills that the other pigeons didn't have. I always liked the idea of pigeons being tools of war but thought the idea might be too farfetched or that I wasn't clever enough to be able to tell such a story (whatever that means. My brain is pretty hard on me) but it kept eating away at me… and it wasn't until I saw the cinematic glory that is Big Hero 6 that I decided "You know what? FUDGE IT. I'm doing this goddamn super-pigeon story, y'all better recognise!"

And now with a lot of rewriting, redesigning, developing characters old and new, tossing out old characters/ideas, revising story lines and so on, I'm slowly but surely on the right track in the planning stage. I have a few very kind and patient people who are willing to read through my rambled notes and offer critique, feedback and advice. So much so that I'm almost certain I should provide co-writer credits cos SHEESH. 

(FYI, I'm making the deadly pigeon pathogen idea a future conflict. Throwing it in now would have way to much going on where the story currently is.)

I've already revealed the redesigns of the four main pigeons: Scarlet, Jay, Blue and Green, as seen in the teaser image above. You should be able to see them in a previous entry or on my Instagram page. The pigeon's poses here are meant to give you some small idea of what their individual power is, although Green's isn't very clear. Basically, Scarlet has the skill of weaponised feathers, Jay has advanced communication: the ability to talk to humans and other animals, Blue is able to camouflage/turn invisible at will and Green has super strength, able to lift humans and knock tanks over. My brain was farting too hard to figure out how I could portray that in his pose so I just have him posing with his chest puffed out all heroically instead.
I'm going to work on some conceptual art and designs that'll show off their skills better. As well as introduce some new characters. I'm planning to reveal those very soon.

So yeah basically, the story is still at the beginning of the planning stage and I have absolutely no idea when I'll be able to share the finished comic with you. I'm mainly just owning up to the fact that I once again let Crumbs fall by the wayside and that I'm working on a new and exciting idea that'll hopefully knock all the socks off. I know this for sure though: I refuse to share any pages whatsoever until I finish the first arc/chapter. Still working out how I'm going to set up the stories. That's what this here planning process is for!

I hope you think of this as an interesting idea. Personally, I'm having a lot of fun with it. A LOT. And I haven't even introduced the human and dog characters yet. If you have any questions, feel free to comment! 

OK Good, February Isn't Over Yet.

I definitely meant to update my blog sooner than this but due to a huge workload, falling ill and general life shenanigans, I fell through on that. I'll fall into the habit of weekly updates soon enough. I hope.

This is gonna be another long entry I'm afraid. The sooner we get started, the sooner we can get back to eating. My fish supper is getting cold, dagnabbit.

~***~

To everyone who has shown interest/shared info/bought the books, I really thank you all for your amazing support! With these books all done and dusted, as well as available on a print on demand basis, I can see a lot of possible opportunities for them to really take off! I'm still contacting publishers and schools to not much avail currently but all we can really do is keep on pushing and have the books available for the right opportunity.

In case you need any incentive to purchase copies for yourself, here are some photos showing off how lovely they are~

And you can buy them HERE RIGHT HERE GO GO GOOOO

~***~

As I've mentioned a bunch of times, I'm taking commissions (if you're interested, you can check out my rates here!) and someone approached me wondering if I'd be interested in designing a logo for them. They are involved in a local organisation in Northumbria University and are known as the Gender and Society Research Hub. At the moment, they are preparing for feminist events and told me they would be exploring other gender identities and topics in the future.

Naturally at the mention of Feminism, I was on board.

To the left are the practice logos that I came up with as I worked with the client to capture what they were visualising.
As you can see, I tried to incorporate the different gender symbols in the majority of designs due to the fact that topics would cover more than women and feminist issues.

After a number of back and forths, where we came to the idea of possibly combining different aspects from more than one of the designs, the image below is what we officially came up with.

After the logo was close to completion, I was also asked to work on a couple of posters for a couple of events, as well as create a border that they could use for future posters. I believe you'll probably see them if you're around the Northumberia University area. They'll look a little like this!

I had never made a logo as a commission before, especially not for a gender studies group. It was a subject that I am very interested in and I really hope I captured the correct symbols in the border.

To visit the GSRH blog, go to gender-society-research-hub.com.

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Back in November, I was picked as a potential animator for a client in Germany, wanting an animated educational children's web-series. I was given the topic of satellites to work with and was told to create a little character that would be entertaining enough to engage the viewers interest. However, I also had to keep things simple.

Due to the subject matter, and due to my obsession with glow-in-the-dark stars, I decided to create a green star character called Stella, who would explain the different types of satellite to the viewer.

There wasn't a huge amount of time to work on the project and a lot of things were against me for a variety of reasons. I had to work on the Bertie books, I was job hunting/working on commissions, I got sick and so on. Not to mention I was relearning the animating program I used as I hadn't flexed my animation muscles for some time at that point. 

Anyway, while I managed to get a quick two minute pilot together for the client, I just didn't feel it was my best work and therefore I wasn't surprised when the pilot was rejected. I'm not too disheartened however. It's a cute concept and I think with some more time, I might even take the opportunity to spruce it up a little and maybe try again. Watch this space!

… it's funny cos it took place in space. It IS funny. Nyeh.

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On a final note, I've rediscovered my love for colouring with markers and decided to colour in a number of sketches I drew for Crumbs, many including new designs for my characters. I'm definitely going to be doing more of these but here's what I got so far!

If you're following me on Instagram, you'll have already seen some of these. And if not, WHY NOT? #SoUncool

A lot of these look a lot better in person, as is often the case with markers. The pug one looks pretty damn good on and off screen.

And we'll end with a sketch of GrumbleSquab the yetihuahua, who I drew when I was starting to give myself a hard time for no apparent reason. Mental health fun times!

~***~

Whew. There's quite a bit there. Although there's a lot of artwork to even things out visually I think. I really need to get into the habit of updating weekly so I don't have to do such long entries. Unless people like the long entries? I keep intending to update on a weekly basis so people don't have to trail through a long blog entry and I don't have to spend ages typing up a months worth of work. Buuuut I've clearly not been doing that very often, whoops.

Anyway, the plan is to share more work next week, most likely some more marker coloured artwork of Crumbs characters, and keep up regular updates. However, I often update my Instagram with artwork, I have a professional and personal tumblr you can check out, and I set up a professional twitter so you can see what I'm up to and then all the blog updates become old hat. Or some of them do. I hadn't mentioned the GSRH logo or Stella work anywhere soooo… your call.

Have a good evening, folks! Now to eat some of this cold fish.

The Adventures of Bertie Blue: Available NOW!

   

Click on the individual book cover to be taken to their shop page!

I'm pleased to announce that 'The Adventures of Bertie Blue' and 'The Further Adventures of Bertie Blue' are now available to buy through Lulu.com!

The first book contains the first EIGHT of Bertie Blue's adventures during the opening years of World War 1 and book two's SIX stories recounts his and the Captain's struggles during and after the war's later years.

On behalf of Steve and myself, we hope you enjoy the full coloured artwork and bittersweet stories written to commemorate the Centenary of World War 1, including the story of Christmas 1914.

Bucky the Terrifying Christmas Card

It's a good day to do what has to be done by me and update my blog entry!

… yep, that's a very satisfying start to my first entry of the year. And it looks pretty neato with the new 'Emmature Creative' logo up there. Figured I had to lose the 'Media' part since that wasn't what I was going with.

As I only just started work again on Monday, I don't have a huge amount of new artwork to show at the moment (although I occasionally share sketches on my Instagram page). However, I do have a design I did for this years Christmas cards.

It wasn't until I saw the Christmas card on my parents' fireplace that I realised I'd completely forgotten to talk about the design in my previous entry. At first, that lead me to attack myself with various declarations of how much of a numpty I am but then I remembered how ridiculously long the previous entry was so maybe this wasn't a bad thing.

So, as we wind down from Christmas, I'll share the design which a few people have described as "eerie" and "terrifying". He can't help how his face looks.


As I wrote my Christmas cards from both Ruari and myself this year, and with Staghound being the name of our collaborative projects, I decided to present a reluctant Bucky in a simplistic design to the world.

I was planning on including my own mascot, Grumbles the yeti, to the design as well; having her be the one decorating him. But when I tried to draw her in, she just didn't look right. Ah well, maybe next year. I do have a couple ideas in mind, including one for Crumbs as well.

I assure those who were intimidated by Bucky's intense gaze, they will have pupiled eyes from now on.

The design was done without pupils for a reason, though. I designed a couple of notebooks for some friends with a very simplistic theme, just something I was trying out, with their favourite animal. Sadly I didn't have enough money to create a note/sketchbook for everyone, which was a pity. But yeah, my point is, I was doing for a sort of overall theme with the designs., creating a friends favourite animal in their favourite colour/colour fitting of said animal. In retrospect, maybe making Bucky pitch black wasn't the best idea, it does make him look rather looming when he's actually a clumsy little potato with antlers. I should have stuck with very very very very very very very very very VERY dark grey. You live, you learn~

There were actually two more designs but those two notebooks hadn't arrived in time for the photo. Those were a nerve wracking few days, especially as I was going to Spain for Christmas. Luckily they arrived before I had to go.

From left to right: yeti, dragon, stag, dolphin, guinea pig. The two not photographed were a cat and a bat.

Anywho! Now we got the Christmas post out of the way, it's back to the ol' grind. I've got a few things sketched out, including Crumbs visual development, character designs, some header picture designs for the Emmature Creative Facebook and Twitter pages and we're also approaching completion of the second Bertie Blue novel's design.

Here's a glance from my Instagram if you're one of those non-hipster types. News to come later this week, next week at the latest!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

And I didn't get around to putting up a blog entry before now because WHOOPS, I guess, huurrrrr~

As I mentioned in a previous entry, I was to spend my Christmas in Spain this year with Ruari and my family. And I did! And it was jolly marvellous. Quite nice to wake up on Christmas day with palm trees and sunshine. And then go to the beach with dozens of other people for a BBQ. And then go back to the villa for traditional christmas dinner. And caviar.

It was a pretty swagged out Christmas and you're all totally jelly as beans, don't lie.

And at one point (I think Christmas Eve? Ish?) I won a HUGE hamper in a raffle at the German Restaurant Kopi's. It had various bottles of booze, a ridiculous amount of sweets and snacks, two vouchers for a two day hotel stay somewhere in Spain and an entire pigs leg of ham. God only knows how much it actually would have cost.

Pretty much the only time I've ever won something ever and I don't even get to take it home. I mean look at it, it's bloody HUGE. So I had to leave it with family and friends in Spain, dedicating the ham leg to the lovely couple who own the villa and flat we stayed at for the week.

My parents were especially gutted that we couldn't keep the ham so Ruari, being the cheeky beggar that he is, went and bought the pillow on the right. Yes, that IS a pillow. And yes, that pug hungers for it.

So, thats why I've been pretty quiet on social media and the internet in general this holiday season. I had planned on sharing a blog entry before I went to Spain but holiday preparations got in the way of that. So now, while I have some quiet time until New Year celebrations, I'm going to show you guys what I'd worked on before Spain.

Oh, just FYI, I'm not opening up commissions/starting any work until the 5th now, as I didn't realise the 3rd was a weekend. Screw that noise.

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Earlier last month, I officially opened commissions with the hopes of bringing some more quick money in. And I'm pleased to see that a fair few people are taking interest! I've already completed a couple and have some work lined up in the new year.

My first commissioner was a very lovely person called Caroline Hey, who wanted to have a family portrait of herself with her husband Thomas and their dog for Thomas' birthday. She told me there wasn't really an image of the three of them together and I was more than happy to help her out.

Normally I have a tendency to colour my lineart but when I showed the options to the commissioner, she told me she preferred the black lineart. I've really found it growing on me as well. I might use it more often.

I am showing the commission with Caroline's permission and I've noticed, when she liked the Emmature Content Facebook page, she made it her Facebook picture. Colour me complimented!

The other commission work I was given was from Mum, who told me that Gran has wanted a portrait of her from me for a long time now. I could hardly say no. And not just cos of the payment, obviously.

Gran recently went to Las Vegas with my Uncle and his girlfriend, which as you can obviously see is the overall theme in this image. It was a bit of a task, trying to keep the background as simple as possible while still making it obvious that it was Vegas. But I think I pulled it off for the most part.

I was told that my uncle taught Gran how to play BlackJack while they were there, hence the two cards in her hand. Gran's a very classy lady and doesn't have a gambling bone in her body so I don't see her taking up the habit but in this case it makes for a very nice themed image. And it was really fun to work on!

This didn't take me long to do at all, mainly cos I could show Mum my progress instantly and she was immediately pleased with what I'd done. It's nice when a commission is smooth as cheddar!

As this was a present for a family member and that we'd be seeing them in Spain (due to the commission being their Christmas present), we printed out the artwork, framed it and wrapped it up to give to Gran on Christmas day.

I'm pleased to report that she was very happy with it, showing it to literally everyone who came by and standing it pride of place in the villa living room. It'll be cool to see it in her new house.

On the topic of printing and framing images, I've had people ask me why I don't provide this service myself for all commissioners. The reason is because I would have to charge a lot more, specifically to cover the cost of printer ink, frames, postage and packaging.

If enough people wouldn't mind doing this I could consider the possible costs and review my commission list to give people that option but for now, commissions are strictly digital only. Its a shame cos they don't look too bad framed, if I say so myself.

Now to check myself before I wreck myself.

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Progress IS being made on the Bertie Blue book publishing. We wanted to have the book available for people to buy for Christmas but all sorts of ridiculous issues didn't allow that to happen.

We have a proof copy of the book but, due to a mess up on me not checking the website's options carefully, the pages are in black and white and lemme tell ya, I did NOT spend over a year on this for the coloured images to not be seen.

Sadly, with coloured images, it's too expensive to sell as the one book. The website refuses to sell the book at a price that won't give us any revenue. So chances are we'll need to split the novel up into two-three books to sell them at an affordable price.

I can, however, show you pictures of the proof copy so you get an idea of how the outside of the book looks. This design will now be a number of pages less and be 'book one' of the series.

I'm letting myself take things easy for a few more days so I won't be working on this, or any other project, until the 5th January but I thought I should at least update everyone as I haven't been able to say much on the Bertie Blue front for a while. Although I still haven't said anything different from "Watch this space" but at least this time it has photos!

~***~

Finally: Crumbs. Yes, it's being rewritten. Again. I keep feeling the need to have the story out NOW RIGHT NOW GOTTA GO FAST but the truth is, every time I do I'm never satisfied with it and then I stop working on it for weeks/months/years and then I start redoing it again.

So hopefully it'll be a case of 'Third time's a charm' but this time I'm being a lot more prepared. I have some very amazing friends with expertise in effective storytelling looking over my notes and giving me critique, advice and suggestions that have really helped make the story go in an extremely exciting direction.

I think what I'm going to do is get my notes for the introductory arc finished and once they're finalised, start working on the pages. I still have a new art style for the characters that I need to play about with so expect some new Crumbs concept art in the new year.

~***~

So, a quick summing up for my projects this upcoming year:

• Be able to actually sell the Bertie Blue novel(s)
• Keep up the commissions to support myself and my projects
• Design prints to sell
• Keep up with a buffer for Crumbs
• Have the intro arc of Crumbs in progress/completed on the website
• Begin the Staghound projects

… Oh yikes, I haven't even begun to go into Staghound. And this entry is long enough as it is. This is what I get for not blogging about stuff more often.

Ooh actually, on that note:

• Blog once/twice a week depending on amount of work to share

Ok, cool, got that covered. Where was I…? Oh right, Staghound.

I mentioned this before but Ruari and I have a number of ideas where we collaborate to create some creative content. One particular idea we have at the moment is Ruari's video reviews. I'll create a quick animated logo and title card for the reviews and once the video footage has been filmed, I can then edit the footage and create the final video.

It's a project we're both really looking forward to. Ruari goes into it in a bit more detail at his blog HERE.

Official release dates of these reviews have yet to be announced but keep your eye on this blog, Ruari's blog, my twitter, Ruari's twitter, my Facebook page, Ruari's Facebook p- well you get the idea.

… good lord, this was a long one. If you read all of that, have an extra shot on me tonight. Just don't blame me for any alcohol poisoning. Now, to chill and kill time before I see the Hobbit with my buddies tonight.

… oh, and I've decided to go with Emmature Content. New logo to come soon.

~*HAPPY NEW YEAR, DARLINGS!*~

Commissions and Identity Crisis

Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in/shared information about/bought a commission so far. I've gotten some work out of it for Christmas and some work for after as well! Commissions are for life though, not just for Christmas. So if you have a birthday coming up or some other special event and want a unique piece of artwork for the occasion, hit me up!

Just a heads up though, I will NOT be able to take on/work on any commissions from the 20th December- 3rd January as I'll be with family in Spain for the Christmas week/visiting friends and family/getting drunk on New Years like everyone else. Once the hangover clears up though, I'll reopen them on the 3rd January for anyone interested.

I'm adding another section to the commission list, specifically discussing lineart. Sometimes, people have a reference on what lineart they want used for their image. Sometimes, people don't give a hoot. BUT it's good to provide an option just in case so here they are!

Featuring a new look for 'Crumbs'. Thinking of giving the pigeons more expressive eyes. I need to play about with the design for the other characters a bit more.

So yeah, I'm gonna add that to the price list page. Hopefully it'll make things clearer if you're considering a commission.

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In other news, I've been having a bit of an identity crisis… in terms of business identity anyway. I want to change my web address as 'Emma Friel Doodlebug' is just kind of boring. Well, the Doodlebug part is neat but it's just that and my name which is kind of meh.

Long story short, it's not what I want my business identity to be anymore. I'm planning on changing the address after the new year. But the problem is, I can't decide what to go with.

I've been under the name 'Emmature Media' for the past few weeks and it's a much broader name for all the potential creative pies I can stick my thumb into. However, the name 'Emmature Content' has been creeping up a lot lately (I even gave my new instagram that as a username) and serves a similar purpose. And it also sounds pretty cool.

So what I'm wondering is, do any of you lovely lot have a preference? Emmature Media or Emmature Content?

I confess, I'm leaning sliiiiiightly more towards the latter at the moment. But don't let that sway your decision at all. If you have a preference, speak up!

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to create more animation assets/yell on social networks about why there isn't any pigeon merchandise in the shops.

Open for Commissions

Hey everyone! Still not much news I can share on the Bertie Blue book or other projects just yet but I do have something I need to talk to you about and it's something you can help with.

I'm a freelance cartoonist. This is my job. And I'm constantly needing money. Art stuff ain't cheap and nor is living. And I kind of want art stuff and life.

SO! If you've ever been wanting me to create something for you, like illustrations, portraits, logos, tattoo designs and so on, I am now open for commissions! Have a look down below and see the services I have to offer.

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Artwork/illustrations

Simple

Coloured character(s), no background, no shading

$20/ £13

If you have a preference, specify if you want the lineart to be black, coloured or lineless.

Simple Shaded
Coloured character(s), no background, shaded 

$30/ £20

If you have a preferece, specify if you want the lineart to be black, coloured or lineless.

Simple B/G

Coloured and shaded with simple background: 

$40/ £30

If you have a preference, specify if you want the lineart to be black, coloured or lineless.

Detailed B/G
Coloured and shaded with more detailed background: 

$50/ £35

If you have a preference, specify if you want the lineart to be black, coloured or lineless.

Can add up to two characters for no charge, after this, it's $5/£2.50 per character.

No more than ten characters per illustration/commission.

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Logo designs

Simple Logo
One colour (up to three colours), no shading

$78/ £50

Complex Logo
More colours, shading

$149/ £100

Variations 
featuring mascots, banners suitable for social networks

$313/ £200

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Tattoo

You trust me enough to let me draw something that'll be permanently on you? Wow, that's intense. Hit me up and we'll talk custom tattoos. The below pictures are examples of particular designs I can do. I'll need as much help as possible to make the design of your dreams. Naturally, we'd want to do this right!

Simple

One colour

$39/ £25

Simple
More colour, unshaded

 $78/ £50

Complex
More colour, shading

 $149/ £100

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Portraits

Want a portrait of yourself/loved one/pet? Hit me up!

Portrait

$40/£30

Please specify if you want them to be cartoony/ realistic. Also mention if you want the lineart to be black, coloured or lineless if you have a preference.

No more than 5 people and/or pets per portrait. PLEASE provide a photo for reference.

Character sheets/designs

Want a one off character design? Or an in depth character sheet describing the character and their traits?

Character design
One off character drawing (ideal for mascots)

$30/ £20

Simple character sheet 

Shading/texture comparisons, some small detail 

$40, £30

Detailed character sheet 
expressions, details, character descriptions, colour palette

$50, £35

EXAMPLE TO COME SOON

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Here are some conditions that won't take as long to read as Apple's. So y'all got no excuse!

~ I can only accept money through paypal, unless you know me locally and can pay in cash but other than that, we doin' this digital, yo.

~ Email Emmanimator@live.co.uk for commission orders and any questions you have.

~ I would appreciate you providing a reference of what/who you want me to draw. This is VITAL for the portraits. If I don't have a photo of who you want me to draw, I can't work on it!

~ Be as detailed as you can with what you want. I want to provide the best!

~ I work on a pay half now, pay half later rule. I accept half of the payment at the start, work on the sketch, show it to you and you let me know if everything's OK/anything needs changed. Once the sketch is approved, I'll need the second half of the payment and then I can finish the artwork.

~ As of now, I can only provide digital copies. They will be sent to your email/whatever email is provided on completion.

~ My prices are open for negotiation if I am providing multiple illustrations on the same project e.g. children's books, depending on detail and the time it would take to complete.

~ The finished image is yours and I will ask permission to feature the artwork on my website. I retain the right to feature it in my portfolio.

~ No family unfriendly commissions. Not hatin' on 'em, I just don't do 'em.

I've included a link to my price list with the links at the top. Have a look through them and hit me up if anything interests you. I MIGHT consider a christmas deal on some of the more expensive options but I'm still thinking about that.

Remember, contact me at Emmanimator@live.co.uk for more information/to discuss commissions.

Might be a rather unique christmas present though, eh?