Dreaming Rat
Cover for Voidthrone’s upcoming Dreaming Rat album. Fun write-up about it here.
Thanks for the cool project, Zhenya!
Sketchblog Archive for Categories: Commissions
Work for clients and organisations.
SSWM 2026 Avatars
Decided to do a full batch of these again this year.
Funny how this has outlived NaNoWriMo (RIP) now.
‘Souls 2025 bday raffle
Lil floating head raffled as part of ‘Souls’s 24th birthday celebrations. As always, the smaller version is the intended use size (as a forum avatar).
Mello Fellos & biking in Seattle
So local bike shop Mello Fellos has some shirts and totes featuring my art now. :> These are a limited run and only available in-store, I think.
The design on the shirt/tote is actually an adjusted and cropped version of the art. The full original version was designed to be printed on water bottles, which will hopefully be available in the next month or so.
Zeraora ink sketch
A nice family did a coffee fetch quest for me Friday at Sakura-Con, which got them a lil ink commission. Haven’t done one of these in years. Doing commissions at the table became a lot less practical after my table displays got taller, making it necessary for me to stand most of the con (so I can see over the table, lol).
It was pretty slow Friday though, so it was nice to have something to do, even if I still think Zeraora’s lightning whiskers are dumb.
SSWM 2025 Avatars
Annual contest prizes for an event at ‘Souls RPG. Been a minute since I did them with traditional color.
Charlie and Poppies
Commissioned memorial portrait for a red-crowned amazon parrot named Charlie, who was part of an educational program at a bird sanctuary.
‘Souls 2024 fundraiser raffle prizes
Some floating dog heads.
These were raffled as part of a fundraiser last year for ‘Souls. Forum max avatar size is 200×200, so these are the intended display sizes.
Cycle & Coffee
Art I did for Cycle & Coffee a few months ago. I think they’re hoping to have it on T-shirts at some point, but I’m not sure what the timeline on it is.
SSWM 2024 Avatar Raffle & working digitally
After many years doing avatar prizes for everyone who finished SSWM, this year I just contributed one avatar which was raffled among winners. It is still weird to me to post larger sizes of avatars though, since they are meant to be resized down to 200×200 for use. A comforting loss of detail.
Most of the last several years of avatars have had a strong traditional component, if they weren’t just straight up 100% traditional, since it’s much easier (and faster) for me to work that way. Since I only had to draw one this year though, I wanted to see if 100% digital was still hard on my wrist.
Commission: Leopard Among Cactus
Big 11×17 piece for a generous and patient commissioner, who wanted a similarish style to the Zodiacs.
SSWM 2023 Avatars
Annual batch of floating heads for ‘Souls.
Probably my last year doing these. Just don’t have as much time these days. I think I have probably drawn a thousand forum avatars like this over the last 15 years or so lol, and ~200 of them were for ‘Souls prizes of one sort or another.
Barquentine!!
Commission for basically a Zoom background for a D&D campaign. I think the plan is to add halfbody shots of the party in front of this boat, anime poster style, as the campaign progresses. 🤔
SSWM 2022 Avatars
Annual batch of floating heads for ‘Souls RPG.
Fullbody character commissions.
Avatar prize for a mini contest at ‘Souls. Avatars on the board are 200×200 so I always think it’s weird seeing them big.
Recent pet portraits
Recent pet portrait commissions for a lovely client.
Kiku Portrait inks + photos
I didn’t take very many WIP photos for this, but here are some in progress inks and photos of the final. The character was fun, but it’s very obvious I’m here to flower spam, lol.
Marble and Poppies
It was nice to paint something again.
Fun bust commission from this month.
Bust Commissions June 2021
Little batch of bust commissions for June. Next batch opens July 5th.
Bust Commissions May 2021
Bust commissions from this month. The next batch opens June 7th.
