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Commission Info [x2 combo]!

Alright, let's take it from the top--

Hello! I'm Argie (pronounced "R.G."), also known as "Zo," and I am a digital artist and special needs tutor. I have degrees in Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Communication Disorders, as well as a certification in 2D animation. I can draw almost anything, buuuut I'm not a fan of drawing any sexual type stuff, so kindly don't ask me to draw that sort of thing.

I mostly do cartoony style artwork, and I pride myself on both quality and speed.

I generally charge about $30 an hour, not including basic discussion before the artwork begins. I only charge via the clock while I am actively drawing, and you may feel free to watch via screenshare and give commentary or corrections in real time to keep the time low. This is charged at the start of each hour, and I'll happily give you the image thus far at each hourly checkpoint. That said, this price is very negotiable if you're planning on using the art for commercial purposes, for a percentage of profits instead. Feel free to DM me to discuss details on that, but please be reasonable about it and remain cordial.

Below are some examples of my work in various styles, and since I charge on an hourly basis, how long each piece took me to draw.

Est. time: 2 hr 20 min.

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Est. time: 1 hr 15 min for full turnsheet.

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I did this for fun.

An AU of an AU of my character Percy. Of sorts.

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A wall scrawling a character made in-game for Lancer based on a shared dream. I went as fast as I could for this one, seeing as I wanted it to be done for my DM in a short time;

the exact time on this one was one hour and thirty four minutes.

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I wrote Dub Mad Cat, and sing everything in it but lead chorus.

Check out our latest EP!! More info on individual songs coming up, so hit that follow button if you want the inside scoop.

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Old Doodle Dump 2

Percy again today!

Okay, all of these will be from the same comic--which, by the way, turned out to be about 400 panels long! Of course, that was before I started pulling panels away because I realized it was too much.

Unfortunately, I never finished all the section I was trying to draw, but I learned a lot and improved significantly even through drawing it, and you can actively watch the style shift through the story. That said, I will not be posting the full comic for a few reasons, namely that it would be spoilers if I ever did get through making the actual game.

These will be in chronological order to the story.

First glimpse of Candeloro? She's in a desperate need of a redesign because her original player sent me a picture of an actual anime character to use as a stand-in. IIRC it had to do with the Character's original namesake...

Believe it or not, these long-haired ones are still Percy.

Here's another new character for y'all: Psy!

Sometimes she can be a little unsettling.

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Old Doodle Dump 1

I haven't had much art to post in a while, so it's time to start throwing in some doodles I did some time ago but in retrospect am really proud of, heavily to give some people more of my stuff to look at.

Let's start with Percy!

I used to do a lot of "comics" of Percy throughout the Lancer campaign she was part of, and while I won't show the whole of any of them just yet, here are a few random panels I still like:

This one's pretty early on in Percy's general design. Oh--and that's Pawn, by the way! She's Percy's first NHP.

I like using German idioms translated directly for a lot of Percy's dialogue.

Honestly one of my favorite panels I've ever drawn. I laugh whenever I see it. The emotion in it is so clear and strong. The context is Percy is in clear disbelief due to Charlotte having utterly failed to deduce something. Here, I'll even give you the follow-up to this one:

This one was a joke panel to something else:

Have a pencil drawing from EXTREMELY early in the campaign:

I think the joke here is pretty obvious, here--but the drawings on the slide-down panel are canonically Percy's own drawings from a journal she writes in frequently. The question presented to her would've been "How come you have an arm only sometimes?"

The reason for the German idioms translated directly, of course, is that Percy has a translator on, leading to some very funny translations at times, when I can manage it.

I really feel like this one in particular needs the specific explanation that I'd injured my drawing arm and spent about 26 solid hours using my non-dominant hand, extremely zoomed in to be able to get close to my usual art style at the time. I'm still very proud of the fact that I managed that while my drawing hand was out of commission.

This was around the time my style started shifting.

Eventually, I decided that I wanted to build our Lancer game into a playable RPG game, so I made this as a visualization of how I imagined the talkboxes to look. The dialogue is actually from the campaign directly. Don't expect an actual game from me anytime too soon, though, lol. I don't know a thing about programming.

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Throcky Doodle Dump #1

These were all done as fast as I could manage, in descending order of amount of time I spent on them.

The team hurries into the truck driven by a ~16 year old Latina (Sofia) after she specifically ran over a gigantic spider that was chasing them. Twice. Once they're inside, she runs over it again as they move to escape.

Throcky's definitely into it, because if he loves anything, he loves skill.

(Meanwhile, Will gets motion sick from the ride, possibly worsened from nerves given the situation, and Roran, who is like 8, sheepishly remains low. There is a fifth member of this team but he is in the truck bed and thus not in the shot.)

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Throcky's parents are rich and like to look the part. This means, upon arriving home, to avoid his mother's ire, that Throcky must generally look the part upon arriving home as well. Thus, upon Sofia driving him home, he whips out the Rich Prick hair gel.

I showed this to my high school aged student and she said, "Oh wow, he actually might be kind of hot," after he slicked his hair back, and frankly I did not have a clue how to respond.

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Throcky's mom is supposed to be one of those kind of crazy diet-obsessed rich ladies who basically think all food that doesn't have a crazy foreign name is bad for you, including all meat and dairy, but he ends up sneaking meat at school.

This may or may not be a vent of sorts.

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Say hello to Throck S. Morton, also known as "Throcky."

He's a newly awakened Death Mage.

I made this character almost entirely as a joke. Most of his entire personality is skateboards, which is hilarious, because I barely know a single thing about skateboards. I am learning about skateboarding purely to play this character. Amazing.

I drew this in a frenzied rush in the span of about 4 hours after the opening game of our campaign, so it's far from the best I can do, but man, this sure feels similar to the Percy Jump picture, which was definitely an image that served more or less the same general purpose (and, looking at it again, has an extremely similar color palette).

As the story goes, he painted this particular skateboard himself, and he's named it "Basilisk."

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This is honestly the first fully completed drawing I've made since December. Here, have Percy in an unreasonably complicated outfit based in a mixture of militaristic garb and actual human musculoskeletal anatomy. Every piece of the outfit is designed to mirror a muscle, bone, cartilage, or tendon, except the pearls and the skirt itself (not counting the socks or shoes, though I'm sure arguments could be made for the socks).

This is based heavily on an old design I'd made for Percy's wardrobe that I had at the time dubbed "The Ribcage Dress," pictured below in all its original several-years-ago glory. Below that, I also have more redesign concept images.

The original "Ribcage Dress" design, which I now mostly dislike:

I might take pieces of this design for other things.

New design concept images:

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That Ben 10 AU I Made (that I never talked about)

So back in 2022, not long before I went to art school and was in the process of preparing to go, I was particularly hyperfixated on Ben 10, and generally speaking, stress often causes me to specifically dream as or beside the main character of my hyperfixation at the time. I won't go into what was stressing me out so badly then, but I had a dream of a specific few nonexistent episodes of Ben 10 and minor tweaks and changes to the show that I later drew and expanded upon.

Specifically, there was some (not real) episode in the original series where Ben had to take off clothing to jump into a lake, revealing not only a training bra or bikini top (not sure which), but also that the brown hair was a wig covering ash blonde hair. And it had been no secret that Ben was a girl the whole time, she'd just clearly gotten tired of correcting people. Continuity-wise, it was mentioned again in Omniverse, where pronouns were corrected to "she" as a constant gag through some early episode, and then visibly given up out of laziness. It was also stated in the dream that at some point, Ben gained actual wings in base form in Omniverse and definitely had them, was able to hide them entirely, and never bothered to figure out how to use them or pull them out for almost anything. So in whatever reality where those episodes (and continuity details) actually existed, Ben would canonically be a winged butch lesbian.

After some discussion with a friend (@zilathehusky)

-Benjamin Kirby Tennyson is still her birth name, despite being cis female. Sandra and Carl are just like that. -Ben was constantly mistaken as male throughout OS, and eventually genuinely didn't care, as it didn't matter as much to her as a kid, so didn't tend to correct people almost at all except in the event of bathroom usage or similar scenarios. -Ben genuinely enjoys stereotypically masculine passtimes and clothing styles. -Ben actually genuinely hid her sex/gender throughout the entirety of UAF, as she was on the boys' soccer team and wanted to stay there. -in dating Julie, Ben had to explain to her that she was female. Julie tells her that all the girls at school already knew and were keeping it from the boys collectively. -Ben's wig remains a constant until Omniverse, where the wig is suddenly switched out for red-brown hairdye, explaining the sudden messiness of Ben's Omniverse hair in contrast to Ben's super neatened UAF hair, as her hair is actually quite spiky. -as of Omnierse, Ben is no longer on the soccer team, and thus no longer hides her sex/gender. Regardless, people continue to assume she's male and she's too tired of correcting people at this point.

I also discussed it with another friend and we decided that the wings likely occurred as a result of some torture Servantis decided to put Ben under after losing, giving Ben the same treatment he gave to the other Rooter kids. He made sure it was the most painful transformation he could give, as forcing a body to suddenly grow wings it's not built to have has got to hurt. The wings are on her base form, meaning that with or without the omnitrix, the wings are a feature Ben's body just has. She does not like them or enjoy having them, and got none of the instincts associated with their use. That said, she does manage to figure out how to more or less "put them away" such that they technically aren't even present until she wills them back. She specifically does not know how to fly with them, forgets she has them constantly, and eventually gets forced to learn how to at least glide horribly with them by family and friends. Inevitably this leads to many hilarious gags about having huge awkward limbs Ben doesn't know how to control, including but not limited to smacking Rook in the face with them, as well as Ben at some point being in free fall, then slapping the omnitrix to get a flying alien, only for Rook to be like, "You have wings in human form. Why do you not use those?" and Ben just facepalming and responding with, "I forget they're there!"

Also, Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Strong were still her voice actors with zero changes.

Here are some screenshot mockups that I made shortly after having the dream back in 2022:

It was also later decided (heavily based on the color of her hair and wings, which were both an ash/light tan color) that her wings and hair color came from genetic infusion with peafowl specifically, thus also explaining Ben's fear of peacocks.

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Hey, look, animation on paper!

Each animation, we generally tended to have a single week to make. We were supposed to make these at home as homework, with whatever tools we had available to us and a specific stop motion animation phone app. We also had to build our own picture-taking rig. Yes, really.

Inevitably this was not ideal.

For those who don't know, paper animation is generally done with the following tools:

-a light box (which I have) -a proper animation scanning system (not available) -pegs that specifically keep animation paper in place (not available) -animation paper (not available)

My (second) picture-taking rig was made from giant jenga blocks.

All of this was done on partial cellophane paper because that's what they had at Michael's at the time that was remotely see-through. We were required to put the general storyboard of our animation plan as the first frame. We were also required to use specifically colored pencil to color our character. And I am not a colored pencil user. And no, that is not how the industry works. He might've just been trying to test our eye for color in general? I don't actually know what was up with that, but there must've been a good reason, right?

The assignment here was our fourth animation for the class, and was "Eye Tracking." An object had to move, the character had to move, and the character's eyes had to follow the object.

This is honestly my favorite of the ones I made for class. I had to decide how Percy's arm appearing and disappearing looked like it worked for this, as the only way I'd ever depicted its appearances and disappearances before was in sequential imagery in the form of comics and the change is meant to be within a split second, so I appreciated the challenge in regards to character design generally only required in motion.

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Here's my Storyboarding class final, the "Nuclear Soup" story from the Lancer campaign my character Percy is from.

The story is told in a somewhat nonlinear fashion. Different background colors denote different scenes, and different main colors on each character denotes who the main focus is in that scene.

Mind you, this is only the third animation storyboard I've ever done. And we weren't really taught much sound design beyond how to input sound into the program and move it around. I did the best I could using basic Audacity, which I barely know how to use. And yes, this was with Toon Boom Storyboard Pro. And if you remember, Toon Boom products and I do not exactly tend to get along very well. (That said, Storyboard Pro was much kinder to me than Harmony was.)

Each character is voiced by their creator. I thought it was a neat little touch, at least. None of us have ever done any voice acting before, and as such, we're definitely pretty rough around the edges.

I had a bit less than five weeks total to both conceptualize and make this. I ended up cutting several corners toward the end, and there are several mistakes I can see now that I'm well outside the Finals rush.

Regardless, I'm still proud of what I managed to make!

I will also note that parts of the "nuclear soup" story had a comic version I did for fun from back in the end of 2022, which I utilized as the basis for the final scene, updated and with only minor changes, which is viewable below the cut.

....and that's where 2022 me tired out.

There's also this image (also from 2022) from a part of the argument that got purposefully left out of the animatic!

I planned to make it a full art piece, but I tired out on it, too.

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Again, character development, pirate project, self explanatory.

I really like this one, personally.

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Character development was tough for a lot of reasons.

These ones from Character Development are pretty self explanatory, I feel.