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Another gift-commission, this time for my brother's fiancee, who's pretty new to D&D! Sometimes it's nice to do a good ol'fashioned normal fighty gal. (Not that I would know, my first ever PC was a Deva Avenger; the 4e online character builder was a hell of a thing.)

If you like this, commissions still very open, still very much looking for work, signal boosts on that post still hugely appreciated!

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A "commission" (gift) for my brother of his D&D character, a duck-summoning snake-oil sleazy preacher. His only note on the rough was to give the ducks hats.

Commissions open BTW, queue is empty at the moment and my January's pretty open if you want art from me without waiting some indeterminate amount of time!

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TIME FOR AN UPDATED COMMISSIONS POST! Pricing full and half-body illustrations can now vary based on complexity. (By 'complexity' I usually mean 'video game armor', as I've noticed those tend to take twice as long as I otherwise budget time for. Overly detailed armor, a complicated weapon, things of that nature.)

Also as of today, Weds Sept 18, MY QUEUE IS EMPTY AND I HAVE SOME TIME BETWEEN JOBS! Work with hard printing deadlines comes first so sometimes these can take a while; if you get in touch now you'll see a much quicker turnaround than usual. :)

If you want something more complicated than above:

These are my terms for character commissions specifically. If you're looking for a scene with a background, prices will rise pretty quickly, as putting together a whole illustration is a different process! Also, these are for personal use only, not for publication; I'm a full-time illustrator, though, and always looking for professional work! Get in touch!

Availability & Timing:

I don’t have a slot system and usually don’t open and close commissions (unless I get REALLY busy) but I’m a full-time illustrator so if you contact me when I’m booked up, there may be a delay.  I can let you know and get back to you when I’m available.

I do commissions in between my professional illustration work, so no promises on timing generally; if you have a deadline such as for a gift, let me know, and we can work something out.

Will Draw:

Human and humanoid OCs - fantasy, sci-fi, historical, etc

Portraits of real people - ONLY with hi resolution, well-lit reference; commission may be turned down if reference provided is not enough for a good painting.

Won't Draw:

Furries/anthro (just bad at animal heads!)

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How To Get One:

Contact me via email (kim at kimsokol dot com) to let me know roughly what you’re looking for, and I’ll let you know if I can take it.  You don’t need to send a long description with reference in initial contact, but at least give me a general sense of what you want. If you DO have easily available reference, such as a screenshot of a game character or prior commissions, I can let you know where it falls on the pricing scale

Once I accept, I'll send you a form to get your character information and make sure we're both clear on terms

Send payment via Paypal, and I’ll get going on your rough!

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Origin of the Hidden Ones AD Stephanie Cheung MTG Universes Beyond: Assassin's Creed

(I am, as you may guess, not an Egyptologist, but I did research and tried very hard so if anything is wrong please give me points for effort)

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The alternate versions were done at the same time! The composition of the regular version feels like it has too much empty space to me, but I needed room to fit in the spooky guy, haha.

(I also had no idea the alt version was out in the wild already, so thanks!)

Cursed Recording for Magic: The Gathering's Duskmourn Set, AD Ovidio Cartagena, © Wizards of the Coast

My two absolute favourite things in horror are found footage/faux-documentary/analog horror, and big, warped houses that don't act like they should. (House of Leaves was uhhh extremely formative for me.) The fact I love horror at all doesn't come up too often in my work but I DO and this piece was a JOY to get to do.

Prints available!

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Cursed Recording for Magic: The Gathering's Duskmourn Set, AD Ovidio Cartagena, © Wizards of the Coast

My two absolute favourite things in horror are found footage/faux-documentary/analog horror, and big, warped houses that don't act like they should. (House of Leaves was uhhh extremely formative for me.) The fact I love horror at all doesn't come up too often in my work but I DO and this piece was a JOY to get to do.

Prints available!

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Hello! It's my birthday! On Twitter you're allowed to beg for retweets as a birthday present, so perhaps some folks could spare a reblog for me as compensation for the fact I am so very old?

And as long as I'm shamelessly self-promoting, there's a summer sale on at InPrnt. :)

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Book cover for We Were Elves: Wizard of the Crumbling Tower by Senna Byrd. Info here, if you're curious!

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I love when people love my lil guy ♥️♥️♥️♥️

(Psst I do have prints)

oh ok actually this games awesome

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With a whole bunch of artists jumping on there I should let y'all know I'm on Cara!

You probably won't see anything of mine there that you haven't seen here (because I first joined last year and now I'm catching up on posting by going back through my tumblr to remember what stuff I have lmao) but unlike here I do reshare other folks' work! So if you're a Cara-er you should follow me to see stuff by all my cool buds and artists I admire (my cool buds are also artists I admire, it's an overlap situation.)

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My one card in Ravnica was for the Clue mini-set, so here is my Undercover Butler, AD Forrest Schehl. I had fun with the lighting here!! (I mean, having fun with the lighting is kinda my whole brand, but. I did.)

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Rodeo Pyromancers for Magic: The Gathering's Outlaws of Thunder Junction set, AD Taylor Ingvarsson, © Wizards of the Coast

Boy this sure is a red card! Reading the brief like "There is fire in the foreground. There is fire in the background. Good luck." (Somehow I'm very happy with how this came out in the end, though!)

Prints available!

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Nimble Brigand for Magic: The Gathering's Outlaws of Thunder Junction set, AD Taylor Ingvarsson, © Wizards of the Coast

I've mostly been doing UB set work for a while (maybe I'll remember to post some eventually!) but I am so glad I got a chance to play with the cowboys

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Commission! My queue is empty for once, this is the last one, so check it out if you want one!

Commissioner wanted their character as a cool desktop background, and it feels weird to crop it :)

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This commissions post is out of date!  Check out the new one here.

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Haven't done one of these for a while, but there's a big sale on InPrnt this weekend (Sept 22-24) - these are some of my prints and also there are other prints too! Mostly personal and MTG work, if I've got any cards you'd like a print of that I've never uploaded, just lemme know!

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New Commission! This is Kaifa! Plus a closeup because I was having fun with my lil skritchy brushes.

(I'm currently working on the final piece in my long-standing commission queue, if you want to get a commission from me without waiting like a year now is a great time! Ignore the bit in that post where it says I have a backlog I have CONQUERED THE BACKLOG.)