Would you believe me if I told you that Snowman right there is the very first Invader Zim-related art commission I’ve ever done? IT IS TRUE.
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For additional curiosities, including a sketch of something called a “Jacob’s Ladderlope,” kindly consult the COMMISSIONS GALLERY.
And, as always, if you’d like to request your OWN crime against nature, please send all of your plaintive howls for acceptance to SERENITY@HEARTSHAPEDSKULL.COM. The base price for art commissions is $50, and $30 for each additional character on the same page. Shipping is all kinds of free within the U.S., and a mere $3 to parts beyond.
Why yes, that IS Sonic the Hedgehog’s pal Tails menacing a Warhammer 40K Space Marine with a “chainsaw sword” while Frank Zappa saunters by in the background with a disapproving look on his face. What of it?
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Bunches more, including one (1) image of two (2) David Byrnes, in the COMMISSIONS GALLERY. That place is getting to be the coolest gallery on my site, actually… If only my whole professional life could be nothing but Serenity Rose and peculiar commissions.
If you’d like to request your OWN rendering of Frank Zappa (or anything else) send your demands to SERENITY@HEARTSHAPEDSKULL.COM. The base price is $50, and $30 for each additional character on the same page. Shipping is all kinds of free within the U.S., and a mere $3 to parts beyond.
I probably won’t be able to dig into any new commissions until around December 1st, so this is pretty much THE call for CHRISTMAS REQUESTS right here… And I already have a few folks in the queue, so if you were hoping for a sketch of mine to wad up in somebody’s stocking this year, NOW IS YOUR TIME!
HERE ARE SUPERHEROES:
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One of these guys is called “Wiccan.” Not to be confused with Brendan “BAD ASS” Li’s immortal character of the same name. (COMIX: Not just for kids anymore!)
Huh. I seem to have a finished book here. 2 years of my life and 122 painfully pencil-rendered pages, all formatted, zipped-up and delivered to SLG Publishing. Should be some news about that before too long.
I feel like I should be more… jubilant right now, but honestly I just feel sort of… deflated. I’m really happy with how the book turned out – or, well, the book feels like ME at least, it feels RIGHT, which all I can really ask for – and I’m beyond excited to see it all printed up and proper… I just don’t have that “VICTORIOUS CONQUERING HERO” feeling I thought I’d have.
Postpartum depression, probably.
But HEY, nothing cures the old “nothin’ to do stomach churns” more than having stuff to do, right? I’m currently hovering over a couple of large-ish professional-type projects right now, among other things (planning Vol. 3), but I should have some time to reopen the art commissions queue for a while. I know a couple of you guys have been waiting a while… sorry about that. Your time has come!
COMMISSIONS! are $50 ($30 for each additional character on the page) for a pencil sketch on 9×12 Bristol. I’ll draw pretty much anything you’d like, from my characters to other people’s characters to your characters to YOU to your friends to your mom to your garbage man to your garbage man’s secret lover to your garbage man’s secret lover’s vengeful spouse in the act of walling them both up forever in the basement and cackling like a madwoman to what-have-you. Stuff like this:
More details (and examples) on the COMMISSIONS PAGE. Hey, pretty snazzy!
Please, won’t you help defeat the Ennui of Completion? Thank you kindly!
(I should probably also work up some new prints of some kind…. Any suggestions?)
My resolution this year: cut my Death Note usage to just five names a day (and ALL CRIMINALS, AARON).
KInd of wriggling things around here at heartshapedskull.com at the moment, doing a little Almost Spring Cleaning and suchlike. (Man, how long was that radio thing dead?) I’ll probably be adding things (hey, banners!) and shifting bits around for a little while yet, but nothing too drastic. The next big site update won’t happen until Vol. 3 is ready to roll out.
I decided to ditch most of the Google ads and go with Project Wonderful instead, mostly because they let you pick and choose which ads to allow on the site (”Yes on 8?” No on Google). If any of you guys use the PW, advertising here is super-dirty-cheap at the moment, so by all means, let’s get something cooler than Amazon up there.
I’ve got a couple of other money-making schemes in the works here, too, all in pursuit of what I like to call “living the dream.” Which in this case means “sitting in my own home, at my own desk, getting all my bills paid doing nothing but drawing Serenity Rose comics (preferably two a week) and maybe a few fun little sketch commissions every month, and never having to worry about getting any freelance work ever again.” God, it’s so close… I only need like $600/month to live right now. It’s like the dream is just barely pokable right now, but juuuuuust out of grasping distance. You guys have been just amazingly supportive of me and the comic, but I need to come up with some more interesting stuff to offer and some new strategies for bringing in more eyes…
Grasping schemes (upcoming):
1) PRINTS. Goodbye Crestfallen will definitely be published in paper form as soon as it’s done, but will it have all the color intact? Yeah… pretty unlikely, at least for now. So I thought I might offer full-color, hi-res prints of individual pages either through this site or something like etsy. Some new color prints would be lot of fun, too, if I could carve out some time. God, that’d be awesome.
2) NEW ORIGINAL PAGES. Several decades ago I promised to auction off some of the new Goodbye Crestfallen pages on good ol’ ebay. THAT TIME HAS COME. By the end of the month I’ll have a batch of four or five pages up for any and all possible bids. Requests?
3) LOCKETS. Heart-shaped skull lockets. Metal ones. I would dearly love to make this happen, but I just haven’t the speckiest of a speck of an idea how. We’ve thought about making them ourselves, but man, there just isn’t enough time in the day. Anybody have an idea?
4) ADVERTISING. Did I mention I made proper, I’m-serious-about-this, grown-up web proprietor banners? IT IS SO. One of them even has a little animation tucked in. If the Project Wonderful thing works out okay, it’d probably be a good idea to throw that money back into advertising on other folk’s sites, too….
5) COMMISSIONS. Oh wait… I’m already doing those! And hey, I have some pictures, even!
Anyway, if you’d like to commission your own wee drawering, send your request to serenity@heartshapedskull.com. The base price is $50, and $30 for each additional character on the same page. Shipping is all kinds of free within the U.S., and a mere $3 to parts beyond.
Wow, has it really been five months since I last did sketch commissions? Who stole all that time from me? Was it you, big freelance character design job? Or you, big horrible brain tumor scare? Or maybe it was you, big horrible Sarah Palin scare?
No, none of you? Well SOMEbody’s responsible around here…
Anyhow! I actually did a couple of wee tattoo designs for this batch of commissions. Never done that before. People send me photos of their Serenity Rose tattoos every now and then, but these are my first little stabs at made-to-order skin art. Turned out kind of okay, I think:
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“Remember You Will Die” and “Remember to Live,” if you’re wondering.
Anyway, if you’d like to commission your own merry little scribbling (Christmas is coming, eh?), send your request to serenity@heartshapedskull.com. The base price is $50, and $30 for each additional character on the same page. Shipping is all kinds of free within the U.S., and a mere $3 to parts beyond.
Aw, hang in there, Hellboy. You’ll catch a break someday, ya big lug!
I had very, very minor surgery the other day (finally got rid of that fetal twin that’s been yakking my ear off for 30 years), and the doctor gave me strict orders to lay off the long-winded blog posts for a couple of weeks. (Vigorous exercise and chronic wound-poking are fine, but gassing on for eighty paragraphs about Indiana Jones or whatever? Right out.) But I can still show you my favorite of the last batch of commissions:
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Yes, it’s Sex and Violence month here at HSS Commissions Central (apparently!), courtesy of none other than Budd Root’s Cavewoman and Lusiphur the Poison Elf. To be honest, I wasn’t really familiar with either of these characters going in, but let me just say this: If you insist on carrying a gun AND a sword into battle… brother, you better find a use for both. (And if you insist on going naked in the jungle, you’d better befriend some dinosaurs. That’s my motto, anyway.)
As always, you can find more in the commissions gallery, including an Elektra, a Green Arrow, two Avatar folks and a veritable gaggle of pretty goth fellas – holy GOD I took on too much in May…
Anyway, if you’d like to commission your own merry little scribbling, send your request to serenity@heartshapedskull.com. The base price is $50, and $30 for each additional character on the same page. I’m hoping to get another batch done by the first week in July, but between nursing my newly en-Frankensteined body, taking on a new freelance job, and trying to keep up with SR pages, it might take me a bit longer… There will be a waiting list though, so don’t hesitate to shoot me your suggestions.
Also: Is somebody really trying to sell a first printing of SR Vol.1 for $63.93? You’re a MADMAN, Woody! A MADMAN.
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