Okay, maybe I'm not going to be that blunt about it, but now that Yume has clearly been reanimated and is back from the dead (why do I still have a syringe in my neck? eeeuuuwww), there's something that must be said, and that something is this:

I AM OPENING COMMISSIONS

I'm afraid this is a bit serious. I'm in a bit of financial hot water at the moment and would appreciate any support given. Anyway, I see we have some rules here, but only a few:

RULE NUMBER ONE: Payment is done on a revised C.O.D basis. In other words DO NOT PAY ME UNTIL YOU HAVE WHAT YOU COMMISSIONED ME FOR. I do not want you to click 'send' on your Paypal until you have the drawing on your busily whirring little computer. I have all the recall of a stunned goldfish and absolutely no facility with bookkeeping. This spares everyone the headache involved in the possibility of payments being made for commissions that are then forgotten.

RULE NUMBER TWO: Be specific, but not too specific. Tell me what the subject(s) in the drawing look like, what's being worn, what they're doing, what the background is, if any, what the lighting would be, etc. HOWEVER. Please don't tell me the life story of the individual(s) I'm meant to draw. Knowing that So-and-so has a scar across the left side of his face from a sword wound is great. Knowing that he has a scar across the left side of his face from a sword wound received in a duel to the death on a moonlit roof against his arch-enemy who later turned out to be his half-brother, a fact he didn't know until after he killed the poor bastard and his fiancee ran onto the field of battle to tell him this only to get accidentally stabbed and utter these words with her last dying breath is too much.

RULE NUMBER THREE: Sorry, no genitalia--human, anthro, monster, or otherwise. The furthest I go is some kinds of 'classical nude' or '40's era pinup.' I maintain that what one doesn't see is sexier than what one does see. COROLLARY: I do not believe in Rule 34. I do not believe in 'OTP's, 'OT3's, 'OT-everything-including-the-llama,'s what have you (The exception I will make is for roleplayers, whose characters are shown to have established said relationship in-game). It may sound elitist, but there it is. I reserve the right to refuse what subject matter I choose, just as others reserve the right to refuse, for example, monsters, animals, machinery, or anything that isn't anime.

NOTICE: Due to my financial situation and the precendent of individuals managing these kinds of things on such sites as eBay and Etsy, I have lifted my self-imposed restriction on charging for the rendering of copyrighted material. There are still, however, things I cannot, in good conscience, charge for rendering, and those are properties against whose fanartists the creators have signed injunctions/cease and desist orders, or have threatened to do so. That list includes:

Simpsons/Futurama/Matt Groening
Elfquest/Pinis
Anne Rice
Pernverse/Ann McCaffrey
Disney

...and probably others once I find the updated list. Therefore these fandoms are off my commission list at the moment.

PAYMENT: Paypal is the preferred medium of payment, though arrangements can be made for alternate methods.

COLOUR LJ/GJ/IJ ICON: $10
(100x100, drawn, inked, layer-coloured)

PENCIL CHARACTER RENDERING: $10
(variable size, grayscale w/texture and shading)

PENCIL SCENE RENDERING: $20
(variable size, grayscale w/texture and shading, background, action, etc)

COLOUR CHARACTER RENDERING: $20
(variable size, drawn, inked, layer-coloured)

COLOUR SCENE RENDERING: $30
(variable size, drawn, inked, layer-coloured, background, action, etc)

Prices are negotiable if one wants, say, a portrait (static character against a background) or a 'cel' (action with no background).

ALSO: Jewellery will be added to the list as soon as images are scanned.