Dil's requests (Closed)

[Guest]

@@Deathmark1999, Do you have any reference pics of your oc? your avatar is really small and hard to make out. Also, can you tell me something about your oc so I can get a better understanding of them?

 

@, Lay it on me dude, if you have a request that's what the thread is for

[Sweet Pen 1,348]

Yo yo I'm back with my genial ideas for requests!
But of course if you aren't busy

So let's start:
The idea I have for the design of this style is almost like this:

The expression can be the same if you want, but if it is not too much for you I want to be painted, because I never see Blue Arctic painted in your style  

I hope you understand what I've said and if isn't much

[Guest]

@, @@LittleRawr, @@kodyap1293, @@Midnight Scribbler,

 

Okay I'm back and with a new livestream format complete with webcam and microphone. For those who missed it I may be doing another one this evening, but you can always catch them by following me on twitter and/or tumblr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apologies for my absence, I've been rather under the weather recently :C

[kodyap1293 23]

This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for! It is absolutely perfect! Thank you so much!

[LittleRawr 679]

 

 

Apologies for my absence, I've been rather under the weather recently :C

 

Well, I hope that you're feeling better now! :3

 

And thank-you for the drawing! It's amazing, I really like it! Good luck with all your future drawings and stuff! ^-^

[RazzyJam 1,519]

@@Deathmark1999, Do you have any reference pics of your oc? your avatar is really small and hard to make out. Also, can you tell me something about your oc so I can get a better understanding of them?

 

@, Lay it on me dude, if you have a request that's what the thread is for

Oki!

 

Nice Avatar, btw. Me gusta mucho. Anywho, I have two request ideas, but you only have to do one, and its up to you which one you want to do.

 

1) I had an idea for a Griffon. I know you said you havent done any of those in Wings stream the other day, so I figured maybe this would be good practice or experimenting or something, but regardless, your choice not mine. I was thinking a male, bald eagle lookin griffon with the whole mob/mafia look. Tommy Gun, fedora, whole 9 yards. 

 

2) WR cuddling this pony here: http://puu.sh/538om

The one on the far left. Not as a filly though. Neither of them should be filly's. Im not creepy, ok? x3

 

Danke!

[Midnight Scribbler 1,705]

@, @@LittleRawr, @@kodyap1293, @@Midnight Scribbler,

 

Okay I'm back and with a new livestream format complete with webcam and microphone. For those who missed it I may be doing another one this evening, but you can always catch them by following me on twitter and/or tumblr.

Midnight Scribbler.jpg

 

Apologies for my absence, I've been rather under the weather recently :C

I love it, no rush man, good things come to those who wait. I hope you're feeling better by the way. Seems a lot of people have been sick recently.

[Guest]

I am back with more arts! I did another stream so people could throw more requests at me.

 

A quick Casy

 

Vinyl Scratch at home

 

A floppy Tich

 

Luna doing her voice thing. The jaw is so off it's ridiculous -_-

 

RD and AJ palying B-ball

 

 

And a Pinkie Pie Pool Party

 

 

 

[RazzyJam 1,519]

Luna voice.jpg

Luna doing her voice thing. The jaw is so off it's ridiculous

 

[Guest]

 

I have no idea why this is relevant

 

 

SO here we have the latest pics from the two streams I did today. I hope everyone can join me tomorrow for my Nightmare Night stream!

 

 

I decided to take it upon myself to learn a thing or two about horse/pony anatomy, it's gonna be something I have to tackle to grow as an artist so here was my first pass and the notes I took.

 

 

 

 

And these below are from the second stream, I wanted to do a more costume-themed stream this time;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yes, there will be a super special Nightmare Night stream from myself today at 9pm GMT/UTC until whenever, I'll try to make this a long one so everyone in America can join in at some point too.

There will be requests taken, costumes drawn and fun to be had! Tell your friends and think up some awesome Nightmare Night requests.

What costume would you like the Mane Six to dress up in? Any ensembles for the Cutie Mark Crusaders? And if there's any characters from the show who need some exposure let's try to give them an awesome makeover!

As always you can watch on my Justin.tv channel at

justin.tv/atowncalledbedlam

Edited October 30, 2013 by Dilarus

[IridscentNionios 1,422]

@@Dilarus,Are ALL your streams stored somewhere? I'd like to watch them... or at least watch the one were you drew Selune. Doesn't matter... still would like to. Do you have a schedule when you do them? Whats ur GMT? 

[Guest]

The ones on livestream.com get deleted after a certain amount of time but I have them stored on my PC. If you want to know about time zones check here http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

 

or look at the map here http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

 

as I'm GMT/UTC that's dead centre so if you're GMT-1 the 9pm stream here would be 8pm there. If you're GMT-5 (like in some parts of America) it would be 4pm.

Well the livestream was awesome. You can watch the festivities on my channel justin.tv/atowncalledbedlam just scroll down to the "previosly on..." section and it's the first vid there. We even had some singing and live music from our good friend Wing!

 

And now for the piccies

For lugi x

 

 

Arcanel was worried that he wasn't badass enough

 

Then Wing started singing and I drew these pics in the time it took for the song to play

 

And finally one for Chiggly

[Sweet Pen 1,348]

I LOST THE LIVE STREAM! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
I was looking forward to see the live stream and suddenly I lose,
All because of my idiot brother

[Passion 3,490]

Seems I've missed a lot of stuff happening. Oh well... Too bad, but I guess for once I had something important to do the next day.

[WingMcCallister 368]

Spent the day recording six tracks for said Mare Killer album. This is all your fault dil. It will happen now. It's ... picture canon. 

[Guest]

Attention all, please. I am in need of opinions!

 

So I’m going to structure my commissions from now on, and as such I need to set prices. Now this is where you all come in, you’re familiar with my work, you know that I value your opinion so do you think that these prices are reasonable?

 

Now the thing is my mind works in pounds sterling so setting prices in dollars meant taking the exchange rates into account. I’ll be paid in canadian dollars, then those are converted into USD and sent to me, where I convert them into GBP. It’s a headache to be sure but the site is in Canada so it’s unavoidable and my previous cuts have been sent to me in US dollars :\

 

So what this all means is that if I’m paid $10, for example, I’ll get $8.50 with the site’s cut and then $8.50 is £5.30 British currency.

 

Don’t let this pressure you of course, it’s not ideal but I’m not a shameless money-grubber. If the consensus is that this is too much I’ll lower my prices.

 

Anyways, let me know with a comment and I’ll thank you all very much x

 

 

 

 

[IridscentNionios 1,422]

Cross hatching? What is that?

[Guest]

 

 

Cross hatching? What is that?

 

Lol, cross-hatching is the diagonal lines used to represent shadows or texture. It's not everyone's cup of tea but I like the way it looks

[Midnight Scribbler 1,705]

 

Attention all, please. I am in need of opinions!

 

So I’m going to structure my commissions from now on, and as such I need to set prices. Now this is where you all come in, you’re familiar with my work, you know that I value your opinion so do you think that these prices are reasonable?

 

Now the thing is my mind works in pounds sterling so setting prices in dollars meant taking the exchange rates into account. I’ll be paid in canadian dollars, then those are converted into USD and sent to me, where I convert them into GBP. It’s a headache to be sure but the site is in Canada so it’s unavoidable and my previous cuts have been sent to me in US dollars :

 

So what this all means is that if I’m paid $10, for example, I’ll get $8.50 with the site’s cut and then $8.50 is £5.30 British currency.

 

Don’t let this pressure you of course, it’s not ideal but I’m not a shameless money-grubber. If the consensus is that this is too much I’ll lower my prices.

 

Anyways, let me know with a comment and I’ll thank you all very much x

 

I'm looking at this, and I'm seeing fair prices. The backgrounds should maybe have varying degrees of detail and prices as well, that's about all I can input on this. Other than that, it looks like you've hit the nail on the head in terms of fair pricing. Personally though, I would stick with increments of 5, but that's me.

I'm actually planning on doing this sort of thing myself eventually, I might just borrow your price listing as a model for my own.

Edited November 3, 2013 by Midnight Scribbler

[Guest]

I'm looking at this, and I'm seeing fair prices. The backgrounds should maybe have varying degrees of detail and prices as well, that's about all I can input on this. Other than that, it looks like you've hit the nail on the head in terms of fair pricing. Personally though, I would stick with increments of 5, but that's me.

I'm actually planning on doing this sort of thing myself eventually, I might just borrow your price listing as a model for my own.

 

 

 

I did this shortly after the last post lol ^ I rarely draw backgrounds so I took one from a drawing I did a while back. They're such a headache and take me aaaaages to draw

 

I see what you mean with the increments, I shall go back and rethink them :

 

Edit: here we go;

 

Oh, I should probably mention that I'm going to be making a short comic for a change of pace and I'd very much like people's input. The thread is here http://mlpforums.com/topic/77283-making-a-comic-feedback-needed-3/?p=1977726

 

Come and look at my drawings and tell me if you know anything that can help/inspire me and let me know what you'd like to see

A quick announcement;

 

My commission shop has a new pricing guide, please go check it out and consider buying something, I really need to get this cintiq paid off lol

 

http://mlpforums.com/topic/74162-dils-commission-shop-open-come-on-in/?p=1868200

Edited November 3, 2013 by Dilarus

[Sweet Pen 1,348]

Hey dil, do you're avaliable to do requests?
This topic is a bit.... stopped
Or maybe you're working in a commission, something
But my request isn't much hard I guess.
So the idea is:
Blue Arctic in a Sniper suit (TF2) like this:

[WingMcCallister 368]

The ones on livestream.com get deleted after a certain amount of time but I have them stored on my PC. If you want to know about time zones check here http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

 

or look at the map here http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

 

as I'm GMT/UTC that's dead centre so if you're GMT-1 the 9pm stream here would be 8pm there. If you're GMT-5 (like in some parts of America) it would be 4pm.

Well the livestream was awesome. You can watch the festivities on my channel justin.tv/atowncalledbedlam just scroll down to the "previosly on..." section and it's the first vid there. We even had some singing and live music from our good friend Wing!

 

Then Wing started singing and I drew these pics in the time it took for the song to play

Wing Mare killer.jpg

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l66vmu1EnKU

 

There ya go Dil! I said I'd do it, and there it is. 11 tracks.... 30 some minutes, and a lot of horrible singing later. Wing's Mare Killer!

[Guest]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l66vmu1EnKU

 

There ya go Dil! I said I'd do it, and there it is. 11 tracks.... 30 some minutes, and a lot of horrible singing later. Wing's Mare Killer!

 

Wow guys, Wing actually recorded an album, dude's got mad skills!

 

Here's a thing I did for Daylight's owner. He requested a pic of Daylight r63 (reversal of gender) or a pic of Daylight and Cheerilee so, me being me, I drew Cheerilee seducing a female Daylight. I was so happy with the lineart I decided to try something new and add colour to one of my detailed sketches, and here's how it turned out.

 

 

There were some teething problems with the angle and proportions so I tried again and came up with this one:

 

 

I haven't charged for this pic (since I did it all on my own) but I thought I'd share it here and breakdown the price incase somepony would like something similar.

 

So here we have a detailed sketch of two characters ($8 +$3), just one layer of flat colour since the detailed sketch has its own shadows and highlights (+$5 +$4) and a quick background using Cheerilee's colour sheme (+$5). Total price = $25

Also, I know that I'm kinda laying on the whole commission thing thickly, it's just that I'm slowly getting into a hole financially and my previous attempt at a commission thread fell on its face what with it having no structure and my being all over the place quality-wise. I've taken time to thoroughly think it through and maybe now I can give people what they want in a more reliable and affordable way.

[Guest]

Sorry for the gap between posts, It's a busy world I live in it seems.

 

What have I been up to recently!?

 

 

Well for starters I'm setting up a new "Ask Applejack" blog I'm calling "Southern Belle AJ" (check out the thread, I need help making it, specifically a programmer who can rework the HTML on a tumblr blog ¬.¬ )

 

 

As you can see, Southern Belle AJ will be my own personal take on the character design and will have a light hearted yet arty approach to the blog's answers.

 

Next up I had a commission or two to get through, I'm trying my hardest to improve my skills as quick as possible, and that means backgrounds and new lighting/shading/colouring techniques!

 

THEN it was about time for another CasyxDilarus crossover so Casy finished up the Discord pic I sent her a while ago

 

 

WHEN SUDDENLY Casy asked me if I could draw her a pic of Luna for our next crossover, I came up with this sketch and Casy insisted we get to work on the actual pic ASAP!

 

 

And here's the final!

VVV

 

I freaking love this pic, Casy really outdid herself on both the moon and Luna's spectacular mane! We even submitted it to Equestria Daily, fingers crossed we get featured!

 

 

So it's been a great week or so of artistic discovery, of pushing boundaries and really trying with all my might to become the best artist I can be, and with great friends like all of you guys and great artists like Casy to inspire me, I'm beginning to think I just might make it.

 

Oh, and I drawed an Appul Blum

 

 

Sorry if this is becoming somewhat of a blog, if you're still reading by this point, allow me to point out that the requests thread is open once again! I can't say for how long, I tend to get swamped with requests within a few hours of opening it, so get yours in quick!

[kodyap1293 23]

Ohh.. It's back open? Cool. I know I've already asked a couple of requests from you lately, so go ahead and ignore this one if you want. I was wondering if you could do a humanized drawing of my OC Red Hearts in the robes of Oswald of Carim without the mask. Could you also include Oswald's sword?

 

Red Hearts: http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/red-hearts-r4676

 

Oswald of Carim:

 

Like I said you can ignore this if you want, but if you don't then thanks a million!

Edited November 9, 2013 by Kodyap1293