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✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

our skee ball high scores are TOTALLY legit guys!!!

commission for @lenora.nebulancer.space 😎

Digital drawing of a yinglet and a rat girl interacting with a skee-ball machine. The yinglet has crawled into the cage where the holes are and is reaching out the bottom for a ball. The rat is near the front, fetching more balls and handing a ball to the yinglet behind her with her tail. There are long trails of tickets at the rat's feet.

November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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Litarnes

@litarnes.bsky.social

I need to make something. Anything.

October 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Pam 'HarvestCraft'

@pamharvestcraft.bsky.social

Help Pam of Pam's HarvestCraft

gofund.me/e0016769f

Facing homelessness, severe cognitive problems

I need help from the Minecraft community! Thank you! Please share everywhere!!

#helpsky #signalboost #patreon #mutualaid #kofi #urgentneed ♿ #needhelp #art #digitalart #minecraft #artist #gofundme

Donate to Keep Pam of Pam's HarvestCraft from being Homeless, organized by Pamela Collins

Hi, I'm Pam, sole creator of the Minecraft mod Pam's HarvestCraft, a… Pamela Collins needs your support for Keep Pam of Pam's HarvestCraft from being Homeless

gofund.me

September 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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✧ GLASS ✧

@glassguillotine.bsky.social

just in case anyone hasnt said this you can be against censorship while also having boundaries. all those people that make you uncomfortable, you are more than welcome to not want to be around them but you should still advocate for their right to create those things that make you uncomfortable.

August 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM

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✨👑Goblin May Cry👑✨

@infernalfurnace.bsky.social

Alright, I'm opening commissions again for a short while. I have some extra bills i gotta pay that i just don't have the money for this month.

The usual pricing, though I'll be including OC Ref sheets as an option! (Examples and Pricing below)

OC REF SHEETS - $130
All payments through paypal!

July 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

first four art fight attacks from this year :)

for: Diptera, VeryPteri, iprixia, and KaleLeaf1012 on art fight, respectively!

July 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Roya Shahidi | Looking for work

@rsdream12.bsky.social

Went ahead and made a starter pack of Iranian/Persian artists I know who deserve all the love and support now more than ever. Let me know if I missed anyone and I’ll add them go.bsky.app/LHbyaKpv

June 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

it's Ming!! ref sheet for a story character. they are like 1 foot tall 🍄🍄🍄

June 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM

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🎄 Holidays Pink Cat 🎄

@hugothepinkcat.bsky.social

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

June 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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Ben Sears

@bensears.bsky.social

Summer 2025 edition

A black and white drawing of a sweating ICE agent, looking over his shoulders at a bunch of disembodied eyes watching him. The text reads WE CAN SEE YOU

June 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

habby pride. draw an OC with a flag :)

June 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

local purple alien caught lounging and glowing

June 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

havent finished a piece for myself in a long time so kinda forced it out this weekend.

It's Faeyice! Borrowing styles from her many appearances in MMO video games.

May 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

commission for @lenora.nebulancer.space ! 🥰

8"x10", colored pencil + wax pastel + gouache

May 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM

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Genel Jumalon ✈️ Twin City Con

@geneljumalon.bsky.social

Some helpful tools for image posting on this app.

November 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM

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✨👁 V I R T U A L G I A 👁✨

@virtualgia.bsky.social

Lavender & Apples

February 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

gouache painting for a secret santa gift :)

Painting of a calico cat laying in a patch of yellow and purple pansies. The cat is curled up, with its eyes narrowly looking at the viewer. It's hand is on top of its tail.

February 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

ink drawin from sunday night of an oc

January 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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M. Cromwell > MFF Art Show

@marandart.bsky.social

The Levar Burton meme, two panels, the "hold on now" panel reads "my art style is inconsistent" and the second "there we go" panel reads "I am constantly innovating my visual language"

April 17, 2024 at 6:35 PM

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Miles (they/he)

@miles-soong.bsky.social

Keep making art! It doesn’t have to be good. You don’t have to post it. Keep making art for the sake of it.

January 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

commission of colin firth's mr. darcy! colored pencil + watercolor on hot press

December 5, 2024 at 4:50 AM

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Juliana Xavier ✦✨🌻

@juliejubz.com

By the way, at the beginning of this year I decided to do a study on how much artists charge for commissions. Essentially, I wanted to make sure my own prices were fair while also trying to help educate others.

So if anyone's interested, here's the study! I really hope it helps 💛✨ #CommissionInfo

Commission Price Average
— a small study —

Date: February 2nd, 2024

For the past 6-ish months l've been collecting commission posts by artists I both follow and or got retweeted into my Twitter feed, with the sole purpose of studying how much they charge and what would be fair to charge for my own commission prices once I start those up again.

I honestly have no idea if anyone else would find this interesting but I figured it could be a good thing to share anyway and to hopefully open the eyes of those charging too damn little because..... gods... I saw so many amazing artists charging too little...

As mentioned before... this little project was done to figure out what's fair in the terms of a BASE. Meaning that, you take that base and build on it. Don't price yourself at $66 for a fully rendered chibi if you think your chibis are worth $200. In the end I want everyone to make more money, not less! Gods know we work hard for it and are WORTH IT.

So yeah... good luck

Number of artists I looked through: about 75+ artists.

Pricing: all in USD (any prices from artists charging in different currencies were calculated for today's exchange rate — Feb 2nd 2024)

Criteria and notes: despite the fact I looked through 100's of artists, not all of them offer the same stuff. Which is why something like "twitch emotes" was only averaged through calculating 4 different prices, while "full body colored character" was averaged through almost a hundred prices...

I COULD have gone looking specifically for people who offer more emote commissions to get a better idea out of it, but that probably would have taken way more hours than I already put into this, so l think I'm good with this for my own purposes.

One of the hardest things about this is that artists have a variety of styles that sometimes don't seem to fit into the same category, when really, they do. Like, one artist will have prices for a fully rendered colored piece and it looks closer to being done in a cel-shading style with some rendering, vs an artist who does a painterly rendered style where you can see strokes everywhere! Neither of those artists are more or less deserving than the other, but it ends up being one of those things where I was left wondering, should I write down the price in the same category?

I tried my best to keep things as fair as possible, but in the end I'm also technically doing this out of my own curiosity and in search for "some kind of fairness" ... so uh... yeah, don't expect this to be
anywhere near perfect!

Discarding figures, Note: originally I had more than 100 artists picked, easily. But as I started going through everything, I discarded artists whose pricing was so low, it wasn't considered good unless you could get said commission done, in a few minutes, tops. I know some artists are INCREDIBLY fast... but who knows if that's why they had their prices so low.

• Sketch Com Colored — flats or slightly shaded.
• Bust: $51 (a: 10)
• Half Body: $68.75 (a: 12)
• Full Body: $90 (a: 14)

• Inked Com.
• Bust: $48.83 (a: 6)
• Half Body: $70.62 (a: 8)
• Full Body: $100 (a: 10)

• Colored Com — slight variation of styles from more high grade cel shading with some painting, to fully painterly renderings (yeah trust me this one is a mess to work with).
• Bust: $98.59 (a: 68)
• Half Body: $135.57 (a: 68)
• Full Body: $179.10 (a: 75)

PS: I'm sure someone somewhere out there has done a study like this sometime in the past, but I figured doing one in 2024 would also be nice? I'm not a numbers/maths person, but I did my best, I swear!!

December 2, 2024 at 6:34 PM

✨ donut ✨

@littlebakery.bsky.social

💜 food: sushi
💜 season: spring
💜 drink: diet coke
💜 color: don’t make me pick from my children!!!! (…pink)
💜 anime: fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood

uhhh i never know who to tag in these 😭