New stuff!

Hey guys. Just wanted to give you a little update on how things are going with me (:

I'm all good over here, just going to school and getting fat by eating all the time. Nothing new :3 ...

..Except my online art stuff! ^^

My new art facebook and tumblr blog will act as chances to to see my works-in-progress, my sketches, my everyday projects from school, little doodles and anything else I feel like sharing. If you're interested, please follow me! <3

Facebook Page
Blog

Also, i finally (mostly) finished updating my website. Check it out!

Rachel Rusk

I'll follow back as many people as I can (: Thanks! have a lovely day.

Commissions: Open

So, i've decided to open commissions. (: I hope the prices are reasonable.

Rules & Terms:

What I can do:
-Original Characters
-Fan Art
-Cartoons and Anime (redrawn in my style)
-My style drawings OF real people, although again will be in my style and I can't promise it's realisticness. (Asking me to paint up a portrait of yourself, that's cool with me!)
-Characters with animals-qualities (furry ears, tails, reptile skinned areas, i'm open to whatever)
-Adult-topic stuff (check out the CANT DO for more info)
-Both genders
-Kids

What I CANT do: (or wont)
-Nudity of the male and female genital area. But asses & breasts, that's fine with me.
-No characters can be drawn doing profane acts. (sex(I wont draw the graphicness of it, but we can talk about this one if you really want it), murder, drugs, self-harm, and shit like that.)
-Animals. Dear lord, this is for your OWN safety. I can't do animals, man.
-Things that contradict my style. Like asking me to paint a realistic portrait of Gerard Butler or Justin Bieber. If i could, i would, but my skill range and time range won't allow for it.
-Old people

Time:
Seeing as how I have college and art collectives that also demand my artistic time and attention, my time is unpredictable. Expect these done and given to you from anywhere between 1 week to 3. I'll give you a time quote when we've talked.


Process:
1. Check out the above pricing and selection i've offered. Look at my rules/terms. Decide exactly what you'd like.
2. Email me or Note me: (Email: Rusk_Rachel@yahoo.com) I get emails first.
3. IN the email tell me exactly what you want. I've written a mock-up of an example that you can use, below.
4. If we've both agreed on terms of commission, and I confirm everything with you, you'll send a payment to my paypal: Rusk_rachel@yahoo.com
5. Once i've received it, i'll confirm with you that I got your payment, and then start working on it.
6. When it's finished i'll send it to you via email or whatever your preference. This is only DIGITAL stuff, no print.

Easy peazy lemon breezy. Lemons.


Example of what should be in the email/note: (feel free to copy/paste)

TO: rusk_rachel@yahoo.com / macabre7
FROM: you

Subject: Commission! Meow.

-Tell me a little of what you'd like, or about yourself.

Character: Original/Fanart/Real Person
Commission: 1 character, full color, waist-up
Details:
-For Original characters: Skin color, hair color, eye color, body weight, gender, clothing styles, accessories, colors if you have a preference. Anything left not mentioned tells me I can choose. So if you don't tell me what hair color, i'll choose one for the character. So tell me!
-For fanart, cartoon/anime or real people: link me images and names of the people/characters, and if you have any special notes about it let me know.
Special Notes: Write me anything you'd like to add or anything you think I should know. Any special requests.
Preference of final file type: jpg, pdf, tiff, png, let me know. My standard is .jpg, if you don't specify/care it will be a .jpg.

Be as THOROUGH and DETAILED as can be! It helps. Again, any information you leave OUT I will fill IN myself.


Logistics, or whatever

Refunds: Because i'm nice, i'll refund your money if i take more than 30 days to fulfill your request. But that's the only time i'll refund your money.
Canceling: Once you've sent the payment, you have a week to cancel and i'll give you half your money back. UNLESS, i've already finished the commission before you cancel. Then i'm sorry.
Changes to request: Note/email me as soon as possible, I'll see what I can do. Although, if for example you've decided to change the gender of the character, and i've already drawn and colored it, then it's too late. But we'll have to see.

My Rights:
I have the right to put my logo on all works and put this up on my gallery/portfolio. If i'm drawing your original character, your credit will be given.

Your Rights:
-You can post my piece in your gallery as long as there is clear linkage to me and my page in your comments.
-You can't use my commissioned art for commercial use.
-You can't take my logo off, edit the piece in any way shape or form, or use it in any other of your artworks, after i've released it to you.



That's about it. Help me by helping you ^^
Any questions? Note me.
PS: I love creative original characters, or creative takes on existing characters. Those are the ones i have the most fun with
(:
Reichull

www.teamfathom.com


We're looking for artists who are interested in joining us and helping us create a high-level art collective. We're still in the early stages of becoming big, but we're motivated to get all the talent we can to get us there. We have the means to make this collective get great enough to see live exhibitions, book publishings and features all over the design world. What we need now is you, that talented artist looking for a place to motivate you to became greater than you already are-- and what better incentive than being surrounded by like-minded artists like yourself and a crazy cash+feature prize given every release? That's right! We release a set of finely-tuned art pieces that went through a rigorous voting stage every few months, and each release we will be choosing 3 of the artists who contributed to the pack with the best work and progress. Those 3 featured artists will get features on Behance, Fathom's home page, and other features, your own domain url.. as well as a cash prize of 100 dollars each! Motivating, right?

So if you think you can commit to being an active member on a design/art forum, you'll get so much in return-- a great friendly community to share your art and better yourself as an artist, great publicity and promotion opportunities, and great potential to win those sexy prizes!

Please check us out, and if you're interested, apply (:





Disclaimer: Once you apply, you will go through the same process other applicant go through-- a slightly tough voting process where you need a certain amount of YES votes to even be accepted into the group. But it doesn't hurt to try!

My old logo, the skull and bow with heart eyes and a tacky M on the tongue-- i just wasn't feeling it anymore. I've come to a realization that MACABRE is an awesome word, and it's opened up the idea of introducing sexy type and graphic design, to make it an IDENTITY. I wanted to make "macabre" into something pretty cool, shirts and prints and stickers and stuff.

But that is a far off goal.


For now, i've redesigned the logo, a little more illustrative in shape, more simple in design, and a bit of integration with type. This actually took me a while, i really just wanted to scrap the whole tacky "skull with bow" thing, but it's kind of signature for me so i worked around it. Getting from point A to point Z.7439 doesn't seem too hard from the following sketches, but it was aggravating ~_~ the picture bellow is like 5 hours.



You can see at the bottom there, some final ideas. Anyway enough of the borefest, here's my final set. I know, i made one new logo so here's like 9 images to look at--makes no sense. But they're just inverts of the black/white incase i need it for a dark background or a light-- and the integration of type. I'll probably be breaking "LOGO" laws and interchanging these babies as i see fit. And i don't caaaareeee. /hides from graphic design professor



They aren't great, i could have worked on this longer, but i'll leave that for the 3rd revamp
Lemme know what you think!

Peace!

Thank you CJANSE(Chandler):cjanse.deviantart.com/ for the 3month premium membership! I owe you (: You're so nice! Everyone go check him out.

Hello name change, god how i've wanted you. <3
Whoever "macabre" is though, i keel you.



Thank you everyone who showed some love on my Snow White "VII" piece, i really appreciate it (: i'll be coming out with commission work soon because i'm poor! and with CHEAP prices!

kbai.