Chocomint Mochi

Designer and Hobbyist Game Dev.

I draw fantasy characters and write about them too.
Explorer of Alma Pulveris.Game Design • Pixel Art • Asemic Writing

Commission status: Open.Last Updated Feb 20th, 2025.

Terms of Service

This document describes the rules and legally-binding terms of my service as an artist. Read it if you’re interested in requesting work from me or if you’re interested in understanding how my process works.The Piece: One or more digital drawings or artworks in .png format, featuring one or more characters in a scenario provided by you.With that in mind, these are my Terms of Service:Article 1. References: Before taking payment for a commission, I’ll need a summary with clear and colored visual references for the characters involved, their pose/expression, their clothing and (optionally) any details or information relevant to The Piece. If there are specific details on any character that you deem indispensable you have to let me know. If any of the characters doesn’t have a reference/sheet or artwork where I can clearly understand their design, you have to commission that design first, either to me or to another artist, but I won’t stage characters without concrete designs unless they’re Faceless Dummies (See Art. 16). Optionally, I welcome any mockup of The Piece if you’re willing and able to, even with stick figures.Article 2. Payment: Your commission must be paid in full before production, and I won’t start working on it until the payment has been fully processed, unless specifically agreed otherwise. The payment can be done via Paypal Invoice or Ko-Fi, but only once your commission has been accepted.Article 3. Discount: Ko-Fi members have 10% discount on the final price of the commission, Arcana Egg tier members have 30% discount.Article 4. Revisions: A commission has at least two revisions. The first one happens once the sketch is cleaned, with the final line-art ready, to corroborate no important details are missing. After this stage is approved you can't add things to the lineart of The Piece. The second revision happens once The Piece is finished and the changes made at this stage are only made on the color and shading layers.• Article 4.1. Workflow: Once a revision is approved I will go on with The Piece and I won't go back to previous stages in it. It's your responsibility to let me know about missing details or changes you want me to make on each revision. When asking for changes you must provide reference for them.• Article 4.2. Changes: Every revision is a single chance to spot mistakes or things you want to change, so use them wisely: You can ask for as many changes as you want, but it has to be at once, and only if they’re pertinent to the stage The Piece is already in. After I apply the changes requested I will automatically move onto the next stage.Article 5. License & Commercial Use: Commissions are licensed for personal use only, unless explicitly agreed otherwise. Commercial use will most likely be allowed for indie developers or content creators, on a case by case scenario. If you fall into those categories and you’re planning on using The Piece in a commercial fashion, you have to disclose it before The Commission gets accepted. If you already have a personal use-licensed Piece and want to make it commercial, you have to ask me beforehand and agree not to use it commercially if I don’t approve such use of The Piece.• Article 5.1. I keep commercial rights over any artwork I make, unless explicitly agreed otherwise. This is to say, although uncommon, I get to use The Piece in commercial projects such as prints, art courses, artbooks, etc.• Article 5.2. PNGTuber Characters: If your intention is to commission a set of .pngs for streaming, you will be provided with transparent backgrounds for the files in The Piece, but you have to let me know that amongst the details of The Commission in the first place, as some parts of production change when that’s the case.Article 6. Authorship: You must not take credit for the piece, alter the artwork, put filters on it, nor remove my signature from it. Cropping it for profile pictures is acceptable. Due credit must be given when possible. You won’t feed generative AI with The Piece nor agree to let someone or something else to do it. You won't use any stage of The Piece or other artwork by me to trace them in a commercial fashion.Article 7. Features: The base price for a commission guarantees one waist-up character colored and rendered using cell shading in a simple background. The lineart is sketched, and the quality of the rendering may vary depending on the nature of The Piece. At minimum, every piece has three layers of shading on top of the base color.• Article 7.1. The base price does NOT guarantee: Any level of detail for a background, a one-to-one copy of every detail of any character, nor specific use of specific colors in specific parts of The Piece.Article 8. Dimensions: The usable dimensions of the canvas I work with are 2000px by 2000px at 144dpi. This is a minimum, as sometimes The Piece’s final dimensions end up being considerably bigger. If your commission is for commercial use and you’re planning on printing, you must let me know in advance to adjust to your desired dimensions and resolution.Article 9. Background: If you have an idea for a simple background that can go well with the piece, be it abstract colors or patterns, feel free to include it on the References.Article 10. Faceless Dummies: At my own discretion, The Piece can include one or more humanoid-representing figures, limbs, heads and other body parts drawn with a consistent amount of detail for the piece but focusing such detail into the relevant aspects of their expression for The Piece.Article 11. Speech Bubbles: The Piece may include speech bubbles or text as long as all the text is provided by you and approved by me.Article 12. Rough Drafts: Rejected or unused thumbnails (and silhouettes) might be saved and repurposed later for other commissions and/or YCH auctions.Article 13. Social Media: Once The Piece is done and approved, I will post it on social media, immediately or during the following days. I reserve the right to tag you on it, but if you want or don't want me to tag you, you have to let me know in advance.Article 14. Referral: Members of my Discord server can claim a free custom-made, non-animated Discord emoji, sticker or portrait based on their OC when they refer a brand-new client, once the commission is done. A brand-new client is someone who hasn’t commissioned me ever before, proceeds to get a commission slot and follows through with payment.Article 15. Content: I won’t draw suggestive affairs involving underage/seemingly underage characters, despite canonical facts; hateful or explicit political content, gore, extreme or non-consensual visual violence.• Article 15.1. Some of the content I would draw instead, that seems a bit unusual: Shortstacks, NTR, certain types of Mechas, certain types of Armour. If you’re unsure, it doesn’t hurt to ask.Article 16. By proceeding with a commission after reading these Terms of Service, you agree to abide to them.Note. If there’s anything about this ToS you don’t understand, or would like further explanation about, or examples, please write me explaining your concerns. I receive a lot of DMs and I usually dismiss the ones that are just “Hi”, so again, don’t wait for me to reply first.

General Portfolio

Alma Pulveris Encyclopedia is a series of fantasy worldbuilding entries written both in english and asemic writing. The shown entries and the upper Sphynx illustration are the most pertinent for creature design.

Octoberries was a project of adoptable critters, based on a mixture of fruits and vegetables with cephalopods, to use as companions in tabletop roleplaying campaigns compatible with "Troika!".

Characters designed for the Alma Pulveris setting, meant to be used across different types of media. In this scenario, they're collectable cards.

Sample of Characters designed for Commissions.

Some of the stickers I've made for patrons and clients using their and sometimes my characters.

Items designed for Tabletop RPGs.

UI Assets for a Character Creation project you can check here.

Gorun Gork was a science-fantasy MUD I made in college with a colleague. I designed and implemented most of the dynamic UI including inventory, equipment, quests and crafting system, alongside writing descriptions and dialogues for the rooms and characters.

Pixel Art Portfolio

FAQ

What software do you use?
Clip Studio Paint for Illustration and Traditional Animation.
Aseprite for Pixel Art and Pixel Animation.What brushes do you use?
I mostly use the premade brushes on Clip but I sometimes play around with their properties, depending on what I'm doing. I also use some of Xaxaxa and PPBubble brushes.How long have you been drawing?
Between 9 years and my whole life.What tablet do you use?
It's a Wacom Intuos Pro M.Do you do artrades/requests?
Only with friends.May I use your work for my school project / roleplay campaign / creative endeavors?
Unless specified otherwise, all of my current work related to Alma Pulveris is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This is a Free Cultural license. You can remix, tweak, and build upon my work even for commercial purposes, as long as you credit me and license your new creations under identical terms.