Laying Down the Ground Rules: KP's Rulebook

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I feel like I need to throw this out there

This is basically the ground rules and guidelines that I stick to as an artist.

Now, with that being said, I'm gonna start off with

WON'T DO'S:
I will not do

1. Nude Art
No, no, nononono nonono no, no. NOPE. NOPE. Chica's Nope Door Chat Icon Freddy's Nope Chat Icon Not the Booty Foxy Was Looking For(Nope Chat Icon) If anyone asks, sorry [not sorry]. It's not gonna happen. It's just not. You're reading about a guy who has never drawn x-rated content once. Not even once. I'm a rated G, PG, and PG-13-type artist [By that, I'm talking like peril, occasional macabre and horror, blood, and semi-violence. And nothing else] and I always will be. I don't care if it's censored with black bars, I still won't do it. Smg4 mario Nope 

2. Fetish Art
I'm absolutely aware of these. I totally care less about it, I'm not gonna lie [I get the logic behind it, but I just keep scrolling with an indifferent attitude]. But if it starts to get to the point where y'all start asking me to do some for you, I won't. I feel very uneasy with this Foxy Intensifies Chat Icon

Accommodating with transformative reinterpretations for only two kinds of art favors [details below]:

Like I stated before, I will not do fetish art. But I have to fix one type of your request if it falls under the #1 weight gain and #2 Inflation categories. Let me elaborate on what I mean by "fix:"
1. [Weight Gain] For example, if you're asking me to draw one about i.e. an exaggeratedly bottom-heavy dragon, I won't exaggerate [I draw normal and modest bottom-heavy dragons only, like Elliot from Pete's Dragon or Nellie from Quack Pack. My art gallery proves it] However, I will only accommodate your request and draw it out using my interpretation of it, based off of my childhood and the ones I grew up knowing. 
Another example is of an obese character of the extremes. I will not draw him/her as you wish, but I will also accommodate your request by reinterpreting it to a normally obese character, like one that you would normally expect out of an animated film. Honestly I have no problem drawing anything that are only understandably and modestly fat/obese characters [And I will. You will see a few in my gallery]. I will draw your characters, but I am not going overboard. It's just M-Pawn code and protocol.
Basically, if your request falls under the weight gain category of fetish art, I'm gonna have to reinterpret it with a transformative intent. They're the only easy to, anyway.
2. [Inflation] This is by far a rare case. Knowing how difficult this one is to fix, it's extremely rare that I'm gonna do some like this, since people abuse it. You know, it's one thing as a joke, but it's another to go off the deep end, when you actually intend making fetish art.
Now, I know that there are understandable justifications for a character to be...inflated. Just to throw an example out there, if that character had, uhhhh a superpower, like Mammoth Mutt, and making a comic of her fighting, I would understand. How about Yoshi when he eats a blimp fruit? Yes, if you ask me to draw Yoshi walking in a fruit market to try out differently-powered fruits in Super Mario Galaxy 2, and then eats a blimp fruit... (I think you all know what happens next), uh, ok. Sure, that's fine [I guess]. The farthest I'd go with this is drawing Shrek holding a blimp Yoshi on a balloon string while he's inflated in his correct size in the game. See? That's funny. I would also draw him tied to a parade float with multiple strings attached to him as a "parade balloon" in his original correct size, and him being upset about it. See what I did there? Boom. Transformative. It's comedy. As long as the meaning and intent is transformative, innocent, and funny, then that's as far as I'm getting, and no further. But if you're asking me to make an oc and inflate them in unimaginable sizes, or just to cut to the chase and show the process where he or she gradually turns into a weather balloon to actively spark a fetish, then no. That's a route I cannot take as part of my code. 
Other than that, any request involving anything else that I obviously cannot work something out for, such as foot fetishes, vore, tickle, spanking, embarrassment, unnecessary transformations [It's one thing in comics, movies, and tv shows, but not in the form of fetish art], or diaper fetishes, I'm just gonna turn down your request. Sorry, no can do.

And et al. for the understandable reasons:

3. Dinosaur Art

I know what you're thinking: "What the hell do you have against dinosaurs, M-Pawn? What's wrong with you??" My answer to both questions, nothing. I LOVE dinosaurs, but I just never really have told anyone so. Now, now, I'd hate to disappoint you, but it's not that I don't like them or don't like drawing them, it's just that I have never drawn one in my whole life. I suck at it! And I know I'm gonna suck at it. It's just that I've never really quite had the kind of interest of wanting, much less, even engaging in drawing them. I just can't do it, or felt like it.
However, I've drawn cartoon ones on my off-time, such as Rex, Woog, Dweeb, and Elsa from We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story [But my St.a.sh doesn't have any drawings of them, though. Haven't uploaded them yet]. And one in anime, such as my arch-nemesis in my older cancelled manga Secret Phobia, which was a shapeshifter human with raptor genetics, Rizake [Ree-Zah-Kay, in case you wanted to pronounce it. It's Japanese]. If you want me to do a request involving a cartoon or anime dinosaur, I will get down on it. Those are the only two exceptions.
If it's a real dinosaur that you're asking me to draw, all I can do is apologize.


This is not exactly a straight up "NO! I WON'T DO IT" sub-category, but they fall under this category of Won't-'s:

This is a sub-category that I'd like to call, the

MEH'S:
4. Realism

I don't know about you, but I have never...really..done anything realistic on my down time. I only did sketches and shading of realistic art for my art classes in the past. If you are asking me for an extremely detailed request, it's going to be a no-go. Apparently, I suck at taking on these kinds of requests.

5. Bland or Unfamiliar Topics

Ehhhh, I don't want to necessarily call this a restriction topic, but I'm just pulling this one out of the air. 
This is pretty much self-explanatory, speaking for itself. If your request involves a specific topic that I'm not familiar with what you're referring to, I won't do it. You are reading about an easily-entertained artist. I need a topic that's gonna make me jump out of my seat and get down on it. [I'm critical, but I'm not that hard to get topics on paper. I have a whole entire shopping list of topics on the next section, called the WILL DO'S, so you can easily put me to work]
I.e. Let's say you want me to do a request/commission/or whatever on Donkey Kong characters, or Alien [from AlienAlien vs. Predator, Predators, etc. etc.] Unfortunately, I..won't..really do it. If it's not something that I grew up watching or knowing, especially if it's something that I didn't really play, etc. I'm not really going to feel like doing it. 

6. 60s and 70s Cartoons

Ehhhhhhhhhh. *Yawn

Yyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeaaaaaahh. Not really doing these. 

Honestly, I really...don't...dig cartoons from the 60s and 70s [Excluding ones from Movies, such as ones from Disney movies from the 60s and 70s]. I've [tried] watching cartoons from that era, but to me, they just..aren't...that...good, and neither to me are they even funny. They give me a very weird vibe toward them at the end of the day. I mean, these are the kinds of shows I'm talking about

The Flintstones
The Jetsons

Scooby-Doo
Yogi Bear
Pink Panther
[Although I do kinda like him]
Squirrel and Moose
Huckleberry Hound
Magilla Gorilla
Wacky Races
Top Cat
Speed Buggy
Flash Gordon
Jabberjaw
Johnny Quest
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Mission: Magic!

Hong Kong Phooey
Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
Dastardly and Muttley and their Flying Machines

Cartoons from that era get the least of my attention, so in case your ask me to draw some or you want me to draw something being like them, whether they being your childhood or something you enjoy greatly, Sorry.

However, I have a few exceptions to this kind of request. The only kinds I'll ever like are the ones from the slightly later Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry and films from the 60s and 70s, such as Disney films. So it's anything along these lines:

The Jungle Book
101 Dalmatians
Robin Hood
The Sword and the Stone

The Rescuers
The Aristocats
[Maybe. I just might. Didn't really grow up watching this]

And early Don Bluth art, such as Elliot from Pete's Dragon and Banjo the Woodpile Cat


Other than that, the 60 and 70s wasn't a really good time slot for me on cartoons...

...and now that I got those parts squared away, now with the


WILL DO'S:

However, I will do the following
[Now, just because I can be unfamiliar with a topic and not grow up watching/playing it, it does not mean that it does not interest me to drawing it, referring to MEH rule #2, which, that is, WON'T Rule #5
I got a whole list of things that I will do]

Styles

[Restrictions apply to all subtopics. See "WON'T DO’S" and "MEH'S" Sections.]

  Anime and Manga

Sonic the Hedgehog characters [Very easy to do]
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Digimon
Pokémon [Mainly from the 1st and 2nd gen]

[And Chibis. Chibis are the best part of Anime and Manga]

  Western Cartoons Excluding Human characters 

Calvin and Hobbes
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Quest for Camelot
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
The Railway Dragon
The Princess and the Frog [Louis the Alligator]

Various Topics

[Restrictions apply to all subtopics. See "WON'T DO’S" and "MEH'S" Sections.]

Dragons [It's all over my resume]
  • The Reluctant Dragon
  • Elliot
  • Nellie
  • Malificent [Maybe]
  • Madam Mim in her dragon form
  • Devon and Cornwall
  • The Railway/Birthday Dragon
  • Dulcy the Dragon
Yes, I have references to every single one, well-known and underrated ones. Check em out

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Fan Art

[Restrictions apply to all subtopics. See "WON'T DO’S" and "MEH'S" Sections.]


Random humor [YouTube Poop] art

  • Stick Figures on Crack
  • Lazer Collection
  • Just regular YouTube Poop in general
TV shows
  • Ed, Edd, n Eddy
  • Chowder [Yes, I've drawn Chowder in the past during high school]
Adult Shows
  • Robot Chicken [I'm a die-hard fan]
  • South Park [I admire the art style]
Movies
  • Inside Out
  • Zootopia
  • We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s story
  • 300
YouTube stars
  • Nostalgia Critic
  • Brandon Rogers
  • TV Maxwell
  • Cinema Snob
  • Nostalgia Chick
  • Pheolus
  • Adam [YourMovieSucks or YMS]
  • Alex [I Hate Everything or IHE]
  • Pixels Productions 
  • Smosh
  • Rackaracka [Mostly his Ronald McDonald Parodies, but even his other stuff too]
Genres [Don't get Confused with Topics]

[Restrictions apply to all subtopics. See "WON'T DO’S" and "MEH'S" Sections.]

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Comedy [Love doing this]
  • Macabre/Horror [It's not often I do this, but trust me. I have my dark days]
  • PG-13 Content containing:
  • Moderate blood 
  • Semi violence
  • CreepyPasta-worthy material
  Video Games

[Restrictions apply to all subtopics. See "WON'T DO’S" and "MEH'S" Sections.]

PlayStation Characters from
  • Spyro
  • Crash Bandicoot
  • [Maybe] Ratchet and Clank

Neo Geo Game Characters from
  • Super Dodgeball
  • Waku Waku 7
  • Metal Slug
  • Spinmaster
  • King of Monsters 2
  • Aero Fighters 2 and 3
  • Viewpoint
  • Wind Jammers
  • Ninja Commando
  • Magician Lord
  • etc.

Tetsuya Nomura Art [Square Enix] from
  • The World Ends with You
  • Kingdom Hearts
  • Final Fantasy

Nintendo Characters [From early Nintendo to latest] from
  • Yoshi [VERY easy to draw]
  • Super Mario Bros.
  • Punch-Out!
  • Space Harrier
  • Contra
  • Balloon Fight
  • Street Fighters
  • Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Some that I have trouble doing, but I'll give them a shot
[Just give me some time to adapt though, bruh]

[Restrictions apply to all subtopics. See "WON'T DO’S" and "MEH'S" Sections.]

The following list also includes humans too:

Transformers
One Punch Man
Attack on Titan
DragonBall Z characters
One Piece
Naruto [Maybe]
Phoenox Wright: Ace Attorney
Studio Ghilbi characters [Hayao Miyazaki]
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Spirited Away
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • Ponyo
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Etc. Etc.
Generic western cartoon humans
Disney characters
Star Wars [Especially Storm Troopers]
Marvel Heroes, such as the Avengers
Five Nights at Freddy's
Don Bluth characters
  • Secret of NIHM
  • An American Tail
  • Xanadu
  • Dragon's Lair
  • Space Ace
  • Land Before Time
  • All Dogs Go to Heaven
  • Rock-A-Doodle
  • Thumbelina
  • A Troll in Central Park
  • The Pebble and the Penguin [My childhood right here]
  • Anastasia
  • Titan A.E.
And the rest goes

[Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Ocs 
*Crossovers
*Comics/Manga [Put me to work. I love doing them]
*Fanfiction Journals [whether featuring me or vice versa]

*Gifts
*Requests
*Commissions
*Art Trades
*Collabs
*Crossovers

Gifts - Open by SweetDuke
Requests - Open by SweetDuke
Commissions - Open by SweetDuke
Trades - Ask Me by SweetDuke
Collaborations - Friends Only by SweetDuke

*Ocs [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Crossovers Crossing various characters from various topics over with, whether it be from real shows, video games, movies, YouTube stars, etc. [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Comics/Manga It's already second nature that these things take time. But if it has anything to do with sexual, fetish topics, I won't do them. Because of...uhh, well. You see [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Fanfiction Journals feat. Me or Vice Versa

If you want me to feature you in my story, feel free to ask; put me to work! 
If you want to feature me in your story, I sure would love to

Under one condition for both instances: [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T-'S" Section]


*Gifts Yes, I will do them. And no, that does not mean that you automatically win my friendship. I've heard of trolls screwing over hard-working artists who are trying to do their best to bring the definition of awesome to life, so hands down and hats off to you, awesome people. For those of you trolls out there, you know who you are. Either you stop scamming and stealing art and start working for your talent or piss off. And no questions asked. It's not cute.
Other than that, if you're just cool, it takes time to get to know someone and for that to grow. If you're a big or hardcore fan of me [I highly doubt that I have one myriad of fans tho], err well I have to see first, but that's all within my voluntary decision to give you an art gift. I have to get to know you first. [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Requests I'm still going to do my job to giving you top-notch work, even if it's for free. I promise not cash in on the "free" part. [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Commissions Needless to say, these obviously are gonna cost $$$, €€€, ¥¥¥, £££, of course. Right now, I don’t have a price chart since I can’t really say by experience what sounds like a fair price. Since I don’t have one, please ask me about prices. I want to be fair and as reasonable as possible, but I will not go any lower below a set reasonable price, to avoid being ripped off. Neither will I charge you anything higher, so that you don’t get ripped off either. I want to be fair about prices for both of our sakes, the artist and client alike, so I am asking you as politely as I can to please be fair about prices because I am more than willing to go out of my way of being fair also. I don't want conflict of financial burdens with putting price tags on commissions. If you want me to draw it in your art style, I’m gonna have to look at it first. I'll do the best I can to make it as close to yours. If you want me to do it freehand and no strings attached, meaning that I can make it however I want, I will. Just for the record, I'll make sure to do my best while being extra careful. [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Art Trades That depends on your art style. I respect your talent, and like anything else, talent is earned by working for it; so with all due of my utmost respect, I am asking you to please do your best [I'm pretty high-maintenance of an artist]. I'm gonna see and ultimately know whether you tried or not. [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]

*Collabs That's between me and my friends. Like I said before, I think it's common knowledge that you already already know to take your time to putting effort to it, and I trust that you do. The only condition that I have for this is that this has to be a common ground of a topic that both [if more that one artist, all] of us can agree on. Negotiate with me through notes about this. If you are one artist asking to co-op, it's a one-on-one negotiation. If you are coming to me in multiples, let's all brainstorm and help to figure out what we all think is cool and agree upon. [Restrictions apply. See "WON'T DO'S," emphasis added on rules #1 and #2. "MEH'S" also apply.]


Personal Confession 

In case I take a long time, I apologize, but I am a horrible keeper of my art schedule. On the other hand, I can assure you, I do not, I repeat, do not ever forget your requests, I just take a really long time of getting them done. Again, I apologize, and I do not ever want to disappoint my fans and especially clients, but due to years of learned professional procrastination and being a pro at it, I am horrible at staying on schedule…

…but, however, in spite of my lagging tendencies, my work for you will still be done. I have them written down.

My promise

hate BS work. I'm a perfectionist, and I take my time with things until it looks spot-on, like the real deal thing. It bothers me if it does not come out the way I want it to, so I will never hand you BS crap work. EVER. That's why I'm dedicated to giving you the cream of the crop for work. It's what I love to do.

If it's not spot-on, then my name's not M-PawnDragon
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ill be sure to remember this ^^