sweathie’s tos

These are my official Terms of Service for commissioning me. Please look them over, especially if you are making a big purchase!

TL;DR 

I do not have the time or energy to care about what people do with my work. Be cool. 

Payment 

For commissions under 50 USD, I require 100% payment up front.

For commissions 50 USD and over, I require at least 50% payment up front and the other 50% upon delivery of a watermarked final file. When the final payment is sent, you will receive the unwatermarked file.

I prefer to take payment through PayPal or Venmo, but if you need to use a different service, we can work it out!

Designs

If a change is implemented, prior designs will not be beholden to the updated TOS.

• Designs may be resold for any price.
  • This includes upselling, selling designs you received for free, etc. 

• Designs may be resold to anyone.
  •  I do not keep a blacklist. Anyone who I don’t want owning my designs probably doesn’t want them anyway!

• Designs may be used for any purpose.
  • You can use a design you adopted from me for anything. This includes NSFW content, political content, and commercial purposes (ex. if I design someone’s sona, they can sell plushies they make of their sona).
  • If I don’t like what you’re doing with my design, I’ll just block you. 

• Designs may be edited or changed in any way. 
  • This includes transferring a design into or out of a closed species, so long as you follow the closed species’ rules.
  • You are permitted to edit the art of a design’s original reference to reflect design changes (ex. adding accessories), so long as you do not edit any signatures and maintain proper credit.
    • Don’t forget the base artist’s credit if applicable!
    • This permission is not explicitly granted for NSFW or fetish edits. I will likely give permission so long as you’re not doing anything harmful, but you will need to ask.

• Blocked users can not obtain designs from me. 
  • I will not sell designs directly to users I have blocked.
  • If I have a user blocked, they can still obtain my designs through resale / gifts / etc.

Art

If a change is implemented, prior work will not be beholden to the updated TOS.

• You may not use my art for commercial purposes without first buying the rights to reproduce from me.
  • For example, you may not put my work on a t-shirt and sell it.
    • If the commission is initially established as something you will be selling (ex. “can you design a t-shirt for my store?”) this does not apply. 
    • This only applies to using my work for commercial purposes. If you get a piece and want to make a t-shirt for yourself, go for it!

• You may not edit my work without explicit consent.
  • With the exception of the above guidelines for design references.
  • You can crop a piece so long as my signature is still visible. If you would like a version cropped where the signature is out of frame, you can use this to put it back in.

• If you would like to see progress, you must ask up front.
  • I’m down to show progress shots (sketches, lines, etc.) but you must ask up front. You must explicitly indicate which phases you would like to see.

• I retain the right to post my work
  • I retain the right to post my work on social media or on https://sweathie.com. If you would like to request I not do this, you just need to say so!
    • If something is commissioned as a birthday/holiday gift, I will not post it until the event has passed.

Revision Policy

If you would like to see progress shots, you must ask up front and explicitly indicate which phases of progress you would like to see. 

My turnaround is estimated based on no progress shots being requested or rounds of revisions. Doing either of these things will add to the turnaround time.

This policy does not apply for screw-ups on my end. So long as you have provided visual or written reference that explicitly outlines what you want, I will change it.

• If you say “can you give my character a necklace” and I give them a pearl necklace, if you want it changed to a gold necklace, that’s a revision.
• If you say “can you give my character a gold necklace” and I give them a pearl necklace, that’s on me. I will change it without it counting toward a round of revisions.

Major Revision Examples: pose change, major color palette change, large additional props.

Minor Revision Examples: expression change, eye color change, adding small accessories.

Included Revision Phases

Sketch: one round of major revisions and any minor revisions.

Lines: one round of minor revisions.

At Finish: one round of minor revisions.

Revisions requested “At Finish” must be requested within one week.

Any revisions requested outside of this framework may be subject to additional costs.