It would depend on a lot of factors, suchas what sort of scenery or environment, the design of the character, etc. For things outside of my usual formats, I do individualized quotes after hearing your prompt and seeing your design.

I generally don't actually take single solo illustration commissions, because I prefer to explore designs or worlds more comprehensively. I'll always have to do a lot of warmups to rotate a design before I do ANY commission, so it's not cost or time efficient for me to do single, solo compositions. I prefer to really 'get to know' the design via pages, or across multiple canvases. I've got some natural inclination to do everything in 'batches'...

but I'm not fully opposed to the concept of an occasional one-off, so I always encourage poking me. You can e-mail SUNDEVOUR@gmail.com if you'd like to ask more questions; you can always do so from a burner e-mail anonymously, and there is no obligation to pursue a commission you've asked for a quote on. You can just ask and disappear if you need.

a little bit comically basic what I was specifically referring to with that gag, but I'll give you a sampling of what I was going through... & you can look up whatever lyrically piques your interest.
I just... I had truly read something so boring, and needed to. to. to listen to DV boyfriend & murderer songs to feel alive again?!?!? ROMANCE thank you....

some are repetitions from the Harpoon/Ruki playlist, though. Oh well!!!! my embarrassing music *Gladion hand covering face pose*

Hilariously 'drowning girls' was referencing the popular Breezeblocks by Alt-J
Muscle to muscle and toe to toe
The fear has gripped me, but here I go
My heart sinks as I jump up
Your hand grips hand as my eyes shut
[...]
She bruises, coughs, she splutters pistol shots
Hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks
[...]
Please don't go, I'll eat you whole
I love you so, I love you so, I love you so

while 'eating girls' was Cannibal by Jónsi
You've got perfect skin
Soft enough porcelain
White teeth, buck-tooth sinking in
I'm chewing cartilage
Chewing your carpet
Muscles, veins, and shoulder blades

You know I'm a cannibal, cannibal
I remove your breathing heart

You know it's out of love
You know it's only out of love
You know it's only out of love
You know it's only out of love

but other things in that rotation to heal:

Wonderful Nothing by Glass Animals
Wonderful nothing
You just want something nice
You just want substance
I just wanna cut out both your eyes
Wonderful nothing
You just want something kind
I want corruption
I think I'm the devil in disguise
Here's my state of mind
Give me destruction
Tell me I'm scrumptious
I'm a fucking delight

I come back in with a one-two
Sucker punch in the gut, here's a tissue
Truth hurts when it points right at you
Sit down now for some ground rules, thank you
Don't talk, that's it, just one!
Do you think you can handle that much?
I've just come back to life
I'm here, I'm your little ray of sunshine

This is Love by Air Traffic Controller
You're no good, you're no good
You could kill me and you should
I'm an idiot for thinking
This was anything but blood

On the wall, on the couch
On the corner of my mouth
You must like being the victim
You've done nothing to get out

Of this pattern of pain
Washed away by the rain
You'll forgive me if I promise
And do nothing but the same

This is life until death
Could be my last dying breath
But this is love, love, shut up, this is love

Handsome Devil which is originally by the Smiths, but I like the Parenthetical Girls cover ...!
All the streets are crammed with things
Eager to be held
I know what hands are for
And I'd like to help myself
You ask me the time
But I sense something more
And I would like to give you
What I think you're asking for
You handsome devil
You handsome devil

Let me get my hands
On your mammary glands
And let me get your head
On the conjugal bed
I say, I say, I say

I crack the whip
And you skip
But you deserve it
You deserve it, deserve it, deserve it"

Gallery Piece by Of Montreal
I wanna be a beast
I wanna make you proud
And play with your head

I wanna take you out
Make you feel adored
And buy you everything

I wanna hurt you bad
Make you paranoid
And say the sweetest things

I wanna help you grow
And for eternity
I wanna be your what's happening
What's happening

Got 2 Let U by The Knife
I got to, got to let you down
But in an hour, I will change my mind
I got to, got to let you down
But in an hour, I will change my mind

It is like magic to me
Making mistakes and be forgiven easily
It is like magic to me
Making mistakes and be forgiven e-easy-easily

I know she lets me down
But just for a short while
Then she changes her mind
I know she lets me down
But just for a short while
Then she changes her mind

she does it all the time
making mistakes and then I ease her mind

Careful Who You Dance With by Parenthetical Girls (but it's the Xiu Xiu remix I'm obsessed with!)
Be careful who you dance with
We're all reckless romantics
Why fight the function we've been furnished with?
There's no good way to say this

Go Long by Joanna Newsom
Well, I have never seen such a terrible room
Gilded with the gold teeth of the women who loved you
Now, though I die, Magpie, this I bequeath
By any other name, a jay is still blue

With the loneliness of you mighty men
With your mighty kiss that might never, never end
While so far away, in the seat of the west
Burns the fount of the heat of that loneliness

There's a man who only will speak in code
Backing slowly, slowly down the road
May he master everything that such men may know
About loving, and then letting go

Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia by Of Montreal
Counting wolves in your paranoiac intervals
Nobody's leaving, nobody is off the beat
You shouldn't try to unpeel my Pavlovian bells
You should be fucking with no one else

Anyone but me is an antipathy
Anyone but me is just your enemy
Only I see you the way you want to see yourself
You should be fucking with no one else

You, you, you, you, you should be
You should be fucking, fucking
Fuck, fuck, fuck
You should be fucking with no one else

Claws by Son Lux
you've got your claws in me, don't you?
don't you?

Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge
I want to hold you close, skin pressed against me tight
Lie still, close your eyes, girl, so lovely, it feels so right
I want to hold you close, soft breast, beating heart
As I whisper in your ear, "I wanna fucking tear you apart"

Lucifer Rising by The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice
Call me John the Ripper tearing at your skin
One day I'll pay for this, for now
Just let me in

Little Ruckus by Utopia Park (Xiu Xiu cover)
you'll never be enough
oh, you're really not that tough
to break your own bones
or to fall asleep alone

Young Throats by Parenthetical Girls
He's lifelike when the light strikes right
Though no less charmless otherwise
Surprised with where my interest lies
I tried to bite my tongue this time

[...]

Come on, let's get this over with
I dreamt of this in triplicate
Though trust must have its privileges
That just don't enter into this

Jesus Christ, look at the size of it!
The size of it!
Your lips clenched like a fist
What promises you wet them with

Brace yourself and this won't hurt a bit
(Hurt a bit)
And who could help but long for more than this
(More than this)
I crossed myself before I crossed your lips
(Crossed your lips)
And cling like hell to something much like this
(Much like this)

Love Connection by Parenthetical Girls (from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone version....!)
Woke up at dawn,
face down on the lawn,
head awash of what had been.
Pressed cheek to cheek,
fingers underneath,
soft impressions of your teeth.
Some hours lost,
and at such a cost,
stains and scars I can't explain.

So take my lip between your teeth,
and taste me by devouring

Oh Baby by LCD Soundsystem
Oh baby
You're having a bad dream
Here in my arms

Oh sugar
You came to me
Could all be a bad thing
Doing you harm
Oh oh oh

Oh lover
You run from me
We move like a bad scene
Shot in the dark

Oh, but please
Please wake me
But my love lies patiently
Please baby, please
And my love life waits for me
[...]
Oh sugar
Give in to me
You're just having a bad dream
Ringing alarms

Drilled a Wire Through my Cheek by Blue October
I try to stay on top of you
To hold your body down
Your shaking seems to hinder
Every grasp that I have found
Moving every inch around you
To defuse your private bomb
I stretch myself surrounding
And protecting you from harm
I use a wallet for your mouth
So when you bite, you will not bleed
I drilled a wire through my cheek
And let it down and out my sleeve
And now you're pulling out the best of me
Yeah, which never ever comes
This wire's all that's left of me
And it's hooked within my gums, within my gums

Trimmed and Burning by Built to Spill
Take it on and take it over
Take in as much as you can see
I can almost think about it, but
I can't arrange for you to see

Didn't know what I'm afraid of
I had to learn it from a dream
There's a light that never goes out
Burning a hole inside of me

Keep your lamps all trimmed and burning
Might be alarmed with what you see
I've agreed to always love you
But never enough to set you free

It's actually significantly less than that generally...! I need to create a category in my commissions post for a more proper breakdown, now that I've done quite a handful....

It depends on how much back-and-forth, discussion, trials at the design you want to do with me.
I generally charge initial concepts at the price of a sketch page, $70 (loose variations on your suggestions, silhouettes, visualizing to find harmony with your mental image). Then... to finalize or synthesize based on feedback, another $70 for the final ref sheet, or perhaps more depending on how comprehensive you'd like it to be.

The thing is that we can do back-and-forth trials to get to your idea as many times as necessary, at the cost of another page each time. It depends on how particular, or how explorative, you want to be. (and you own all permutations of the design to use at your discretion).

Complexity is also a factor; if you wanted say, multiple outfits, forms, you could generally think of it as about $70/per 'page' (4 or so poses, close-ups, etc).

for a pair of characters going through this process at a bare minimum though, that'd be about $280 ($140x2 or $70x4!). It might be bumped up to $300 just to cover some poses of them interacting....!

there's always some fringe case stuff in our deck!
An older Whim really is quite rare... I'm literally older than him by 5 years, so I'm often the emotionally troubled older teen girl (Lapis, Marcy) or the dutiful older sister (Mari, Carmine)... and I handle a lot of IRL caretaking like cooking, chores...

but beneath that impression is the reality that boys like Steven, Finn... are often chasing these girls down, helping them with their issues, better at vulnerability or honesty... though deal of course with their own often underaddressed pain, too. There's always a kind of flipside of Finn taking more care of Marcy than it might appear. Cleaning up her life, not letting her fester forever alone.

Aside though, Ruby is definitely simply a Manic Pixie Dream Girl to her desolate doomer uncle, so I would relate it to a Branch/Poppy situation....

RWBY is an older interest of Whim's, a fandom he engaged in before we were totally intimate, mostly with another friend of his (an Ozpin (: funnily... still there for him). Whim had connected to Qrow a lot at that time... but even he himself was reluctant and embarrassed about it, for how unusual it was. So he was remiss to bring it up to me directly, though I'd see him doodling Qrow as a wildebeest or something.

We even had a funny rule at one point in time where under his instructions, I wasn't allowed to google, read about, see images of, Qrow... because he struggled that hard with it. I don't mind obeying these kinds of instructions... understanding to steer clear until his emotions about something calm down enough to be able to talk about it. The BPD luv... many things are about giving him the time to not feel like, it's catastrophic or unbearable to be seen. There's no good in pushing. Of course, at the start, for him... it was much easier to embody a Finn, a Steven, you know. It felt like those parts of him weren't so hard to swallow, were likable and cute, endearing, lovable. He didn't feel that way about all parts of himself, though.

BUT of course eventually we just watched RWBY together, and Qrow made sense. Bad Luck semblance, playful & yet aloof, dutiful obsessive guard of a special little girl... creepy vampire man vibes. Slumped & miserable. Family reject. Sad bullied beta cuck teen. Racially rare & unique, in a way that ostracizes & others him from both those within that race (who reject him, who he rejects) & outside of it (who are wary of his origins). Somehow being part of a desert-dwelling bandit clan is just a weirdly consistent kinnie thing for my guy.

around this time (when we watched RWBY) I was doing badly in general, unrelated life factors outside of one another, & Whim was feeling more protective, guardian kind of emotions about me, felt like he was my shepherd, like I was so small... I was just fragile then, and, it was so useful to have this RP conduit where I could be playing a child obsessed with her Cool Uncle, while Whim could be this ah, simultaneously presiding cool guarddog, and also pathetic lonely older man who has to be careful to limit his attachment or affection to acceptable bounds, and hide half of his truth from her. It was just kind of appropriate for what we were going through, in a broader social sense & with one another. I liked getting to play something as direct as, an admiring, attached child, just thinking he's the best most fun and coolest thing ever... perhaps after my long life as the emotionally distant older girl, it was very refreshing. I was just in another phase of relationship, one I'd never really been in before. So it was unique. I hadn't really felt like a little girl tugging someone's arm, before... truly ah, more of a Lapis, you know, floating to the lonesome moon. But with Whim, it was now an aspect of me. I was being held in a lap, pet and shushed and soothed, so many nights...

I guess... obviously, the relationship started out with more like the opposite... because his emotions come out so much more uncontrollably, pour & flood out of him, by design. I just had to be popped like a cork to do the same, eventually.

I think Whim has always felt like he's necessarily obscuring ugly truths about himself, & like subjecting others to the full effect of him means dooming them in some way. Qrow's Bad Luck semblance, the literal distance he feels is necessary to keep, yet his uncontrollable sense of duty towards Ruby...; it was a good representation of a struggle for Whim... that struggle of, "I need to be with you, the world won't look after you as well as I would! The world is dangerous! They don't love you like I do! But aren't I also a bad thing happening to you?" Qrow is so interesting like that. His semblance is sure to doom Ruby, but he's there to save her life, anyway. He has such a presence in her life.

But really this kind of dynamic of a girl admiring a cool guy, that's still stuck around; I think Harpoon & Ruki (our current icons) still brandish this. Mysterious to the world at large but, Prase & Dire are... different, but he's her caretaker (albeit kidnapper) and there to help restrain her from self-destruction. More obscure yet, Loon & Whisker, an older teen boy & a runaway child he is keeping carefully hidden in his apartment, and attempting to (clumsily) provide for, befriend, like a scared stray kitten. Well I guess there are now a dozen Splatoon OCs that follow this trend eh... but we don't post about all of the things we RP, and I'm low on time to draw for myself lately... uhmmm... but, Curare/Ephedra are an older, frightfully precise older man who emotionally & medically controls a younger girl's entire life. Another pair, Marimo/Drop, start as a whimsical girl entertaining & emotionally healing a chronically sick & sad man with an unknowable history in something dangerous, with an eventual turn in him becoming her licensed caretaker (& maybe chopping off her limbs, to render her more reliant on him).

Eliv Thade/Gilly ALSO come after Qrow/Ruby, wherein Thade is this much much older, monstrous ghoul haunting a clever young girl. So it's really not so unlikely anymore, that Whim be someone older. Amusingly I guess Pride/Riza is so visually misleading, but of course Pride is... complicated. He's not literally a child, he's much, much 'older' than Riza... and our scenarios with them involved him taking complete control over her, assigning her job as his maid in the presidential estate lol, prying at her will until everything of her belongs to him. Visually it's shota/older woman, but it's closer to a Thade/Gilly "monster who will Keep a girl Forever". Uhm... Amane, owns, Tsukasa... as his sacred object, as his treasure, as his victim.

Now. A lot of those are kind of terrifying guys who are drugging girls or locking them in trunks or cursing them eternally or something. Why has it taken this turn...? I suppose Qrow might have a bit of an empire in being the most sensible, noble, generous, humble, restrained of the Whims... while the other guys, take guardianship & control at the end of their chains. This is something pretty unique to Whim, I guess. The ability to caretake & look after the other is mutable, though it doesn't mirror. Over the years, a lot more Whims have come to the surface since Qrow, and more will still yet come. Help!!

Not at all... my, thoughts about most late disney/pixar productions are the same, which is "seems like this was juggled around an executive room into oblivion" visually, stylistically, and storywise. Its like.. not a modicum of inspiration to be had here. Like most of these highly-corporate productions, there isn't a reasonable theme or intimate personal story to be found.. it is no one's baby, it is no one's perspective, it is no one's vision, it is like a vapor. It's not art to me.

My tweet about the sequel was just ah, that obviously much like Frozen 2, Disney as a company Extra Double doesn't care about franchises it would rather not be as popular as they are, and it looks like it's just going to loosely stitch together a bunch of disparate scenes into something resembling a movie. It's diminishing returns from already diminished returns... sawdust.... it's fascinating how nothing something can become.

My original contribution to the world back when I first saw Zootopia is probably just uhm having had thoughts about Judy trying to connect with Bellweather as a fellow small subjugated herbivorous woman. I thought that would be interesting post-movie, but unfortunately Judy really isn't compassionate or interesting enough of a person to empathize with a convict....

man every time any of these movies though obliquely are about someone obsessed with their career advancement I get like, a cold dead feeling in my chest. It's like when the CN shows start being about people going to college or getting really slay grades in wizard class or something. Truly haunting...

it means basically nothing at all!! It probably just means your period cramps feel more like butthole cramps like mine do. It may also mean things like reusable menstrual cups don't really work or fit right, which was my experience with those (I could never experience a seal....).
I wish I could hear a lot of feedback from people about sex though. I read some feedback that some people feel it makes certain sexual positions, or deep penetration, painful or unpleasant because of how it may push against your spine and such? However I love uhm every position and penetration to deep n hard so that's nnnnnot anything for me. Maybe it's a false correlation, 'cuz I feel like pussy stuff is so individualistic...

huh! I don't really feel much about any of them really, I was never one for princess movies as a kid & they are irrelevant to me now. But at gunpoint I would say Elsa....! She's angsty, her parents kept her isolated & locked up then DOIED, she has a complex from hurting her twee genki sister as a child... some part of her brain can, uhm, make Olaf, that's interesting. Her hair is fantastical color, she has powers...

They really hit a nail on the head with her, and then didn't learn anything at all from it and refuse to do what could make them a lot of money. Imagine any of their recent middling movies with that kind of protag instead... golly...! Frozen is an objectively Bad movie but aren't they all. Disney movies you kind of have to assess in terms of what kids could get out of them .... and sooo many, offer so little to really play with, chew on... they just refuse to fester.

Honorable mention answer is Kiara (: I used to essentially subconsciously copy Lion King 2's plot with my own plots as a child... she challenged all that prejudice Lion King 1 established as a hard rule...

oh yeah actually, on commission multiple times....
a jackal OC I've drawn multiple times for a client. I like lanky, wirey bodies so I enjoy them more than something like a coyote or wolf, for sure. And of course the big silly ears. quite pretty, petite pointy snoots... scragglyfur....->
https://inkbunny.net/s/2632421
https://inkbunny.net/s/2757342
https://inkbunny.net/s/3054446

As for Dhole, you can see one in this recent design comm. I really like their diamond-shaped fur, long torso, and wide ears. as far as canids go, not bad! I like their more wedge-shaped heads too, very sloped->
https://inkbunny.net/s/3350931
though I also once designed a Dhole fursuit, when I used to help a roommate design/construct suits. It is named 'Moji the Dhole' last I knew, and is red/white/pink in color. In particular I designed the head. I don't really have many pictures of it on hand, but you can at least see it here https://www.weasyl.com/~chumpape/submissions/1473431/moji-dhole