Welcome to VioletIris Paint, home of original artistic creations.

Also home to inane rambling, strange art, and other weird stuff.

As you might expect, this is a gallery page. Feel free to peruse the images, but please also remember that it's all my stuff, and hotlinking, copying, printing, etc, is all illegal and I'll clean out your pockets if I catch wind of your shenanigans. Oh, shenanigans. How I do love to spell you.

Of course, above disclaimer aside, there are of course images of characters and things which do not belong to me, and they should be credited to their original owner. These things include commission work I do (including logos), fanart, and of course, portraits (your face does not become my property if I draw you).

If you're interested in commissioning me, I encourage you to contact me and we can discuss prices. My work is affordable and, as long as we're not in the middle of finals week, generally timely. Drop me a line for more information.

.....shenanigans!

TESTIMONIALS

"I've commissioned [JML] twice now, and each time I am blown away by each piece. Both of my commissions were very loose on given detail, just that they had two of my characters. The rest of the details I had left up for [JML]'s choice. The commissions were done in relatively good time, and the fact this artist is willing to ask the client if there should be anything fixed with lineart before finishing the work really makes me happy. I've been satisfied everytime I've worked with [JML], and will likely ask for another commission in the future." --AM, 2007

"O_O;;;;;;;;;;; I LOVE YOU. Love you love you love you. They're so PRETTY and PERFECT and AUGH! :D! And yes, don't worry, they're very in-character. xDDD Amazingly so. AHHHHHHHH! Spazzing much to myself. Spazzing. AHHHH! Best thing EVER you rock thank you SO MUCH! I shall take it and hug it and squeeze it evermore. AHHH! <3" --KD, 2006

"I've been comissioning Joey's skills since 2000 and have always been impressed with the resulting attention to detail and ability to make even my most ridiculous sounding request into a good looking reality! After all, I DID demand an armadillo and cheese and blue cat one time. AND IT WAS DELIVERED." --RM, 2005

FAQ

Q. What medium(s) do you use?

A. I generally do all my work in digital medium to cut down (read: eradicate) supplies cost. I use a 4x6 Wacom Graphire Tablet, Corel Painter 8 for drawing, and JASC Paint Shop Pro 9 for text and finishing. I may be known to sketch out a lot of my more complex pieces on paper first. I have done large acryllic murals in the past, and know my way around a box of crayons.

Q. What is anime?

A. Anime is a style of cartooning from Japan. My style is almost exclusively of an anime breed, but if that's not what you're looking for, I'm fairly flexible.

Q. Will you draw my pet/me/character/fursona?

A. If you're talking about a commission, of course I will! If you're talking about an art trade, it's possible. If you're talking about a request, well... I'm a busy busy bee, and a lot of times (most of the time) I don't have the time for request art. But, I guess it'd never hurt to ask.

Q. What are your rates?

A. My pricing tends to change depending on how much I need money at the time. Recently I've found I make more money if I state cheaper prices, rather than no money at all when I state higher ones. At the time of this writing, my rates for a full color images with two characters and a background runs about $30. Cut out a character, colors, background, and the price goes down.

Q. I want to commission you. What do I do?

A. You should email me with an idea of what you're looking for and how much you want to spend. We can negotiate then (and truth be told, I'm fairly easy). Have an idea of what kind of image you want -- character focal, environment focal, mood focal, etc -- and maybe an idea of other images you've seen (either that I've done or other people have done) so I can make your image as close to what you're imagining as I can.

Q. Is there anything you won't draw?

A. I won't take money for fanart (i.e. you cannot pay me to draw other people's characters without their consent) or pictures of real people doing bizarre (read: inappropriate) things due to copyright and other laws. Other than that, it's pretty much anything goes.

Q. The images on this site are sort of fuzzy. Will my commission be fuzzy? I want to print it.

A. Images on this site have been rescaled to prevent theft. Your commission will be done at a much higher resolution. If you intend to print any larger than a standard 8.5x11" sheet of paper, let me know before I begin your commission so I can do it at a suitable resolution. Your commission will also be void of a watermark.