Something made from scratch, for one person.

Three working days for my answer. First version within ten working days of payment. Then your five days of changes, with a reply from me inside two working days each time. About three weeks end to end, usually less.

One to three photos of the person. Face lit and unobstructed, roughly facing the camera, shoulders in frame. Different angles help. Blurry, backlit, heavily filtered or sunglasses — no. Group shots are fine here; unlike the shop cards, this one is composed around whoever is in it, one by one.

One to five references. Anything that looks like what you want. This is the single most useful thing you can give me: two references get us further than two paragraphs of mood.

Yes — five days from the day you get the first version, and as many notes as you like inside them. I reply to each one within two working days.

A change is anything built on the version you're holding: her fringe, the colour of the sofa, the wording, the crop. What isn't a change is starting over — a different occasion, a different person, or "could it be a completely different idea". That's a new commission, at the same price.

One practical thing: write them down as you notice them and send them together. You'll get further in five days that way than by sending one note at a time.

The five days are for exactly that. Tell me plainly what's wrong — "her face is too round" gets somewhere, "something feels off" doesn't.

There's no refund once the work has started, so if you're not sure this is for you, a $6 card from the shop is a much cheaper way to find out what my work looks like on someone you know.

You'll get a file big enough to print at card size, and any print shop can work from it. But I don't prepare files for print: printers use a different colour system, and I can't promise what comes back out of one. If print matters, print a test before you print thirty.

I don't print or post anything myself. If that changes, it'll say so here.

Not on the standard price, which covers your own use. Tell me what you want to do with it before we start and I'll quote the licence in. Adding one afterwards costs more than agreeing it up front.

You own your copy and can do what you like with it personally. I keep the copyright and the right to show the work — that's how the shop stays alive. If you'd rather it never appeared anywhere, tick the box in the form; it costs nothing and it's a promise, not a preference.

They sit in one folder on my machine while I work, and I delete them when I deliver. They never appear anywhere unless the finished card does — and that's the box you control in the form.

Photos you don't have the right to use. Anything sexualising a child. Caricature meant to humiliate someone. And work I don't think I'd do well — I'd rather say no than take your money and disappoint you. If I turn yours down, I say so before you've paid anything.

I don't work with a pencil. What I do is find and choose the visual style, decide what this person should look like inside it, and then build the picture with AI image tools — composing, correcting, re-running and editing until it holds together. Usually several passes.

What you're paying for is the taste and the judgment: which style, which face, which words, and when it's finished. That part isn't automated, and it's the part that takes the time.