Like a lot of people, I absolutely hate going to the dentist. But like a grownup, sometimes, when the pain from a toothache is so bad you start considering ripping your jaw out, you have to do the right thing and go to the dentist.
Also, I have a pretty big jaw, so ripping it out would probably be a difficult task. Or at least inconvenient.
Anyway, I’ve been having to take some trips to the dentist to get some work done, and as it turns out, dentistry can be rather expensive. Of course, I have health insurance, but it seems that their attitude towards teeth is that unless the dentist breaks my arm, it’s really none of their business.
I’ve still got a few sessions to go, and my wallet is now wondering if maybe I love my teeth more than I love her (which I do, but I don’t tell her so she’ll still give me what I want). After my last session, and seeing the bill and how much future bills will be, I decided it was time to make some extra money, so that I can not only have healthy teeth but also food to get them dirty with.
So yeah, I’ll be taking character commissions, to produce at a rhythm of one or two a week. Prices may vary, but if you’re interested just send me an email (to oabnormal(at)gmail.com) with a brief description of what you’d like and I’ll respond with a quote – and we’ll take it from there. I’ll be taking them on a “first come, first served” basis, so don’t hesitate to just write and ask if you’re still just “thinking about it”.
And… well… I guess that’s how I’ll pay for my teeth.
Good hunting;
O
NOTE: The Picasso reference in the comic’s title is quite an interesting story about how Pablo Picasso (and some other artists, it would seem) would pay for their meals at restaurants. Be sure to check it out.
To save people some research work, and make myself look cultivated, here’s the Picasso story: In restaurants, you often have these paper sheets under the plates to protect the tabe. Picasso had the habit of waiting for dishes by drawing on these sheets. He usually took them with him after the meal, probably as drafts for some future work.
One day, the chef of a restaurant asked if he could keep the drawings, and in exchange, Picasso wouldn’t have to pay for the meal he just took. Picasso agreed. Before he left, the chef got a look at the sheet of paper, and asked “By the way, could you please sign your work?” to which Picasso answered “Sir, I just payed for a meal, I don’t intend to buy your restaurant.”
Woah. Health insurance covers absolutely everything here…
It reminds me of the phrase ‘costs an arm and a leg’. Artists used to charge for portraits based on how much of you they had to paint. So a full body was charged at a arm and a leg
Picasso could do it because they knew who he was. O should have told the dentist he was Frank Franzetta.
My wisdom teeth had me with my head under the cold shower in an unheated flat in Madrid mid winter for an hour until I literally could feel nothing from the chest up, and I am the kind of guy who likes to have long hot showers which leave everyone else without hot water for hours.
If you’re taking commissions, does that mean you’re almost finished with the Kickstarter backer art from Scurvy Dogs and we’ll finally get it?
@James Yep, the Scurvy Dogs art is now at my house. We’re packing it up this week to ship it out.