I owe you an apology about the waitlist.

Hey, it's Jan.

I want to start this with an apology.

The old way I handled commission slots was honestly pretty disorganized.

I underestimated how many people would be trying for the same small batch of spots each month.

You could join the waitlist, wait for the next opening, then still have to show up at the right time and race everyone else for a slot.

If somebody knew when the page opened, they could show up too.

So being on the waitlist did not really give you the thing a waitlist should give you.

A real turn.

That was on me.

About a month ago, I was eating at a restaurant and they put me on a Yelp waitlist.

I could see exactly where I was in line.

Then I could put my phone away and go do something else.

When my turn came, they texted me.

That was it.

I remember thinking my commission waitlist should work the same way.

So I went home and started rebuilding mine.

There is one real line now.

If you were already on my old commission waitlist, I carried your signup into it.

You do not need to join again.

You have a place you can actually see now.

When you reach the front, I text you a private link and hold the commission slot in your name for 24 hours.

No monthly launch to remember.

No racing the page.

Your turn comes to you.

And if life gets in the way once, you are not suddenly kicked out of the whole thing.

The waitlist page handles the rest, and you can always check where you stand there.

There is still a real wait.

I keep the studio at 12 to 15 commissions a month because that is what lets me keep unlimited revisions and answer messages within 2 business days.

Right now the estimated wait is about 3 to 4 weeks.

Prices are still $99 for half body, $139 for thigh up, and $199 for full body.

If the first draft does not look like your character, email me and you get every dollar back.

And if you came through the Character Quest, I still have your blueprint.

The details you picked.

The defining moment you wrote in your own words.

The version of your character that only existed in your head before you typed all of that out.

So when your turn comes, I am not starting with a blank page.

I already know who I am supposed to be looking for.

Then we get to the part all of this is actually for.

Seeing the character you have carried through all those sessions finally look like the person you have been seeing in your head.

I am still putting the finishing touches on everything over the next few days.

The first turn texts start Tuesday, September 1.

Until then, you can go look at your place now.

Thanks for being patient while I figured out a better way to do this.

And thank you for trusting me with your character in the first place.

Jan

P.S.

You may have already seen the Hall of Heroes around the site.

It has passed a thousand submitted characters now, and I have been turning it into a little card game built around real D&D characters from real players.

There is one part I think is especially fun if you end up getting your portrait done.

Your finished FramedFantasy portrait gets its own commissioned card treatment inside the Hall.

Which means somebody else can open a pack one day and pull your character.

I love that idea.

Your character does not just sit in your camera roll after the portrait is finished.

They get to exist in this little world with everybody else’s characters too.

There are a few other things commissioned characters get in the Hall, but I would rather let you find those yourself.

Tap below to see what I’m talking about.