How one piece of character art becomes a VTT token, a print, and a physical miniature.
A single commission can live three lives, and the artists who plan for that up front get the most out of one piece of work. It starts as character art — the painting you actually fell in love with — and branches from there.
The first branch is the token: a square or circular crop on a transparent background, sized for a virtual tabletop. Good artists deliver this cut alongside the full portrait, so it drops onto a map without a round-trip.
The second is the print. That means a higher-resolution export, a colour profile that survives paper, and bleed margins if it's going to a Canadian print-on-demand partner. The same image, prepared differently.
The third — and newest — is the physical miniature, where a 2D character is reinterpreted as a sculpt for resin or filament printing. It's a genuine reinterpretation, not a button press, which is why it's a separate commission with its own licence. Plan the pipeline early and one brief can furnish your whole table.