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Help - need markers!
15 years ago
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Let me preface this by saying that I'm NOT in dire financial trouble. I'm unemployed, but I have a couple small sources of income (art being one of them), and I manage to pay my bills and student loan on time, every time. I'm not exactly living comfortably, but I'm NOT about to end up on the street.
However, I cannot afford to keep paying the bills AND to restock my art supplies. Since my watchers (presumably) enjoy my art, and (presumably) would like to see more of it, then I don't feel out of place humbly requesting your assistance, if you can provide it without undue strain. Either way, I figure it can't hurt to ask.
Several of my markers have dried up. I've been using these markers to do the Somnium Lupus comic, and this last page took way too long to finish because I was wringing the last arid drops of pigment out of several of the markers that I use most often. I'd like to get replacements ASAP so I don't fall even farther behind schedule with the comic.
The markers I need: (these are Prismacolors, by the way)
Cool Grey 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%.
Warm Grey 10% and 40%.
I'll also be out of cardstock soon, too, though that's less urgent because there's other, somewhat tolerable paper on hand that I can use instead.
...Seeing as these guys kicked it after 4 pages, and there are 9 more pages to go, I'll probably need multiples of each one.
If you have any of these markers and don't plan on using them, I would ADORE you forever if you cared to send them my way, and I would repay you with free art of your character. Email me at taodoggy -AT- gmail -dot- com.
If you don't have markers but would like to help me out, I am still offering Iron Artist commissions (sketch + texture for $15; with flat colors for $25; plus $5 for taurs/wings; plus $10 per character over one).
I can also do more refined soft-shaded commissions for $50, one character.
Or, have yourself an icon in a similar style to mine, 300px and 100px, for $11.
Or... you could donate. I feel really weird suggesting this, but I figure if someone wants to pitch in and can't spare enough for a commission, well, there's no minimum donation. (Let me reiterate that I am NOT in financial trouble, just financial discomfort, and I'm NOT asking for help paying my bills, which are my problem, not yours.) My PayPal is taodoggy -AT- gmail -dot- com.
Also, if this doesn't pan out and I can't get ahold of some new markers, the comic WILL continue anyway. It would just be shaded digitally instead of traditionally. Which would make me kind of sad, because I'm really having a lot of fun with the markers, since I don't usually do traditional media besides graphite. But it WILL continue, in one form or another, assuming I don't get hit by a bus. You have my word.
((NOTE: There seems to be something seriously wrong with my computer's wi-fi functionality. Great timing as always. The computer is past warranty, so I'm consulting with someone I know about the next best course of action. I'll be maintaining contact with my phone.))
However, I cannot afford to keep paying the bills AND to restock my art supplies. Since my watchers (presumably) enjoy my art, and (presumably) would like to see more of it, then I don't feel out of place humbly requesting your assistance, if you can provide it without undue strain. Either way, I figure it can't hurt to ask.
Several of my markers have dried up. I've been using these markers to do the Somnium Lupus comic, and this last page took way too long to finish because I was wringing the last arid drops of pigment out of several of the markers that I use most often. I'd like to get replacements ASAP so I don't fall even farther behind schedule with the comic.
The markers I need: (these are Prismacolors, by the way)
Cool Grey 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%.
Warm Grey 10% and 40%.
I'll also be out of cardstock soon, too, though that's less urgent because there's other, somewhat tolerable paper on hand that I can use instead.
...Seeing as these guys kicked it after 4 pages, and there are 9 more pages to go, I'll probably need multiples of each one.
If you have any of these markers and don't plan on using them, I would ADORE you forever if you cared to send them my way, and I would repay you with free art of your character. Email me at taodoggy -AT- gmail -dot- com.
If you don't have markers but would like to help me out, I am still offering Iron Artist commissions (sketch + texture for $15; with flat colors for $25; plus $5 for taurs/wings; plus $10 per character over one).
I can also do more refined soft-shaded commissions for $50, one character.
Or, have yourself an icon in a similar style to mine, 300px and 100px, for $11.
Or... you could donate. I feel really weird suggesting this, but I figure if someone wants to pitch in and can't spare enough for a commission, well, there's no minimum donation. (Let me reiterate that I am NOT in financial trouble, just financial discomfort, and I'm NOT asking for help paying my bills, which are my problem, not yours.) My PayPal is taodoggy -AT- gmail -dot- com.
Also, if this doesn't pan out and I can't get ahold of some new markers, the comic WILL continue anyway. It would just be shaded digitally instead of traditionally. Which would make me kind of sad, because I'm really having a lot of fun with the markers, since I don't usually do traditional media besides graphite. But it WILL continue, in one form or another, assuming I don't get hit by a bus. You have my word.
((NOTE: There seems to be something seriously wrong with my computer's wi-fi functionality. Great timing as always. The computer is past warranty, so I'm consulting with someone I know about the next best course of action. I'll be maintaining contact with my phone.))
