Thoughts on Grab Bag/Warmup Icons?
9 years ago
Okay. SO. I've been entertaining a Thought and wanted to see how you guys felt about it-- as well as polling for interest! Thank you in advance for reading, by the way!
The TL;DR of it is this: I've been contemplating opening up for a batch of icons to be completed in a sort of "whenever I feel like grabbing one" style. Icons are great to me for a lot of reasons; they're quick (one sitting), require minimal information upkeep/retrieval from a client (all you generally need is "what expression?" and "what does their face look like?" to grab-and-go), and help keep my gallery active while I'm juggling a lot of bigger pieces that may take a while before they can be posted. What I might do is open for a chunk of, say, ten or so, and then keep them on the side to be completed whenever I feel like I need a quickie or a warmup.
They wouldn't necessarily have much of a priority to finish (even with client presence) unless I had no other non-icon clients around, though I would still make sure to handle them in a reasonably timely manner, as with all my other work. Chances are in lieu of having information shipped to me via note I'd also just have icon recipients post in a journal or something, since, as mentioned, the info required for them is usually very short, and therefore could all be jammed into a comment easily.
Keep in mind, again, that these would be a vague non-priority idle time thing for me, and might or might not be completed with you-- the client-- present. Despite all that, is there some interest from you guys? Anyone who thinks they would be a taker, assuming I went through with it?
The TL;DR of it is this: I've been contemplating opening up for a batch of icons to be completed in a sort of "whenever I feel like grabbing one" style. Icons are great to me for a lot of reasons; they're quick (one sitting), require minimal information upkeep/retrieval from a client (all you generally need is "what expression?" and "what does their face look like?" to grab-and-go), and help keep my gallery active while I'm juggling a lot of bigger pieces that may take a while before they can be posted. What I might do is open for a chunk of, say, ten or so, and then keep them on the side to be completed whenever I feel like I need a quickie or a warmup.
They wouldn't necessarily have much of a priority to finish (even with client presence) unless I had no other non-icon clients around, though I would still make sure to handle them in a reasonably timely manner, as with all my other work. Chances are in lieu of having information shipped to me via note I'd also just have icon recipients post in a journal or something, since, as mentioned, the info required for them is usually very short, and therefore could all be jammed into a comment easily.
Keep in mind, again, that these would be a vague non-priority idle time thing for me, and might or might not be completed with you-- the client-- present. Despite all that, is there some interest from you guys? Anyone who thinks they would be a taker, assuming I went through with it?
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Not sure if I could afford to nab one if you opened, but if I would definitely get one if I could!
I would be interested!