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End of year goals, General Updates. Nothing Important
3 years ago
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Hello everyone. I hope you are all doing well and excited for fall.
I just wanted to post an update about how I have been and where I am at with commission work, since it is approaching a year since I took on my current batch of commissions. As I've probably said before I had a long period of time this year feeling very bleh about drawing. Perhaps just generally depressed for a while, but I'm not sure. It really interrupted my work on commissions for essentially all of 2022 with only brief periods of inspiration. Ive actually felt a lot better recently. The pieces I have come to in my queue are the more complex/rendered ones so despite being able to draw again it has still been slow to finish pieces.
In the past, my rhythm has been pretty yearly for commission opening, taking, finishing and reopening. This year has been a little harder for me. And for that I apologize. I'm trying to get back on track with working efficiently. And visualizing the remainder of the year as a chunk of time to set goals for myself as far as making progress and finishing things is concerned.
One other road block is that the busy season has started at work. I've been doing semi frequent overtime. Which is something I have to work around. This is part of my challenge in scheduling myself. Considering it a challenge as opposed to an obstacle might be helpful to me I will figure that out.
Another thing I have been thinking about for the future: I don't think my current lifestyle allows me enough time to be a mass commission artist anymore. I've tried to make it work at this scale for a couple years, but I don't think it is smart for me to take on many projects at once. I acknowledge this is how it is and I will need to make changes to how I do commissions in the future. I've been brainstorming ideas. Because I do really enjoy the communication and piece-building aspects of commission work. And don't want to stop completely. However My art taking longer as my style changes and my free time being less as I age is a truth that I can't ignore(and occasionally volatile mental health that I can't predict when taking a queue). My solutions for this are taking only single projects on at once. In a style of rendering I feel like doing in the moment. I'll have to reject far more projects that way, which is why I haven't tried doing only single or minimal slots in the past. Because I don't want to reject projects. Working with in my limits is more important though and I will be using more restraint in the future. This isn't applicable now or anything. My current mission for the remainder of 2022 is finish off all remaining projects. Which I will do piece by piece until it's all done. Then do whatever I want in the moment after that(an adventure for the future). Setting a soft deadline for the end of 2022 on myself is a helpful strategy I think. Instead of complete chaos and no mental scope for time. I will stop rambling now.
Anyways, many thanks for looking at my art and stuff. I haven't had much energy for interaction either, but I always read all of your comments and things and appreciate them very much. Many thoughtful wonderful people you lot are.
--Baa
Priscilla
I just wanted to post an update about how I have been and where I am at with commission work, since it is approaching a year since I took on my current batch of commissions. As I've probably said before I had a long period of time this year feeling very bleh about drawing. Perhaps just generally depressed for a while, but I'm not sure. It really interrupted my work on commissions for essentially all of 2022 with only brief periods of inspiration. Ive actually felt a lot better recently. The pieces I have come to in my queue are the more complex/rendered ones so despite being able to draw again it has still been slow to finish pieces.
In the past, my rhythm has been pretty yearly for commission opening, taking, finishing and reopening. This year has been a little harder for me. And for that I apologize. I'm trying to get back on track with working efficiently. And visualizing the remainder of the year as a chunk of time to set goals for myself as far as making progress and finishing things is concerned.
One other road block is that the busy season has started at work. I've been doing semi frequent overtime. Which is something I have to work around. This is part of my challenge in scheduling myself. Considering it a challenge as opposed to an obstacle might be helpful to me I will figure that out.
Another thing I have been thinking about for the future: I don't think my current lifestyle allows me enough time to be a mass commission artist anymore. I've tried to make it work at this scale for a couple years, but I don't think it is smart for me to take on many projects at once. I acknowledge this is how it is and I will need to make changes to how I do commissions in the future. I've been brainstorming ideas. Because I do really enjoy the communication and piece-building aspects of commission work. And don't want to stop completely. However My art taking longer as my style changes and my free time being less as I age is a truth that I can't ignore(and occasionally volatile mental health that I can't predict when taking a queue). My solutions for this are taking only single projects on at once. In a style of rendering I feel like doing in the moment. I'll have to reject far more projects that way, which is why I haven't tried doing only single or minimal slots in the past. Because I don't want to reject projects. Working with in my limits is more important though and I will be using more restraint in the future. This isn't applicable now or anything. My current mission for the remainder of 2022 is finish off all remaining projects. Which I will do piece by piece until it's all done. Then do whatever I want in the moment after that(an adventure for the future). Setting a soft deadline for the end of 2022 on myself is a helpful strategy I think. Instead of complete chaos and no mental scope for time. I will stop rambling now.
Anyways, many thanks for looking at my art and stuff. I haven't had much energy for interaction either, but I always read all of your comments and things and appreciate them very much. Many thoughtful wonderful people you lot are.
--Baa
Priscilla
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