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Ending Daily Uploads
2 years ago
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I hope you all are doing well!
I was surprised to learn that yesterday, March 20 marked the anniversary of the earliest documented start to my daily uploads every single day starting a year ago. Quite the accomplishment! Right?
But today I am making the decision to end my daily uploads. Instead, art will be posted as it is finished.
My Art is Different Than a Year Ago
The reason I am doing this is that daily uploads no longer reflect the sort of artist I am today compared to a year ago. A year ago I emphasized excellence of idea, showing great characters doing fun things in neat environments.
Today I am an artist that focuses on excellence of quality. The quality of my pictures is much better today than a year ago, and to do so requires more time per picture.
Patreon voted pictures a year ago took about 6-8 hours each to complete on average. Today Patreon pictures take 12-16 hours each to finish.
Complicating Commissions
Due to how long it takes to do polished and finished pictures, I have utilized traditional sketch commissions to meet the daily upload. These generally take 1-1.75 hours to complete each one. This is time that could have been used on finishing fully rendered pictures.
This has complicated my commission process because I’ve had to spend more time doing sketches than doing fully rendered commissions. At the start of the month I told one commissioner their spot had finally come up and asked to review what they wanted. The commissioner forgot what they wanted and told me they had to go back -7 months- of history to find it. It’s 20 days into the month and I still haven’t started it because of how I’ve been spending my art time.
It took me 7 months to get to their commission, and it’s not because my queue is longer today than a year ago. In fact, my queue is probably 2 people longer than a year ago. What the problem is, is that I’m finishing 1-3 finished commissions per month; and one of those pictures is a contractual requirement towards someone to do each month. I could be going by a whole month and make zero progress on my main line commission queues.
Less Time for Art
Also, art is no longer a full time job for me. My building takes a large portion of time I used to dedicate to art. I thought this time would eventually decline as progress is made on the building but it has shown the time will not decline. It will remain a time sink for me in the months to come.
Just because I am going to be posting fewer pictures doesn’t mean I’m doing less art as a whole compared to the rest of the month. It will just be allocated in different ways.
I figured this announcement was important because some people have told me they would be alarmed if I stopped daily uploads; like something happened to me. I am fine! Nothing is happening to me!
~Eclipsis
I was surprised to learn that yesterday, March 20 marked the anniversary of the earliest documented start to my daily uploads every single day starting a year ago. Quite the accomplishment! Right?
But today I am making the decision to end my daily uploads. Instead, art will be posted as it is finished.
My Art is Different Than a Year Ago
The reason I am doing this is that daily uploads no longer reflect the sort of artist I am today compared to a year ago. A year ago I emphasized excellence of idea, showing great characters doing fun things in neat environments.
Today I am an artist that focuses on excellence of quality. The quality of my pictures is much better today than a year ago, and to do so requires more time per picture.
Patreon voted pictures a year ago took about 6-8 hours each to complete on average. Today Patreon pictures take 12-16 hours each to finish.
Complicating Commissions
Due to how long it takes to do polished and finished pictures, I have utilized traditional sketch commissions to meet the daily upload. These generally take 1-1.75 hours to complete each one. This is time that could have been used on finishing fully rendered pictures.
This has complicated my commission process because I’ve had to spend more time doing sketches than doing fully rendered commissions. At the start of the month I told one commissioner their spot had finally come up and asked to review what they wanted. The commissioner forgot what they wanted and told me they had to go back -7 months- of history to find it. It’s 20 days into the month and I still haven’t started it because of how I’ve been spending my art time.
It took me 7 months to get to their commission, and it’s not because my queue is longer today than a year ago. In fact, my queue is probably 2 people longer than a year ago. What the problem is, is that I’m finishing 1-3 finished commissions per month; and one of those pictures is a contractual requirement towards someone to do each month. I could be going by a whole month and make zero progress on my main line commission queues.
Less Time for Art
Also, art is no longer a full time job for me. My building takes a large portion of time I used to dedicate to art. I thought this time would eventually decline as progress is made on the building but it has shown the time will not decline. It will remain a time sink for me in the months to come.
Just because I am going to be posting fewer pictures doesn’t mean I’m doing less art as a whole compared to the rest of the month. It will just be allocated in different ways.
I figured this announcement was important because some people have told me they would be alarmed if I stopped daily uploads; like something happened to me. I am fine! Nothing is happening to me!
~Eclipsis
