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2 years ago
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Not gonna type up a huge thing here. Just posting to say that after my trip to Florida to see my father, I left with some new ambitions and that comes with some changes. My time spent kinda reconnecting more with my father was a great experience for me, and something I really missed out on as a kid.
I have some clear goals of things that I wish to change and some of that involves my art, partly... I'm in the process of gettin a new job. Based on the job I land, I'm going to be making adjustments to my art time. This means that, at least for a lil while, I'm probs gonna be slowing down a bit on commissions - not quitting - but taking a step back for various reasons. It's been a good 3 year run living off of just my art, but it's not cutting it for me anymore and I want another income again.
It's been a fantastic run though. I'm so happy I was able to pull this off for the last 3 years. It's nice to know folks out there like my work enough to throw money at my for it, and have been understanding of my goofy lag on certain things (maybe too understanding). You all rock and really helped to kinda crush that "imposter syndrome" I battle with when it comes to my work as an artist.
With AnthroCon coming up, it's gonna be the last big push for coms for a while. After that, I'll be taking in a much more limited set of slots for new work - at least over the summer. I also really wanna take a lot more time to focus more on personal art and projects. Living off commissions has been fun, but my personal projects and drive to create art just for me, kinda fell off, and hard. So I wanna step back and reevaluate what I put my art time into. I'm still looking forward to do commissions, but I want my personal passions to progress a lot more. I want to work on my game a lot more and toss a lot more of my own, personal content on both patreon accounts.
After having the experience I did over the last 3 years, I think this is the best outlook for me, my art and related work. I've been pretty butt at time management on my own and it's been hard to fully fix while trying to keep a regular pace up.
I think with this change, I'll probs get much better with regular posting my work after I getin settled in a new routine and have ALL of my queue cleared out, a clean slate (which I'm gettin close to already, AC will just be the last big chunk for a while).
My contacts will remain open even after AC, so contacting me about commission work will still always be welcome, my availability may just be more limited at times.
I'm still interested in taking whatever other smaller commissions like sketches and pixel art stuff for the rest of this month.
Thanks for being awesome.
I have some clear goals of things that I wish to change and some of that involves my art, partly... I'm in the process of gettin a new job. Based on the job I land, I'm going to be making adjustments to my art time. This means that, at least for a lil while, I'm probs gonna be slowing down a bit on commissions - not quitting - but taking a step back for various reasons. It's been a good 3 year run living off of just my art, but it's not cutting it for me anymore and I want another income again.
It's been a fantastic run though. I'm so happy I was able to pull this off for the last 3 years. It's nice to know folks out there like my work enough to throw money at my for it, and have been understanding of my goofy lag on certain things (maybe too understanding). You all rock and really helped to kinda crush that "imposter syndrome" I battle with when it comes to my work as an artist.
With AnthroCon coming up, it's gonna be the last big push for coms for a while. After that, I'll be taking in a much more limited set of slots for new work - at least over the summer. I also really wanna take a lot more time to focus more on personal art and projects. Living off commissions has been fun, but my personal projects and drive to create art just for me, kinda fell off, and hard. So I wanna step back and reevaluate what I put my art time into. I'm still looking forward to do commissions, but I want my personal passions to progress a lot more. I want to work on my game a lot more and toss a lot more of my own, personal content on both patreon accounts.
After having the experience I did over the last 3 years, I think this is the best outlook for me, my art and related work. I've been pretty butt at time management on my own and it's been hard to fully fix while trying to keep a regular pace up.
I think with this change, I'll probs get much better with regular posting my work after I getin settled in a new routine and have ALL of my queue cleared out, a clean slate (which I'm gettin close to already, AC will just be the last big chunk for a while).
My contacts will remain open even after AC, so contacting me about commission work will still always be welcome, my availability may just be more limited at times.
I'm still interested in taking whatever other smaller commissions like sketches and pixel art stuff for the rest of this month.
Thanks for being awesome.
Excited to hear about the new job and hope it gets ya the income ya truly want! Currently in the process of (hopefully) doing the same, so I super get the changes! And 3 years on your art alone is quite the dang achievement!
Hoping for great updates regarding the work, and rootin' for ya all the same! C: