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Update + Important Commission Question
a year ago
Happy Pride Month! I have something important to ask to you about. It would mean a whole lot to me if you read to the end.
I’ve been very quiet on the art side of things for quite a while now, and that’s cause 2024 so far for me has been a near-constant sequence of bad stuff happening, over and over again. But this Memorial Day, I had a really nice day off, I had completely forgotten I got it off so I actually had a day with truly nothing to do, and I got right back into being creative. Writing & drawing for hours. I realized I could still make stuff at a nice pace. It was good.
Then right after that was a workday with some verifiably unethical stuff happening, and being asked of me, and I put my foot down, I’ve yet to hear back.
With both of those experiences back-to-back, something seriously snapped in my head, I’m having an increasingly difficult time justifying to myself to endure my job solely cause of how much I depend upon the “stability” of pay it offers VS the daunting high risk of quitting it and starting to do commissions regularly without any savings in the bank first, something that at the current way things are going I wouldn't be able to even start saving anything for a couple years.
At this point tho, this year has kicked me past my limit so many times, I've lost a bunch IRL and the risk doesn’t seem as bad as it once did. In my current job, I am frankly dying inside emotionally and overworking my wrist injury to the point I can’t spend much off-work time I have drawing. Extreme delays from being unable to make time to create have caused more of my burnouts than anything else. I am very, very tired of throwing my passion in the garbage just because I am very afraid of homelessness. I'm stuck trying to live in the very expensive state I was born in, with no roommates or friends living nearby.
I have been considering a lot in the past few days. If I took the plunge and quit my job, I’d have my time back, I'd be able to put less strain on my wrist injury, and create art all the way from simple pinups to my beloved scat kinks at a speed I’ve always longed to.
But it'd be a point of no return, and no matter what art-related plans I have, none of it matters without enough potentially interested commissioners that would even want to commission me; you'd be taking a risk on me since I've been mostly inactive for too long. So I wanted to ask you, any of you that enjoy the stuff I’ve made in the past, would you be interested in commissioning if I fully opened for commissions in the near future?
I’ve been very quiet on the art side of things for quite a while now, and that’s cause 2024 so far for me has been a near-constant sequence of bad stuff happening, over and over again. But this Memorial Day, I had a really nice day off, I had completely forgotten I got it off so I actually had a day with truly nothing to do, and I got right back into being creative. Writing & drawing for hours. I realized I could still make stuff at a nice pace. It was good.
Then right after that was a workday with some verifiably unethical stuff happening, and being asked of me, and I put my foot down, I’ve yet to hear back.
With both of those experiences back-to-back, something seriously snapped in my head, I’m having an increasingly difficult time justifying to myself to endure my job solely cause of how much I depend upon the “stability” of pay it offers VS the daunting high risk of quitting it and starting to do commissions regularly without any savings in the bank first, something that at the current way things are going I wouldn't be able to even start saving anything for a couple years.
At this point tho, this year has kicked me past my limit so many times, I've lost a bunch IRL and the risk doesn’t seem as bad as it once did. In my current job, I am frankly dying inside emotionally and overworking my wrist injury to the point I can’t spend much off-work time I have drawing. Extreme delays from being unable to make time to create have caused more of my burnouts than anything else. I am very, very tired of throwing my passion in the garbage just because I am very afraid of homelessness. I'm stuck trying to live in the very expensive state I was born in, with no roommates or friends living nearby.
I have been considering a lot in the past few days. If I took the plunge and quit my job, I’d have my time back, I'd be able to put less strain on my wrist injury, and create art all the way from simple pinups to my beloved scat kinks at a speed I’ve always longed to.
But it'd be a point of no return, and no matter what art-related plans I have, none of it matters without enough potentially interested commissioners that would even want to commission me; you'd be taking a risk on me since I've been mostly inactive for too long. So I wanted to ask you, any of you that enjoy the stuff I’ve made in the past, would you be interested in commissioning if I fully opened for commissions in the near future?
Save up what you can and get a nest egg built up. At least 6 months of rent and groceries before taking the plunge.
Besides, you've done so many nice things for others completely out of the kindness of your heart including hosting an absolutely wonderful Sunday night for nerdy sci-fi friends to hang out.
Being given this opportunity to make a difference in your quality of life I wouldn't turn it down for the world. Also charge a good amount of money for your work, it's REALLY beautiful.