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Commission Tier Update: The Return of Soft-Shaded Pics!
a year ago
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Hey hey, all!
I’m once again making soft-shaded pics available as a commission tier.
These are pics with a higher level of polish to the shading, making shadows soft-edged and blended, as opposed to the hard-edged shadows in a cel-shaded pic.
This tier will be fairly pricy because this kind of pic takes me a long time, and I don’t expect it’ll be for everyone. My other commission tiers will stay the same though! This is just an extra option for people that want super-nice shading and are willing to pay extra for it. :3
My website has been updated to include the soft-shaded tier and now includes some notes about the differences between the tiers:
https://www.ahnik.art/pricing/full-images
Some of the more nicely rendered images previously listed as examples of cel-shaded pics are now considered examples of soft-shaded pics, and I’ve removed images that were sort of in-between the two categories to avoid any confusion.
That’s all for the main announcement, the rest of this journal is just TL;DR info about why I’m bringing this tier back.
Since I stopped doing soft-shades a long while back, I’ve felt the way I shade some pics start to sort of drift back towards what I would consider soft-shading. Sometimes this happens if I really like a certain OC or piece I’m working on and want to give it full polish. Sometimes I do it as a treat for commissioners that have commissioned me a lot.
However, this has caused some confusion around what the baseline expectations are for a cel-shaded pic that doesn’t have this extra polish. It’s also caused scheduling problems for me, as I’ll schedule time for a certain number of cel-shades in a month, but then end up taking much longer on them since I polish them up to the level of soft-shades.
I’m hoping that by bringing back the soft-shade tier, this will clarify expectations for people commissioning cel-shaded pics. I also hope to take some worry off of my shoulders so that I don’t feel I have to start polishing ALL cel-shade commissions to the level of soft-shades now, which would not be sustainable for me in terms of time invested to income earned.
That’s all for now, thanks all for reading!
Cheers,
Ahnik
Commissions are OPEN
My Social Media Links
I’m once again making soft-shaded pics available as a commission tier.
These are pics with a higher level of polish to the shading, making shadows soft-edged and blended, as opposed to the hard-edged shadows in a cel-shaded pic.
This tier will be fairly pricy because this kind of pic takes me a long time, and I don’t expect it’ll be for everyone. My other commission tiers will stay the same though! This is just an extra option for people that want super-nice shading and are willing to pay extra for it. :3
My website has been updated to include the soft-shaded tier and now includes some notes about the differences between the tiers:
https://www.ahnik.art/pricing/full-images
Some of the more nicely rendered images previously listed as examples of cel-shaded pics are now considered examples of soft-shaded pics, and I’ve removed images that were sort of in-between the two categories to avoid any confusion.
That’s all for the main announcement, the rest of this journal is just TL;DR info about why I’m bringing this tier back.
Since I stopped doing soft-shades a long while back, I’ve felt the way I shade some pics start to sort of drift back towards what I would consider soft-shading. Sometimes this happens if I really like a certain OC or piece I’m working on and want to give it full polish. Sometimes I do it as a treat for commissioners that have commissioned me a lot.
However, this has caused some confusion around what the baseline expectations are for a cel-shaded pic that doesn’t have this extra polish. It’s also caused scheduling problems for me, as I’ll schedule time for a certain number of cel-shades in a month, but then end up taking much longer on them since I polish them up to the level of soft-shades.
I’m hoping that by bringing back the soft-shade tier, this will clarify expectations for people commissioning cel-shaded pics. I also hope to take some worry off of my shoulders so that I don’t feel I have to start polishing ALL cel-shade commissions to the level of soft-shades now, which would not be sustainable for me in terms of time invested to income earned.
That’s all for now, thanks all for reading!
Cheers,
Ahnik
Commissions are OPEN
My Social Media Links
