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New commission concepts
16 years ago
So I've been poking around on Furbuy and noticed people selling some interesting new sorts of commissions.
There's the "art slave for a [time period]", where the artist undertakes to produce a certain number of artworks for the commissioner (eg. one a week, three a month).
The comic commission (okay, these have been around forever), but there's one up there at the moment with some good constraints on it (max of four pages and 3 characters)
Oh, and people fill up their journals with "100 $10 sketches" and suchlike. There seems to be something about the slot format that makes people go "omg, must grab one!", whereas with open-ended commission offers they're all "yeah, maybe one day"
I wonder if I should try either of these. There's no doubt that I can make comics, and I have made comics from other people's scripts in the past, but it can be troublesome if the writer has no experience of the medium (eg. there's a limit to the amount of text that can fit in a panel). I need to auction off not just my ability to draw speech bubbles, but my creative expertise, so that the customer brings the concept and the characters, and I help them shape it into something special(-er).
This is similar to the Build-a-Beastie concept, where people's ideas have to be filtered through my knowledge of how you actually make a stuffed toy. Maybe it could work. Comment if you have any thoughts.
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So yes, meanwhile I'm selling:
Ink and graphite drawings for AU$11 (see previous journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1179894/)
Build-a-Beastie custom soft toy kits, cute paintable sculptures and patterpillars (http://www.patterpillarshop.com/)
T-shirts, comic books, coloured drawings (http://pantheon.comicgenesis.com/shop.html)
There's the "art slave for a [time period]", where the artist undertakes to produce a certain number of artworks for the commissioner (eg. one a week, three a month).
The comic commission (okay, these have been around forever), but there's one up there at the moment with some good constraints on it (max of four pages and 3 characters)
Oh, and people fill up their journals with "100 $10 sketches" and suchlike. There seems to be something about the slot format that makes people go "omg, must grab one!", whereas with open-ended commission offers they're all "yeah, maybe one day"
I wonder if I should try either of these. There's no doubt that I can make comics, and I have made comics from other people's scripts in the past, but it can be troublesome if the writer has no experience of the medium (eg. there's a limit to the amount of text that can fit in a panel). I need to auction off not just my ability to draw speech bubbles, but my creative expertise, so that the customer brings the concept and the characters, and I help them shape it into something special(-er).
This is similar to the Build-a-Beastie concept, where people's ideas have to be filtered through my knowledge of how you actually make a stuffed toy. Maybe it could work. Comment if you have any thoughts.
...
So yes, meanwhile I'm selling:
Ink and graphite drawings for AU$11 (see previous journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1179894/)
Build-a-Beastie custom soft toy kits, cute paintable sculptures and patterpillars (http://www.patterpillarshop.com/)
T-shirts, comic books, coloured drawings (http://pantheon.comicgenesis.com/shop.html)
Oh, I just saw you're watched by nearly 1700 people - no wonder you have no trouble filling your slots. :D I have only 69 watchers!
Do you think having slots makes a difference to people? For example, if you opened for your $7 sketches with no limits, would a huge flood of people buy them and overwhelm you? Or is it the "limited opportunity" thing that's attracting them?