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priorities plus streaming question
14 years ago
General
-Gotta totally get moved out by the 15th
-Get furniture moved (gonna use the van & arrange the house accordingly)
-Get appliances moved (gonna rent a truck for a day and get a pallet setup going under the deck
-Get all trash dumped (not sure for this one yet; talk to the trash guys about paying a flat fee or something, maybe :/)
-Get all of the house cleaned (weigh the cost of doing it ourselves vs. hiring someone to do it)
We also owe for roommates' part of the rent too, along with utilities, which is probably around $5k altogether. So tired of getting dumped on for this shit, I swear to god. *RAGE*
-Get kids ready for school
-Get $5k raised by the beginning of next year to pay off back debts
-Maybe try to see if I'm ready to try commissions again. Nothing emergency related or anything like that; I know I screwed up last time. I'm going to post up a permanent ToS and a list of what I will/won't draw and keep a separate list (not on here) for ongoing orders (that way nothing gets accidentally deleted).
-Would streaming sessions work better for quick commissions like sketchwork/chibis/flat color? I've been wanting to try streaming like on Ustream/Livestream/Watchtail but I just can't seem to get a good setup working for me.
For those who do this sort of thing on a regular basis, is there a certain configuration or one particular site that you tend to stick with? I'd really like to try doing this on a regular basis for quickie commissions and it seems to be a good way to provide live feedback and opinions/critiques on whatever you're working on.
Anyway, I'm glad I sort of have a schedule to stick to. Let's just hope nothing else decides to go wrong for a while.
-Get furniture moved (gonna use the van & arrange the house accordingly)
-Get appliances moved (gonna rent a truck for a day and get a pallet setup going under the deck
-Get all trash dumped (not sure for this one yet; talk to the trash guys about paying a flat fee or something, maybe :/)
-Get all of the house cleaned (weigh the cost of doing it ourselves vs. hiring someone to do it)
We also owe for roommates' part of the rent too, along with utilities, which is probably around $5k altogether. So tired of getting dumped on for this shit, I swear to god. *RAGE*
-Get kids ready for school
-Get $5k raised by the beginning of next year to pay off back debts
-Maybe try to see if I'm ready to try commissions again. Nothing emergency related or anything like that; I know I screwed up last time. I'm going to post up a permanent ToS and a list of what I will/won't draw and keep a separate list (not on here) for ongoing orders (that way nothing gets accidentally deleted).
-Would streaming sessions work better for quick commissions like sketchwork/chibis/flat color? I've been wanting to try streaming like on Ustream/Livestream/Watchtail but I just can't seem to get a good setup working for me.
For those who do this sort of thing on a regular basis, is there a certain configuration or one particular site that you tend to stick with? I'd really like to try doing this on a regular basis for quickie commissions and it seems to be a good way to provide live feedback and opinions/critiques on whatever you're working on.
Anyway, I'm glad I sort of have a schedule to stick to. Let's just hope nothing else decides to go wrong for a while.
I have only done it once myself, but I visit a lot of them - a LOT. It is indeed a very handy thing to get direct, on-the-spot input from your commissioners, ask them questions about the picture you're doing for them while you are working on it, so you can change/fix/implement details that may have been forgotten in the intital communication when someone asked to commission you.
Livestream seems to be the most popular one, which is understandable because they provide their own broadcasting software; Procaster, which you can download for free off their site and which works very well and is very simple to set up. When you have it installed, all you have to do is open the program, click the "Go Live" button, and presto; you're on Livestream.
One thing you'll need to think about, however; what type of commissions will you be working on while livestreaming? Or rather, what type of pictures? Adult pictures are not allowed (though for solo nudes, you'd still be fine if you censor them after inking), so if you'd be working on a lot of adult/porn-ish pictures, then Watchtail might be a better option for you (they're also more furry-oriented). For Watchtail, you will need a different webcam/screencasting program, though, but they do offer a few suggestions.
The best you could do, I think, is look through the ToS and FAQs of both sites and see which one would be better suited for you. Either way, it IS a good idea to consider livestreaming, because it will indeed be a good help for both you and your commissioners to make sure the requested picture comes out as perfect as possible as the commissioner can see you working on it. And a lot of commissioners also like seeing an artist work on their picture
Yeah, I won't be working on anything porny so Livestream seems like it should work just fine. I'm mainly having issues with how to set up the stream itself, like getting it to work so it just records parts of my desktop and having any audio come directly from my laptop instead of broadcasting sounds that come in through the microphone. :P
*nodnods*
And yes, it sounds like Livestream will work perfectly for you. In that case, you'd also be using Procaster, and that's pretty easy to set. In the Settings tabs you can crop the video window to show only those parts of your desktop you want to broadcast, and in the Audio Mixer window, you can just delete all but one input channel and select Speakers Audio as the input source for that one channel, that'll make sure any sounds coming through your microphone won't be broadcasted, but only the music you're playing in whichever music player program you run at the time