So, first thing I did after waking up today, since I seem to be on a resolution roll, I emailed all of my paid and pending commissioners, with an update. I feel so bad for being a month behind. The past few weeks have taught me a lot though, having helped my mother move out of town, I truly feel as if I have moved on to living on my own, now that I can no longer flit over to her for help.

I finally got work life straightened out when I figured out who the tattle tale/liar supervisor I worked with was. I use the past tense, because after this person was exposed, things were resolved in short order and there's no need to worry about them twisting any more words or pitting coworkers against one another anymore.

Getting out of debt (slowly but surely) has also had a dramatic impact on my mood.

Learning a lot about my sexuality (not just the physical attraction, but the intellectual and emotional components) is another huge improvement in life.

However, I've been thinking back a lot on my three years spent working tech support and customer service in a call center. Filtering everything through the mentor-ship like employment I have at my job. Where my manager is teaching me all the ins and outs of high, mid and low level management while I work as a supervisor.

I've realized, that I can actually apply a lot of this to how I work my commissions. Making myself a happier artist in the long run, delivering a far better product, and building up a reputation as an artist, and not just a hack.

What this means, there's going to be upward moves in commissions prices. I know I'm worth it, especially with what I want to offer the people who want to spend money on me.

This is all just a lot of talk, because it's a plan I'm still working out; what I want to offer is a more individualized experience. So this means maybe ten to twelve commissions a month, probably less.

A more direct experience, if you talk to  Drayk he knows that I'm an absolute whore for wanting to get every little detail straight, this means IM chats with a lot of revisions to nail down what someone gets. This is because I want to deliver something that's spot on, high quality, and high detail (Honestly, I want to give  strype a run for his money in level of detail and quality. That's a ways off, but damned if I don't make it there in two years or less)

In short, I want to work with my customers, to deliver something unique, special, and no less than a breath short of perfect

I pretty much summed it all up above there. I don't want to be an art mill, I want to spend my time creating art, not mass producing illustrations.

I'll probably still offer something low end in the $10-20 range as sketches, and I do plan to follow JollyJack's example with his Apsara portfolio, and offer small, polished sketch portfolios (10-15 page stories) for $2 as digital downloads. Sooner or later someone is going to rip it and post it on the net, so I'll just beat them to the punch and sneak into more pockets while I'm at it :D

I think that's it for today e.e