...probably.

I am planning on taking the rest of summer to start painting for myself, practicing painting from reference and improving my own skills as an artist. I have been asked recently for a LOT of ref sheets, and have more people asking me for them, and although I enjoy making them and they are good for giving me some extra money, I feel stagnated by only painting characters and images that I bring out of my own mind.

I'm still considering taking on more work later, but I think I wont be doing any more commissions until Mid August so I can paint some things and work on becoming a better painter.

That being said, I might be convinced to take this back or accept NEW commissions if they seem like they would be good for my practice. I could consider doing paintings of people's pets, or their characters in landscapes they give me by photo reference or something. I just am getting a bit tired of references and paintings that I have to pull entirely from my mind, rather than painting what I see and getting better by painting from life.