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Opinion Piece: Thoughts on Art Requests
10 years ago
I'm not an artist. And I know that artists tend to get bugged about free art. Commissions are an important source of income for artists. However, I feel like the relationship between artists and requesters is way more abrasive than it needs to be. Given, some people essentially try to ask for a commission for free, and that's not an okay thing to do, but sometimes I get an idea in my head and think "oh man, that'd be really cool to see visualized" but then don't have money. I'm not going to go begging for free art, but, y'know, it'd be really cool to see.
I think it'd be cool if more artists had a "suggestion box" of sorts. Something they'd have no obligation to actually use, but something where, at some point, they might say "hey, I'm not sure what I should draw", and then voila, they have a huge pile of suggestions on what to draw. Obviously the suggestions would need to be fairly reduced in description. Perhaps a sentence or two, tops. Other guidelines would need to be set in place. But *anything* other than getting angry at each other.
I think it'd be cool if more artists had a "suggestion box" of sorts. Something they'd have no obligation to actually use, but something where, at some point, they might say "hey, I'm not sure what I should draw", and then voila, they have a huge pile of suggestions on what to draw. Obviously the suggestions would need to be fairly reduced in description. Perhaps a sentence or two, tops. Other guidelines would need to be set in place. But *anything* other than getting angry at each other.
a- some people think a suggestion box means "i will do this for you eventually" and will continuously ask if you have taken up their request yet
b- many artist feel guilty about not delivering all of the requests they get (regardless of their requests expectaions) leading to artist-guilty which can lead to not drawing anything at all
b.1- often artists will be guilty tripped by example a to the point where they end up just doing the picture to make themstop/not feel guilty anymore
personally i'm always cool with people noting me ideas~ but i make it very clear i have a 0% guarantee policy~
If you really want a place to post ideas you want drawn, i'd suggest going to 4chan, alot of the boards have Drawthreads and artist gather there to see what ideas are floating around~
(for transformation and other "alternative fetishes" /d/ is the place to go~)
And yea, the /d/ and /b/ threads would be useful. A lot of my transformation-based ideas wouldn't require furry, so I could probably pass them by /d/ just fine.