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10 years ago
Hi all,
Surprise, I'm not dead! I wish I could bring my usual eagerness and excitement to this journal as I do before, or at least with a bit of optimism, but I don't think I can right now. There have been a lot of things going rough for me right now, and I'm finding not only less time to work on commissions, but less motivation and enjoyment in drawing in general. Doesn't help that I'm also experience technological issues in regards to my tablet and software, so the times that I CAN work, half the time it ends up crashing or I end up losing progress. It's really frustrating and these past few weeks I've done a lot of thinking while at work on what I want to do in regards to FA and commissions.
Before that, however, I should put this up:
People I Owe Art To:
RarySnowlion Inking - PAID
Rayner01091 Sketching
Vancity Sketching
Musicmadman Sketched
If your username is not on here but I am supposed to be doing art for you from a pre-arranged commission, please let me know! I've had many people also note me privately asking if I'm open for commissions, and I just... I've been feeling very miserable and stressed and I apologize for not getting back to you, but right now the notes section of FA has me anxious and I can't seem to bring myself to send any notes. I guess I just don't think I'll be able to say the right thing right now... For those in the current list, whenever I am ready with a completed stage of your commission, or am ready for you to send payment, I will let you know. The last thing I want is to sit on your money and not be able to be sure that I can finish your commission in a timely manner (which has already happened in one case, as much as I hate to admit it, and it's something I want to make sure never happens again).
Anyways, I'm closed right now and I don't know when I will open next. Probably not for quite a while. I apologize... I wish I could do more art for people, and it still honors me a lot that there are people out there who actively seek out and would pay for my art. Unfortunately, art is not my full-time job. I watch a lot of artists who upload like crazy and I wish I could do that, but most of those artists do art for a living, the money they receive from commissions pays for their rent or groceries, etc. I, however, have a full-time job that already pays that- art has just been a sort of hobby on the side that I also get paid for. And I feel as if it's gotten to the point, in the past few months, that I spend way too much time and effort on it even though it's just meant to be a hobby. So I'm going to have to end up changing that, probably.
My real life job has been very crazy as of late. Don't get me wrong, it's all very good things- we just recently had a brand-new customer send us so many more new jobs that our CEO is creating a brand-new division in the office to handle them... and he put me in charge (temporarily, but still) of getting it all set up and managing it until we've got it under control. I've been working extra hours, with new co-workers to come, and when I come home exhausted from a big, important day of work and sit down at my computer, only to be reminded of commissions, of artwork that I "have" to take care of... it feels like a second job on its own when art was never meant to be that.
I didn't mean for this journal to be this long, so I'll stop it here.
tldr; commissions are closed until further notice; those I have accepted prior to this I will continue to work on and finish as quickly as I possibly can, but I cannot guarantee a completion date. I am so sorry for any lack of communication and for not being able to make art for those of you who enjoy my drawings. Regardless, thank you all so much for your patience and understanding, and I appreciate each and every one of you. I hope to be able to get back to art soon... but if/when I do, it will probably focus much less on commission work and more so on unpaid, personal art I want to do for fun.
Again, thank you to everyone who continues to watch, favorite, and comment on my art, even in times like these when I'm really not deserving of it.
You all are amazing.
<3
-Tigger
Surprise, I'm not dead! I wish I could bring my usual eagerness and excitement to this journal as I do before, or at least with a bit of optimism, but I don't think I can right now. There have been a lot of things going rough for me right now, and I'm finding not only less time to work on commissions, but less motivation and enjoyment in drawing in general. Doesn't help that I'm also experience technological issues in regards to my tablet and software, so the times that I CAN work, half the time it ends up crashing or I end up losing progress. It's really frustrating and these past few weeks I've done a lot of thinking while at work on what I want to do in regards to FA and commissions.
Before that, however, I should put this up:
People I Owe Art To:
RarySnowlion Inking - PAID
Rayner01091 Sketching
Vancity Sketching
Musicmadman Sketched
If your username is not on here but I am supposed to be doing art for you from a pre-arranged commission, please let me know! I've had many people also note me privately asking if I'm open for commissions, and I just... I've been feeling very miserable and stressed and I apologize for not getting back to you, but right now the notes section of FA has me anxious and I can't seem to bring myself to send any notes. I guess I just don't think I'll be able to say the right thing right now... For those in the current list, whenever I am ready with a completed stage of your commission, or am ready for you to send payment, I will let you know. The last thing I want is to sit on your money and not be able to be sure that I can finish your commission in a timely manner (which has already happened in one case, as much as I hate to admit it, and it's something I want to make sure never happens again).
Anyways, I'm closed right now and I don't know when I will open next. Probably not for quite a while. I apologize... I wish I could do more art for people, and it still honors me a lot that there are people out there who actively seek out and would pay for my art. Unfortunately, art is not my full-time job. I watch a lot of artists who upload like crazy and I wish I could do that, but most of those artists do art for a living, the money they receive from commissions pays for their rent or groceries, etc. I, however, have a full-time job that already pays that- art has just been a sort of hobby on the side that I also get paid for. And I feel as if it's gotten to the point, in the past few months, that I spend way too much time and effort on it even though it's just meant to be a hobby. So I'm going to have to end up changing that, probably.
My real life job has been very crazy as of late. Don't get me wrong, it's all very good things- we just recently had a brand-new customer send us so many more new jobs that our CEO is creating a brand-new division in the office to handle them... and he put me in charge (temporarily, but still) of getting it all set up and managing it until we've got it under control. I've been working extra hours, with new co-workers to come, and when I come home exhausted from a big, important day of work and sit down at my computer, only to be reminded of commissions, of artwork that I "have" to take care of... it feels like a second job on its own when art was never meant to be that.
I didn't mean for this journal to be this long, so I'll stop it here.
tldr; commissions are closed until further notice; those I have accepted prior to this I will continue to work on and finish as quickly as I possibly can, but I cannot guarantee a completion date. I am so sorry for any lack of communication and for not being able to make art for those of you who enjoy my drawings. Regardless, thank you all so much for your patience and understanding, and I appreciate each and every one of you. I hope to be able to get back to art soon... but if/when I do, it will probably focus much less on commission work and more so on unpaid, personal art I want to do for fun.
Again, thank you to everyone who continues to watch, favorite, and comment on my art, even in times like these when I'm really not deserving of it.
You all are amazing.
<3
-Tigger
Work is a delicate balance between pushing yourself to do all you can and not taking on more than you can handle. I hope you won't have a problem telling your boss "Somebody else needs to do that, my plate is full."