In regards to Commissions, Streaming and Patreon
9 years ago
Hey everyone! It's been a wonderful month back and I am truely grateful for those of you who've decided to watch me, fave my things and commission me. I really do hope that you'll enjoy the works I have planned for the future, both the big projects, spontaneous projects and the various commissions that may be placed.
I have a few things I want to fill you guys in on, as the title suggests.
1. My new status:
The major thing I need to bring up is that I am undertaking a senior project for my final year of graphic design. I will have a lot of work to do for that. I have to put in at least 180 hours into this project, from the concept sketches to the final results. I have 5 weeks to do so. The next 5 weeks will be hectic for me, but I will still be accepting the occasional commission to do in downtime for when I need breaks from my project(I do find small commission pieces very fun and relaxing!). But keep in mind any commissions I receive will probably take a bit longer than my 1-2 day output.
2. Commissions
Because of the project I will be cutting back a commission slot. I will probably not take more than 1 large commission in at a time.
Large commissions include :Comics, Illustrations with more than 3 characters, Full shaded illustrations with backgrounds and refsheets.
I may also ignore my own guides and accept 2 big projects if I am interested in the themes/scenes/charaters/etc. But keep in mind I may have to stretch these projects out a bit further.
3. Streaming
As I suggested before I want to start streaming some live drawing. I want to aim for once a week if I can. For the most part it will be as an unwinder for me, so I will be focusing on personal art. I will probably not take full requests, maybe suggestions. If I do offer in stream commissions It will most likely need to follow the theme of the type of stream I set up (ex. MLP, Pokemon, Oviposition, dragons, ect) for the next few weeks. After that I will probably set up streams for showcasing work on commissions and will be a lot more open to taking stream commissions!
4. Patreon
As most of you have probably noticed I have been waggling around my new patreon link. Very sorry if that annoys some of you! If so, I'd just skip this part.
For those who don't care either way and may be potentially interested keep reading, or don't I am not going to force you.:P
Anyway! I am still in the process of figuring out the reward tiers. I hope they're not too confusing right now.
I am also going to do weekly updates on there with sketches, full resolution images and progressions of my personal work as well as PDFs for those who want to make some prints. I will also be making the PSD files available in case there are some of you who are curious as to how I layer things, how my opacity is set, the weird way I colour, etc.
I will not be uploading commission work there at full resolution/ in pdf form as only the commissioner has the rights to that.
I think that's all I have for now, thanks for reading! If there are any questions, comments or concerns please either post here or toss me a note!
I have a few things I want to fill you guys in on, as the title suggests.
1. My new status:
The major thing I need to bring up is that I am undertaking a senior project for my final year of graphic design. I will have a lot of work to do for that. I have to put in at least 180 hours into this project, from the concept sketches to the final results. I have 5 weeks to do so. The next 5 weeks will be hectic for me, but I will still be accepting the occasional commission to do in downtime for when I need breaks from my project(I do find small commission pieces very fun and relaxing!). But keep in mind any commissions I receive will probably take a bit longer than my 1-2 day output.
2. Commissions
Because of the project I will be cutting back a commission slot. I will probably not take more than 1 large commission in at a time.
Large commissions include :Comics, Illustrations with more than 3 characters, Full shaded illustrations with backgrounds and refsheets.
I may also ignore my own guides and accept 2 big projects if I am interested in the themes/scenes/charaters/etc. But keep in mind I may have to stretch these projects out a bit further.
3. Streaming
As I suggested before I want to start streaming some live drawing. I want to aim for once a week if I can. For the most part it will be as an unwinder for me, so I will be focusing on personal art. I will probably not take full requests, maybe suggestions. If I do offer in stream commissions It will most likely need to follow the theme of the type of stream I set up (ex. MLP, Pokemon, Oviposition, dragons, ect) for the next few weeks. After that I will probably set up streams for showcasing work on commissions and will be a lot more open to taking stream commissions!
4. Patreon
As most of you have probably noticed I have been waggling around my new patreon link. Very sorry if that annoys some of you! If so, I'd just skip this part.
For those who don't care either way and may be potentially interested keep reading, or don't I am not going to force you.:P
Anyway! I am still in the process of figuring out the reward tiers. I hope they're not too confusing right now.
I am also going to do weekly updates on there with sketches, full resolution images and progressions of my personal work as well as PDFs for those who want to make some prints. I will also be making the PSD files available in case there are some of you who are curious as to how I layer things, how my opacity is set, the weird way I colour, etc.
I will not be uploading commission work there at full resolution/ in pdf form as only the commissioner has the rights to that.
I think that's all I have for now, thanks for reading! If there are any questions, comments or concerns please either post here or toss me a note!

PoisonTrail
~poisontrail
180 hour project, wow! I'm sure you'll do well though, keep up the great work! :D