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A note on my current commission progress
8 years ago
Hello everyone!!
Lately a lot of you have been commissioning me for larger pieces and I have loved working on those for you! However, I’m new to receiving this much interest in them and while I’m extremely grateful for it, I’m still learning how best to pace myself with them, and unfortunately I’ve made a couple mistakes in doing so recently!
As it turns out, larger pieces are very energetically taxing for me at this point. I’m still learning new techniques and learning about my workflow in general, so not only do they take more time, they involve a lot more decision making than simpler artwork. In addition, they take multiple sittings of several hours each to finish, rather than just one or maybe two, and I’m very bad at breaking my flow even to do simple things like make food or go to bed haha (adhd lol—I’M WORKING ON IT), so by the end of the night I end up very mentally and physically exhausted and it’s not something I can keep up with on a daily basis to power through and finish one large commission after the other.
So what I’ll be doing as I complete the rest of my queue is this: I’ll be setting aside one or two days a week minimum to work very intensely on larger pieces with backgrounds (I’ll probably only go over two days if I’m really feeling on a roll), and work on simpler stuff every other day. This means that for those of you waiting on larger pieces, it might take longer to get them to you, and I apologize for that delay, but I assure you that the quality of art will be better for it if I’m not stressing about bills or about taking time to make dinner and sleep :D
Also, while I will be accepting new smaller commissions as I finish batches of those, I won’t be accepting any larger commissions until all of my outstanding large pieces are done. In the future I’ll only be accepting one or two large commissions at one given time so that wait times aren’t as extreme. I’m essentially treating “full illustrations/atmospheric/cinematic” and “everything simpler than those” as two separate, parallel queues, which I think will help me organize my time a lot more easily.
So there you go, just a bit of transparency for everyone 🙂 As always, thank you all for your patience and support and for bearing with me, I always enjoy working on art for all of you! You can check my trello queue for the status of your commission at any given time.
Also as a general note, email or especially twitter is the fastest way to get a response from me about anything, I’m bad at keeping up with FA notes. Especially for commissions in progress—please stick to email while asking for updates on those!
Lately a lot of you have been commissioning me for larger pieces and I have loved working on those for you! However, I’m new to receiving this much interest in them and while I’m extremely grateful for it, I’m still learning how best to pace myself with them, and unfortunately I’ve made a couple mistakes in doing so recently!
As it turns out, larger pieces are very energetically taxing for me at this point. I’m still learning new techniques and learning about my workflow in general, so not only do they take more time, they involve a lot more decision making than simpler artwork. In addition, they take multiple sittings of several hours each to finish, rather than just one or maybe two, and I’m very bad at breaking my flow even to do simple things like make food or go to bed haha (adhd lol—I’M WORKING ON IT), so by the end of the night I end up very mentally and physically exhausted and it’s not something I can keep up with on a daily basis to power through and finish one large commission after the other.
So what I’ll be doing as I complete the rest of my queue is this: I’ll be setting aside one or two days a week minimum to work very intensely on larger pieces with backgrounds (I’ll probably only go over two days if I’m really feeling on a roll), and work on simpler stuff every other day. This means that for those of you waiting on larger pieces, it might take longer to get them to you, and I apologize for that delay, but I assure you that the quality of art will be better for it if I’m not stressing about bills or about taking time to make dinner and sleep :D
Also, while I will be accepting new smaller commissions as I finish batches of those, I won’t be accepting any larger commissions until all of my outstanding large pieces are done. In the future I’ll only be accepting one or two large commissions at one given time so that wait times aren’t as extreme. I’m essentially treating “full illustrations/atmospheric/cinematic” and “everything simpler than those” as two separate, parallel queues, which I think will help me organize my time a lot more easily.
So there you go, just a bit of transparency for everyone 🙂 As always, thank you all for your patience and support and for bearing with me, I always enjoy working on art for all of you! You can check my trello queue for the status of your commission at any given time.
Also as a general note, email or especially twitter is the fastest way to get a response from me about anything, I’m bad at keeping up with FA notes. Especially for commissions in progress—please stick to email while asking for updates on those!
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