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Heyyyyyyy FA? (Looking for opinions & giving a life update)
8 years ago
So, I know I keep saying I'm going to come back and do commissions, but this time I really might? My real life gig slacks off in the summer and I travel (or I have the past two years since getting this gig, but it hasn't left me as much time for art.
I left my home and moved pretty far from where I originally lived two years ago, figured out I was bisexual, had a girlfriend, lost a girlfriend, continued to live with said gf for like seven months after, it was a whole thing. I spent that summer just trying to come down off that horrible stockholm-syndrome-esque roller-coaster and find somewhere to live. I've had to get that straightened out a second time down here and it's looking like I'll have to settle it again for a third time in October. I'm on the fence about trying to go back to my hometown because it's pretty much an everybody knows everybody situation and it's only a matter of time before somebody gets wind that I gasp shock horror date ladies and my little career I've set up comes crashing down, but, where I'm living now I don't know many people and while the people I do know are lovely, they are busy and don't answer my texts quickly and I'm by myself a lot. I miss my family and I would be able to live without roommates if I moved back. But, if I keep living here, I can be myself without fear. Truthfully though, even though I am good at my job (ha ha braggity brag or whatever) nobody has really been interested except where I'm working now, and I'm afraid I'll be stuck here with my not-great pay and horrible long commute.
Anyway, I've been toying with the idea of doing streaming commissions, but I do traditional art, so I was wondering if anybody would want to just chat with me basically while I draw. I can't figure out how to work this out camera-wise. It'd be really cool if I could suspend one over my shoulder.... idk, I could use a little extra income and I have the time when I'm not visiting my family, I just think I've probably squandered what little base of people I had that would have been interested. I haven't stopped drawing in the intervening time, I've been working on landscapes and watercolor. I think it'd be pretty cool to offer watercolor commissions. Anyway, over the next couple weeks I might start streaming at night. I just need to draw up a snappy little streaming image and hope people will be interested. :D
What I'd like to know from you is this:
-When would you be most likely to tune in for a streaming session? (Please say what time zone you're in)
-What kind of format would you be interested in: I draw alongside a clock calculating my wages and when we hit that limit I'm done, I start drawing a pose and you decide you want it and you paypal me?
-Some other third thing? (I don't sit in on many streams, so I'm not sure how the kids are doing it these days.)
I left my home and moved pretty far from where I originally lived two years ago, figured out I was bisexual, had a girlfriend, lost a girlfriend, continued to live with said gf for like seven months after, it was a whole thing. I spent that summer just trying to come down off that horrible stockholm-syndrome-esque roller-coaster and find somewhere to live. I've had to get that straightened out a second time down here and it's looking like I'll have to settle it again for a third time in October. I'm on the fence about trying to go back to my hometown because it's pretty much an everybody knows everybody situation and it's only a matter of time before somebody gets wind that I gasp shock horror date ladies and my little career I've set up comes crashing down, but, where I'm living now I don't know many people and while the people I do know are lovely, they are busy and don't answer my texts quickly and I'm by myself a lot. I miss my family and I would be able to live without roommates if I moved back. But, if I keep living here, I can be myself without fear. Truthfully though, even though I am good at my job (ha ha braggity brag or whatever) nobody has really been interested except where I'm working now, and I'm afraid I'll be stuck here with my not-great pay and horrible long commute.
Anyway, I've been toying with the idea of doing streaming commissions, but I do traditional art, so I was wondering if anybody would want to just chat with me basically while I draw. I can't figure out how to work this out camera-wise. It'd be really cool if I could suspend one over my shoulder.... idk, I could use a little extra income and I have the time when I'm not visiting my family, I just think I've probably squandered what little base of people I had that would have been interested. I haven't stopped drawing in the intervening time, I've been working on landscapes and watercolor. I think it'd be pretty cool to offer watercolor commissions. Anyway, over the next couple weeks I might start streaming at night. I just need to draw up a snappy little streaming image and hope people will be interested. :D
What I'd like to know from you is this:
-When would you be most likely to tune in for a streaming session? (Please say what time zone you're in)
-What kind of format would you be interested in: I draw alongside a clock calculating my wages and when we hit that limit I'm done, I start drawing a pose and you decide you want it and you paypal me?
-Some other third thing? (I don't sit in on many streams, so I'm not sure how the kids are doing it these days.)
As for the living situation, I'm sorry to hear things aren't working out as you'd planned, and I'd offer help if I could, though I'm a friendly straight kinda dude who is very LGBT friendly with a one bedroom place that's better situated for a living-with-mate situatoin. Also the Internet here is either lousy unstreamable DSL speed or Comcast, yeah... *Hugs*
I'm thinking to the streams I usually see. Usually, most of my friends, they're so well-known they have people fill out forms to raffle the slots to in advance, and that's for sketching in stream.
And I kinda like that idea of "claiming" a pose for a character, like drawing a knife over the cake. But if that's inefficient to your energy, then don't. I'd personally probably totally use it, though.
I'm Central Time, and I'm usually more free in the evenings, with my current situation. Pretty much everyone I know streams in the evenings. I don't know if anyone's managed to make any other time work.
Still, here's hoping your current situation turns out slightly better! If not so much more better. The "I don't really give a shit" of roommates in a city can't be underestimated. I'm profoundly uncomfortable being known to the extent I'd be known in a small town, and I hope you manage that.
*hugs* It's good to hear from you again, I'd assumed the worst. (Funnily enough, earlier this year I also got back in touch with another friend of mine from years and years ago - she disappeared during her second pregnancy, and the doctor had ordered her to not try again after the miscarriage or... you know... the worst could happen? So I assumed the worst. And a few months ago, she got in touch with me through a sockpuppet - her ex had turned abusive and confiscated all her accounts, and other stuff kept coming up after she left. I was just glad to know she was okay, right? Same with you. It's why I'm glad to still be on this website with the same name and icon, y'all can actually find me. I'm literally sketching stuff for my 750th submission celebration rn.)