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19 years ago
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Well, looks like Anthrocon is about a 10% probability. Aside from the unsure job situation...
(1) Need to get rid of debts. Projecting the months I have left out, I may just be able to do this by June when the job is set to end. Lot of belt tightening in that time.
(2) That was until I realized a $650-700 home insurance bill in the summer.
(3) My printer is now dead. I can scan, but that's it.
That doesn't even consider if I can get a loan for grad school (I think I can do this though because I do have some assets, but ones I don't want to sell, like my grandmother's house. Better to ask for organs than that.). I MIGHT be able to get to the con then if willing to take on more debt...
So, while I was thinking of keeping the commissions closed and do more of my own stuff I think I have to start taking of a few commissions to try and make the prospects a little less dire. I don't expect a lot from doing this, but it will help while I try to find a better solution.
If you were interested in a commission before I WILL be taking them now. standard prices are posted here... $20 inked single character, $30 colored. Additional characters are a bit more.
I will take single commissions on. I do this because if I agreed to 5 pics at once it'd overwhelm me and take forever to do. Doing 5, one at a time however is a very different thing for some reason. I also have one old trade I'm slowly working on so I need to work from one project to the other. I may refuse things that are harder if easier commissions are offered.
What I don't want is commissions to "support" me. If you want a picture, that's fine. No charity buys. There are people out there in much more dire need than I am.
Email to Terminotaur[at]gmail.com (I will NOT accept requests to other addresses, too many problems) (cross-posting to LiveJournal)
(1) Need to get rid of debts. Projecting the months I have left out, I may just be able to do this by June when the job is set to end. Lot of belt tightening in that time.
(2) That was until I realized a $650-700 home insurance bill in the summer.
(3) My printer is now dead. I can scan, but that's it.
That doesn't even consider if I can get a loan for grad school (I think I can do this though because I do have some assets, but ones I don't want to sell, like my grandmother's house. Better to ask for organs than that.). I MIGHT be able to get to the con then if willing to take on more debt...
So, while I was thinking of keeping the commissions closed and do more of my own stuff I think I have to start taking of a few commissions to try and make the prospects a little less dire. I don't expect a lot from doing this, but it will help while I try to find a better solution.
If you were interested in a commission before I WILL be taking them now. standard prices are posted here... $20 inked single character, $30 colored. Additional characters are a bit more.
I will take single commissions on. I do this because if I agreed to 5 pics at once it'd overwhelm me and take forever to do. Doing 5, one at a time however is a very different thing for some reason. I also have one old trade I'm slowly working on so I need to work from one project to the other. I may refuse things that are harder if easier commissions are offered.
What I don't want is commissions to "support" me. If you want a picture, that's fine. No charity buys. There are people out there in much more dire need than I am.
Email to Terminotaur[at]gmail.com (I will NOT accept requests to other addresses, too many problems) (cross-posting to LiveJournal)
I'll try to get in contact with you. I'd be interested...probably go along with what we had started but I am never around to communicate with :)
If you want to do the commission thing then do E-mail. Its the only way I can keep track of stuff. :)