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My Reason for doing Requests and not Commissions
7 years ago
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Greetings everyone who watches and read my journals (despite the fact of how rare it is for me to make journal entrees), and recently, some things have been coming to my mind, of certain things I would need to say. To explain on why I prefer doing Requests more than Commissions.
My reasoning for doing requests more than commissions is simply because I put my heart, the enjoyment into drawing sketches that are requested, I draw such as best as I could and feel to me personally, that it is good enough.
Commissions turns the hobby into a job, turns the heart of enjoyment into money and forced to just do it. To draw it and try to make sure it's 100% perfect to what the customer desires. Which, to me, it makes me worry if the sketch I would draw for it doesn’t match their expectations for such.
Another golden detail, requests can be of choice. If I like the idea to draw it, I'll draw it. But if it is something that irks me in someway, or timid to try, I can merely deny the request and state my reasoning, no harm done.
Commissions though, the moment there is an agreement (before/after payment), there is no backing down, the artist MUST make the sketch, even if it irks them to such a point that they might hate themselves in drawing it or view it as garbage.
For me, requests allow my creative joy to flourish and not be limited down. Commissions is like shackling the heart.
So to me, that is why I do requests, and also gift-arts when I feel like doing gift-arts towards those I appreciate.
Now, after good explanation, time to bring in another topic and reasoning for this journal to come up. I am willing to do requests, but only three requests at a time, no more then that. And even then, there would be a time when I need to take breaks from such drawing, to allow my passion for the creative arts to refuel in a sense. And constantly asking me over-and-over without giving me time to think carefully on if I want to draw said request or not.
As it being requests, I have the right, freedom of choice to do said request or not. And if I don’t feel any creative desire to draw such, then I will say such.
And anyways, after explaining my reason. I will say that so far, there are three people making requests, in which I will do such for them, and they will be listed below.
1.
daddison09 50% (Halfway done) (Requested on Furaffinity)
2.
Somersault34567 0% (Hadn’t started yet, first request must be done first) (Requested on Furaffinity)
3.
transformer33 0% (Hadn’t started yet, first and second requests must be done first) (Requested on Eka Portal)
And with that stated, I’ll be working on these three, and will update my journal entrees so to let you all know. But again, after doing such, I might take a break so to rest my arms. Or I might start it up for the next three requests after. Until then, patience is a virtue.
On the side-note: One of things I won’t draw are humans and human-like beings be the predators in such voracious scenarios. If the human is a prey, then sure. But if the human is the predator, I have difficulty getting the creative image of it in my mind without all the logical errors popping up, resulting an artist-block in a sense. That and I had never done drawing a human as the voracious predator before.
My reasoning for doing requests more than commissions is simply because I put my heart, the enjoyment into drawing sketches that are requested, I draw such as best as I could and feel to me personally, that it is good enough.
Commissions turns the hobby into a job, turns the heart of enjoyment into money and forced to just do it. To draw it and try to make sure it's 100% perfect to what the customer desires. Which, to me, it makes me worry if the sketch I would draw for it doesn’t match their expectations for such.
Another golden detail, requests can be of choice. If I like the idea to draw it, I'll draw it. But if it is something that irks me in someway, or timid to try, I can merely deny the request and state my reasoning, no harm done.
Commissions though, the moment there is an agreement (before/after payment), there is no backing down, the artist MUST make the sketch, even if it irks them to such a point that they might hate themselves in drawing it or view it as garbage.
For me, requests allow my creative joy to flourish and not be limited down. Commissions is like shackling the heart.
So to me, that is why I do requests, and also gift-arts when I feel like doing gift-arts towards those I appreciate.
Now, after good explanation, time to bring in another topic and reasoning for this journal to come up. I am willing to do requests, but only three requests at a time, no more then that. And even then, there would be a time when I need to take breaks from such drawing, to allow my passion for the creative arts to refuel in a sense. And constantly asking me over-and-over without giving me time to think carefully on if I want to draw said request or not.
As it being requests, I have the right, freedom of choice to do said request or not. And if I don’t feel any creative desire to draw such, then I will say such.
And anyways, after explaining my reason. I will say that so far, there are three people making requests, in which I will do such for them, and they will be listed below.
1.
daddison09 50% (Halfway done) (Requested on Furaffinity)2.
Somersault34567 0% (Hadn’t started yet, first request must be done first) (Requested on Furaffinity)3.
transformer33 0% (Hadn’t started yet, first and second requests must be done first) (Requested on Eka Portal)And with that stated, I’ll be working on these three, and will update my journal entrees so to let you all know. But again, after doing such, I might take a break so to rest my arms. Or I might start it up for the next three requests after. Until then, patience is a virtue.
On the side-note: One of things I won’t draw are humans and human-like beings be the predators in such voracious scenarios. If the human is a prey, then sure. But if the human is the predator, I have difficulty getting the creative image of it in my mind without all the logical errors popping up, resulting an artist-block in a sense. That and I had never done drawing a human as the voracious predator before.
