The future of commissions
5 years ago
Heya ya'll! With this quarter of school over and my latest commission done, I've done some thinking about the future of commissions.
My big problem has always been that I have a realllly hard time motivating myself to work on comms- ESPECIALLY if the subject matter doesn't supremely interest me -so after I take a big list of em, it'll take me moooonths to get through them all, even if the comms themselves aren't particularly work-heavy. Due to this, I've tried a handful of things, from taking only the simplest of simple comms (such as just busts) to taking only a couple of full comm slots at the most, and both have had mixed, yet still less then desirable results.
I've been unsatisfied with myself, and how quickly my turnaround for art is, and so have decided that from now on I'll be accepting commissions only in small batches, and only ideas that particularly grab my interest. Is this a bit exclusive and perhaps unfair? Maybe, but I'm not enjoying drawing art that just doesn't intrigue me, and it's making my turnaround much slower then I'd like it to be. So please, do noooot take it personally at ALL if I straight up don't take a comm of yours out of disinterest- it's not that I dislike you or even the idea(s) you're wanting to commission me to draw, it's simply that it doesn't grab my attention and I don't feel like I'd be able to draw said idea in a matter that's satisfactory to both you and I. I'm totally down for negotiating some stuff too if ya want to work on changing an idea to make it more intriguing to me, but as it stands, I think I just really need that drive of "I REALLY like this idea" to get work done or else it feels boring and a slog to get through.
I hope ya'll understand, and if no one's tooooo against these changes, I'll open up another batch of slots relatively soon. Thank ya'll for reading <3
My big problem has always been that I have a realllly hard time motivating myself to work on comms- ESPECIALLY if the subject matter doesn't supremely interest me -so after I take a big list of em, it'll take me moooonths to get through them all, even if the comms themselves aren't particularly work-heavy. Due to this, I've tried a handful of things, from taking only the simplest of simple comms (such as just busts) to taking only a couple of full comm slots at the most, and both have had mixed, yet still less then desirable results.
I've been unsatisfied with myself, and how quickly my turnaround for art is, and so have decided that from now on I'll be accepting commissions only in small batches, and only ideas that particularly grab my interest. Is this a bit exclusive and perhaps unfair? Maybe, but I'm not enjoying drawing art that just doesn't intrigue me, and it's making my turnaround much slower then I'd like it to be. So please, do noooot take it personally at ALL if I straight up don't take a comm of yours out of disinterest- it's not that I dislike you or even the idea(s) you're wanting to commission me to draw, it's simply that it doesn't grab my attention and I don't feel like I'd be able to draw said idea in a matter that's satisfactory to both you and I. I'm totally down for negotiating some stuff too if ya want to work on changing an idea to make it more intriguing to me, but as it stands, I think I just really need that drive of "I REALLY like this idea" to get work done or else it feels boring and a slog to get through.
I hope ya'll understand, and if no one's tooooo against these changes, I'll open up another batch of slots relatively soon. Thank ya'll for reading <3
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You’ve created good feelings for us, so therefore it’s only fair I try and provide some in turn!
Also, I figured that as it’s my first comment/message to you, I may as well give it a hearty dash of Skinth Sweetness™️~
(The secret ingredient is *Reassurance!*)
Also, have breaks every now and then is always a good thing :3