does anyone actually care if i name submissions?
5 years ago
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i've started naming timed commissions again - does anyone actually care abt this / prefer this to the naming convention I used before? (Date Completed | Commissioner -versus- Title | Commissioner)
also, hey- thanks for followin me lol. i dont make journals often but i appreciate y'all.
also, hey- thanks for followin me lol. i dont make journals often but i appreciate y'all.
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So yes The Titel and the Description is the Cherry on the Cake.
Say you work as a baker. You make cakes for people who come into your shop. You really love decorating cakes and making them look cool. You want to make a cake that looks like a geode, that people will see and go WOW THAT'S AMAZING and that you can feel proud of.
Except one day, you make a basic chocolate cake and stick some blue sprinkles on it, and people go "that looks like the best chocolate cake I've ever seen."
Suddenly, you get lots of chocolate cake requests. People ask you to bake birthday chocolate cakes for them. Wedding chocolate cakes. Cakes for parties. And you get really, really bored of making chocolate cake.
But you're still VERY GOOD at it because you're getting heaps of practice.
At the end of the day, baking (art) is fun. You like baking (making art). But mother egg, you really don't find much 'fun' in making chocolate cakes (NSFW art) anymore - you'd really like to make an eight-tiered wedding cake (scenic watercolour painting) or maybe a pineapple upside down cake (charcoal character portraits) or, heck, make a big plate of spaghetti (sculpting)! Then again, sometimes, now and then, a chocolate cake sounds so good and you'd like to enjoy one - but you'd probably enjoy it more if you didn't have to bake it yourself.
It's not that you don't like baking. It's just that wow, you've been there, done that, and you can do it REALLY WELL but it'd be nice to do something else.
I think that's the situation a lot of artists are in.
Sorry for the ramble.
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Personally I only care if it has a name at all, not putting much weight to what the actual title is. I don't like "just numbers" type of titles much.
As an artist myself I personally don't care about how an artist titles their submission or even writes a description - it doesn't add or take anything away
I've recently just started labelling my commissions as "username commission" just because it's easier than struggling to figure out a creative title
But I understand that that could lead to questions of "why did you give <x>'s submission a title but mine is 20200416 2hr sketchpage omgwtf" which would suck.
So, personally I think it'd be nice. But I would absolutely understand if you didn't.
Alternative solution: While you're working on it, ask the commissioner "hey do you have a good title for this". Then if they say No, just number it. It gives them a little sensation of influence over the final product, and takes some mental work off of you!