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Update w/Commission Tweaks (Rates, Contacting, Feedback)
4 years ago
Hey all. So, I got sick 2 weeks ago and had to quarantine. Then I used said time to try and gather some research and feedback from people while hunting for a better job that wouldn't put my ass at risk for a 2nd round of covid. (Also, PSA, it exists. I've gotten the chance of experiencing the milder symptoms that are still lingering even though I feel much better to work again. It's not fun to think of being a carrier that brought it to your folks or better yet, possibly ending your life at any time of the duration. So yeah, don't catch it.) Which was why I had to abruptly halt taking on commission work. But I'm able to continue working again and feeling better at least physically!
Wow, thank you for the feedback on that survey! It's insightful towards what to work on absolutely. I want to get better with what I usually do but to learn some brand new/revisit projects to broaden skills a bit. Sprite work was fun so be on the lookout for that :) The good thing is that half of the criticism were things I was aware of and questioned sometimes so at least my overthinking was on the right page. Other comments brought things to light I never realized or took into consideration as much as other areas (lighting, perspectives, backgrounds especially) and gotta work on them a bit more! A few other things too, but I'm very glad to get this input to try some more methods towards.
I'm also adjusting some stuff with commissions across the board which I'm opening later before this month ends if all goes well. I think I rush them out because a week on and off to me felt like I was taking too long, thus I panic, stress out, feel like I'm horrible, and need to give it up already like some missed deadline. Some said I work fast. And honestly, from looking at the dates where I start the commission, they were right. I only spent a couple of days to nearly a week on and off on most of them. I've even felt the other end of buying commissions myself and notice people take weeks to months usually to ensure everything is fine or their life schedule's too busy. Considering that, I definitely will spend less time thinking I take too long and more time towards working. Sometimes it still takes but a few days to knock a commission out if it feels right and the art drive feels strong but I gotta take at least a week or so. I've noticed even in some wips of my own I told myself right at the submit screen to stop and spend an extra day to get away from it, which is a very hard habit to do. Lo and behold, I come back and find errors or areas to adjust immediately and it feels so much better.
Rates: There'll be a slight discount for rates in the additional content for those wanting extra characters, props, and other extra stuff under the sketch categories.
Communicating: So, I've not a clean way of notifying those who've submitted forms if they've not received a slot. That's on me and I apologize for those who still wonder if I've gotten to them or not if they've not asked me beforehand on status. I'm currently gonna find some way to lop off the form entries, choose from there and notify the others. Prooobably Trello, (stunning revelation, I know) the service where I was like "cool, I'll try this out for sure to manage my status!" and...well, didn't. I receive a lot of forms sometimes when I least expect it, like, in double-digits, and it gets pretty messy trying to find and tell people if they're chosen one by one in short time frames. Which leads to...
Contacting: Please make sure in the contacting field your twitter username/profile name or FurAffinity Username works. It sucks when there's a cool idea that fits the bill of what I'd do and I can't find you no matter how I tried altering the submitted name on both sites so I have to zap the form away. I'm not gonna have emails in the mix as I'm only looking through these two sites currently.
Telegram Group??: I've dawdled on things like this for a while, even considered somewhere like Patreon. A hub to toss wips to satisfy my impulse posting or commission updates to keep everything in one place but knowing me, I'd probably be bad at that. Though from the art groups I've started to lurk through, I can see how cool it is to just toss shit up or hold commissions/polls/updates there.
That's about it for now. Tldr, I want to keep everyone on the same page now on, get better at art obviously at a reasonable pace, supply the big boys and kidnap the big boys for myself.
So stay tuned and thanks again for everything, y'all. 🔥
Wow, thank you for the feedback on that survey! It's insightful towards what to work on absolutely. I want to get better with what I usually do but to learn some brand new/revisit projects to broaden skills a bit. Sprite work was fun so be on the lookout for that :) The good thing is that half of the criticism were things I was aware of and questioned sometimes so at least my overthinking was on the right page. Other comments brought things to light I never realized or took into consideration as much as other areas (lighting, perspectives, backgrounds especially) and gotta work on them a bit more! A few other things too, but I'm very glad to get this input to try some more methods towards.
I'm also adjusting some stuff with commissions across the board which I'm opening later before this month ends if all goes well. I think I rush them out because a week on and off to me felt like I was taking too long, thus I panic, stress out, feel like I'm horrible, and need to give it up already like some missed deadline. Some said I work fast. And honestly, from looking at the dates where I start the commission, they were right. I only spent a couple of days to nearly a week on and off on most of them. I've even felt the other end of buying commissions myself and notice people take weeks to months usually to ensure everything is fine or their life schedule's too busy. Considering that, I definitely will spend less time thinking I take too long and more time towards working. Sometimes it still takes but a few days to knock a commission out if it feels right and the art drive feels strong but I gotta take at least a week or so. I've noticed even in some wips of my own I told myself right at the submit screen to stop and spend an extra day to get away from it, which is a very hard habit to do. Lo and behold, I come back and find errors or areas to adjust immediately and it feels so much better.
Rates: There'll be a slight discount for rates in the additional content for those wanting extra characters, props, and other extra stuff under the sketch categories.
Communicating: So, I've not a clean way of notifying those who've submitted forms if they've not received a slot. That's on me and I apologize for those who still wonder if I've gotten to them or not if they've not asked me beforehand on status. I'm currently gonna find some way to lop off the form entries, choose from there and notify the others. Prooobably Trello, (stunning revelation, I know) the service where I was like "cool, I'll try this out for sure to manage my status!" and...well, didn't. I receive a lot of forms sometimes when I least expect it, like, in double-digits, and it gets pretty messy trying to find and tell people if they're chosen one by one in short time frames. Which leads to...
Contacting: Please make sure in the contacting field your twitter username/profile name or FurAffinity Username works. It sucks when there's a cool idea that fits the bill of what I'd do and I can't find you no matter how I tried altering the submitted name on both sites so I have to zap the form away. I'm not gonna have emails in the mix as I'm only looking through these two sites currently.
Telegram Group??: I've dawdled on things like this for a while, even considered somewhere like Patreon. A hub to toss wips to satisfy my impulse posting or commission updates to keep everything in one place but knowing me, I'd probably be bad at that. Though from the art groups I've started to lurk through, I can see how cool it is to just toss shit up or hold commissions/polls/updates there.
That's about it for now. Tldr, I want to keep everyone on the same page now on, get better at art obviously at a reasonable pace, supply the big boys and kidnap the big boys for myself.
So stay tuned and thanks again for everything, y'all. 🔥
So you've got positive too, right? Damn! Recently such a news are no surprise for me.
