We have done what we can for the assignment for the exams project we have to hand in on Thursday and then up the oral exams on the 11'th for the group and 18 for single persons.
I would like to thank everyone that have been kind enough to answer our questions, because they have been a great help.

On a site not... I'M OLD ;_; Today is my birthday and have to spend it finished the report, printing and such, so nothing with family today.

Our school exam is up and running at the moment.

We need a little info from the art community, nothing too complicated. Just enough to give our group a little data.

Question for artists

First question: What do you experience when someone comes to you for art-related questions about your art works? How is the working relationship between you and the client?

Second question: How do people calculate the pricing of their art? Does it depend on time, type and amount of paints used for the hand-made art, details on what has to be included during the creating process of the art piece, on what kind of art it is and such?

Third question: How often do you get orders from DA or through emails? How often per month/year do you get orders from clients? Is there any period you've experienced that is your busiest time for art.

Fourth question: Which is your preferred payment method? PayPal, Western Union or through banks?

Question for buyers/viewers

First question: How often do you visit DA to check on your favorite artist?

Second question: Are you willing to buy art from your favorite artist and more than one?

Third question: Have you experienced that the prices that artists have are reasonable?

Fourth question: Which payment method are you mostly comfortable with? PayPal, Western Union or through banks?

Well just an update if people know what is going on.
The winter weather has been playing tricks on me, not sleeping much, tired all the time and negative thoughts about half the day, because when I'm tired, I'm done. Then there is my brothers, they owe me currently about 92 dollars. Might not sound too impressive, but they had to borrow 384 dollars from me not long ago.

Family things seems to way heavy, one way or another. School is another, have a test on PHP and MySQL on Monday and hardly understand anything about it, tried to read up on it, but it goes in one ear and out the other, I wonder why it's so hard to get.

Still trying to get the commisions done, the hardest one takes some more time, because it has elements I've not done before.

1.  Iridium Work in progress(60%)

2.  Seritaph Work in progress(0%)

3.  dcrest13 Finished(100%)

4.  GateMaster Work in progress(0%)

5. : undecided, two possible people

Lets kick-start this thing

5 slots open and only with one commission per person.

You'll need a pay pal to get this to work.

I reserve the right to drop a commission as I see fit

No vore, scat, bestiality or gore.

I reserve the right to drop a commission as I see fit because I only take payment after the work is done.

Price for a single character is 10 for sketch, 15 for inks and 25 for color.

For an extra character on the sketch is 5 dollars and 10 dollars on inks and color.

I'll work it, finish it and show a preview, if it gets the okay, I'll send the image in about 300DPI resolution.

1.  Iridium Work in progress(25%)

2.  Seritaph Work in progress(0%)

3.  dcrest13 Finished(100%)

4.  GateMaster Work in progress(0%)

5. slot open

Samples:

Sketch
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3244459/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3244443/

inked
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2772453/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2583160/

Coloured
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3206917/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2785289/

Edited 10/01-2010

Well thinking of starting a commission list either tomorrow or Saturday, depending on the result of this journal.

5 slots will open, with one commission per person.

I reserve the right to drop a commission as I see fit

No vore, scat, bestiality or gore.

I reserve the right to drop a commission as I see fit because I only take payment after the work is done.

Price for a single character is 10 for sketch, 15 for inks and 25 for colour.

Extra characters is 5 dollars on the sketch and 10 dollars on inks and colour.

I'll work it, finish it and show a preview, if it gets the okay, I'll send the image in about 300DPI resolution.

Sounds okay?

Well I have to face somehow, that I might be too influenced from what others tell of my work, it's a nasty habit. Don't get me wrong, it's good to get feedback and comments, I don't mind that, it's just that I get too discouraged of what others say or what people will think, when I start something. It's like seeing problems that isn't there.

Take comics, I would love to do comics, but I worry a lot of what others think, is I'm not using rules right, like 9 grid or golden ratio. Too much aiming for a perfect comic, which is impossible, but doesn't help that I criticize my work before it's even half done.

I guess it's has become a habit, but when it started or when it became a serious problem, I don't know.

Other then that, still trying to try to get people to give me advice on comics or art. Never happy with my art, it could help me improve or destroy my art. Only time will tell.

Some say I do comics well, but can you really do well, when you can't reach your goal or get closer to it?

I've had over 50 comic ideas and about 4 web-comics, without being able to do much to really do anything that is good. Have been working on one currently called Innocent Sins, but I'm worry of letting people down. Funny isn't it.

Well it's a usually rant I think, on to something else.

Just seen Sherlock Holmes, I liked it. Was worried it would be pretty bad, but got lucky.

Using much of my time looking at other peoples are and getting impressed and jealous, happens pretty often ^^;

Looking at muscle art and photo to get anatomy better down. Still have to do art for people, so hoping to use it for that, but should just learn to get them done as good as I'm able to do now.

Been thinking of doing Christmas something for the gallery or presents to people, but taken too long, it's too late for anything. Happens very often, not good at deadlines, doesn't only count for art either.

I think in most cases, people should take what I say with a grain of salt, since I have suicide tendencies and wonder if drugs make things better, but never come around to it, so I don't think it's that serious. Even this rant. It's pretty much the same as with many others, but it's an okay way to vent, I think.

Got tagged by  kevinphoenix, been reading his stories here and another site.

THE RULES...
1) Post these rules
2) Post 8 true things about yourself
3) At the end you must tag 8 people and post their icons
4) Go to their page and send them a message saying you tagged them
5) NO TAG-BACKS


1. When I get tired, I'm very depressed and down on myself. Sad thing is, most people I meet on the net, is at night time.

2. I'm jealous of every artistic person,EVERY ONE and those that don't believe they are better then me, I hope they will get better then me soon.

3. I get distracted easy... Hey a Danish crown

*5 minutes later*

... Or right, it prevents me from doing things I should.

4. Love female muscles, no getting around that... Oddly enough, never meet a women bodybuilder, thought I have my fingers crossed that I will some day.

5. I keep getting ideas, but never use them, so they pile up in my head... Why? Because I'm not use to writing things, I've tried many times and even tried to write my own story, but this is connection to number 3.

6. Have been in love once, but never told the girl... Yes, I did love a female once, get over it.

7. In contest to my personality, I like to read romantic comedies, but like most normal guys, I read a lot of actions.

Beside that, love reading female muscle growth stories, but those are usually slim pickings after a while. Seems most of those stories is where women turn nasty quick or the guys are always jerks, then it's okay they get manhandled.

8. My personal life is either a living nightmare or hoping for a better future, hard to choose a times when I sit alone.

Wow, heavy journal entry... Here is something to cheer people a little up
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2583160/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2583166/

Besides this, I don't think I'll tag anyone, because I don't know who has been tagged or who would really want to do this.

After I'm done with a story for Reddyheart, Zak and the chainsketch, I was thinking of starting doing commisions, one per person and 2 people at a time.

Just have to figure out prices and such. This will be edited in the future with new information.

Just curious, I'll post a better journal entry next time.
How any people know Open Canves and use it to draw with other people? Or Even use Dimdim(it's used to let other people see what they do on their screen, so they can see how you color, draw or such)?

Late bloomer or dud, many things I ask myself, because I can't seem to stick to a story, like I should, if I should publish something.

It's not because I want to rant more then I should, it's one of journal posts you shouldn't make, while your tired(Writing this at 3 in the morning and jacked on 2 liters of cola, so I'm a little loopy).

I collect How To Draw, to see if I can try to understand doing comics better and do some that are good, but that isn't the correct way to do it. Why not?
Because the only way to make good comics, is first to make any comic and second, good or bad, you have done something that shows your able to, even if it's not worth a dime.
Some are good at it, right of the bat and I can't help being envious, it's not a bad thing, I acknowledge their talents and hard work, just seems to uses them as blocks then saying "I should try it that way" or "Hell, that's a funny idea, I should do that".

We have an artist, called Peter Snejbjerg, some might know him as the artist on Light Brigade or Detective 27 and I've trying to read his series Hypernauten. Kind of betting it's not in English, so no one outside Denmark(can't speak of other countries like Germany, just don't expect to been big outside of Denmark) have read it.
It's gotten high praises and should perhaps have it in my collection, but looking in it, I feel a little lost, not because of the story, but because I wanted to do something like a graphic novel, and don't know if I have it in me to do one.
Wouldn't be bad to have something that could make people proud of having or even like to have in their collection, but I'm not good at having such high expectations.

Other then the high and lows of being a doubting and when tired, depressed artist, can't say I should complain really. My personal life sucks many times, but at least I know my family will be there if something really bad happens, or so I hope and people on the net are very supporting, which surprises me many times and makes me happy. At times I feel like I owe them something, because without them, I don't know what I would have become.

Hope this moaning doesn't fill too much of peoples time, just wanted to vent a little, while I can't sleep. Don't have facebook and to be honest, I won't. I guessing there are some good things at using it, but seen how it can easily be abused, so it didn't have any selling points with me.

A friend of mine is looking for space to host his site and wondering if there is any good ones that's free and can use FTP. Any suggestions?

Back in school and hoping for the better, while being a pessimist. Pretty big character flaw, but still can hope for the better.

With my Laptop been attack by a virus, I have lost of information I used to work with at school and other things, like profiles. Had to reinstall it, but went well, thanks for to my friend, Big Feet.

Another thing if anyone got suggestion to how make me keep updating the site Tourist has been kind enough to give me?

A lot of artist and people use Paypal, but what is everyone experience with payment over the net?

(Here is some suggestions: http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/methods.html)

Posted some human art, but I'm pretty sure that isn't very interesting on a fur gallery. Someone dared me into it and lets see how it goes.

J-popcon is an anime convention I usually go to and it's nice. This time they had more events then usual, but not without it's problems.

J-popcon runs for 48 hours straight, so have to plan your sleep in between event and movies that you don't care to see or find boring. To know what is and isn't interesting for you, you get a booklet that tells you about the events, movie and series.

Cosplay seems to get bigger and bigger event all the time. Nice too see, even if I don't know many of the characters.

Even the artist got their own area this time, even if can't be compared to those in other countries. Had plans on entering the contest, but didn't know when it was and misunderstood some information, so the deadline was over before I knew it. Nothing to do about it, my own fault really. Did get to draw some things, but as usual, not something I finished. I have an issue about that ^^;

Didn't get to see any anime this time, because I already knew most of them and they tend to show series they had a the con before. Spent a lot of time looking at the dealer area. There was many things, but you know, no job, you tend to look things over at least three times before buying it. I really wanted a figure that posed, but didn't have the space for it. So I mostly got series like Desert Punk and Crest of The Stars. Also bought ComicWorks, mostly because of the possibility to put screen toners, but haven't gotten it to work yet.

After 24 hours, I was pretty tired, haven't slept or eaten much, so I went home. I would have liked to be in the workshop with the artist that did Wedding Peach, but would most likely been lacking more brain power(the little that I have) to follow. Too bad, but nothing to be done, don't have anywhere to sleep except on the floor on some hallway and there is a big chance of theft.

I guess one of the things I really hoped for was to have some friends there, but from what I can count(not even half the fingers on one hand) where away. Perhaps next year, if I'm still alive.

After I came home, I slept over 15 hours and had stomach problems. Kind of poetic in it own way... or I'm still lacking sleep ^^

Well since I'm low on money, I was thinking of doing commisions, but feels like double edge sword. One, you get money for your work, but the work process could kill you. I haven't had much luck on either fronts, since there isn't really a way for me to get money, neither from Western Union or PayPal and when I do get a request, there is always changes that makes it seems endless to do a piece.

I'm also going to a convention in two weeks. There is a contest for art supplies and an asian artist takes the winner home. Either prospects doesn't seem bad, but I don't need the art supplies anymore, thanks to a kind person sending me some high quality tools.
The con also offers a chance to have a booth, but sadly, I don't really have anything to sell, because for one thing it's a anime con, so that eliminate most of my work and second, I lack things to sell. I don't have comics, since I seem to be a tool about doing one and not one with just regular anime character designs. If I should make bookmarks, posters and such, would demand I know where they are made, what quality they should be in, how much it cost to be made and if I even know how much of each I should make.

... Boy, seems I'm just dug myself a hole writing this, haven't I?

Just wondering if what people would like to see which characters of mine enter Might Of Maidens 2008. Something like your top 5, with the most favourite on top and such.

Might be hard, since I don't usually make profiles and usually not good at it, but hope there are some people like to see entered.

For the lack of better art, I've just been posting sketches in scrap. Hope to work on something better soon, but still, I hope some people enjoy.

It's nothing serious, just to say it from the start. I just lost all my drawing tools, so I can't do any art at the moment and the stores are closed tomorrow and will first be able to get anything on Tuesday. I still have my tablet, but for some strange reason, I can't use it except if I have a rough drawing and such, I did by paper and pen to start.
So I'm just gnawing my right arm for wanted to draw, but can't.
Might seem to whine about such a small thing, but I'm guessing it's a habit I can't seem to get rid of. Doesn't help much to try and draw on the computer while being annoyed about it. Just can't seem to relax like I do with pen and paper. Just see the pen as a part of the artist body.

Just being in my down times, being depressed looking at other peoples good art, wishing I was better, you know, the usually whine and emo stuff, but I was thinking about something.
When I try to tell people I need a little time to get out of the hole I dug myself, who really waits when they say it's okay, how long can they wait and is it fair to people?
Is this something people get past or is it something I have to fight, which seems increadible hard or should I just talk, which it seems to be the problem when I can't distance for my art and me time.

"Hey, I'm Red Silver and I'm a internet-aholic"

Might be the wrong place to post this, but otherwise I wouldn't be using this at all, since my life outside furry universe it highly limited.


First the bad. Started school again and it's harder then I thought it would be. We have to learn about electricity, which I don't have the slightest idea of how it works and it's already been 3 weeks. The other thing is since I'm using so much energy on it, I'm much drained from what ever energy I might have had for drawing.



Finally how can someone being sad be good? Well mostly it comes from the end of series I really really like, like Sailor Moon, Full Metal Alchemist, Azumanga Daioh and Ojamajo Doremi. Its series that made me want to watch more, sad seeing them end, but happy they did. Wouldn't want one of them to run into something that will ruin my experiences with them, but it's still hard because I get pretty emotional without crying.

I have seen most of the series I like on German TV, which I don't have anymore and miss. They still rerun Dragon Ball I think, but it's not a series I would miss if it ended, that's just me.
I still remember how desperate I was to see Sailor Moon when I saw the first episode, I couldn't find the same channel again or what time it went on. Then it came on a German Channel called RTL2 and followed the whole series on there. That's the first time I was sad, is a good way. Show I really liked it.
The latest period of "happy sadness" is Ojamajo Doremi, but I wasn't able to see the two last series or even the OVA, only found out about it on Wiki it has completely ended.
Most anime or manga that I've seen with magic or other supernatural elements ends with them realizing they are okay without them, since they have to feel good the way they are and what they have.
Ojamajo Doremi has done it at the end of the first series, but I guess the popularity made them have their powers again.
Anyways, I've learned to know and love the characters, and it ends with them losing their magic again to be normal, the main characters have to split up to go on with their lives, they have evolved in each their own way and it the final scene is where the leading character has become what she wanted to be and wanted to do, from the very beginning of the whole series.
A very "feel good" series for me with a happy sad ending. It's said they would be friends forever, but I kind of feel they will grow apart, remembering them, just not keeping in contact.
This is my own bitterness talking, since I don't have a childhood friend I can remember or if I meet, wouldn't even greet.
I guess the series innocence is what really gets me, something I wish I could come up with; most of my series have a violent theme, and might be some egressions I'm working out.
Most of these series I would have loved to own on DVD in high resolution and background material. No, I'm wrong, I would love to have everyone of them, but looking at it realistic, I don't think I'll ever get the complete of most of them and then I ask myself "What's the point" and some have been changed in a way, that they aren't the original anymore and I wouldn't want that anymore.

I guess there is the slight chance that sometime, there will be a company that will take these series and put them all in a collector’s edition, but I won’t hold my breath. There isn’t really anything to do about it, I guess.
I guess this is where the “bad sadness” comes in again.

Seems this is my longest journal yet and it pretty much like ranting and perhaps pointless, but I just wanted to get it of my chest. Might do this again and again, just to remind me how much I loved these series.
Might seem odd coming from me, since I’ve buffed up some of the characters of these series, but it’s just a sign of affection. I love the originals to death and I might even do one of those “buff up” stories I’ve talked about many times, but it’s still the “classics” I treasure most.