#Freelance Chat

[devonellington]

Fri. April 21, 2023: And Mercury is Retrograde

image courtesy of Peter Lomas via pixabay.com Friday, April 21, 2023 Waxing Moon Mercury Retrograde Partly cloudy and chilly It’s here. Mercury Retrograde. Stay low, stay quiet, go shopping for antiques, sales, vintage, small items (but not tech, cars, homes, or big ticket items). Make sure your tech is backed up. When in doubt, keep your mouth shut. Today’s serial episode is from ANGEL…

[donitkitt]

pls consider commissioning me i have absolutely no traction on twtiter anymore and bsky is still too new to get any kind of regular commissions

i would very much appreciate any kind of boost, and thank you guys sm for the support and sticking around here so long

[supergirl9130]

So uhhh getting really low on money rn due to issues so I’m setting up commissions rn

My PayPal

My ko-fi

Busts/icons- 6$ for plain 7-10$ for detailing, shading etcetera

Full body 10$ for a simple drawing with color 11-15$ for shading and extra details +more people is a 4+ fee for each

Will draw

Ocs and canon characters

Humans

Furries (with reference)

Mild violence

Animals (with reference)

Certain types of nsfw (only adult characters I’m sorry)

Won’t draw

Anything weird or problematic

Mechas

Hoping I’ll get some work in!

[dawnofiight]

I think that Damien and Gavin have the best consistent comebacks

But I will OFFER THIS: Occasionally Huxley will offer the CRAZIEST , jaw dropping read anybody has ever seen

He would never say this he's too nice and loves them too much but picture it

They could be arguing about like huxleys attachment to this random ass teddy bear named Hole about how it's fine to have it but his attachment specifically is unhealthy and he'd be like

"THERES no way the people who have parental/guidance issues are telling ME about MY attachment issues"

and now everyone is gagged and it's like damn bro it's just a teddy bear (it really isn't)

[cherrytastiq]

a trusty little buddy

[ashertickler]

redacted characters as brooklyn 99 characters cos it's one of my top 3 sitcoms and i feel like waffling 🙂‍↕️

jake - asher

amy - babe (THE DRAGON WARRIOR !! IT'S ME !!! /ref)

charles - milo

rosa - darlin

terry - huxley

gina - freelancer

raymond - david

kevin - anton

hitchcock - blake

scully - nick idk

pimento - porter

doug - gavin

wuntch - alexis

teddy - ivan

the vulture - kody

stentley - christian

(thx aria pooks for helping me out with some of these sillies hehe)

[fly-sky-high-arts]

I do want to talk about sharing art online from the perspective of a hobby freelancer but before that I'll just toss this tidbit I mentioned on my main

Reblogs are not numbers. Reblogs are meant to share and pass on artwork that someone may like. NO ONE is forced to reblog anything BUT it is a core of engagement in a space like tumblr. Engagement is what brings in interest after all and it's one piece of what makes it important for freelance artists here.

When you look at the numbers and the notes, we need to stop viewing them and comparing them with likes (me included) or total in general. It doesn't help.

Artists do self rebloging to both show or remind folks they've done some work as well as to nudge people to reblog their stuff. Tags are nice and comments in them are a nice way to engage too but passing on the work, especially to help someone to get noticed, is a good way to just work the site as intended.

It will always be about luck because we can't guess who wants to engage with what online. You also can't blame yourselves for this. Don't use the internet mentality of "content" (eugh!) and "flopping" and go about it that way. People find stuff I drew years back and find ways to engage with it now. It's really about luck.

There are things that can help but I'll go about it in another post.

One more thing. Don't be shy about "shilling". Advertise your open commissions, your patreons or ko-fis. I promise it has nothing to do with how big of an artist you are. Remember that you're doing that within your own zone so "bothering" followers is hardly the case, it's your house. Make a tag for it if it helps your mind. I say as someone with social anxiety.

[frog-0n-a-l0g]

Damien calling Gavin

Gavin: yes?

Damien: hey are you and freelancer ok?

Gavin: as far as I know yes why?

Damien: well-

[freelancer driving and screaming to ain’t shit by Doja cat]

FL: YOU KEPT SECRETS AND YOUR COUSIN TOLD ME THAT SO LOGICAL THINKING IS JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU LACK

Damien: I know that you can hear that and umm… they’re singing that very… passionately

Gavin: …well I hope everything’s ok but shit now I don’t know

Damien: yea you should probably talk to them or something lasko is horrified for you

Gavin: ok thanks I will bye wildfire

Damien: bye

Later that night

Gavin texting freelancer

Gavin: hey freelancer are we ok?

FL: yea ofc why?

Gavin: well Damien called me while you were um

Gavin: singing from your heart

FL: omfg baby that’s not bc of you I just really like that kind of music

Gavin: are you sure?

FL: yes we’re ok i promise❤️

Gavin: ok I’ll see you soon❤️

[sanest-ultrakill-fan]

bro literally thinks he's them 😭✋

[bogglebeam]

Line-art of Chat Blanc from Miraculous Ladybug, commissioned by a client on Etsy.

[risingsunresistance]

GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE, I FINALLY GOT GOLD IN A BIG RUN 💥💥💥

[devonellington]

Fri. April 14, 2023: Too Early for Summer!

image courtesy of Tom via pixabay.com April 14, 2023 Waning Moon Hot and hazy Yesterday was far too warm for this type of year. The front porch was downright hot, although the rest of the apartment stayed comfortable. But all I want to do is nap. The cats are a bad influence on this, although they’ve been running around with spring fever. I started Act II of FALL FOREVER, and wrote a little…

[ace-in-a-shopping-cart]

Freelancer calls Huxley 'squirt'. No, they don't care that they literally come up to his tits, they call him 'small fry', 'runt', 'tiny', 'short stack', etc. Any short joke, they make it. Yes, he is a foot taller than them, they don't care.

[itstimeforstarwars]

Ghost hunting appeals to me deeply but I would have to be the token skeptic because like. So much shit is simply not haunting.

[pippins-place]

@joshcapilot is most likely a scammer. they messaged me on my alternate account, so i checked out their blog. it's only advertisements for their vrchat avatar business, but i noticed that none of the styles matched. i reversed image searched their banner...

and got hits. i couldn't determine the identity of the orange canid (it seems to be used in different fiverrs a lot), but the lizard guy is by Rone_Cam on furaffinity. (aka Cone_Ram on reddit and other things)

i've shot a friend request to them on their listed discord, while the joshcapilot account could not even give a reasonable explaination for why they couldn't access that dsc account (weirdly, they say it's not their account "yet")

btw, if you know the og artist personally it might be wise to bring this to their attention. if you know any other sources for the stuff on the blog, bring it to their attentions too, so maybe this guy can stop scamming people.

and josh, if you're reading this. stop using other people's art to advertise your work. if you use free models to showcase your rigging that's fine, but you have to make that clear. and using models you don't even own in your banner is a no-no.

[stillcominback]

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