#bc its still a sketch commission

[comikbook]

sketching in pink is better than literally anything ever. ALWAYS sketch in pink

[xamaxenta]

@itsthefandommash aaaangel im so sorry this took me so long i was suckerpunched by the depression this past weekend and i was struggling with literally everything and all basic tasks and its been exhausting and disheartening but i enjoyed the small serotonins in drawing marcoace 🥺❤️ thank you for commissioning me and forcing me to draw two characters together it was rough i definitely need more practice but this is a start

[unexpectedbrickattack]

babpy.

[starsiide]

if an artist says their turnaround time is usually a week and that they should be done with your specific commission by the end of the week, then goes nearly three weeks without saying something, is it OK to ask them for an update on your commission? I'm a bit torn on whether I should wait a whole month

[tenmissedcalls]

goddd i miss having motivation so bad it's been literal ages since i've finished any drawings and it's so frustrating

[trashabilly]

i completely forgot to enable notifications from instagram when i got my new phone and didn't realize one of my buddies sent me reference pics for their band logo that im designing rip 😭

[hackedmotionart]

WOULD YOU LIKE A COMMISSION~??!?!!?!

Check it out! Please!

I finally got through my backlog of sketch commissions!!

It would help me out a lot since rent is creeping up and I have no real money to pay for it right now!

MCU Rule is not an issue any more! LoL Ask for whatever (if you're still into that idk lol)

NSFW rule is because Ko-fi won't allow it posted there. I can get pretty spicy but nothing explicit.

If you want the actual file of your commission please lemme know and I can email it to you but the hi-res is available on ko-fi for download. Whichever is easier for you!

Real people is still a rule because it makes me a little uncomfortable but if it's like...Actors as a ROLE its fine because I'll just draw my style for them (think like MCU I won't draw DOWNEY but I'll draw TONY)

Message only on Ko-fi bc I have dms turned off on tumblr and twitter for sanity reasons lol

I'll be trying to have a faster turn around this time since things got really backed up last time. If you have any questions please DM me on ko-fi!

Donations also welcome the minimum price is 3$! Anything helps!

[thatonend]

COMMISSIONS ARE:

[OPEN] / CLOSED

most important info in the photos here but if you do want to commission, more details under the cut!

hi opening some cheap commissions!! if theres any other redrawn shitposts let me know i can give a price for that too :))

no proship, incest, pedophilia, homophobia, transphobia, etc. if something makes me uncomfortable i will not be doing it.

i can rake paypal and zelle, not venmo bc it wont work for me. i can also get cashapp if you dont have paypal or zelle

my art style begins with color which is why theres not much for just a sketch unless its a photo redraw/trace. i am learning how do lineart but so far im not gonna sell it unless you want really shitty lineart drawings lmao

i will do nsfw but im still learning it so it wont be that great so you are aware, same goes with animals. i can draw animals well from references tho, especially birds and wings since those are one of my major interests :))

when i post photos publicly they will be poisoned with an overlay, you can see this on here. but when i send it to you i will send both the poisoned and unpoisoned versions. i do request any posted publicly be the poisoned version in order to combat AI, especially on twitter

DO NOT FEED MY ART TO AI.

most money will go toward my studio bad egg bill cipher merch fund but anything left over will be going to student loans 😔 looking to get atleast like 50$ by december 15th so i can atleast get the one bill cipher pin i really want 😭 i will also probably use some money towards other people's commissions to support them as well :)

ive never done commissions so let me know if you have any questions or noticed things missed!!

[aztarion]

I finally booted up Night Road over the weekend... after meaning to play this when it came out, but hey, it only took me a few years? 😅 The VtM art community here has been astounding (including yours!) and definitely motivated me with that, so thank you 🙏

It's been scratching the itch left since I played Bloodlines, like 14/15 years ago 😱 So good! I hope you don't mind me asking, but will you be working on more Night Road art pieces and I'm curious if you had a music playlist on during the game? Feels like something that would be make it more atmospheric! 🩵

ok but same!! i knew about night road when it released back in 2020 but i think thats when i was still in my bg3 early access madness so i never got around to checking it out… which is a freakin crying shame because it is absolutely objectively one of my favourite games ever. cannot kiss the authors ass enough. and agreed, the vtm & larger WoD creative community is insanely talented. im still a beginner at digital art but thank you for including me anyway ♥️😭 although i am a little sad being 4 yrs late to the night road party when nobody is making fan art for it specifically

i dont mind at all omg & YEAS! i have so many night road doodles im trying to clean up a little before putting into a sketch dump, plus that lettow render & a julian render, a bigger lettow/courier sketch, & a night road style portrait for my courier!! all going at the same time because i have no impulse control, but its making me learn new techniques & helping develop some sort of cohesive style between pieces i guess…….. we can only hope lol. im currently playing through book of hungry names & working on 2 commissions so im a little slow but ill be back to night road soon bc im literally in love with it. if u have any ideas or requests as well for night road art definitely send them my way or @ashlandr & ill get to them whenever im supposed to be working from home i have time :D <3

i dont use spotify much but i tried to gather up a lot of what ive been vibing to on soundcloud & other places while playing thru night road over the last month!!

and thank you for being so sweet!!!<333

[shirecorn]

I'm not even gonna lie dude, I checked out your ko-fi commission prices and was preparing a whole ass hype up rant about how your art is amazing and your time has value, but I'm so glad to see your regular commissions are priced higher! Bc holy shit! Those ko-fi prices are low as hell! I'm honestly still considering because $3??? For a sketch from a formally trained, highly skilled, very popular artist??? I apologize if I sound patronizing, but like....get that bag!!! Charge more, you deserve it!!!

Side note, if you dont have ko-fi I can do those same commissions + prices via payopal or venimo

Ko-fi commissions take advantage of my current obsessions

Private Commissions are for normal

$3 is very low, yes! But the difference is going up to a street musician and saying "can you play something upbeat?" and giving loose change. You don't get to choose anything bro. Nothing but the absolute basics.

I choose the proportions, I choose the expression. I choose the markings, species quirks, mutations, pose, personality, etc etc.

The pony commissions will be closed once I stop obsessing over ponies. But right now my guitar is out, my microphone is up, and my hat is on the ground accepting loose change. I'm happy to be here.

If you have a vision of what pony you want, and you want it to be a specific shade, with a specific texture of hair, and you want to approve my sketch before I clean it up, and you want to make changes to the color before I finish it, that's a real commission. That's picking my entire setlist and telling me what to wear while doing it, what time I have to do it, and various other details.

It's the difference between a guitarist on the sidewalk and booking one for your wedding. Hope this helps!

The $3 allows you NO customization, its still very low, but I chose it so that a teenager could afford it without hurting their budget, because even $10 can be scary when you have no/low income, but the price of a coffee is something that is easy to drop when out with friends, so it's easier for someone to support their favorite artist in a tiny way and get a party favor for it.

also keep in mind I am incredibly fast. This takes me 10 minutes. So that's still about $18 an hour which is more than my job pays me

Also all commissions have a tip option so if you want you can pay me more

[streamdotpng]

Obligated commissions post, hello gang!

Here to commission me? well here are my prices and examples :) More examples of commissions can be seen in the tag #commission work !!

A more updated commission post with more artwork is here!

Busts: 15-25$ (sketches -> colored)

half body! 25-35$ (Sketches -> colored) *can be from hips to above

also if the lineart looks a lil different for the colored trans enid, its bc i didn't do that. I sketched it, a mutual lined it then I colored it!

Fullbody 35-45$ (sketches -> colored)

Note! Prices can change and vary depending on what is being commissioned! None of these are concrete

+10-15 usd per person

+5-10 usd depending on the background

There can be additional charges due to paypal fees

Can Draw!

Fanart

oc's/humanoids

pngtuber models

character sheets

horror, gore (not excessive)

Chibi

NSfW

Might Draw (We'll need to talk about these requests)

full on furries (not so experienced)

excessive gore/horror (same excuse as above)

comics

honestly, if it isn't in the Can Draw, let's talk about it.

Will not:

hate art

anything political

if it crosses my boundaries

Terms and Service! (this is a long one)

The client may ask for progress updates every 2-4 days, if not longer, should the commissionee not be in contact.

The art may take longer than the estimated time the artist gives. Should that be an issue or concern, the client must tell the artist.

In commissioning the artist, the client acknowledges that the artist is a student and that this is not the artist's full time job, and the client should not expect the artist to be able to treat it as such.

IMAGE RIGHTS

The client may not, in any way shape or form, use the art in a commission product for NFTs, no matter how much they offer to pay the artist. Should NFTs be made of the art without consent, the client gives full consent for the artist to take legal action against them.

The client may make minor edits to the completed commission (e.g. cropping, adding text/borders, changing brightness/contrast/hue/saturation...

The client may use/reupload the commission for personal/non-commercial use, but only if proper credit to the artist and a linkback to any of the artist's social media is provided.

If the commission includes characters that do not belong the client, additional credit to the owner(s)/creator(s) of said characters must be provided when using/reuploading for personal/non-commercial use.

The client may not use the commission for any commercial use unless discussed with the artist beforehand.

^ Should the client use the art for commercial use, provided the artist's consent, the artist will receive an agreed-upon percentage of the sales profits.

The client MUST credit the artist for any usage of the art on any platform.

The client MUST ask the artist if they want to use their art as a reference, and proceed to credit each time the reference is used. REVISION POLICIES Once the coloring stage begins, the only major revisions permitted are details that the artist may have missed and was specified by the client in the order while the commission was still in the sketching/lineart stage (e.g. a missing tattoo that's essential to the character's design).

If the client is unsatisfied with the commission, the artist is willing to discuss and make minor edits as stated prior (e.g. adjusting colors). However, the artist will not redraw the piece and expects full payment, as the client should have specified in the sketch stage changes they wanted to be made.

The client may not hire another artist to adjust the image without the commissionee's consent.

The artist is willing to edit the image post commission for the commissioner, but may charge a small fee depending on what is being asked of them. Upon commissioning the artist, the client automatically agrees to the terms of service provided, as it is assumed they have read them.

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...and that's about it? Just don't expect me to be obligated to draw something. Depending on how much commissions i'm getting and how busy i am, the art will take atleast a few days to a week!

If you got references, provide them! It'll help alot. You can also ask for progress updates, just don't mind me accidentally not seeing the message bc this is tumblr and I don't get notifs for some reason.

as of rn, im accepting payment through ko-fi and paypal

But ye! That's about it, thanks for seeing this yall

[teardew]

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im thinking about making a patreon because i .. uh .. i cant justify drawing for myself anymore and its killing me lmao

it takes me really long to draw so any time i hav should be spent on comms... iv been trying to fight off burnout by drawing things i like inbetween commissions like that sv anatomy practice and vampire/werewolf mngling was just for me but it still ended up setting me behind schedule because i had to rest my eyes and wrist afterward. but not only that i also wanna like. make a lot more things ...

like i wanna do animal, insect, architectural, jewelry studies and fashion and character design explorations and try designing icon packs and branch out trying embroidery with mixed media and clothes making and get into making like 3d things with clay and soft sculptures. i wanna make historical fashion coloring books with việt phục and fashion zines ...

also theres a lot of stuff i dont post bc im not sure if anyone would be interested in all the design concepts and notes i had for example the homestuck dreamer outfits or the various sha hualing designs and sketches i had before getting to the thing i posted? like i hav a bunch of different sqh outfit and hair designs but theyr more clothing based and not detailed character/face art ...

idk !! it sounds like an excuse. its like, who cares just post it ! i know i shouldnt value my art by the amount of numbers i get from posting on social media and i dont mostly but its kinda unavoidable ? to me ? i know i only post fanart and ppl follow me for that and its not a bad thing ! being realistic i just dont think anybody but me would be interested in it ??

i dont know. god. i dont know what this post is about. ''i dont think anybody would be interested in the things i really wanna make'' but im thinking about making a patreon for things i really wanna make anyway because thats the only way i can justify it is if i can profit off it in some way. i dont really want to, but with my financial circumstances i dont know. i never wanted to make my livelihood off my art. i dont even consider or call myself an ''artist'' really, i just want to MAKE art

i dont know why i still cant find a steady job after 5 months applying to everything and its making me miserable. its embarassing, they say to be persistent with jobs but calling and even walking in to check on applications and watching employers awkwardly try to turn me away without just flat out telling me no even though none of them hire me is an exercise in public humiliation. how bad do you want a job? bad enough to make a fool of myself with nothing to show for it. and i want to make art for myself to cope but it takes too much time and time is money

maybe this post is about my art anxiety under capitalism. i dont know

i think im safe enough now to admit my friends gofundme i was posting about months ago about helping their friend escape their abusive household was actually my gofundme because i was worried about them finding out and preventing me from leaving or internet stalking me afterwards. i did hav a scare when i got a phone call i thought was from my brother but ended up being a police officer, whos my mother's friend ...

but anyways. me admitting this is just to give context that. i ran hundreds of miles away from financial security and everything i ever knew and im still struggling to find steady income nearly half a year later. i just dont understand what im doing wrong. is it my name? is it because im not from here? iv been working continuously ever since i could legally my resume isnt BAD. am i just stupid? should i have just tried to make peace with my lot in life?

i thought getting away from my family would let me be in a better place to create more art, thats one of the things i was so excited about but this feels just as stressful as when i was the only earner supporting my family during covid. i just want a stable job so i can make art. i dont want making art to be my Job. i dont want to be a ''starving artist'' begging for people to care about my art i just want to make art. but fuck i dont know how to sustain any of this

sorry for this mess. insurance is different out here and i havnt been able to find a psych either so its not like i can talk about this in therapy instead of venting on my art blog. all my life i wanted to make things without the fear of it all being destroyed. the main reason i havnt branched out from illustrations is because its entirety can be saved digitally even if its physically ruined. my sketchbooks were thrown away or ripped apart by my family either from carelessness or anger to hurt me but now that im finally enough safe to have them again or make something i can hold in my hands without the fear that someone will come in break it and make me clean up its corpse i cant afford it

i dont know what to do. is it worth it? is making art worth it? i mean. its worth the rent this month. and i still love drawing god this is probably bad for business because i dont want people to feel bad for commissioning me or anything but not to be dramatic why does it feel like im fucking dying

[marleemutt]

can I ask what your experience with stingray suits was like? I am hoping to commission them when they open next and wanna hear what the experience was like for you !! :3

stingray/spice is great to work with! seriously cant reccomend him enough ^^ for reference i commissioned a full partial of kubo, so im still waiting on arm sleeves, feet, and small add ons like his collar and eyelids!

i originally commissioned kubo to be finished in time for anthrocon, back in February i think? and AC was in late June. even though i didn't end up going to AC he was very committed to meeting the deadline, offering to finish the suit and still have it shipped in time when the con was 2 weeks away and the fur had only jus finally come in *___*

then i asked him if he could be done by furrydelphia, and even tho there was a hiccup with not ordering enough of a certain fur color, he still managed to get the suit to me early august! he even offered to overnight it so i got kubo literally Just as he finished

as for the suit itself its fantastic! its my second fursuit head so i still have a lot to get used to in terms of visibility and stuff, the ventilation is rough but only bc i wanted kemono eyes, which stop me from getting air circulation through the eyes but thats my choice! im sure his other suits have great air flow, spice was also super accommodating to my requests for comfort, like doing five finger paws instead of 4!

so yes i totally recommend stingray suits!

spice is also a pal of mine soO he was nice enough to theme kubos whole box around lovecore bc thats my thing :*) there were so many fun freebies and stingray plushies & goodies, he even threw in a WHOLE handmade weighted lovecore plushie outta nowhere?? the absolute mad man (but please dont *expect* free things with ur suit im just mentioning this bc im saying hes a real cool dude)

if you're considering commissioning stingraysuits i say go for it!! 💙

lasttly heres the og sketch i gave spice compared to Kubo's finished head!

[cuuzca]

Small update, Mini vent: Commissions status, Burnout etc.

⚠️TW: negative self-talk,⚠️

Update:

Firstly I want thank everyone for your continued patience with the commissions and there hasn’t been a single day that I haven’t thought about them! I want to get them all to you as soon as possible and thoroughly apologize for how long it’s been! There’s no excuse but that comes my next tanget where I want to explain the why.

Another point is that, this post is not for seeking out sympathy or attention, far from it although words of encouragement would be appreciated as I have been facing quite a bit of struggles lately. <3 I will explain.

Autistic burnout is characterized by chronic exhaustion, withdrawal, heightened stress levels, loss of function, incapacitation, and just a prolonged sense of fatigue. That’s what has been plaguing me lately. The desire to draw, have fun, and interact with others is there, but its just the battery has run extremely low. That’s is the tangible objective part. Here’s the more subjective part.

Vent:

Although everyone for the most part has been super supportive and not a single soul has complained at all, the little voice inside my head has become much more Cruel bc of my inability to function.

Because of the burnout and some other external factors that I can’t discuss, my brain has convinced me of cruel things. That I am worthless, I don’t belong, everyone hates me and wishes I was gone. I am nothing of value if i can’t do the bare minimum of functioning and being productive, so then i don’t deserve to be around and should leave so i wont burden anyone else. (For the record, I am in no way a danger to myself. I could never) But it does manifest in self-destructive tendencies wanting to isolate myself and me trying to help out and fix everyone else’s problems bc no one deserves to feel like this.

I wouldnt call these insecurities. I’m secure in the fact that I know I am a person with good intentions and tries my best at the very least. I want to uplift others, make them feel good. Because I want to do good in this world. But there is still that nagging voice that tries to convince me I don’t deserve to be here otherwise. I’m fighting with it and it has kept me at a stalemate.

End Vent.

Now however, I do feel like the more I work with it, the more I can do (ie. the recent drawings I’ve been making). But, I still feel guilty in indulging in that while there are still commissions waiting that I said I would get to. I have every intention to complete them and already have some sketched out. So I will get to them rest assured.

I just felt it was important for transparency purposes that the long wait wasn’t intentional.

I will do my best to work out the gunk and do what I need to do and remind myself its ok to have fun and i do have support even though my brain tries to convince me otherwise. Thank you all💖

[skunkes]

Reg commission prices: a rule of thumb is to NEVER price your art by what you personally feel its worth. Price your art by how much your own time is worth.

Basically if a sketch commission, without extra revisions, takes you like one or two hours; is 10$ enough for that time to you? If you have a busy stressful life, that time might be more valuable than 10$ (just an example btw. i personally would never go below 50€).

Also remember having rly low prices tend to attract scammers/rude people so sometimes ppl increase prices just to filter out any bad eggs.

dis is true! honestly pricing new commissions is hard for me mostly because my current ones have been adjusted over time. like i wasnt very good at chibis when i started...but the demand grew and i now only know i have to raise prices when i keep getting swamped with em...

ive improved at art so its much harder to gauge completely new commissions bc idk how many ill get, if at all, how i'll handle em, etc T_T i wish i could still start super low and raise em as i go but thats obviously not viable i am So tired

[rosekasa]

ive yet to finish an art project since december bc ive been so down abt my work. im startjng to feel like a one trick pony, like i can only make one good art im proud of and never again. each type i set out to make something it just doesn't turn out good so i delete it and start again and rinse and repeat. its nice to know that its not just me who feels this way

baby you are NOT alone!! at a time where most of the art we consume is through the norms of social media it can be so hard to remember that art is not just about making a good 'finished product' and that your value as an artist isn't about your work looking like those of the people you see with thousands of followers. feeling proud of your work comes from feeling proud of yourself. i have so many pieces that objectively are Not good but i feel filled with so much love when i look at them because i remember how happy i was while creating it. but then i have pieces that have gotten thousands of reblogs but i physically cannot bring myself to look at them for too long because while i was drawing it i was constantly thinking about whether it will look good, whether it will fit the idea i had in my head, etc. etc.

I don't know if it's any consolation to hear this, but the feelings triggered in you when you see a result you don't like are not concrete nor are they a true depiction of who you are. you are a wonderful, skilled, creative artist and i can say this to you without knowing who you are and knowing your work because to be that kind of person is to think you are that kind of person. the more you tell yourself not to be nervous about your art not turning out good and focus on creating the things that make you feel joy with confidence, the more your art WILL start to look good, i promise.

i wanted to share some examples with my own art and my feelings about it so if you're not interested don't worry qjkskw im just putting it under here

i think this was my most reblogged piece in 2022 but i dont think ive seen it closeup since then because it does not make me feel good when i look at it. when i sat down to draw this i was so stressed about making it look a certain way. i was trying to use all this technical knowledge like forumlas to make it look 'perfect' but at the end it just felt like a drawing that wasn't even mine. i do like the sky a lot though because painting skies like that have always made me feel really happy.

same situation with this piece. i had the vague idea in my head but it felt like i had to make it a chore to make sure it looked good. i kept trying to find the 'perfect' references and trying to copy tutorials id seen about anatomy to force it to look good but again this just doesn't feel like my art because i think so much of it came from what i thought i shouldve been doing rather than what felt good. it felt like i was trying to prove myself

i did this in an hour and a half and i thought it was going to be a warmup ahkdka. i completely switched off my brain while i did this. i loved this pose from ikari gozen and so i sketched it out really fast in a way that felt so. easy? natural? the rest of the details sort of just fell into place. that's not to say i didnt try to use the same techniques that i did for the other two, but this time i trusted that those techniques that i learned would naturally come to me while i worked while i had the end result in my mind. when i look at this piece i just remember how intuitive the process felt, how i would zoom out of the canvas and look at it and think 'omg wait what if i try that thing i saw on that youtube tutorial...' and how i wasnt trying to prove to myself this was a good drawing, but for the way i felt natural and happy prove it to me instead

this one too ❤️ i have improved my anatomy a lot since this piece but i still use it on all my portfolios and commission examples because it feels like such a good depiction of how i want MY art to feel to me when i see it. i love ladynoir so much and i love oblivio so much and that's genuinely all i was thinking about while drawing this. i didn't want to make it perfect, i just had a vague image of what i wanted it to be like in my head but i was just so excited to be doing oblivio art that i totally forgot about stressing about everything else and just let the brainrot power me HDKDKA. the process was so messy but it felt a lot like solving a puzzle, you know? i didnt need to force any techniques onto it to make it look good because i trusted that the image would already be there, i just needed to find it