Forgot To Mention Stuff

Some W.i.p.s of Rainbow quartz and Sardonyx :D --- Sardonyx is almostish ready for paint, Rainbow Quartz isn't near that stage yet.

I like to think of her peacefully/happily playing with water. c:

Barely able to upload it, took a few weeks to make. (not sure hours compiled since I was actually drawing this casually on the side of something else) Full size version can be found on my Tumblr, would link but it omits me from searches. (Username is Krystami)

Really low prices make me less likely to commission an artist. Me: I’m not an artist. I do commission artists - I spend around $300-600 a month on digital art commissions. I sometimes find an artist who has really impressive work, or a unique style, or something else that makes me think “I should commission this person.”. Then I look at their prices and they are crazily low. As in less than 20 dollars for a colour full body character. And I don’t commission them. Because I can’t pay prices that low and feel good about myself for doing it. I know it takes hours to draw even one character. Plus the time it takes to study the brief, look at the references, communicate with me, etc etc. No way are they making even minimum wage this way, let alone a living wage. I commission art because it’s fun. It’s my hobby. If I’m knowingly paying someone slave wages to support my hobby, it isn’t fun. To artists who undercharge: Please reconsider. I’ve heard many reasons why you decide to do this (see below). But if you price your work like you don’t respect it, you won’t get clients who will respect you or your work either. You charge peanuts, you get monkeys. To commissioners who push for these prices: Have some respect. Not just for the artists, but for the other commissioners out there. You’re giving us all a bad name. If you can’t afford decent prices, don’t be mean about it. Save up, or find some other hobby. Or hey, learn to draw.

Comments I get whenever I say the above:

“No-one will buy commissions from me at decent prices.” - That’s a pity. But you realise by underpricing like this you are making your problem worse, by contributing to the “art should be dirt cheap” mindset that seems to exist in dA and other places? (okay mostly dA, that place is a cesspit) Besides, there are other things you can do than keep lowering prices. There’s tons of advice in dA: ‘Official’ Pricing Your Commissions or Artwork Thread Finding Freelance work: pricing and self doubt! And other places: How to get commissions: A guide Getting the Most Out of Commissions If none of the above helps you… maybe you need to reconsider if you are at the right stage in your development to be offering commissions. Sorry.

“I’m only doing this for fun, I don’t care about the money.” - Good for you. But there are others that are trying to make a living doing this. Have some consideration for them, yes?

“It’s the clients pushing my prices down.” - Gah. Then your clients are awful people who don’t respect you. It’s a trap though - you charge low prices, you get cheap clients. There’s only one way out of that trap.

(Commissioner says) “But I want this drawn and I can’t afford higher prices.” - I want to live in an exact replica of Wayne Manor, but I can’t afford that. So, um, I don’t. Simplify your idea, or don’t commission it until you can afford to do so without ripping off the artist.

(Commissioner says) “By paying less per artist I can support more artists.” - No. Just… no. You are not supporting artists, you are exploiting them. Paying less per artists lets you exploit more artists.

“Just tip the artist.” - I have done that, but it sends the wrong message. Tipping isn’t the norm in this game, so when I tip artists assume it’s because they did an extra-awesome job, when in fact I’m tipping them because they did their normal-awesome job. Plus if an artist is charging one-third or one-quarter what they should be, do I tip them 300%?

(Image by me. Not an artist, remember? The price list is made up, but based on real lists I’ve seen recently.)

submitted by -badgermushroom

I *need* to start taking commissions but heck, I don't even know if anyone actively follows me still. I haven't really posted, I have barely had the motivation to post anywhere really. I've made a lot of art though, just haven't posted...idk.

Vent blog link.....

Someone wrote this on Facebook I think it's applicable to any situation though...

"This article is ludicrous. Having an ex that transitioned in to her femininity after years of trying to be something she isn't, I find this appalling. Who are we to judge the happiness of others? That is narcissistic in my opinion. If we can honestly say that someone has to be forced to be unhappy in their own skin, then what is this "land of the free" really about? "You can be free, so long as you conform to the normalities that are laid out in a dying religion." Dying, because the religion breads hatred when it should bread acceptance of anyone, everywhere. Get this crap out of here. I am a woman, and I am not insulted." Out of context but you should see the gist of it... More so in my mind this part here... " Who are we to judge the happiness of others? That is narcissistic in my opinion. If we can honestly say that someone has to be forced to be unhappy in their own skin, then what is this "land of the free" really about? "You can be free, so long as you conform to the normalities that are laid out in a dying religion." I feel like this, and others do this to me, it's painful...

Some random up closeness from the last Lapis picture I made. :D

Last submission I made. Is there a no logo thing? I didn't have the slightest idea until I initially submitted, I didn't see it in the initial rules of the contest (I read over it multiple times and am scared I overlooked it.) and I was posting extremely last minute to where I started panicking because Tumblr was erroring like crazy I was worrying I wasn't going to make it.

(My reasons for being so late is because I have literally used every minute I could to work on these and I was putting as much as I could into all of these submissions.) I thought it would be odd if the titlecards had nothing pointing out which game they were supposed to be from. I seen earlier submissions with them so I thought nothing of it either.

I have never submitted anything on Tumblr ever, I actually had to find out where it was.

I hope this is okay, I vectored the "uno" and "cards against humanity" I honestly couldn't hand draw those in time either (I did want to but time was getting low.)

I really apologize if anything possibly breaks the rules for the contest or rules in general.

Submission 4, last entry I finished.

This is for Uno maybe took fiveish hours?

I kept thinking of this sorta scene while watching Minx play Uno, I love how vibrant that game is.

I am highly interested in the paid position as well, 24 years old, US.

(I just realized, I’m not sure if I forgot to tag my last submission.)

This here is a pile of failures I made last year, my dad dropped a box around that time that broke them all ;n; Thought I would post them since I found them. Those mini sup guys were going to be on a base with the cry figure I was making, I was also trying to make a jumbo sup guy. And then there is charlotte cause I used to have a habit of making tons of her.

I haven't drawn in so long, finally getting back into the groove of it (working on various pics the past few months but everything besides doodles/sketches take for ages, before that was working heavily on sculpts.) So here are some elemental sup guy doodles.