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Sup

Did some doodling during the Furmeet I went to last night. I sorta uh, crashed afterward. Was very tired + the fiance had a migraine and those are ANTIFUN.

I’ll try to get the doodles scanned in soon. Otherwise, today is a productive day so far. Should have some stuff to post soon.

You know that thing I was supposed to do?

Food poisoning happened instead and killed all of today.

Here’s hoping tomorrow is more productive. .-. LEAVE IT TO ME TO EAT EGGS THAT HAD GONE BAD

Expect art delays, unfortunately. My PC was dead when I came home from a New Years party. We are troubleshooting to fix it today, and I will have the laptop to do at in the interim, but this happened at the worst possible time.

Hi! Can I ask a quick question? I take art commissions but since I’m a budding artist I don’t charge a whole lot–maybe $20 per full work–but people in real life tell me that I should charge more, and several say that I should charge by the hour, because sometimes I do spend several hours (maybe 5-12 on bigger ones) on my pieces. I wanted to ask, is recording yourself drawing the only way to make this method plausible to clients? I’m a freshman in college so I need as much as I can get

eskiworks:

Hourly rates for professional artists have been around far longer than streaming.  Artists before me have been charging hourly rates since before I was born!  They might have filled out time sheets, written up contracts that bind them legally to keep to their estimates, or found other methods of validating their hours.  It’s by far not a new method for artists to charge for their work.  I think it seems new because fandom related art seems to foster flat rates and lower rates in artists, something which I talked about at greater length here a couple years ago. 

While I choose to validate my hours via streaming, it’s not necessary to do so. With small fandom related clients, it does tend to foster a sense of trust I find, so that’s a nice perk of streaming the work (among other perks). You could also base your flat rates off an estimated hourly fee per project, that seems to work for a lot of artists who don’t want to deal with charging an hourly rate.

All that said, I want you to think about something here.  Think about how much you’re making per hour off your art right now.  Charging $20 for a piece that takes between 5 and 12 hours means you are making between $4 and $1.68 per hours on your art…  Not only is that anywhere near a livable wage, that’s not even minimum wage (which is also not all that much of a livable wage to be fair).  Do not do that to yourself.  You and your work are worth a livable wage.  Not only is charging this little damaging to the artist community as a whole, but your time and skills are worth enough to keep you fed, housed, and clothed!!!

Thinking about dead characters.
I may revive some. There’s plenty more, but these guys came to mind recently.

– Ashya was a princess at creation of a kingdom i now barely recall. She was the youngest, and advisor to her brother Garret, who was heir to the throne. I don’t remember much of her other than she was a very political character, and highly intelligent. Garret was much less skilled politically, but was good hearted. She will likely stay iced unless I have need for a royal family in world.

– Carson…not very developed. He had potential, but never really went anywhere. He never had an overarching character plot beyond not seeing eye to eye with his family, and the fact that he was trans played a large part in a lot of his character conflicts… He was created mostly to work through issues of my own and just never saw the use needed to go further. He had personality, but never developed a proper story. Probably will stay iced.

– D’mitri is an old necro character. Noble family, sick father, turns to the darker arts out of desperation kinda deal. Hasn’t seen use in years, but other than his ‘plot’ not aging well, he just needs touch ups. New coat of paint. That sort of thing.

– Felicia is another necro. I recently sort of remade her in Guild Wars 2, but I think her story has potential. She was sort of ‘caught between’ two cultures. Her mother was a shaman from a nomadic tribe but wound up marrying a city dwelling merchant after he wound up lost in her tribe’s lands. Felicia’s character plot revolved around revenge—her fiancé wound up murdered and she was seeking out his murderer and trying to bring him back. I’ll likely change her background, but the overarching plot works.

– Finn was an albino anthropomorphic rat and tinker. His plot had him seeking work in a less than beastman friendly city and winding up as a leader for a beast rights group more or less against his will. He was fun when I used him. May tweak and see where he goes.

– Xilphos was a…protective spirit? Unicorn? I’m not sure. He had a cool design and dominated a few old notebooks of mine, but I can’t remember much about him. Blank slate and his design held up well, though.