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[alairmena]

World's most affordable artist!

I need around 400$ more to get to pay my student tuition, so spread the word that me, Alair Mena, the world's most affordable artist, makes the most affordable art you can get your hands on in this day and age!

I take commissions in these categories:

Portrait art - 5$

Note: These two are portraits of people, but I do this for characters as well!

Concept art (portrait and full body) - 15$

Note: all of the concept arts are visually directed by the clients who requested them! Thank you for my wonderful supporters @foyle-writes-things @aloeverawrites and @danimia for letting me bring these wonderful character designs to life! :D

So if you've always wanted to have a fancy drawing of your little blorbo, but you despise ai slop and simultaneously never could afford an artist, here's your chance :))

A repost helps. 😌

If you're interested in higher tiers, read more in the post!

Concept art (enhanced) - 40$

Lots more shading, lots more lights, you get one with and one without the colorful background splash (transparent background).

And above - full blown illustration and comic book pages (50$+)

Depending on the level of detail and the amount of content you're going for, the prices can get a lot higher, but as I said, I'll try to keep everything as affordable as it can be!

[alairmena]

Are your commissions still open??? And if so what do you go through for payment?

Open always, yes :)) I have PayPal!

[alairmena]

Let me be VERY clear - I don't know shit about her dramas, but this fuckin photo of her is so good. Painting this got me through a literal concussion 🔥🙏

[alairmena]

The Night of Evil

Just something I'm working on in the meantime 👀 Blame ADHD for this

[zeezeepearl]

For the love of God if anybody has the answer for how to get past chapter 2 of my novel before I fizzle out from lack of momentum killing my excitement please give me advice

[alairmena]

You can only write so much by just forcefully writing 400 words each day with no plan and no idea what you're doing. Instead... Figure out WHY did you get stuck at chapter 2.

Do you have idea where the story is going?

Do you know what the characters are doing and why?

Do you already have an outline but when you sit down to write, it just feels off and unnatural and you have no idea how to connect those scenes in a natural way?

All of these are possible and completely valid reasons for why you might have gotten stuck. Realizing what the actual problem is will unstuck you better than any moodboard, playlist, writing out of order or forceful writing ever will.

If you need help on how to figure out what the problem is and how to solve it, you can always hmu! I can't help much from this point on until I know more about your story, but at least the first step to recovery is already here -> realizing that a problem exists.

Happy writing!

[heatherhopefully]

I want to write so badly, but the idea well has run dry. I don't know if it's burnout, or stress, or medication, but I can't string enough ideas together to get excited about a project.

What do y'all do when the idea machine isn't machining?

[alairmena]

Go watch shitty media. Seriously.

Something with a good premise whose potential got wasted.

It'll fire you up like nothing else in the world!

[felvahkiir]

I am in writer's hell; finally having the time to write but somehow stuck with both writer's block AND decision paralysis

I have SO MANY PROJECTS and no ability to do ANY OF THEM

[alairmena]

I know exactly what you're dealing with, and that's something I was dealing with as well, for the most part of my life ^^"

But I came up with a solution for this.

Think deeply about why are you writing. Is your goal to get published? Or would you self publish? If so, in what genre do you think your debut would be the best fit?

Or maybe you're simply writing for yourself, in which case, just proceed to this next step ->

Which one of your projects is the easiest to pull of? Which one's the shortest, and at the same time, the most fleshed out out of all your ideas, but ALSO fits into your goal from the previous question?

That's the one you are starting with. NOW STICK TO IT. You can have a side project, or multiple of them so that you can always cool off when you're tired, but you HAVE TO have your MAIN. That's how you never lose direction in which you're going to!

And never forget to enjoy the process, because that's what matters the most :))

Happy writing!

[idontactuallyremember]

Now I'm interested in how this OC looks like 👀

Thank you for asking!! Nobody has asked me about my OC before!! :o Maybe my OC lore is sorta complicated and extreme but idc haha that's my mannn 🤧 He is a Sirius Black OC and is similar to Sirius, in a way. Sirius has long brown hair and lots of intricate tattoos. He works on motorcycles and is always dirty. He is in his 20s (he tends to age with me) My Sirius OC is missing an eye, with a star shaped scar around it. He is missing a finger, as well as one canine tooth. The reason for most of these injuries are either due to him being negligent as Padfoot and/or because his Mom would practice evil spells on him when he was bad as a kid :((( In my head, Sirius and his brother, Regulus got matching tattoos when they were younger, but Sirius lasered his off so he has a scar on his upper shoulder. I included some pictures from my OC mood board, too :)) I love you and thank you again for allowing me to rant about the loml <333 Sirius has been my FO for almost 10 years now!!!

[alairmena]

Ty OP, I couldn't hold myself!! Here's a quick sketch of your blorbo! I had to take some artistic liberties at the unexplained details, but I hope its close enough to your FO :))

[alairmena]

And the cycle repeats itself: I come back from a hiatus, finding my account in complete irrelevancy!

And that means what it always meant - I'll be spamming y'all with arts, writing advice reblogs, and occasional cringe.

Anyone has a question about writing or an art to commission?

Hmu.

And don't forget to enjoy writing today!!

[alairmena]

Commission dump!!

Here are some of the commissions I did last month! Thank you to everyone who commissioned me!!

If you'd like to commission me too, here's how you do it: JUST SHOOT A DM. THAT'S IT. Commission tiers are described in the pinned post!

Thank you to awesome @foyle-writes-things @rookthebird @risen-in-hate and coquette.coffin on Instagram for letting me bring their characters to life!

If you want yours, you know where to find me 😌

Happy holidays to everyone!!

[semperayn]

Art commissions open!

Help me buy some boots for the winter and afford rent in an expensive city! Here are some things I frequently do and some common prices I charge for them, but please feel free to DM me and reach out if you want something else or aren't sure how something would work!

I draw a lot of OC's, DnD characters, ships and pairings, fanart (especially queer), I do outfit designs and weapon designs and animal companions etc etc.

Please support a queer artist trying to defeat AI slop one drawing at a time!

Every repost, like and comment, share to your friend, everything helps!!

[alairmena]

Everyone, go commission my friend as well! She's super talented and crazy dedicated 😌

Alair Mena approves 👌👌💯💯

[alairmena]

Are there parts of anatomy you struggle with?

I'm not very fond of drawing hands, but I'm capable of drawing nearly anything when I put my full brainpower into it 💪

[alairmena]

Hi, I was wondering how you take your payment for commissions? (PayPal, bank transfer, etc)

Sorry if you’ve answered that before 😅

I take Paypal, thanks for asking! Just now i realized I didn't specify anywhere in the OG post, so probably more people are wondering 🥲

Commission orders are in dm, dms are always open! 👌

[alairmena]

It has come to my understanding that I need y'all's attention to do anything with my dream following lmao, so

Would you mind giving a little bit of it to me 🥺👉👈 Just a littleeee bit of attention 🥺🙏

Here's what you can spend your attention on:

- Dope ass art (i do OC draws in the asks!)

- Cool writing advice (if u hmu, i can give you specific advice on what you can do in your story if you're stuck)

- My ongoing projects (ngl this one's radio silent FOR NOW but invest now and you can brag tomorrow how you were one of the OGs back in my humble beginnings)

Oh and I also do art commissions! If you like supporting small artists, that is!

Now Tumblrinas, let me see how just generous you are! Reblog for generosity signaling 🙏🙏

[alairmena]

The fact that this happened twice should concern me

[14kak]

I'm on such a writers block I wanna die I so many ideas to write but idk how to do itt aughh

[alairmena]

Pick one of those story ideas, and try to tell that story to your closest autistic friend. They reeeaaallyyy can't stand nonsense. Every time they ask you a question "but why is that?", challenge yourself to give them an explanation improvised on the spot.

That's not only gonna hype you up for the story at hand, but trust me - you'll end up with a story ready to be told.

And don't try dying, it's not advisable! Stay safe! Happy writing!

[just-some-trans-teenager]

Why is it that I only ever get inspiration to write when I should be going to sleep?

[alairmena]

Quite simply, because you stress all day, thinking your writing is shit, overanalyzing what everyone is going to say, not trusting your own hands in writing and not trusting your own brain with ideas. Only once you're exhausted enough to stop criticizing yourself, you realize, that the only thing you've ever wanted was to simply - write.

Do you understand how much all this overthinking limits you? You already have the will, the inspiration and the power to do it. Don't let your perceived version of the world tell you that it's wrong. Because you're a living legend of writing, I just know it!

Go and write something! I believe in you!