Isn't it illegal to draw stuff this cute? Just stumbled across this, insta follow.
Aw thank you!! I haven’t officially announced it but I’ve actually decided to focus on Instagram and Twitter after Tumblr banned porn. If you want to keep updated with me I heavily suggest following me on those two sites ^^! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justmishy/Twitter: https://twitter.com/_JustMishy
► First one, I’ve raised the prices of my commissions! If you have noticed I’ve been slowly raising the prices of my commissions over time to account for the time and effort I put into each piece. I believe I’m still under pricing myself and would like to change my prices to what I feel is fit for my work. On the other hand, I don’t want to suddenly spike up the price so I don’t spook ya guys! If the flow of commissions is too much for me though I may update my prices again sooner. I hope you guys understand!
There aren’t any example images shown yet cause the only ones I have are NSFW but full colored options are available on the order form! Half body is $35 and full body is $45 atm u w u
► Second one, I made a Trello account!
I’ll be trying this out to see how well I can organize my commissions ^^ Feel free to take a look here!
Of course this advice may not be helpful for everyone nor am I a professional in commissions. This is just stuff I’ve learned and tried to apply to myself and hopefully it can help others out as well. I’ve only started receiving a relatively decent flow of commissions so I’m still very new to the whole thing. Take my words with a grain of salt as there are many more experienced artists out there who most likely can provide better advice ^^
Something I had to keep reminding myself when working on commissions is that I shouldn’t have my perfectionist thoughts get the best of me. When working on commissions I worry about trying to provide the best I can offer because I was paid to draw.
“Draw them something that’s better than your typical art!”
“They paid you, they deserve the best work you can offer!”
However, while I do have to keep a certain level of quality in mind I have to remind myself that pushing myself to keep doing my best all the time can actually push me back. The pressure I’m putting on myself is not only putting more stress on my shoulders but that stress also negatively affects the quality of the drawing.
Before someone had decided to commission you they would have already gathered a general idea of what quality you can provide from the work they’ve seen. This work is typically the art you’ve posted on your social media. The level of quality they expect is typically already there for them so trying to provide any higher level of art is going further than you need to.
I guess if I were to make up an analogy, if you were to go into a Wendy’s (a burger fast food chain) and tried out their food, the next time you go back you’d expect the food to be of the same general level of quality. If Wendy’s wanted to experiment and improve the formula of their food they would test it out else where, not as they serve the food to the customers. They experiment different formulas at their headquarters or whatever and when they figure out a consistent formula that works well they then release it to their stores to sell. This is probably a pretty poor analogy forgive me lol.
But consistency is really key with commissions. Figure out what you what kind of level of quality you can provide consistently and provide commissions based off of that. For example, you tried your hand at digital painting a couple times and can offer it to people if you really wanted to. On the other hand, you also sketch pretty often, finish pieces within a predicable amount of time, and can do a good job at it consistently. I suggest offering sketches up as a commission option and save the digital painting for later. Continue practicing digital painting til you’re consistent with those then you can offer it as a commission option. You gotta have some kind of streamline process.
Commissions are custom pieces of work so you can’t see the finished product until after it’s paid. And if you finish commissions before the client has paid... you’re most likely setting yourself up for trouble buddy xD Anyways, because they won’t know how the drawing is til after they paid they want to at least have a general idea of what the end product will look like and what their money will get them so they’ll be more comfortable in commissioning you.
If you can 1 up yourself without much of a loss to either you or the client, that’s great! But if it’s hindering your work flow or the quality of your work I suggest avoiding doing so. At least for commissions, experiment as much as you want in your own personal art ^^! But a consistent streamline for your commissions is great.
Sorry if I repeated things often heh. I can’t emphasize some stuff enough and I hope someone finds this information helpful!
A request done originally for a commission sample but I decided to not use it in the end. I’ve never played Klonoa but the character is pretty cute u w u!