Hi, I've received a few questions publicly and privately here or elsewhere (ex. Discord) about my artworks, so I might as well put them all in a post! I can over-explain sometimes, so apologies ahead of time.
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▫️Q: Can I use your artwork for a profile picture/avatar/icon/something like that?
▫️A: Yeah! Go ahead. Unless it's like, deliberately someone else's character or pet I drew for them.
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▫️Q: Any prints available?
▫️A: Not at the moment, but maybe from a place that's print-on-demand. Also the artworks would be limited because I'm unsure about how each photographer whose photos I use would feel about that. I have so many free photography work places I follow, that it is hard to keep up. Also probably no licensed things such as Pokémon just in case. So it'd probably be from stuff I made from my own photos or I've been explicitly given permission. But if you want the big high-resolution .PNG files you're free to ask and print yourself! Just don't sell please, for similar reasons as mentioned earlier.
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▫️Q: Where do you get your photo references from?
▫️A: Mostly Facebook groups that are basically titled something along the lines of "Free Reference Photos for Artists", some of them are animals, etc. I do screenshot paintings from games sometimes too or look at models. Some things (like the black swans) are from my own photos though! I zoom in on the phone camera and don't get too close to animals. Unless they're my cats. I'm not big on photography though.
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▫️Q: Do you take commissions?
▫️A: A lot of these are from scam accounts but I've had real people ask, and at the moment no. I don't want to take money yet, I do not feel I could deliver something in a good time frame. I have plenty of gift art I'm behind on..
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▫️Q: Do you do traditional art too?
▫️A: Not as often. It's almost entirely Procreate and Clip Studio Paint. Not to dump too much of my trauma, but my widowed mother was a hoarder and art supplies were one item she flooded a room with, and most of my old artworks got lost and/or destroyed in the hoard. But I could definitely use some more paper and pencil work lol. I already gave away some unused stuff already and try to prevent myself from falling into the same thing.