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this guy?
this is the kind of customer that you attract when you set low prices
I know we really like to think of prices of a few USD as being the
first step on the way to becoming a 'proper artist', but there are a
lot of people who will never see you as a proper artist, because they
don't believe that it is a valid profession.
they believe that no matter how good you get, you are not
entitled to any sort of sense of security or fair pay for your time
if you're charging pennies, you'll attract people who only want to pay
pennies. I mean this is obviously fine if you're a hobbyist, but if you
seriously have ambitions to work as an artist one day, then please
please consider thinking about the message your prices are sending
to your potential buyers
treat your time and skilled labour with some care ;;
moved on
I completely forgot to post about this more formally but I nuked my dA gallery because there's little point in curating here, sadly. there isn't much of a community, it's not a good portfolio site, etc. I have too many accounts on sites I didn't enjoy mirroring to in general, so this time around it was dA that didn't make the cut... goodnight sweet prince... you can find me in these places instead, for now website | twitter | instagram | furaffinity I'm most responstive to comments on fa at present would be twitter too but god I cannot tell you if I will actually even receive the notifications at this point in terms of like, monetised stuff like adopts, commissions and physical trinkets, I still hit up the uk con circuit! updates on where I'll be can be found on my art server. also patreon if you fancy getting some updates a lil earlier, or being a part of the penpal sticker thing I have going on over there!! see you guys around!
thank you for the birthday wishes~
logged in on a whim and saw 'em on my page!
thank you for thinking of me ( ' u ')/
hey catling, what's eating your time right now?
HEY GOOD QUESTION, HYPOTHETICAL DA WATCHER!
IN SHORT
adult life hard aaauuuughhhh
IN FULL
I'm working my way through the final stretch of my physics degree, a ton of life stuff happened involving house emergencies, I'm spending my free time doing art for myself, workin on patreon stuff, and preparing for conventions. the upshot is that I'm sleeping like 5hrs a night and there's rly still not enough time in the day to do everything I wanna do and it's. yeah.
oh and I should probably mention I started one heck of a project lately?!
I'm pretty sure I've chatted about my interest in science before but for you guys who are uninformed, I'm l
comms open for once?! wow?!! 0/3 slots left
https://twitter.com/_strayling/status/1109850875764375553
^^^
summary is I'll be taking 3 pwyw slots pre-emptively for this stream on the basis of characters I wanna draw most! (furries preferred this time)
the rest of the stream will be standard first come first served sketches!
sorry for the long silence, but I'm so glad to finally have time to do this again phew ;-;
EDIT: TAKEN!!
stream will be here!
https://www.twitch.tv/strayling
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Wow.
I started doing commissions a while ago, and I put my prices so freaking low, that I got swarmed. I thought that was enough. It was all good until I started getting commissions for drawings that I seriously did not want to do.
"Do you take requests?" : No, sorry! I would absolutely love to, but I'm so freaking burnt out from my commissions I can't!
"Do you draw gore?" : I do, but only a little! I'm not a blood and guts time person >_< "Ok, that's cool. Take my commission."
Then, I started doing adopts.
You know what scared me?
Adopts which I spent about 3 hours on, gained more than the commissions I stayed up til' 4 in the morning for, wasted my love on and cried for.
I don't know what to do ;_;
I started doing commissions a while ago, and I put my prices so freaking low, that I got swarmed. I thought that was enough. It was all good until I started getting commissions for drawings that I seriously did not want to do.
"Do you take requests?" : No, sorry! I would absolutely love to, but I'm so freaking burnt out from my commissions I can't!
"Do you draw gore?" : I do, but only a little! I'm not a blood and guts time person >_< "Ok, that's cool. Take my commission."
Then, I started doing adopts.
You know what scared me?
Adopts which I spent about 3 hours on, gained more than the commissions I stayed up til' 4 in the morning for, wasted my love on and cried for.
I don't know what to do ;_;