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I now have a Storenvy store where you can buy my traditional art: lagomorphosis.storenvy.com/
Commission FAQ is still available here: vineris.deviantart.com/journal…
Commission FAQ is still available here: vineris.deviantart.com/journal…
Commissions
SO. I have been de-jobbed. This state of affairs may or may not be permanent, but in the meantime I gotta fill the fridge. To this purpose, I am offering commissions.
All prices are in USD for high-res digital files, hard copies will have additional shipping, handling and/or printing costs.
PRICES:
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1-2 Characters, Full Body, Solid-Colour Background:
Simple pencil sketch, with or without shading: $20
Digital inks: $30
Cell-style shading: $40
Fully rendered: $60
Simple Background (stylized, cel shaded, etc.) +$30
Complex Background (fully rendered, detailed, etc.) +$50
Additional Characters +$10
ACEO (markers + pencil cray
Motivation
You know the scenario: you have promised yourself that this year will be the year of making more art, but a few months in you have only posted one picture to your gallery and your sketchbook is covered in dust. You don't seem to have any time to draw, when you sit down at the drawing board you suddenly get the urge to clean the cat's litterbox, and yet you also manage to spend three hours every day arguing with teenagers online and looking up recipes for chicken shawarmas. What do you do to get back into the groove?
Note that I never refer to motivation problems as a "block". When people say "I have an art block" it seems like they think
Finding Ideas
Where do artists find ideas? It's something that creative people are often asked by less-creative people, and there's always a temptation to say things like "everywhere!" or "I send away for them -- they're $50 for a pack of 20." However, that's not really very helpful to someone who is sitting in front of a blank piece of paper or staring at a blank computer screen right now, thinking "what am I going to do now?"
The thing is, ideas are like fish in a lake. Sometimes you're hip-deep in a swarm of them, other times you can't find a single one to save your life. Sometimes they're obvious and other times they're camouflaged. And sometimes
Drawing from your Head
Drawing from Your Head, or "Hey -- Why Doesn't This Look Like I Imagined It?"
So you're a newer artist and you're pretty good, as long as you've got a picture in front of you to copy from. And you have this COOL idea for a monster deer with stars shining through its hide and coral branches sprouting from its head instead of antlers. Unfortunately, you don't have a photo of one of those in front of you -- but you see the picture in your head SO CLEARLY and you're sure you can draw it! You get to scribbling away and the inevitable happens -- you draw something that doesn't look anything like you imagined it. You toss the picture into your
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