Commission / Project List
10 months ago
CURRENT PLANS: On haitus from publishing online art to instead go through tutorials and exercises to learn the fundamentals. I'll be back in a year or two once I'm happy with what I'm capable of.
I just wanted to write this quickly to let people know where I am with things. I had shotgunned every treatment for depression this year; tl;dr it worked, I feel great. It just feels like I'm sobering up in the middle of a trainwreck. Energy company got bought out, and the bill landed at my doorstep this month. My financial situation was dire until this weekend where friend's stepped in with some much needed cash. This has not been the first time the fandom has came to my rescue, and I am grateful and want to pay everyone back. However this is also a nightmare because I had earlier joined Art Fight this month and raised people's hopes of getting art by asking them to lend me their reference sheets while I 'warm-up', I only know two other people doing Art Fight proper. Far from feeling stressed, I feel reinvigorated and want to make the best use of my time before I start my degree in October. Which leaves me with two and a half months.
I want to give a special shout-out to , , and all fellow artists who've given me instructional advice and morale support that has gotten me back into drawing, although the true list of people who helped me would make this journal five times larger than it needs to be. There is a lot I've forgotten and need to relearn when it comes to art, their advice has been crucial in coming up with a plan over the weekend to speed back on track. eg, gesture sketches, daily sketchbook practice, recommending guides, redlining my art, critique. The works, really. A pipeline is emerging, and I'll still be slow to work as I do more studies and learn thoroughly at a snails pace (instead of not doing anything at all as I was while depressed.)
The list is as follows:
1. Blackadder281 (Emergency weekend comm; Kink Illustration)
2. MadEyeWolf (Emergency weekend comm; Reference Sheet)
3. Zydras (Art Fight Piece.)
4. Randomdude1 (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
5. HandofBlades (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
6. TigerWriter93 (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
7. PmarProject(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
8. SilverWlf(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
9. Ralanr(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
10. Nyx(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
11. MadEyeWolf (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
12. Eris Moth (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
13. LopsidedWorld (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
After these I'll be going back to the commission block from where I last left off.
14. Violent Hyena
15. MadEyeWolf
16. Blackadder281
17. Sasha Zebra
18. Ari & Sunta
After this I'll be digging through my files, and picking a random person to spend a weekend on fulfilling everything I had written down for it, be it commission, trade, gift, or request until the list is burnt through completely. I'm not intending to get rich from the fandom, and enjoy having something to keep me preoccupied that makes my friends' happy. People are free to send me money at any time via Kofi ( link here: https://ko-fi.com/aberdorkunited ) as a donation to help out and to encourage my pursuit of art. I do have to caution that my approach will be slow and methodological. I was taught a very specific way to handle projects as part of a process; so I intend to be doing a lot of ground work such as making sketches of client's species to nail the particular details right, do thumbnails instead of go with the first pose that springs to mind. The kind of legwork I never gave myself time for that always bit me in the rear, I want to make sure skills are getting consolidated.
Currently I don't have a timeline of when I'll get through everything, I just intend to weather the storm and get through things in my own pace one at a time. I'm much more interested in developing a timetable for myself, as I want to work on multiple fronts in tandem: My website to host my own art, my presentation as an artist so I have a nifty (niftier, even) icon, banner, the works across each gallery site I'm on, building up a portfolio around themes that are of interest to me and clients, and attaining the technical ability I want. I subscribe to ImagineFX, and there's a lot of artists I see featured on its pages I wish I could draw like, in the latest it was Cindy Avelino who's art you can see on her Art Station: https://www.artstation.com/cindyavelino
The other reason why I'd want a timetable is I might be involved in a secret unannounced project with a friend that involves animation and I need to divy up my week to make sure I have time to work on it. There's already a reference sheet of two of my characters potentially in the works by me. I think it's something that'd be of a great interest to a wide audience. I've also been an editor to a small community of supervillain writers, and during my low mood I took up writing and learning game development; there are no demos but drafts of a novel's chapters i'm using to springboard the game. Which again is exciting but likely for a smaller number of people.
Things are moving along, hand is on the pen, pen is touching paper. It's just going to require a dedicated use of time. The first sheet of thumbnails goes out today.
I want to give a special shout-out to , , and all fellow artists who've given me instructional advice and morale support that has gotten me back into drawing, although the true list of people who helped me would make this journal five times larger than it needs to be. There is a lot I've forgotten and need to relearn when it comes to art, their advice has been crucial in coming up with a plan over the weekend to speed back on track. eg, gesture sketches, daily sketchbook practice, recommending guides, redlining my art, critique. The works, really. A pipeline is emerging, and I'll still be slow to work as I do more studies and learn thoroughly at a snails pace (instead of not doing anything at all as I was while depressed.)
The list is as follows:
1. Blackadder281 (Emergency weekend comm; Kink Illustration)
2. MadEyeWolf (Emergency weekend comm; Reference Sheet)
3. Zydras (Art Fight Piece.)
4. Randomdude1 (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
5. HandofBlades (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
6. TigerWriter93 (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
7. PmarProject(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
8. SilverWlf(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
9. Ralanr(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
10. Nyx(Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
11. MadEyeWolf (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
12. Eris Moth (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
13. LopsidedWorld (Art Fight Warm-Up; Sketch)
After these I'll be going back to the commission block from where I last left off.
14. Violent Hyena
15. MadEyeWolf
16. Blackadder281
17. Sasha Zebra
18. Ari & Sunta
After this I'll be digging through my files, and picking a random person to spend a weekend on fulfilling everything I had written down for it, be it commission, trade, gift, or request until the list is burnt through completely. I'm not intending to get rich from the fandom, and enjoy having something to keep me preoccupied that makes my friends' happy. People are free to send me money at any time via Kofi ( link here: https://ko-fi.com/aberdorkunited ) as a donation to help out and to encourage my pursuit of art. I do have to caution that my approach will be slow and methodological. I was taught a very specific way to handle projects as part of a process; so I intend to be doing a lot of ground work such as making sketches of client's species to nail the particular details right, do thumbnails instead of go with the first pose that springs to mind. The kind of legwork I never gave myself time for that always bit me in the rear, I want to make sure skills are getting consolidated.
Currently I don't have a timeline of when I'll get through everything, I just intend to weather the storm and get through things in my own pace one at a time. I'm much more interested in developing a timetable for myself, as I want to work on multiple fronts in tandem: My website to host my own art, my presentation as an artist so I have a nifty (niftier, even) icon, banner, the works across each gallery site I'm on, building up a portfolio around themes that are of interest to me and clients, and attaining the technical ability I want. I subscribe to ImagineFX, and there's a lot of artists I see featured on its pages I wish I could draw like, in the latest it was Cindy Avelino who's art you can see on her Art Station: https://www.artstation.com/cindyavelino
The other reason why I'd want a timetable is I might be involved in a secret unannounced project with a friend that involves animation and I need to divy up my week to make sure I have time to work on it. There's already a reference sheet of two of my characters potentially in the works by me. I think it's something that'd be of a great interest to a wide audience. I've also been an editor to a small community of supervillain writers, and during my low mood I took up writing and learning game development; there are no demos but drafts of a novel's chapters i'm using to springboard the game. Which again is exciting but likely for a smaller number of people.
Things are moving along, hand is on the pen, pen is touching paper. It's just going to require a dedicated use of time. The first sheet of thumbnails goes out today.
I imagine I'd gain speed the more I do as confidence grows.