QnA answers, pt 2
gingicat asked: "Aside from Bucky and Steve (and Sam?), who’s a character you find yourself returning to for drawings?"
At first I was going to answer "women of color looking vaguely to the left 3/4 view, either concerned or surprised", since that's my go-to for mindless doodling. Beyond that, it really boils down to who has the most distinctive shapes and/or whose shapes I've really "gotten" enough that I don't have to think about it. Like -- Steve is easy because he's a rectangle head on a Dorito, Bucky's easy because he's a pentagon head on a rectangle. Natasha's a heart-shaped head on an hourglass body, etc etc. Sam was hard until I realized that his shape is really his hair line. I still have a hard time with Peggy, because her cheekbones don't translate well.
But then I opened up my drawing program and it was this:
... and yeah, I spend a lot of time drawing Totoro and my daughter.
Ah! Commissions!
So, I'm one of those hypocrites where, when it comes to my own stuff, I'm like:
But when it comes to other people's art, fan- or original, I'm like:
So in the specific discussion of DW comm for commissions -- Yes! Please send it my way so that I can stalk it and then commission people.
As for myself re: larger discussion of commissions -- I don't intend to make money off of comicking. There's already not enough time for me to do the art that I want to do. Keeping it an amateur hobby means that I can draw what I want and am not beholden to others. Which is why my commission policy is: If I know you and you want me to draw something, just ask. And if you want to pay me for it, I can calculate a price that is fair to the both of us.
I've drawn wedding invitations, did illustrations for a Chinese textbook that I'm now horribly ashamed of, and some art for an indie-rpg thing. I think my mom still uses a high school drawing that I did of Confucius and Socrates in her presentations? And there's some psych textbook out there with one of my China Comics that ... they never paid me for. Woo. Anyways, in the past few years, I've also dabbled in InDesign and printed a few fanzines and fan anthologies, which was pretty fun (but I guess technically aren't commissions, haha)
QnA meme still open here: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/11491.html?mode=reply
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I'm slowly getting better at the "taking money for my art" thing, although it's taken me a long time, and lots of people telling me to stop under-charging for my work. it helps to give myself a pep talk sometimes