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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.

minoanmiss asked: "I just saw a DW community for commissions announced! would you be interested in that? (In specific and wider discussion of commissions in general)"

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 started talking about random commission-ish art stuff that I've done and it ran long )

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