
About few years back I opened up commissions at DA:Lampton. Except back then I had no real idea how to do this properly and made a lot of mistakes. First mistake was that I didn't know what "slots" where, and second, I charged way too little for a lot of my work.
To put it simply I bit off more than I can chew.
So because of all that I got maybe over 10 requests, and some people asked a lot out me. One girl asked for two full colored illustrations with minimum of two characters in each one. It must sound like easy piece but to me...
I could hardly draw ONE person that's fully colored.
Then there was also this thing called "bad timing". By the time I finished my first few commissions I got other people asking me to do work for them which had dead lines. The first one required me to do 10 pages of fully colored illustrations for an online book. That took months and it pretty much killed the PC. After that one, some lady paid me to help her with her fantasy-Christian? book about Jesus, and that just killed me.
I mean...that book. So. Awful. To the point where your brain denies everything logical about life so it makes it harder for you to be able to draw anything.
Theeen the most recent one I had to do was for this guy who wanted me to do renderings of some amusement park for a possible...amusement park, I guess. I think I had to do about 6 of them and each one took me forever.
Of course I was able to to few more commissions from DA, but now I'm just sick of it. I have few sketches ready to ink and color but I can't get myself to finish them. Besides it's already been years since I took them up on the offer.
I could only blame my stupidity and laziness but since I required them not to pay me until I'm done with their piece, I'm thinking of simply quitting. I'll have to apologize to them all and it kills me to do this. This only makes me feel that I'm not really cut out for art jobs.
So to anyone reading this who have commissioned me back in DA, I'm so, so very sorry. Hopefully next time I'll know better. But right now I have comics to do and some personal art I've promised myself to finish.
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