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Greater Basilisk wrote:purplecat wrote:
If you guys lived close enough, definately! Three kids at once is definately a challenge babysitter-wise! She has a gargoyle panther that I was getting irritated with and a couple griffins, one of which I dropped and he had chips everywhere which I re-airbrushed to look like battle wounds…She loves him dearly, I was cursing as I his head and feet back on! He was ok-looking in the end but I just didn’t like him.
So where would you be at home? Maybe I can put in some babysitting on my trip and come back with even more Windstones… 😆
Ha! Berea, Kentucky. Glorified middle of nowhere, but a small, beautiful town nonetheless! Come by, I’ll make you lunch at the very least! It’d be awesome to have you visit! 😀
Aw, Kentucky. It sounds like a lovely state – like all of them. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s on my itinerary. I start in Michigan and go east from there. Phooey.
As someone that has never done a comission but has hated some of her art, I would like to note that although you may hate it the rest of us may love it… Would it be possible to see pictures of the peice… maybe get an update on what the buyer thought?
bluepony78 wrote:drag0nfeathers wrote:There are SO MANY on ebay now too and airbrushing is getting really popular. I don’t really know how so as they get cranked out faster and faster they kind of left me in the dust.
Perhaps the reason people are “cranking them out” is because they are stay at home parents, just trying to survive. Just a thought. I know myself, and 3 other artists, who actually *have* to do this, or go get a job and drop the kids off in daycare. Just because it’s airbrushed doesn’t mean it’s worse. It just means that that’s the way they chose to do them. I tried pastelling, and I top my hat to anyone who does it because I did one side of one stablemate in one color, and lost intrest.
I think drag0nfeathers just meant that the production time for airbrushing tends to be far less than that of brush painting (just the nature of the beast), and that those that airbrush tend to produce work faster than those that use paintbrushes. This is the entire reason that Windstone production uses airbrushes- they can produce work hundreds of times faster than if they used paintbrushes. No one is saying (that I’ve seen) that airbrushing is worse- it’s just much faster and produces different results. 🙂
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My art: featherdust.comNambroth wrote:bluepony78 wrote:drag0nfeathers wrote:There are SO MANY on ebay now too and airbrushing is getting really popular. I don’t really know how so as they get cranked out faster and faster they kind of left me in the dust.
Perhaps the reason people are “cranking them out” is because they are stay at home parents, just trying to survive. Just a thought. I know myself, and 3 other artists, who actually *have* to do this, or go get a job and drop the kids off in daycare. Just because it’s airbrushed doesn’t mean it’s worse. It just means that that’s the way they chose to do them. I tried pastelling, and I top my hat to anyone who does it because I did one side of one stablemate in one color, and lost intrest.
I think drag0nfeathers just meant that the production time for airbrushing tends to be far less than that of brush painting (just the nature of the beast), and that those that airbrush tend to produce work faster than those that use paintbrushes. This is the entire reason that Windstone production uses airbrushes- they can produce work hundreds of times faster than if they used paintbrushes. No one is saying (that I’ve seen) that airbrushing is worse- it’s just much faster and produces different results. 🙂
I just re-read that, I’m sorry if it came across as abrasive. I didn’t mean for it to sound that way. I know several people who will turn down an AB horse for a pasell one instead. And visa versa. At any rate, I didn’t mean for it to come across rude(I’m having one of those days where everythign I saw doesn’t come out right, think I’ll just turn off the computer 😕 )
I had a commisioner want a dragon. This was when my son was in and out of the hospital. He was very understanding with the time it took me to actually finish. I finally finished it, he liked and paid for it. I gave it to my hubby to put the final seal coat on. Hubby grabbed black spraypaint by accident…
The dragon still looked okay, but I refunded his money and sent the dragon to him anyway.
I won’t do another commision. I know what you mean Mipa.
I will and have taken ideas from people on what they would like to see. Then I’ll email pics. If they like it they can make an offer, if they don’t it’s not a big deal to Ebay it.
Now with the pony shows and kids summer stuff, I’ll be lucky to paint anything.You know what’s strange? What you describe, mipa, is exactly how I feel about drawing commissions, and why I no longer take them at all.
But I feel totally different about painting commissions! Dunno exactly why there’s such a difference, but there is. I love to paint on commission. I’ve done several of my best pieces that way.
And of course I sew commission work for a living, so I love that too, and I’m starting to really enjoy doing My Litte Pony customs on commission as well!
Just, for some strange reason, doing drawings and other 2-d art on commission is just awful, while doing 3-d stuff isn’t.
Well I thank you all for the supporting words- it is funny how some feel the same and some have no problem!
The buyer would like me to change it:oops: – and I don’t blame them one bit. I know what I am going to do but I am taking a break for a couple days- I am not going to make anything on it- I lowered the price to $60 because I feel terrible for not being able to produce anywhere near the quality I normally do. I won’t show a pic here- sorry- but that’s how much I dislike it.
I have already spent hours on it *sigh* painted over parts I dd not like etc
Oh well- learning experience! I am just really bummed because I think I could have quite a few more commissions- but I just don’t like them- at least not on windstones!Ah, Mipa, I can’t tell you how much I relate to your comments in the first post! As for the changes you need to make to the piece for the commissioner, hopefully you like the new direction you are heading in better? Anyways, I’m glad you are getting at least some benefit from the commission experience, even if it’s just learning you don’t really enjoy taking them on Windstones.
drag0nfeathers wrote:I’ve been working on the same one for like 3 months now! LOL!
I’ve been working on a piece for months now too. 😳 But this is semi-normal for me. I just can’t produce a finished piece in a timely manner so I definitely shouldn’t be doing anymore commissions.
Lokie wrote:Ah, Mipa, I can’t tell you how much I relate to your comments in the first post! As for the changes you need to make to the piece for the commissioner, hopefully you like the new direction you are heading in better? Anyways, I’m glad you are getting at least some benefit from the commission experience, even if it’s just learning you don’t really enjoy taking them on Windstones.
Yes I have an idea- I am just going to put him down for a day or two and regroup 🙄
drag0nfeathers wrote:I completely understand mipa! Honestly, I haven’t done any comissions for quite a while. ot that I wouldn’t have, I just haven’t gotten any with the airbrushing craze. I’ve been working on the same one for like 3 months now! LOL! Thanks goodness the one who comissioned me is a repeat customer so they know I’m not going to blow them off or dissappoint, but still, it makes me feel awful when I can’t do what I promise in a decent amount of time.
When I did Arlla’s firebird I HATED IT SO MUCH!! I did a similar one for lamortfille which I thought came out a million times better, so I felt horrible about that too, though Arlla says she still loves hers, 😆 As the artist, it’s hard not to be tough on yourself and the pressure sometimes can get to you.
*covers Diablo’s ears* How can you talk that way about my pretty PRETTY griffie??!?! I loves him. I think he’s gorgeous. And I don’t think the other one you did is any better. ^_^
But I do understand about hating commissions you’re working on….and they absolutely do seem much more like work than the ones I do for pleasure. But for me, that’s only because it’s usually the commissioner’s color scheme, not mine, which usually means I’m not as into it as I would be otherwise. But that isn’t always the case – many times I have been commissioned to do color schemes that I never would have done and they turn out BEAUTIFULLY. Plus I get paid for commissions!! 😈 So in general it’s worth it to me. ^_^"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkien
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