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Once I finish the two I’m doing for the current swap and one or two others I plan to post an entry on making a trade list so I can better manage who I have yet to get from etc., and do them kinda down the list.
Here’s what I do…have your three colors on hand and use them all at one time to get a smooth blend. Start with your lightest color, ivory…which I assume is the wingtip. Paint the tip ivory all the way to the point you want your blend to begin, and just a little bit over that, then dip your still-ivory-laden brush into your next color, tan, and with just a little bit of the new color on your brush go ahead and brush onto the area you want the new color to gradient. To get the gradient smooth you will need to add more ivory paint over the tan, and visa vera until it’s smooth and just the way you want it. By then your brush will probably be mostly all tan paint. Keep your paints wet and work this kinda fast, then continue the tan color up to the point you want your last color to begin, the brown…and do the same thing over again. If you ever wet your brush, make sure it is asy dry as you can make it before proceding with blending because sometimes water pushes the paint around rather than helps you smooth things out. Let me know how it goes!
I do plan to make more moving tail kitsune cards…just haven’t been able to put the extra time in while painting Windstones Too. Moving parts cards always take much longer to do, though I do plan to do more and also make moving prints of the ones I already did. So if you’d like prints, Lamortefille, just let me know in the meantime.
Also, yes I have made some decent money on cards when you look at it as a lump sum of extra funds, especially when people buy more than one (Thanks Ski!) and I can save on the shipping…when the post office isn’t a jerk. Sorry Ski, I need to re-ship your cards because I didn’t put enough postage on apparently. I know it seems like a minor thing, but it normally takes me about 2-3 hours for these cards each, and almost double that for anything that moves or is especially detailed, so I try to get a profit of at least $8 on any card priced $10 for sale, $12 for anything priced $15, etc. At the end of figuring all this out, I realize I can be doing better things with my time by painting more Windstones, and saving more of my original cards to sell direct to people at a convention where I don’t have to ship or loose money to EBay.
Maybe I just seem greedy but I’ve come to realize I’ve really been putting myself out there and not taking into consideration what I should sell for. I’ve always been the type of artist that would take whatever money I could get even if it means $3 or less per hour but I really decided that this year I would try to be more professional and not sell myself short like that. I really have to gear myself towards areas where I can make at least minimum wage. That’s my OTHER goal for the year…to make at least minimum wage off art. And if I cannot meet that seemingly simple task, to go find a job somewhere and just do art as a hobby. This is my deciding year. It’s really scary for me, but it is what it is.
I won’t be stopping making the cards by any means, but I won’t do them every day when I could be doing something more lucrative. I’ll do the cards on days I don’t feel like painting and spend more time making more moving part cards and not focus so much on quantity.
The post office really got to me when Ski’s cards came back at me. I re-evaluated everything. The holders I put them in don’t cost much since I bought them all in super bulk…so like 5 cents each…and they are awesome nice holders but I guess they weigh more than the post office would like, so I can only ship one of those in an envelope, not two or more, for the standard postage weight. What gives! I sure won’t skimp on those holders though. And to think USPS will be raising its rates yet again soon…
But if anybosy wants to try making cards to sell, please do! Making the cards is really fun to do on the side and can give you some extra pocket change if you don’t mind what the cards go for or don’t have a set goal or anything, lol. SO give it a shot. Tons of artists sell cards on Ebay.
Wow, that got long-winded…sorry guys.
I’ve decided I can’t keep up with my original plan for the year of creating 1 or 2 ATC cards per day to sell on EBAY when I prefer doing Windstones anyway. Plus, postage has become more of an expense too now, which irks me. Sending someone two cards is going to cost me .62! All because I won’t skimp on the card holders. That, and when I add the EBay listing fee of .95 and my materials and time…eh, I’m better off doing Windstones. So anyway, here’s my latest and probably last listing for ACEOs for a while. I’ll keep doing cards but probably geared more for sale at MFF con in November.
I asked her to join up also, and I think she will, but she may be kinda afraid of lashback for what happened. She really didn’t mean to cause a stir and right now she’s just very nervous and just wants to make others happy and paint PYOs because she loves Windstone, but is afraid of what people may think of her now.
It would be awesome to do a green KiRin family. I wonder what this would look like inverted, with black scales and green hair? I need to buy more KiRins.
I agree and don’t, with your interpretation, only because I also have to write up contracts and have to think of multiple ways a line can be interpreted…so while I agree I think that’s probably what the policy terms are, they can still be interpreted to mean no gold accents period and no posting of images anywhere else but on the forum boards, period. I don’t want to cause more problems for Windstone, but this has me concerned. I hope Windstone doesn’t get too tired of dealing with legal issues and then quits PYO making.
I may have to ask that the intro polisy page be more spelled out a little. Should I remove all of my painted PYO images from Deviant Art, for example…because that alone helps support Windstone because people see it and want to buy PYOs of their own and find out more about the company as a promotional tool. I’m afraid if we all start removing our images from galleries, Windstone just gets pushed back into some dark corner again so when you mention Windstone, nobody knows what you’re talking about.
Secondly, the new rule about golden highlghts. Should I remove my green dragon auction because it has gold horns, vlaws, and back ridge tips? I was already emailed by someone who said I was probably violating Windstone’s new policy.
Also, the owner of the little secret keeper PYO auction emailed me and is really totally upset over the whole thing. I didn’t realize who it was but now that I know the artists name outside the ebay seller name I know she really didn’t mean any harm and she feels very bad over all this and wants to let everyone know she apologises deeply for it all.
