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Fresh start
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[EDIT 11/13/2022: Updated my tumblr links. "yunadayo" -> "yunachan" and "yukibana" -> "glacian"]
I've cleaned up my gallery. I moved most things to either the "2009-2013" folder or "Scraps" section.
Gonna create brand new art.
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Tumblr: yunachan (art) | glacian (reblog)
Twitter: @selenelion
Website: yuna.nu
I've cleaned up my gallery. I moved most things to either the "2009-2013" folder or "Scraps" section.
Gonna create brand new art.
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Tumblr: yunachan (art) | glacian (reblog)
Twitter: @selenelion
Website: yuna.nu
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Where to Find Me~
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Tumblr: yunadayo (art) | yukibana (reblog)
Twitter: selenelion
Shop: (under construction)
Website: yuna.nu
Twitter: selenelion
Shop: (under construction)
Website: yuna.nu
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My Shop
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I have a shop for my commissions now: yuna.bigcartel.com
Right now, it only has the 300x300 px avatar/icons, but I'll include more items later.
- $10 for an original drawing
- $5 for an existing drawing in my "avatars-icons" folder
I'm pretty new to running a shop, so bear with me if any problem arises.
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In other news, I tested out Fiverr for a little bit and read all the bad news on it. Artists starting out on there technically make $3.92 per gig (rather than $5). To me, that's not worth it. I've also heard they apparently hate when you link 3rd party websites and will ban you for it. It even says so in their TOS. So yeah, no thanks. I'll only do gigs on there that take me less than 30 minutes. If you have any ideas, leave me a suggestion. :3
Right now, it only has the 300x300 px avatar/icons, but I'll include more items later.
- $10 for an original drawing
- $5 for an existing drawing in my "avatars-icons" folder
I'm pretty new to running a shop, so bear with me if any problem arises.
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In other news, I tested out Fiverr for a little bit and read all the bad news on it. Artists starting out on there technically make $3.92 per gig (rather than $5). To me, that's not worth it. I've also heard they apparently hate when you link 3rd party websites and will ban you for it. It even says so in their TOS. So yeah, no thanks. I'll only do gigs on there that take me less than 30 minutes. If you have any ideas, leave me a suggestion. :3
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Hmm...
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I really have no excuse for not drawing or posting art more often. LOL......
'''OTL
Commission-related stuff to come in the future.
'''OTL
Commission-related stuff to come in the future.
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/pensive
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Once I get a job, I'm definitely going to get a premium membership here. The ads are pretty annoying and invasive.
In other news, I've got a lot of pieces to finish. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life now that I'm a college grad.
(All I know is that I want to move out of Texas. It'd be a dream come true if I could move to California.)
Anyway, I would do commissions if there was any demand for it, but there isn't. And I feel weird when friends offer to pay me to do some art for them. It might be a cultural thing or it could just be an artist thing, but deep down inside, I feel like I shouldn't charge friends much or at all.
But then, I remember: this is one of the many reasons why artists are poor and starving. I feel that people who have never taken art seriously tend to not realize how much goes into art -- the hours put into a single piece, the undying determination to improve, the constant studying/memorization of our surroundings, the little details we try to fix that everyone else would never notice, the confidence boosters and killers from compliments and (self-)critiques, the immense amount of frustration we feel when the art piece is deviating from our vision or when our skills are lacking so much that we can't even come close to the original concept we envisioned, etc.
I look at the prices other artists charge for commissions, and I wonder if they're really getting paid what they deserve. It's awkward when my own friends offer $15-20 for something that would take me days, even weeks to complete (high-res, full-color art, I mean). I end up having to turn down their "generous" offer... I guess since people only get to see the end result, they think artists wave their stylus pen over their tablet like a wand -- and voilà -- amazing art is made.
Then, there are people who believe that artists should be so artistic or into art that money shouldn't even be in the equation -- that artists should just be glad to have some kind of exposure, even if they're not being credited properly. (Places like Forever21 and Urban Outfitters come to mind.) That's good and all in a perfect world where money doesn't affect your quality of life, but it's ignorant to say/think something like that.
I wish the general public were more appreciative and understanding toward those who are in the creative/art fields or aiming to be in those fields. And I wish they'd recognize how big of an impact artists actually make in the world and that it takes a lot to be an artist.
A little OT: I'm very wary of posting my art up on the internet, especially with the recent art theft on DA. I've heard that companies don't like watermarks on art in online portfolios, but... that would only promote art theft, wouldn't it? :T
(BTW, I didn't mean for this to be a coherent rant. I'm just rambling.
)
In other news, I've got a lot of pieces to finish. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life now that I'm a college grad.
(All I know is that I want to move out of Texas. It'd be a dream come true if I could move to California.)
Anyway, I would do commissions if there was any demand for it, but there isn't. And I feel weird when friends offer to pay me to do some art for them. It might be a cultural thing or it could just be an artist thing, but deep down inside, I feel like I shouldn't charge friends much or at all.
But then, I remember: this is one of the many reasons why artists are poor and starving. I feel that people who have never taken art seriously tend to not realize how much goes into art -- the hours put into a single piece, the undying determination to improve, the constant studying/memorization of our surroundings, the little details we try to fix that everyone else would never notice, the confidence boosters and killers from compliments and (self-)critiques, the immense amount of frustration we feel when the art piece is deviating from our vision or when our skills are lacking so much that we can't even come close to the original concept we envisioned, etc.
I look at the prices other artists charge for commissions, and I wonder if they're really getting paid what they deserve. It's awkward when my own friends offer $15-20 for something that would take me days, even weeks to complete (high-res, full-color art, I mean). I end up having to turn down their "generous" offer... I guess since people only get to see the end result, they think artists wave their stylus pen over their tablet like a wand -- and voilà -- amazing art is made.
Then, there are people who believe that artists should be so artistic or into art that money shouldn't even be in the equation -- that artists should just be glad to have some kind of exposure, even if they're not being credited properly. (Places like Forever21 and Urban Outfitters come to mind.) That's good and all in a perfect world where money doesn't affect your quality of life, but it's ignorant to say/think something like that.
I wish the general public were more appreciative and understanding toward those who are in the creative/art fields or aiming to be in those fields. And I wish they'd recognize how big of an impact artists actually make in the world and that it takes a lot to be an artist.
A little OT: I'm very wary of posting my art up on the internet, especially with the recent art theft on DA. I've heard that companies don't like watermarks on art in online portfolios, but... that would only promote art theft, wouldn't it? :T
(BTW, I didn't mean for this to be a coherent rant. I'm just rambling.
)
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