Hmm, have you tried selling commissions on Furbid or Furbuy?
No... you know, I was under the impression that that was just for completed works. I didn't realize you could do commissions there too. Maybe if I get real desperate someday I'll give it a shot. Merci pour l'idée.
whatever it is, it's not your art style. it's playful and pleasant to look at, and delightfully fuzzy.
maybe it's the same thing that other really good artists suffer from: you have yet to be discovered as 'cool'. if you sell comissions at all, you maybe just have to wait; I spread my artwork via free requests in the beginning, to make myself known, and get some more practise. later I offered them for money.
nowadays I have my usual suspects when it comes down to comissions; the rest is word-of-mouth.
Playful and fuzzy... that's great.
Well, I've actually done commissions for people already with mostly satisfactory results (one person asked me to do two after she decided she liked the first one I did so much), but it's been mostly when I aggressively attack their threads where they are specifically asking for someone to do something for pay. So my name is out there... kind of. I also started by doing free requests, but then I realized that the requests I was doing for free were taking me 8-10 hours to complete, so I thought, yeah, I need to be paid for this.
I got the same problem, though i feel like doing traditional art will be easier, until i get Cintiq XD. Anyway, i got even my sig saying so :3
I get the idea that digital is more popular because I'm seeing my thread here (180 views or something, going on a week or two being up and visible) get no replies but my own, whereas other artists who do digital are getting takers within just a few days of posting. I mean, I don't think I suck or anything, so I drew said conclusion.
When I do online commissions over the furry auction houses, I try to give people something different from time to time. There are a lot of single character commissions. You have to spice it up and give it kitschy title and offer a bit more or add a unique angle. Ladder commissions, sketchbooks, package deals, things like that get the most hits and the bigger bids.
Yeah... I should be adding more movement and different angles and stuff into my works. I've known that for a while, but haven't gotten around to doing anything about it yet (been concentrating on anatomy instead, which is another thing I've been slow improving). As for sketchbooks and the like... if those sell the best, I might be out of luck, because I'm totally not the kind of artist who draws enough to fill up a sketchbook. It's a relatively infrequent hobby for me (mostly I just do the commissions I do get and sometimes the VCL art compo), so I'd never be able to keep up with something like that. Ah well; we take what we get.
In any case, thanks for these compliments and the advice, everybody. I'm wondering something else, too, now that I think about it; would it be better if I posted my artwork to FA, too? I hesitate because I know how fast things go through the pages, but then again, it would probably get a lot more traffic than VCL (which is rather user unfriendly when it comes to those sorts of things).
). Of course, this being the case, no one is commissioning me because I don't have a tablet and can't do digital art.
