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So...I'm not sure how many people actually read my journal, but here goes anyway.
College is drawing to a close and I find myself at a sort of crossroads. I need money. I'm about to get a (much needed) new car which is pretty much killing everything we have in reserve. After I get my degree, I'd like to go to a creative workshop - an intense, hands-on course that costs roughly $5k tuition, as well as food and about $60 per week for a place to stay. There is no financial aid, unfortunately, so it's about time that I try to supplement my income with a little more than the measly wages I earn today.
I'm a bit torn on this matter. I joined dA (after years of griping from my friends) because I wanted a place to store my art; art is a hobby for me, and not a job. I don't want to have to rely on it for money, and I don't want to have to "work" on art instead of enjoying it. Even so...I have to consider selling some prints, possibly opening some commissions. Which likely means that I should upgrade my dA account so I can have some more control over that sorta thing.
I suppose this entry is really more of a rant than anything. I really don't like this idea, haha. I think in the grand scheme of things, I'm really only a decent, self-taught artist who mostly has no idea what she's doing and spends most of her time experimenting with random effects in Photoshop to give her watchers the (sometimes very strange, most of the time incomplete) art available in the gallery. Who's going to want to spend upwards of $100 or more on this kind of thing? Particularly since most of my work is fan art, and fan art is not allowed...
Meh. Maybe I won't go through with this, maybe I will. It's really just an idea for supplemental income that's banging around in my head at the moment. We shall see.
College is drawing to a close and I find myself at a sort of crossroads. I need money. I'm about to get a (much needed) new car which is pretty much killing everything we have in reserve. After I get my degree, I'd like to go to a creative workshop - an intense, hands-on course that costs roughly $5k tuition, as well as food and about $60 per week for a place to stay. There is no financial aid, unfortunately, so it's about time that I try to supplement my income with a little more than the measly wages I earn today.
I'm a bit torn on this matter. I joined dA (after years of griping from my friends) because I wanted a place to store my art; art is a hobby for me, and not a job. I don't want to have to rely on it for money, and I don't want to have to "work" on art instead of enjoying it. Even so...I have to consider selling some prints, possibly opening some commissions. Which likely means that I should upgrade my dA account so I can have some more control over that sorta thing.
I suppose this entry is really more of a rant than anything. I really don't like this idea, haha. I think in the grand scheme of things, I'm really only a decent, self-taught artist who mostly has no idea what she's doing and spends most of her time experimenting with random effects in Photoshop to give her watchers the (sometimes very strange, most of the time incomplete) art available in the gallery. Who's going to want to spend upwards of $100 or more on this kind of thing? Particularly since most of my work is fan art, and fan art is not allowed...
Meh. Maybe I won't go through with this, maybe I will. It's really just an idea for supplemental income that's banging around in my head at the moment. We shall see.
Good news!
Last Christmas I got a new computer, as my old tablet PC died (RIP, Fred D: ), which I absolutely love and adore but which also has absolutely zero artistic capabilities. No tablet, no scanner, no art programs, nothin'. So, with the exception of the occasional sketch here and there on my sketch pads, there...hasn't really been much done in the way of art for the past few months. I also got sucked in by school and the monster we all know as World of Warcraft, further busying me from extending any effort toward getting this account up and running again.
We gather here today...
to mourn the death of my tablet-PC. Or at least the tablet part.
I discovered today, after logging onto dA for the first time in ages and deciding to try to draw something, that my computer no longer registers my pen...at all. Pressure sensitivity had broken about a month ago, but I could still use the pen and mess around with tablet settings in the control panel. More recently, a bunch of stuff crashed and burned, effectively killing my USB ports. I imagine this is also when the tablet died. Now there's not even an option to change tablet settings - the computer just thinks it's a computer, not a tablet. There are no pen or tablet settings
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Good and bad.
Good:
holycrap2kpageviews. I never thought I'd ever be this popular. Compared to some, I know it's a small number...but wow! When I made dA I thought it would be nice to have some place to host my art so I could show it to a few friends sometimes. I never thought that I'd get watchers and views, especially to this extent. This is amazing, and I can only say thank you to everyone out there who likes my stuff and I'm sorry I haven't been uploading more (or finishing what I have up).
Which leads me to the bad:
My computer is dying. Like...badly. I can hardly move it without issues, I can't turn it off or even close the lid, bec
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Been a while since I've written anything. Lots to write about, but not much time. Between classes (and subsequently, homework), my brother, my new beau (oh yeah!), and housework (ugh), There is not much me time. However, I just thought I'd make a note about how I realized I'm really starting to gather a few watchers, and not all of them are my friends. O: So I'd like to send everyone who is watching me some love, because I really appreciate the fact that you guys enjoy my art. My friends had been bugging me for ages to set up a dA, and I only seceded after much refusals and dragging of feet, because there are TONS of better artists out there.
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I think it's a great idea to sell some of your work or do commissions. If I knew how to draw I would do it myself. That being said if it no longer becomes fun and starts becoming a tedious chore, then stop. All in all I say give it a shot, if you don't like it just stop doing it.