I Wish I Had An Art Style(s) That People Were More Interested In.

Apologies if this has been asked, but do you sell those statues? The Lapis statue is amazing, and I would be more than willing to pay for a product of your phenomenal work.

I am willing to sell them, I would be glad to also take commissions for custom ones as well, I just need to get around to some things. Thank you so much for the offer and I apologize for such a late reply.

I like to think of her peacefully/happily playing with water. c:

Barely able to upload it, took a few weeks to make. (not sure hours compiled since I was actually drawing this casually on the side of something else) Full size version can be found on my Tumblr, would link but it omits me from searches. (Username is Krystami)

Is there a site that's like a dating site but for friends? Like compatibility, interests, if they live in a certain distance, area code, etc. I really need some..it's not even a joke.

Guess who I'm making now 8D This is the "sketch" so I know how I want it to look.

Emergency, commissions? Drawings, sculptures, idk, PLEASE READ, please.

First of all I was going to post something like this later on because I thought I wasn’t in such a bad situation and could wait a bit, research, etc. but it really is an emergency and I don’t know what to do.

Anyways before I get to the whole commission part I’d like to say, I’m about to be homeless, technically I still have a place for a day? Our landlord said we have to go since we haven’t been able to pay rent on time lately thanks to my sister and her husband who were doing meth, stealing from us, and caused us to not be able to pay anymore, we might have been able to stay but thanks to them bringing in destructive roommates and tons of pets, the house is ruined. We haven’t been able to even buy food and apparently my husband makes too much money for us to get food stamps, we have no transportation, no means for anything honestly. They told us we need to leave pretty much today but if my husband gets paid today we MIGHT be able to stay til the 28th (I’m guessing since that is when our lease was supposed to be up) Also if possible read this post to have more info on some things. http://krystami.tumblr.com/post/119042715224/i-need-to-maybe-say-this-please-read-if-possible Anyways onto the selling art part, I wanted to research on how to price my works, (like type, size, detailing, etc.) but I honestly am not sure, especially with the limited time I have and all those posts about paypal and what not.  When it comes to drawings I’ve been paid in the past, but when it comes to sculptures I have NO sort of clue what to go by, or how to send, how to add shipping cost and what not to what I’m sending, again with the whole size, detailing, time taken, etc. oh, as well as I need to find out how to package it safely. I’ve sold some mini figures in person to people but no online. I honestly want to get what it’s really “worth”? I don’t want to be underpaid and I don’t want people thinking I’m charging too much, but then again it is my art and I should be able to price it what I want, right? These have been conflictions to why I haven’t posted anything about it or  one of the reasons I haven’t replied messages. I don’t know what to do, luckily my husband works at a job dealing with shipping, receiving, etc. so I’m sure he could do that for me. (I mean when he isn’t tired from working) I wanted to take the time to put everything together and make everything neat and think out all of this but with everything, I haven’t been able to, not just for the reasons in this post or the post linked, but so much more. (maybe all those times people said things would give you bad luck were true, I have so much bad luck I think something normally deemed as bad as good, or just plain out “better” than other bad things.) So for anyone who read this, I do plan on doing commissions, I want to right away, I just have no price lists or experience of most things. If you want to know more about ANYTHING (personal or related to art, commissions, etc. PLEASE message me)

Feel so discouraged, I hate this feeling, the type of feeling that makes me want to scrap what I'm working on. I put so much time into things for nothing it feels.

Never blame your fans

I know many of you artists - whether you draw, write, or compose - are frustrated that your original work, especially your dream projects, aren’t getting the responses you were hoping for.

I feel the same way.

But some of you express your frustrations completely destructively and blame the world for not giving you the spotlight.

When you do that, you’re blaming your problems for existing rather than adjusting and compromising to solve them. You’re making excuses for your mistakes. You’re demanding the world to change but you are not willing to change with it.

This is the perfect mindset to NEVER succeed in anything, ever.

You need to accept some basic truths of art before you can go any further:

Your art should teach you as much as or more than it teaches others: If you claim your art opens horizons and widens minds, yours should be the first priority. You cannot speak without listening. You are not a righteous prophet enlightening the heathens with the true word. You are one humble person and your art is one humble person’s story.

There are no new stories, but there are always new storytellers. That amazing idea you have that nobody’s ever thought of before? Someone has. But nobody has told the story your way, or drawn the character your way, or sung the song your way. Art is not about being new. It is about being you.

Popular art is all about the beholder. All these shows and games with so much fan art? They got to that level because they command a personal investment from and serve the viewer - they have worlds their fans want to be part of, and your canon will be swept aside along the way. You the artist are not a god or a wise sage. You are a guide and a footman. To be an artist is to be humanity’s servant, not its lord - and there’s no shame in that.

Most of your fans are not artists or art critics. While there will be a good number of them in your fanbase, the vast majority are not going to be super-open-minded creative thinkers who value every single opinion, outlook, and story just because it’s done technically well. They will be ordinary people with ordinary, selfish interests, and they will care about your content more than your talent. You have to balance what you want to draw with what everyone wants to see.

But the most important part of being an artist or really a person at all is to understand this:

Nobody owes you success.

Nobody is under any obligation to pay anything you produce a second glance or support or promote it in any way.

Nobody is spiting or robbing you by not giving you a like or a reblog or a follow.

Every single gesture of appreciation you receive from someone is a courtesy - a gift that you earn, not a right you’re entitled to.

It is not the job of your audience to love your work. It is your job to make it lovable. And just because you are working really hard does not mean you are working in the right direction.

I know that thousands upon thousands of artists put hours or months or years into a project and feel like they get nothing in return. Sometimes it is not how hard you’re working but what you’re working for that is the problem. 

Sometimes you need to slow down and think, “Do I have to have this just so? What would the kind of person interested in my work be looking for, and where can I address it? Am I maybe taking myself and my work a little too seriously?” 

And a lot of artists don’t realize that as an amateur, you are the sole proprietor - you are your art. Whether people like you determines whether they like your art.

And that’s why when you blame everybody else and post ungrateful, catty garbage like this:

… you don’t subsequently become the next Toby Fox.

The simple fact is that people will pay you attention if they think your offering + your hassle are worth their attention.

You need to create a world that someone other than you will have fun in and you need to be a good host to everyone who visits. 

You need a world that will welcome your fans with open arms.

You need to build a world people can live & play in.

And you and your world need to appreciate your fans just for showing up.

Because this is exactly what the big fish do.

because they spread your work around to more people without shanking you on credit and who gets the likes

because they make your work show up sooner & more often on searches and are simply a nice gesture

because they take time out and pay good money to listen to your story and make you from a pauper into a prince

because if you appreciate no one, no one will appreciate you, nor should they

wip things actively working on, been busy lately with serious things so....posting for now

I NEED help(commissions) so, so badly, please scroll to the bottom for the gist of things if you don't wanna hear a slight back story of why I need help. I am terrible at networking, severely afraid of people, I break down at everything and can't work any sort of job. My dad is a horribly evil person, he breaks agreements and tries to misinterpretes everything to everyone. My husband and I are struggling so badly. We have so much debt and bills.(yay for in the past, family/roomates who steal info and ruin financial accounts) I cant work, I cant get on SSI, others think im lazy because of it, literally all I can do is create art. He is a literal dictator with how he is, he tricked us into giving him more money then we should for things, we called him out on the lies from proof, but again others agreed with him because he knows how to paint everyone else as the "bad guy". Now he told our landlord he isn't gonna pay the originally agreed upon rent, we had a solid agreement of my husband paying half for me and him and half the rent to my dad, instead he is now claiming he is paying my portion, which we even confronted before moving in and it was all okay (wish people would agree to write contracts) My dad is on a fixed income, SSI, my husband works as much as he can as it is, we can barely afford food or anything as it is, we cant get foodstamps or medicaid because he makes too much and even when we almost were able to it would require me looking for a job which i cannot do at all, i can hardly leave my home. We pay bills every week, we are trying to reduce debt so we can find a place to live on our own, every other place we cant move because our credit scores are so bad (mine is literally 9999, due to never working and gaining bills from others using my name and info for accounts while a kid/teen) I also have celiac disease and cant eat most food there is, especially cheaply without making me feel nauseous, i literally starve myself like it is normal, eating a few spoonfuls of peanut butter a day, or water...(healthy food and food emulating "normal" food is very pricy, example: a loaf of bread is nine dollars.) Maybe a meal when I cook for dinner once in awhile. My dad also cheated us on utilities, and out of 200 I'm supposed to get every month as a home health care person for him, he told the landlord we aren't splitting rent anymore and my husband has to pay double for me I guess. We have nowhere to go, nothing we can do. We stand up to him, we get this happening to us. We are strapped more than it is. ----- I desperately, DESPERATELY, need to start taking commissions, I am so scared, I haven't in so long, my skills are a lot better than they were when I used to, but the art world sees art prices differently now of days, as well as I have many styles and qualities to choose from. What I used to price my art when I was younger, people would tell me I underprice myself, now of days I fear i'd be overpricing from others opinions on the matter, and that is with my current works. I want to post examples but it will just be random stuff I have on my phone. I am unsure of pricing, scared to do so but need to so badly, my life is a constant, living, hell..that gets worse and worse constantly...as in police threats for crying or standing up for myself, eyes spat in, chairs thrown at, etc.

Tumblr glitched and somehow posted one photoset four times on mobile and kept saying it was having trouble? Weird but I deleted the other ones.