Embed image URL, this post might be a bit chaotic and back and forth, but I'll try to make it somewhat easy to read.
Why am I making this post?
- I want to make it clearer to new and old followers what I do, don't and might do with my art
- Give you guys insight to what's going on with me and explain what I want to do/envision and look at what I do.
- Overall just want to be more transparent and try to convey a clearer picture to you
All this is to reduce stress on my end and confusion on yours, and maybe it will help us understand each other a little better
My art
I see myself as a character illustrator, not a modeler or animator.
- The reason is that i enjoy the creation of new characters, designs and capture personality and motion of things
- I use a lot of techniques that is not optimal for animations/game ready characters -
My rigs are super heavy, and it would require A LOT of work to make it into sellable models, and that's honestly not something I'm very interested spending my time on right now(MAYBE in the future, but it's not a high priority
How I see myself
I am chaotic, and i struggle with structure
As you know, I'm a bit chaotic and go with the motions of things; Because of this, a lot goes into the well-o' forget-ness and it makes it hard for me to be methodical and structured.
It is something I'm working on, but it makes me depressed and stressed out if i push myself to much with structure, as I tense up very easily if there is a lot's of do's and dont's and timelines.
So if im late, or forget something, it is more likely because I'm either caught in a motion or am drained out - I don't mind reminders from you, as this helps me out to re-center myself.
When I'm drained, I can be grumpy and short
Some of you might have experienced a super positive energetic dude, that turned into an old grump that might be snarky and rude. Well, that's at least how I experience myself XD And I know that when im tired, it takes a lot of energy for me to interact with people, and i often skip it, am short, snarky and "clever" and sometimes outright rude.
Im explaining this because I want you to know that I ultimately don't like being like this, but I can't always see it in the moment then and there. Again it's not an excuse, but it's an explanation, and I ultimately don't want to be rude towards people, my goal is to help wherever i can and be inspiring!
Commissions
For me commissions take a lot of energy, it's something i try to take seriously, and i sometimes takes it to seriously which tires me out. I try to give it my best but sometimes that gets in the way. That among other reasons is why I can be so slow on working on commissions and do so few of them, Because i wasn't to feel the piece i work with, to get the best result; and that is something I can't really force.
So if i work on other stuff when I have your commission, that dosn't mean I don't like it, it's just something that demands more of me then doing personal pieces, since It matters more what the end result is as i want to make the costumer happy!
What I want to do and updates onwards.
ATM I'm on social money until June, and I want to spend this time preparing myself to go full freelance, as i might get less room to improve and such when I have to get started for real.
Find an assistant
that can do small jobs concerning patreon, web page stuff and other frontend things. I have yet to figure out how to orchester this.
If you have a proposition, feel free to contact me about this!
Update Patreon
I want to make my patreon even cleaner, and clearer that patreon is more a gateway into the full package that u can get on discord.
Make it clearer on what I do, what you get, and why things can be a bit chaotic.
More community stuff
I like helping people, and creating a community, but it's not something im good at. But I will try to focus more on doing community streams and other stuff when I have the energy for it <3 Feel free to come with suggestions.
Update webpage and commission info
to make it clearer what I do and don't, as well as what price and product you might expect
Webstore
Due to reasons I can explain later i'm not able to have a merch store other than Patreon right now, but u can expect hearing more about this around summertime
Hope this all made a little sense, and thank you all for your support <3
If you have ANY questions, feel free to ask!<3
Mazin Magician
2022-03-14 03:20:27 +0000 UTC