About Commissions / Requests

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There has been a few people asking about my plans on commissions or any form of requests, since I did have some thoughts about it a while back, I figured out I should make a journal regarding this.

To put it short and simple, it's kinda unlikely I'll be doing commissions, at least in the case with MMD, unfortunately.

There are a few reasons for this:
- A personal one. It might not be apparent, but I'm sort of a perfectionist. Sometimes I feel the work I created are just not good enough, concerned about how others might think of the work in the imperfect state. As you may imagine, this would be more problematic in the case of commission where you have to focus even more on satisfying the person commissioning you. This is sorta the case with requests too, the stress that could get generated from that is what I'm afraid of...

- The rules. Most if not all of my pictures use models and parts that are made by other people in some form or another, with a lot of the authors stated that one cannot be obtaining profits by using their content. And since with commissions you usually earn profits from, even in the case of dA points which I see as a "feature for premium users"... I myself am not a modeller, in the term of modelling an entire new mesh or objects, the most I could do is only the ability to fiddle around parts from other models others made. Unless I only use parts which the profitable thing is permitted (which, let's face it, not a whole many...), I doubt I could get around this without troubles.

- Again a personal one, might be too personal to the point of selfishness. I just don't want to be given a mindset that this whole creating pictures thing has become a job. What I mean is, this is my hobby, you could say, as in doing the images during casual times and with complete freedom on creating the content oneself wanted. Once I start to take commission, it'll become creating content for the others, there might also be a deadline which could conflict with your own personal time if things going south that day. It's another big worry I have whenever I start thinking about taking commission.

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I hope that might clear up some concerns. I know there's a rather high demand currently regarding the content to this fetish, and there's a slight bit of temptation being able to earn something, but I'm simply not confident enough to be the one fulfilling many people's requests or to be getting something I shouldn't be getting in the first place. I'm sorry...

If it is for supporting purpose, I'm really not asking a lot for it, to be honest. Comments from people that let me know they're enjoy the pieces are quite enough motivations for me to continue...~ <3
Even with donations I feel I don't really deserve those, but I'd still accept them if you do really feel that generous.
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Koirvon's avatar
I know how you feel with the request stuff, tends to get a tad stressful, especially when some people are quite vague or misunderstood in what they wanted, and sometimes you get a request in which a model for the character doesn't exist, or a character you know nothing about which makes it hard to depict the character in an accurate way.
Better to just make what appeals to you; considering the amount of comments, favs, watches etc. you get from it, its safe to say that it appeals to quite a lot of other people too.

(That being said, the Gifty/Art-Tradey stuff with friends and acquaintances are a bit different as both parties tend to be more relaxed about things)