COME & BURN WITH ME!

COME & BURN WITH ME! 🎃🐈‍⬛

do you have any advice for opening commissions? i feel like you have them very professionally set up, and i have pretty bad social anxiety, so it might be helpful to hear tips for communicating with customers and such, or setting up a fair tos!

hi so, maybe i do have some advice!!! <33 thank you so so much for the kindness & seeing me as professional lol i’ve been doing comms for 2-3 years and i must say.. still getting the hang of a lot of things. you go through a lot of trial + error trying to figure out what works best for you, so remember theres no truly right way to go about comms! they should all fit the needs, pace, and benefit of you and your work ethic!

what i did personally is start off at some lower prices just to test the waters and get the ball rolling. i priced rendered characters at i think, $24 per character? possibly lower, i cant quite remember. and then i gradually went up as i started to progress in my art style more + had more people coming in.

with customers, i have a lot of anxiety as well! im autistic, so i never like making a customer feel like i dont truly care abt the commission by accidentally sounding too flat or anything. i tend to RLLY overthink it lol so we make sure we are extra talkative + kind about their comm! giving them compliments on the character, showing genuine excitement so they know theyre in good hands! (we love engaging esp when the customer seems VERY excited or enthusiastic abt the commission!)

a lot of irl turmoil tends to happen in our life which can make a comm delayed sometimes. could be severe mental health problems, just being busy w/ shit in general. its important to just keep your customers up to date, especially if its going to take a realllyyy long time or the customer likes frequent updates.

i used to be able to get shit done in like a night. but, with an actual line up/queue of comm work we progressively started taking longer and longer esp as we transitioned from a teenager starting out and into a busy adult with persistent mental health issues. (plus our art becomes more complex as time goes on, so that has to be taken into account) tbhs, depending on your availability and how much effort goes into your work, and as the demand grows, you need to charge accordingly and just be honest with your clientele.

as for TOS do what makes you comfortable! make your limits known and put your foot down when a request or any topic makes you uncomfortable. dont let your customers get inappropriate with you or try to make you feel bad if they dont wanna pay for what they ask for, etc. i also recommend requesting payment after sketch/half and half when starting out just so you can get some experience under your belt + assure future clients that youre professional n wont scam them! (if you plan on switching to payment upfront in the future)

just remember that u are not a machine, you are a human being making art for someone else. putting love n effort into your craft, time and effort. take your time getting the hang of comm stuff, things dont have to be perfect in your setup at first.

stole this from twitter but would anyone like to do this…

(you can do this with your circus baby + elizabeth designs as well idm!!)

stole this from twitter but would anyone like to do this…

I'm not sure if you've said anything about this but I just want to 100% make sure. Are you okay with minors on your page or commissioning your work? I know some people on here don't want minors on their page so I just wanted to ask and make sure. Sorry if this is a dumb thing to ask lol

Yes I’m OK with that!! As long as they’re not commissioning something inappropriate or trying to make inappropriate conversation with me during the exchange.

I will always shut down or deliberately avoid weird topics if the customer brings them up + I will not do very heavy gore or nsfw for a minor.

As long as that isn’t the case! You’re all good!

And obviously I can’t control who is on my page generally. I try to steer away from too many Nsfw topics + of course don’t post Nsfw art. But still, I am an adult and I don’t make things FOR people under 18, so as for the horror/gore art and darker topics explored sometimes— I have always enjoyed drawing gore and things of that nature so I often times don’t refrain from it- viewer discretion is advised!

Haven’t drawn my favorite hippie dippie lesbian Joe in a while. Also introducing cool butch punk girl, Lilith/Goliath.