Regarding Commissions in the Future

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Alright, during this time that I've been doing sketch commissions, there's been a fair number of people who've been asking if I can do commissions beyond that. Lineart, flat colours, full colours, and such.

To put it simply: YES, I do want to start offering those again… BUT there is a potential problem

Let's start from the top. The reason why I started sketch commissions in the first place was because, at the time, I was quite busy in my final semesters of university and didn't want to have people wait anywhere between 2-3 months for me to get like one full colour commission done. I felt the sketches were a happy medium between people who wanted art from me and me being able to produce them in a timely manner. Now that I've graduated from university, I no longer have to juggle work between classes and art so that WOULD free me up to do larger-scale commissions.

Now, here's the reason I say "would". Way back in year 2 of my 4 year program, the university offered a special deal to those who wanted to get the Adobe Creative Suite 6 for their own. If you paid a little extra each semester for your tuition, you would get CS6 at a reduced price in the end to have all to your very own. Now, it's been all well and dandy thus far, but since the beginning of this month, every time I start up Photoshop or any Adobe software, I get a message that basically summarizes to "register now or continue trial". To my understanding, us students at the time did not sign up for this deal to get an extended trial of CS6, so I will be taking this up to see what exactly all this means and if I can get it sorted proper.

What this means for commissions is that, due to the possible chance that CS6 could suddenly just lock down on me, I can't offer full colour commissions at this time. I REALLY don't want to be put in the awkward situation where I'm not done someone's commission as well as all the other people in line behind that one, especially after they all paid already.

Fortunately, I also own Paint Tool SAI which, thankfully, has NOT been threatening me to register. Because I do all my shading work in PS and not SAI, I would be willing to offer anything up to flat colours in the near future. I'll practice how to shade in SAI in the meantime, which hopefully shouldn't take too long to do.


If that was TL;DR, here's the cliffnotes:
•I want to do more commission variety, but due to Photoshop threatening to lock down on me, that puts a damper on those plans
•Since I also own SAI, I can at least do lineart and flat colours while I learn to shade with SAI


In addition, should I become confident in my shading abilities with SAI in a timely manner, I also would be willing to offer an upgrade to full colour to those who bought a flat colour commission without having to wait in line again.

I figure this is the best plan regarding the circumstances. In the end, I just want to avoid not only having me hung up to dry if I get locked out of CS6, but also not screw over those who paid for a full colour commish only to have me tell them after they've been waiting for ages that I can't do it at the time.

You can expect me to post another journal in the near future, perhaps along with a sample artwork, of new commission offerings.

By all means, please let me know what you think if this sounds fair or not.
If you've got an opinion, let me hear it!


Cheers,
ACM
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StarlightEquine24's avatar
Oy Vey, well that's not nice! It sounds fair to me, I would image it'd be very distressing for you to be potentially locked out of CS6 when you have a queue of commissions that you need to finish up. However I'm sure your customers will understand the circumstances should that worst case scenario arises.