Commissions

I am getting close to the point where I have to do proper styling, proportion adjustments and other finishing touches for my Endirillia model before actually rigging it and getting it loaded into a 3D engine and hooking it up to my personal assistant. What I learned at this point is that a good reference sheet for a character helps a lot, but due to my rather limited artistic skills I decided to commission the work. My wife is an artist. One of our closest friends is making a living as an artist. And yet, this whole commission experience might have jaded me for life when it comes to artists’ (financial) struggles. The beginning It all started very innocently by sending out a toot on Mastodon if anyone knows any artists they can recommend that are open for commissions. I wanted a bit of variety and not just go with our friend. The toot was bridged to BlueSky. Within minutes my replies exploded with artists(?) offering their services. Which seems like a pretty good thing, right? There…