Thank you for this video! I'm hoping to launch a pet portrait business soon, and I do get nervous about burnout! It's good to know that you can make space for both creating the commissions and growing as an artist. That's my goal, too! Your personal work is SO beautiful by the way. I loved looking at your work on your website. Much love from one artist to another! 💕
If you're good, you can suddenly get overwhelmed with the number of orders you start getting. That happened to me on eBay years ago when I did pencil portraits.
Glad you got back into it again. I must say I'm the same just living on commissions and feel like i need to keep booking them because, well...need money...then end up not really doing anything for myself. I'm hoping to branch out from commissions gradually because they can be pretty unstable anyway I find and I am constantly stressing about whether anyone will order anything this month. At the same time, the thought of going back into employment again also fills me with dread. Done that for long enough prior to going full time with this 2.5 years ago. I have a few people asking me about patreon so maybe that is the next things I need to focus on. Today, I set up Amazon affiliate marketing lol....lets see how this goes.
I totally understand you! I was in the exact same place! I also thought about patreon for a while, and decided it wasn't for me. But I see a lot of other artists making their full months wage their. For me, I try not to think about money so much. I'm lucky that I make just enough to get by, and I'm a lot happier for not overworking myself, or taking on things that I don't enjoy doing! It's a tough old life as an artist and you do need to find balance between making money and enjoying your passion 💛 I'm still working on it, and I hope you can get there too!
I have only done one pet portrait comission, but I totally understand what you said in the video! Sometimes we are just focused on producing to sell, but we are artist, not machines... So instead of electricity or gas (as a machine would need to work), we need to experiment and be totally creative between ☺️ Thank you for this awesome video and tips!
I felt the same last year and stopped all commissions to spend time drawing and painting for me. It was the best decision but you've done so much more already with your style and experiments. Love it 😀
Definitely taking a break for yourself is so important 😭 like I think that would be my number 1 advice to anyone struggling for sure! I hope you feel a bit better about commissions now?
Thank you for this video! I'm hoping to launch a pet portrait business soon, and I do get nervous about burnout! It's good to know that you can make space for both creating the commissions and growing as an artist. That's my goal, too! Your personal work is SO beautiful by the way. I loved looking at your work on your website. Much love from one artist to another! 💕
Awww loved seeing a little tid bit of Axel making a cameo in this video ❤
Yay! He was perfect for this video because I loved drawing him so much 💛💛
If you're good, you can suddenly get overwhelmed with the number of orders you start getting. That happened to me on eBay years ago when I did pencil portraits.
Glad you got back into it again. I must say I'm the same just living on commissions and feel like i need to keep booking them because, well...need money...then end up not really doing anything for myself. I'm hoping to branch out from commissions gradually because they can be pretty unstable anyway I find and I am constantly stressing about whether anyone will order anything this month. At the same time, the thought of going back into employment again also fills me with dread. Done that for long enough prior to going full time with this 2.5 years ago. I have a few people asking me about patreon so maybe that is the next things I need to focus on. Today, I set up Amazon affiliate marketing lol....lets see how this goes.
I totally understand you! I was in the exact same place! I also thought about patreon for a while, and decided it wasn't for me. But I see a lot of other artists making their full months wage their. For me, I try not to think about money so much. I'm lucky that I make just enough to get by, and I'm a lot happier for not overworking myself, or taking on things that I don't enjoy doing!
It's a tough old life as an artist and you do need to find balance between making money and enjoying your passion 💛 I'm still working on it, and I hope you can get there too!
Thanks for this video I just started doing them and this was so helpful ❤
You're so welcome! Good luck on your new artistic journey 💕💕💕
Thank you, any tips on how to find clients? thank u...
That's a great question, you could start by offering friends and family portraits, or posting on your local towns FB page/community notice board! 😊
I have only done one pet portrait comission, but I totally understand what you said in the video! Sometimes we are just focused on producing to sell, but we are artist, not machines... So instead of electricity or gas (as a machine would need to work), we need to experiment and be totally creative between ☺️ Thank you for this awesome video and tips!
This is the perfect analogy! I no longer do pet portraits and I have to say it has been the best decision I've ever made ✨
omg my cat's name is Acacia (pronounced the same way) hahaha
Aww that's so lovely! I met a few people in my life that have names pronounced the same way but spelled different 💛
I felt the same last year and stopped all commissions to spend time drawing and painting for me. It was the best decision but you've done so much more already with your style and experiments. Love it 😀
Definitely taking a break for yourself is so important 😭 like I think that would be my number 1 advice to anyone struggling for sure!
I hope you feel a bit better about commissions now?
@@akashameadart I'm still not doing them 😊 I am having too much fun doing my own stuff 👌
Yay! Well I'm super glad to hear that! Keep it up ☺️