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I've been on Ello...
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Hey guys, just wanted to drop in and mention that I have an ello profile: ello.co/ferdiz and that I've posted a handful of sketches/drawings there (five, to be exact).
Will update this post with direct links to them if possible, and/or repost them here at dA as opportunity permits.
/posted from the dA Android app.
/Update: Here's a link to a listing of all my original drawings at Ello: ello.co/ferdiz/post/E2SdmknTTl…
And it seems that Journals created from the mobile app can be edited; but one must edit the text from StashWriter. I don't know whether or not this is the case with all dA journals currently, whether Journals written after or before the latest dA update. I personally don't mind having to use StashWriter though. (So far.)
Will update this post with direct links to them if possible, and/or repost them here at dA as opportunity permits.
/posted from the dA Android app.
/Update: Here's a link to a listing of all my original drawings at Ello: ello.co/ferdiz/post/E2SdmknTTl…
And it seems that Journals created from the mobile app can be edited; but one must edit the text from StashWriter. I don't know whether or not this is the case with all dA journals currently, whether Journals written after or before the latest dA update. I personally don't mind having to use StashWriter though. (So far.)
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Devious Journal Entry
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It's nice that I'm drawing again. And its nice that I've got a consultation gig going. But...
I dunno. I feel kinda fake. Can't shake the feeling.
Anyways, back to the program.
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PS.: and if anyone's willing to give me feedback on my latest deviations I'd really, really appreciate it. I mean really. ^^"
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about pricing yourself for doing art...
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There's a.... rule about pricing yourself for creating artwork. You can ask any professional artist or sculptor or anyone that creates fine-art for a living but not necessarily with any direct connection to entertainment industry sectors such as pop music, silver-screen cinema, advertising, glossy magazines etc.,... Anyways the rule goes like this:
When you get a certain nominal to do artwork, and it seems that you're getting priced somewhat above your [perceived personal] worth, you don't tell your client that s/he's over-paying you, instead you say thank you and feel honored. And going forward, make sure the quality of your art continues to improve to match your offering prices.
Some artists may add some qualifiers such as, if you're getting offered way, way above your normal prices, something like Orders of Magnitude (10x, 20x, 100x), then you should at least question your client's wisdom at least once (or maybe twice if we're feeling generous); and if the Client continues to insist, then you accept the pay. And then the Artist follows the rest of the above rule. But these are personal preferences I think, subjective and still up for judgment etc.,...
What prompted me to write this is that recently one of my graphic design works got offered for about 5x what I normally (expect to) get paid for; and this after just a few weeks before my artwork was paid twice what I normally (expect to) get offered. I never stated a starting asking price, and I accepted what I was offered without question. This of course places upon me the responsibility of increasing the quality of my digital artworks to match my "fee grade"/"pay grade", and it's a challenge that I intend to face head-on.
There's also another rule that goes, "Always work for cheap, never work for free," but I think I'm going to save that for my next post hehe 
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slowly drawing again....
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A few weeks ago* a friend sold me his old Wacom Bamboo Pen for real cheap and I've been experimenting with it; you can see some of my (semi-awful) works at my pinterest board: [pinterest.com/fzebua/wacom-experiments/].
I'm planning on moving some of them over here to my deviantART, once I feel they're competent enough to be showcased here.
Or maybe I'll post them here as WIPs or sketches. I don't know, we'll see....
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Update: I've also been posting them at my Google+, and it seems I'm doing so more diligently than in Pinterest: [goo.gl/JBqBBZ]
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*a few weeks ago at time of writing; I bought the Wacom on July 2013
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Preparing artwork for deviantART feels so much 'heavier' and more involved, than simply posting to Pinterest or Instagram or something like that....
It's like, you don't post a doodle in deviantART... except in the WIP section or something. And even if you post something on dA you gotta prepare a text description about the motivations & 'intellectual' background of your Art...
Unless your art is textual/poetry and then you have to prepare... something else...
And dA is more... suited to static 2D art; even 3D arts are posted here as static renders. And nevermind movies or animated features. And what of music? Music is art too, no?
Should dA even be attempting this? To be a repository of all digital art? Not just static 2D digital art?
I mean even photographs of hand-crafted oil paintings do not necessarily translate well to the desktop/tablet/smartphone Web browser screen.... And music previews, etc.,...
It's like, you don't post a doodle in deviantART... except in the WIP section or something. And even if you post something on dA you gotta prepare a text description about the motivations & 'intellectual' background of your Art...
Unless your art is textual/poetry and then you have to prepare... something else...
And dA is more... suited to static 2D art; even 3D arts are posted here as static renders. And nevermind movies or animated features. And what of music? Music is art too, no?
Should dA even be attempting this? To be a repository of all digital art? Not just static 2D digital art?
I mean even photographs of hand-crafted oil paintings do not necessarily translate well to the desktop/tablet/smartphone Web browser screen.... And music previews, etc.,...
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