TheArta

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Hi everyone

I bet that most of you are like who's dis?! Why am I watching you?! 

 

Yes, it's been a while, but hey, I'm done with my first year of studies, which is like whuuuut, cause I never thought I'd get to do this in the first place, but it's pretty awesome that one can study art! I mean.. art! It's so deep.. o.o

I have summer for drawing my own stuff, which means that I can actually do commissions, so whatever it is you need, please do contact me! I just spent my whole savings to pay for a ticket to... *drumroll* America! My whole family is going to a wedding there and I literally have 6 dollars on my card, I yesterday wanted to order a book online and.. couldn't. :'D It's all gone, omg so expensive. And I still need to pay for hotel and all that jazz, so basically - any kind of commissions - sketch, lineart, color, character, portrait, illustration, business card or anything - I WANNA DO IT! Info here: thearta.deviantart.com/journal… Examples: my whole gallery and thearta.deviantart.com/art/Exa…

You can always follow me on instagram or twitter, as I post sketches and wips from time to time and any other things that are happening in my life, so find me using my alias TheArta on any major social networking sites. That is it for now, I hope everyone's doing okay and hello new watchers, did anyone tell you that you're awesome? 

P.s. I lied about popsicles. 

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I've been meaning to talk about similar things in the past, but as this happened to a dA friend of mine, I think it's time to bring this up!

You know how everyone can do commissions? It's a free land and there is no certain standard as to the level of quality your arts have to be, to take commissions. When you feel like you could do it, you try and go for it, if you are lucky [or known] you will get commissioned eventually.

I started taking commissions a year or maybe two ago, but I have wanted to do it since forever [okay, 4 years ago]. But each time I felt like I could do it, I asked myself - can I do it right? Will they like what they have paid for? Maybe I'm lacking? There a million better artists then me, why would anyone pick me..

Further on I still was not sure; maybe there is a special requirement as to what is a commission and how it should be presented. So I searched for infos, lots of infos on it; read what other people are offering, what rules are usually followed. I started reading about file formats, file sizes and tried to understand what would be appropriate - what would be good for printing, what for previewing in the browser.

Now back to my dA friend, nom-nom-pancake who's art is just borderline high quality, she recently commissioned someone. In my head I just think ermahgerd I thought only people who don't draw commission people who draw!

And as a great artist, you obviously expect certain quality and in her case, she basically got a 900x600px picture. No one is saying it was drawn badly [as much as I heard, it is pretty awesome], but 900x600?! When you print out a picture like this, it is basically the size of a sneeze! Which is around 7cm one way or another. That is just not appropriate. As a digital artist you have to understand what are you doing.  It's not just opening photoshop and hitting random numbers in the canvas size slots and hope it just might be right.

When you are commissioned, the first thing you should do is ask the commissioner about sizes, maybe there is a specific one they prefer, if they have no idea what they want - you, the artist, offer them what you can do. I usually try to stick with A4 size of canvas with 300 dpi/ppi. It is actually a ''kind of'' heavy file, especially when you start painting and layering, and editing, and whatnot! You should also consider the performance of your computer.

Once, when I was still in certain confusion about layers and file sizes and what is appropriate, I ended up with a small painting [for myself], which I loved and wanted to print. It was larger then 900px, but still was small. And I was not happy with myself. Facepalm.

Actually, I am currently making most of my digital art A4, which is approx 21x29 cm [feet and inches people, please convert yourself] and I have printed them out as A3 size artworks and the quality is decent if not great, so it is not entirely impossible to get a HQ print from a small-er artwork. But not from small. I believe you can manipulate with sizes and prints, if you know what you are doing and if you know when to stop.

What I'm trying to say, just study certain things, before you do commissions. Basic knowledge is that you draw a HQ original file, get paid and then you send the HQ file to the buyer. Then you can upload a lower quality piece to post on the interwebs. But this must be mentioned/discussed before taking the commission, because some buyers might not want it posted online, but as an artist, every artwork is exposure and you might even charge more, if the work stays hidden. When posted online, nothing can be taken down, it's forever there and the sad truth is that anyone can go grabby-hands on it.

Even the greatest art in low quality is not a fair share for the person who awaited your masterpiece. If I ever come to any issues with the person that commissioned me, I talk it out, try to reason with the person, maybe consider partial or even full refund. Oh, wait! That has never happened, because I know what I am doing and how to discuss things prior! I hope it never comes to that.

Artists - please learn your bit.
Commissioners - discuss, never argue.

Boom!

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GUYSES I'M ON DEAN'S LIST! OH my gooosssh! I've heard this phrase only in movies, but now it's on my grade report, is this real life? I mean, I've been working SO hard and I mean like frickin' just exhausted at some Sunday nights catching the deadline, aahh... but I made it, my first quarter at SCAD is a success!  I'm so happy, I can't even. ;u; My GPA is 4.0 in all three classes - Drawing, Design and English composition. Design class was the one I almost didn't make it, got 90.88%, but pulled through!

Next quarter starts Jan 7 and I'll have public speaking class..... do not want. That I will fluke. But I have time to draw things till then! So yay! And here are two previews of WIP stuff:

One is a commission and one is just practice. By the way, if anyone wants a commission - please ask me! C:

How are you doing?

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Hiiii.

Yesterday I finally moved my website and took a different approach to displaying my artwork. It would be really nice if you visited it here:

t h e a r t a . e u

There is also a guestbook link on the top, so I would be really happy if you took advantage of it and posted a comment, maybe your thoughts of the site? Or feedback on artworks? :]


Thank you so much for visiting!

P.s. if for some reason the website doesn't work, please tell me and also the browser you are using. C:

Cheers!

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