I just want to thank all of you who have seen, commented, and rated my work. Even negative ratings and criticisms help me improve so don't be afraid to leave some of that for me. After that Shelter in Place art jam, I'm very motivated to work on more projects, and up til this point I've been struggling getting work done because I've just simply not been motivated enough and/or busy with other things. I made that a theme for my entry for the art jam and I hope it doesn't come across as trying to be relateable. If you relate to it that's fine, but I made it purely as a personal thing. Either way, I hope you enjoyed it. I am now getting into the habit of posting more often, whilst working on the animation projects I've got on the back-burner.
As a life update (feel free to skip to the nest paragraph if you're not arsed), I've been working on becoming a freelancer, and managed to arrange for some funding to support me while I set this up as a business. Sadly, since we are on lockdown now, I decided to delay starting my business, thus preventing such funds from reaching me. On top of that, I haven't managed to get a job, even after applying for retail jobs (even while desperate for workers they rejected me so that was a low blow), so I only receive unemployment funds. On top of this, I live with my Dad who is struggling to support us as well, and I must help with food and other necessities.
This is where it gets good, though. I can still take commissions, as long as I report my earnings which I do plan on doing because I'm a good boy. So please, consider commissioning me as I am in a pretty desperate state right now. I will draw anything: furry/anthro, human, sfw and nsfw (as long as it's legal of course). If you would like to commission me, please direct message me either here or on my Twitter and Instagram and we can discuss prices there. Don't feel obligated to, and if you're struggling as well don't worry about it..
That's it! I hope you have a fiiiiine day!
Cyberdevil
Sounds like a tough life situation right now man. :/ Hope you get the freelance thing figured out. A plus side with that kind of work is that you really don't need any local presence, you should be able to do all sorts of work without moving an inch, sites like freelancer.com or odesk.com usually have a surplus of jobs but the competition's tough too. A lot of low-wage workers. Maybe fiverr.com is a slightly better newcomer alternative if only you get into a good niche there. Something that doesn't take long to accomplish, so even low prices = bigger income.
Regarding retail, I imagine there's an abundance of people looking for those jobs too right now, at least here a crazy amount of people are losing their jobs in more socially oriented businesses, restaurants etc... even if they're desperate there's probably heavy competition there too.
Hope you find your thing! Comissions hmm, do you have any price list/samples on those? Always good to have to get in new clients too.
Dingalow
That's a good idea, I do have a Fiverr account but never really bigged it up or anything. I tried Freelancer years ago without much success but I've improved a lot since then. And yeah the situation for workers is pretty rough here in the UK. Even before the virus it was pretty damn hard to get work, despite having a degree, pretty much every job opening requires a bullshit amount of experience, even for shitty part-time work. You'd think they'd be less picky at this point but apparently not lmao.
I was always told not to have a price list up, and to instead discuss it with clients. I have an excel sheet with starting prices that I can use to make a price list, though