riasuki

Do you feel like no one cares about your artwork?  That no matter how hard you try, you'll never improve?  Well, I've been there before. A little less than a year ago, I didn't even have 100 watchers.  It was tough trying to find commissions, even though I priced them around 10 - 100 :points: an hour.  Sure, I had some wonderful people supporting me (thank you very much for that!), but when I looked at the thousands of diehard fans the "popular" artists had, I felt kinda useless.  It seemed like even a thousand watchers, or just being able to earn minimum wage was impossible.  Sometimes I wanted to cry from all the effort I put in.  I kept d

(Inspired by the song "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Cover by Carlos Santana)                It was here, at this place between roads. This place, where my heart grows cold, my blood goes stone, and my soul bleeds out. I feel neither happy nor sad when I’m here. No Warmth nor cold, neither pain nor enlightenment. Just… emptiness, a symphony of naught and all, and I stretch my arms to conduct the orchestra of creation and destruction. I raise my hand to lead the blind, I call upon the deaf, I motion the paralyzed. I am all, I am nothing, I am human. Only at this crossroads, where everything important to me had hap

I wrote a new Journal on Tips on How to Get Commissions with waaay more info! Check it out! When offering commissions, it can be very hard to get yourself noticed, what with the hundreds of thousands of other artists out there. People gripe about how pageviews aren’t important, but they are a helpful tool for you to see what kind of traffic flow you’re attracting. The more views you get, the more of a chance there is that one of those viewers is interested in commissioning you. Gigonomics is a term I heard about a few months ago at an FLBA conference. After Googling it, many people seem to be using it in a slightly different way,