Closing Art Commission

Before I start to talk about the topic of this post, I want to say a BIG thank you to all my fans that commissioned me in the past months. Your kind support helped me greatly in my situation and I’m genuinely grateful for that.

But, sadly, I’m afraid I have to inform you that this will be the last month that I’m open for commissions. I will close them on July 31st at midnight (Caracas Time Zone), and probably I won’t open commissions for the rest of the year unless the circumstances are out of my control or I’m in an emergency which will make me open again for extra money.

For those who I still own an art commission, don’t worry. As long as you are on the waiting list in my Google Forms I will work on your art. And for those who want an art, you can still fill out the form on this link and get on the waiting list. As long as I’m open for commission, you can still enter. But, after the end of July, I’ll not going to accept any more requests, and the webpage that I made for art commissions will be shut down.

My reasons to take this decision are, besides taking a break in August for “vacations” (I put this word in quotes because I will work on the last commissions and other things), I have to prepare for my art challenges such as Inktober and Huevember. And since Jake Parker, the creator of that Inktober, put the prompt list a month before October, I’m going to take September to make and prepare my Inktober arts. And, if things go smoothly, I will take October to make and prepare Huevember which is in November.

However, and to be honest, the big reason that I want to close art commissions is that, lately, I’m not enjoying working on them. Over the past weeks, I’m starting to feel less and less motivated to work on commissions. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not about the money, which is enough for me. It’s more like looking at other artists who are working for themselves without doing commissions and are very happy with that, I feel that I should be working on my own art, too. I have so many arts and fan arts that I need to work on and I haven’t done any of them and it stresses me out every time I think about that.

I think I have the FOMO effect (the Fear Of Missing Out). We’re in the middle of 2023, and I’ve been thinking that I’m not taking my artistic life the way I wanted to take it. And time is one of the resources that you can’t take it back. I usually don’t talk about my feelings about work and life because I fear that I may sound like a drama queen or something, but I need to take it out of my system. I need to talk about it to someone. I mean, I could talk about it to my family, but I don’t think they would understand what I’m feeling right now

So yeah, this is what I wanted to talk about it. Once again, thank you so much for commissioning me. And as always, keep making something awesome.