#freelance artist problems

[mbrainspaz]

once again I have put myself in a position where I have 4 hours to do a week of work.

#how does this keep happening #local guy with adhd amazed he's unable to function like guys without adhd #adhd problems #untreated adhd #freelance artist problems

[bea-trician]

The things I actually get paid to make.

#i am SpongeBob and SpongeBob is me #small artist #freelance artist problems #hand lettering #hand drawn type #graphic design is my passion

[willinglyghoulified]

My husband and I were in Walmart yesterday and saw an old coworker. Now, we didn't particularly talk to this coworker because we a) weren't in the same dept. and b) she was pretty passive-aggressive, even on good days.

So this old coworker asks us how we're doing since we left Walmart like 8 months ago. My husband told her where he was working now, and she asked me "What about you? What do you do now?"

"I'm a freelance artist and I'm writing a fantasy novel," was my simple answer.

She gave me this sarcastic surprised face and goes "OoOOOoOhohohoOO. So you work from home? Must be nice and easy."

.-. Like, YOU asked ME.

I stopped talking to her after that. Like, no it's not fucking easy. I want to make art and writing my career, and my husband working is what's keeping our heads slightly above water right now. I can't drive a car, so any job I get has to be online where I CAN work from home, and no one has answered my applications yet, save for ONE that I'm reading a 175-page guidebook for and then taking a 3-part test for. Working from home is no easier than putting in an application for any other job and working there, and I've not got a single commission from my artwork because I'm just not to the level that people want to commission me, and that's understandable, but dude, I'm going broke so I gotta try something lol

But if she had known any of that, I knew that instead of meeting me with empathy, she would have instead said, "You should never have left Walmart" because they have a cultish way of thinking. You're either one of us or you're not, and if you're not, then you're fucking missing out. That's corporate America.

So I have to say, when you see someone that you haven't seen in a while, don't pry into their business, especially if you're going to be passive-aggressive or uppity about it. Your struggles are not greater than someone else's. People have shit going on in their life. Whatever they choose to tell you is not the whole story, and you are not entitled to the whole story.

#this is why I hate big corporations #it's like being part of a cult #and they choose to be judgy for no reason #work from home #freelance artist problems #writer problems

[bearlyfunctioning]

Comic #301: Burnout - Website links: Here! I always do my best work when challenged by myself rather than others. So no surprise that my burnout is getting worse. People who gently suggest I take a break, I love you, but this is my livelihood. I can't stop my job unless I get a new one, that's just reality. I do my best to make time for myself and to take breaks for my health, this is why I've lasted so long on a candle melted down to the wick

#bearcomic #The Bear Minimum #artist problems #freelance #burnout

[dyrewrites]

It's fun to see people shut down when they ask what you do for a living and your answer is, "I write stories."

"Oh, you're an author, anything I'd know?"

"Do you like indie horror shorts?"

*the conversation has ended*

#not that it would make a difference if they did #but there's yet to be a follow up question #or even a polite 'oh that sounds nice' #it's almost as bad as when i answer 'freelance artist' #no one expects the follow up to that #'no i'm not an illustrator or a painter i am a pixel artist and animator' #no idea what to say to it so they stare #except my psychiatrist who wanted details because he's learning to make video games on his own right now and i have done that #rambles #this is a fun mood i'm in #dunno what to do with it #sorry for making it your problem

[olgadrebas]

Client alterations of the work

🤔 Q for artists: there is a product you've done artwork for. It gets published, and you see your artwork has been altered by the publisher — in-house, — compared to the originals you've submitted. How would you feel in this situation?

#artists on tumblr #art help #freelance #artist problems #art life #freelance artist

[xdarkabyssx]

Hey if someone commissions you says they can't use third party apps but can pay ny check-thats a scam right??

This felt fishy from the start but I figured he was just. A normal straight bro guy whose never done commissions (insta gram account made 3 weeks ago very weird way of talking. Asked the price after i sent him my commission sheet. No intrest in the sketches) I should've mentioned payment methods earlier... but uhh yeah.

So I finished the pet portrait commission. Not sure what to do now.

#art scam #freelance artist #artist problems #snall artist problems

[blujayonthewing]

I WANT!! to be a person who does little dnd doodles immediately after sessions and I WANT to be a person who nature journals regularly and I WANT to be a person who brings watercolors to colorado and actually uses them I WANT to do art casually and freely and joyfully as a reflection and extension of being an active participant in the world!!! FUCK!!!!

#'then do it' I KNOW I KNOW I KNOOOW but it's HARD my executives are always DYSFUNCTIONING!!! #I brought art stuff when we went on a cruise aaages ago and didn't actually paint ANYTHING #my mom's husband is An Artist professionally-- he's a studio painter and has done commercial freelance work #and he's just! always got his stuff! and he actually uses it!! what a fuckin concept!!! #I can't wait to be in colorado and go 'but I don't know how to paint a landscape 😥' #and like YES I also have a camera and a mini phone printer and a decent home printer #and I'm allowing myself to just tape bullshit into my 'sketchbooks' now AND my husband got me a proper scrapbook #and I do also want to be a person who does THOSE things don't get me wrong I just-- #I overthink artmaking so much that I just never do it anymore #and I've really never been good at consistent travel/ journal sketching because I'm not good at working large or loose #I can draw A Thing but I struggle with scenes for example and I get very bogged down with little details #and the same problem applies to dnd art! 9 times out of 10 when I try to doodle quickly and casually I get caught up on perfectionism #and I just!! [shaking myself shaking shaking shaking] PLEASE #about me #my art

[caulo]

@nnoiffu replied to your post “funniest thing about being medicated for ADHD is...”:

moving from art to business was the best decision i ever made and now im an analyst and i would not trade it for anything

yeah i feel like you get me lol especially because i know you and i share very similar views of both our capitalist hellscape + value in art ( creating, and receiving; visual, written, or otherwise )

​i am having a lovely time drawing daily again, focusing on improving fundamentals again and revisiting projects/ideas i've had for years. tomorrow i am hosting a three hour figure drawing session in an art discord, and i'm really excited about it. i am actually struggling to play video games, because i am just more interested in drawing all the time, and it feels great.

and honestly one of the last things i want to do right now is try to take all that, and the enjoyment i'm getting out of it, and adjust it to the current environment of professional art - one of the og hustle cultures lol.

#like if a decent paying and secure job making art landed in my lap i'd be all for that #but those uh..... barely seem to exist these days LOL #and especially not for new artists trying to push into the industry #when every company would rather just do as much as possible through cheap contract work #or layoff every employee below a certain level after each project #i'm not especially interested in having to fight against the literal industry so much #to have a job/freelance effort where being overworked is the given #obviously there's a degree of that everywhere because The Problem is Capitalism™ #but certainly some fields of employment have different recipes of exploitation than others #and idk i might be naive about the specifics of other careers. maybe book keeping is actually super cut throat #but i don't /think/ i see entire think pieces about why book keepers had to go through 3 months of crunch #with no overtime or benefits #before getting laid off by bethesda or w/e

[seilon]

god I wish I could rip Instagram apart with my teeth I hate it I hate it I hate it

#kibumblabs #whenever I think about it and what it does (in general but mostly to artists) I go into a feral anti-capitalist blind rage #it is legitimately killing art. it is killing what it means to be an artist and replacing it with corporate brainrot #and it’s disgusting to me to think about kids going into art and getting brainwashed into believing you should sacrifice agency over your #time and what you create and etc in order to create a Brand is the most important thing– or rather a DEFINING thing– about being an artist #it’s just. god it makes me mad #I won’t even get into how it also rips your mental health to shreds and strips your ego and ability to enjoy what you do and etc #but you know. there’s that too #I could write a fucking essay on this man and maybe I should at some point honestly #what’s sad though is that the Instagram art account mentality is already so normalized and so in-line with how companies/corporations like #disney or blizzard or basically any animation/game company and whatnot work that it’s easy to have that mindset reinforced by comparison to #those ‘legitimate’ non-freelance jobs #like that’s how they do it at fucking riot games or whatever so it must be the Right Way To Do Art. constantly and painfully by everyone #else’s standards but your own. no! it’s not! stop sucking the industry’s dick and look up for a second #and yes that applies to freelancers because like I said this new freelance art mentality directly corresponds with how corporate art jobs #operate. just. think about it on an existential long-term level. you shouldn’t fucking waste your life for that shit #sorry I’m kinda spiraling cause it’s such a personally relevant topic especially with recently stepping out of art school and debating if #I’ll return or not next semester and all that because yeah my school is a direct pipeline into The Industry and thus it operates like #The Industry. and I thought that was something that’s a pro when I was going into this school but boy. it really hits you when you’re #slogging away worked to the point of carpal tunnel/wrist problems being a normal and accepted thing being expected to sacrifice your #physical and mental health and so on just #oh! this is going to be my life from now on. forever. this isn’t temporary to get a degree this is a model of the industry im being injected #into and if anything it’s just going to get worse staying in this pipeline. Don’t Forget You’re Here Forever #and yeah I just. how do you continue under those conditions and expectations? #I don’t know what I’m gonna do yet man- I’m gonna get a bachelors it just may be at a state college instead– but beyond that idk but it’s #become too taxing on my time and health to just say ‘it is how it is’ and do something that’ll kill me slowly for a company’s profit. #something something marx was right something something

[bloodvisions-art]

A comic about being a freelance artist

#freelance artist #illustrator #concept artist #character designer #comic #comics #comic strip #wfh problems #my art #illustration #artists on tumblr #drawing #queer artist #cartoon #cartoonist #funny comic #relatable comic #sheep #cute animals

[mbrainspaz]

so who else is binge watching Blue Eye Samurai while they're supposed to be diligently working on an overdue commission today.

#blue eye samurai #binge watching #netflix #TRANS! TRANS! TRANS! TRANS! #freelance artist problems #adhd brain

[bea-trician]

well, I’ve just had to dodge THREE DIFFERENT SCAM ATTEMPTS on Instagram in the past 2 weeks. At this point I’m like 90% sure they were all separate accounts run by the same guy who is stealing strangers’ photos and posing as multiple people.

WARNING TO OTHER SMALL ARTISTS. They’re targeting small accounts that are desperate for commissions. If someone messages you requesting pet portraits and won’t make payments through a third party app like PayPal, Venmo or Kofi and instead want to do a direct deposit of some kind, DON’T FUCKING TAKE IT. block them, report them and run.

#i am so fucking pissed #i am so fucking tired #jfc dude #scammers #freelance artist problems #urgent warning to billions of people over huge online danger in ‘critical’ microsoft update #commisions open #commission fraud

[rayrobinsart]

Does anyone know where I could find a good template for art commission contracts?

I'm planning on opening commissions soon but it's been a while and I want to make sure I get this right :)

#freelance artist #art commissions #small artist #question #problems #also any advice in general on this would be appreciated #things they dont talk about in art school that they really should

[shadeprint]

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[frekkicreative]

I think I need to accept that sometimes the client just has bad taste =/

#freelance #artist #problems