I spent a lot of today just sorta zoning out and brainstorming

I have some,, art thoughts?

A big thing on my mind currently has been commissions

Since it's summer, I've been with my sister and brother-in-law a whole lot [my friends were away most of the summer I'm not that pathetic], and one day we wandered around some galleries in the artsy part of town. It was really fun! I had a great time! The people there were actually really nice and encouraging

One way or another, I eventually got into a conversation with my sister about being able to sell my art one day, and she said that I can and should do commissions, not like some time off in the future but now

Keep in mind that she doesn't see most of my art and she used the galaxy woman I made months ago as an example of what people would pay for?? If you don't read my art book, here's the old piece with the redrawn one I did recently

There's two main reasons I doubt her,, I promise this isn't meant to be all self deprecating or whatever, nor was I trying to brag [this is my sister of course she'd think my art is good], I just want to kinda think things through

1 :: quality
Y'know what?
My art isn't like,, awful,,,,
I don't hate it all the way, not like I used to
I've come a long way and I'm proud of that

I don't want to say that I don't think people would pay for it because,, I don't know if they would! I really don't, I can make biased guesses and so can my family but I don't know

I'd elaborate on how far I am with anatomy and mediums and whatnot but honestly I think it's all subjective

So,, if you're still reading, would you pay for it? Cause that'll teach me all I need to know about quality

If I don't get any comments, that's alright in this case! However,,,,

2 :: quantity
Hey guys did you know WP is dying?

Alright all original jokes aside, it was kinda dumb of me to base my work on Wattpad of all places, and I'm not sure where to go from here

Some of you may know that I plan on making an art Instagram if I can, and I'd still like to, but as much as people complain about WP, so many other platforms just seem,,, hostile

Instagram seems alright but also a far from supportive community, Tumblr is goddamn infamous, amino doesn't seem like a good platform for the stuff I want to do [yes, even arts and OCs], YouTube would be more if I decided to try my hand at speedpaint a or animatics, Deviantart is notorious and pretty much the only appeal is maybe the point system, and, well,, what else?

I'm scared to try branching out, it's true, and that's really holding me back

I'm scared to have a smaller following again

Then again, my following isn't exactly giant at the moment, and I swear I'm not complaining, I can't believe I have as many readers and followers as I do! It makes me really happy to get comments and follows, or even just votes or reads! But there just aren't enough to have a demand for anything

So even if I post on WP and somewhere else, that wouldn't automatically get me a demand, which is what you need for commissions – I could technically start them, but I wouldn't get any

Keep in mind that the commission part of the topic can't actually happen right now! I'd need to get a PayPal or something, which I probably could, but that's for another time

The other platforms,, yea, that's a now problem, and one I'm still figuring out

But commissions just sound like a really good idea! I'd like to make some money doing what I love!

I know people have all sorts of horror stories, and they wouldn't be easy, but I want to try

More specifically, I want to get to a point where I can try