I’ve come to a realization that I’ve gained burn out of sorts. I had felt this for quite some time now, thinking I just didn’t enjoy drawing as much as I used to. However recently I founded out the reason for this burn out and I think it is due to me moving away from why I started drawing in the first place. The reason I started doing art was because I wanted to bring the stories and characters I had in my head to life, and for the last 5 years, my focus became trying to make money off of my art, working more on commissions than on my own art. It got so bad to a point for a while I felt that I no longer knew how to draw for myself, which got me depressed. Recently though I rediscovered my love of art once again, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever felt in a while, though this is coming at a cost.
I have been noticing that my brain is pushing me to dislike working on commissions. Which is were burnout lies, since commissions are my primary source of income. So I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place were I want to make a shift in my art direction to one that will let me focus more on my own projects, rather than taking more commissions, but I still need to be able to pay my bills. So I’m going to be opening a Subscribestar, and finally using my Kofi, to help support that goal.
This does not mean I will stop taking commissions, if anything I might have to increase prices on them, since I want to do less but still need to make enough to float. So my plans for my crowdfunding pages is that I want to generate a more passive income with the ideas and projects I want to do, while working on commissions, until that passive income can overtake the commissions as primary. This way I can work on my own projects, while still putting out things that people would like to see, and get a proper gauge of what works and what doesn’t.
Another reason I’m leaning towards these pages is interaction. At the moment FA is my most successful gallery, getting the most views, faves and watches, however even with all that I still left unsure on what my viewers like. Well that’s not completely true, I do know about something that pulls in the larges numbers, but I feel if I go all in on that theme, I’ll grow to dislike it very quickly, so I am avoiding that for now until I find a good way to balance it. I also trying to branch out onto other sites since many are unhappy with FA, so I have made an Itaku, and going to to try and use my Twitter and Instagram a bit more. I might even open up a new Deviantart for further reach. If it comes down to it I think I’ll open up a discord sever, at the moment I just don’t know how I want to set it up yet, so I’ll talk more about that later.
Going back to the crowdfunding pages, my current hopes for them is to use the funds’ that these platforms provide for things that are current issues, like getting a new computer fund as my laptop is barely clinging to life, finally being able to get new glasses since my current ones are just barely being held together, and deal with the latest issue of my wisdom tooth that is causing me pain. Of course I also hope it does well enough that, me and my family are no longer living pay check to pay check, but only time can tell on that. So I looking forward to the future and seeing how it plays out.
The following journal will layout what Subscribestar and Kofi with have and showcase. I was going to include it here but I feel like this journal is long enough. If you have any thoughts, ideas or whatever, let me know! I want to hear feedback.
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09 Aug 2023 23:10 CEST
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