Brendan (haganbmj)'s status on Friday, 07-Oct-11 08:26:17 UTC

  1. @abighuman I'm currently in the process of a commission from the very talented http://yori-narpati.deviantart.com/ ~ She's only 16 and I'm paying roughly $1.50 for the work in the form of DA points (which it is my understanding will be used to maintain her premium membership). Is there a problem here? Should she instead being doing only her own artwork and not interacting with the people that actually follow her? Should she be looking for some professional position? ~ I'll go back to it again, a commission is not solely for the money - she's not in this to make more than the $5 here and there to pay the upkeep on DA. Instead, however, the commission slots she opens will be filled with unique orders of people and things that she herself may never have thought to draw, and in ways she might never have attempted otherwise. It's exploration with the feedback of others. It's why we post online, and why we show our work to others. It's just an alternate form of such.

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