If it's for a fandom I like, I might consider it. Can't promise anything though.

If it's for an original character, I'm probably not up to it right now, sadly.

~tamtu is offering some pretty reasonable commission prices right now: [link]

You might check him out.

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"Do good to all." - Blue Jean Quilts! - Artists' Hospital Doctor

Well, you never know what they've been through. Odds are they're undergoing a daily personality bleach at their local baby jail (pardon, I mean school) along with their fellow victims/inmates and maybe are subject to bullying and abuse. If six hours/day of being told what to think won't kill a person's ability to spontaneously create, I don't know what will. But the urge to be, somehow, associated with that creativity is still there.

Plus it's a safe bet they don't have access to quality instruction, encouragement, or art supplies... I've wanted to draw all my life, but I had to wait until I was 25 and could buy my own sketchbooks and pay for classes. Zero guidance! although my parents were and are very supportive, bless them. A lot of people don't have that.

And honestly, it's easy to be nice to people online. It's the ones I kick out of the bathroom that it's tough to be good to.

OH OH WHICH REMINDS ME!! *runs off and comes back w/ book* Remember how I recommended "Artist's Way" and we had that conversation about values and such? Well, I found something that's been immensely helpful ever since I read it, so I'm gonna go ahead and spam my profile to quote bits of it. Um, I'm sorry if it's long, but I really found every sentence of it relevant, so here goes (and I won't be upset if you stop reading now ). The following is from Dorothy Sayer's Letters to a Diminished Church, from the first chapter, titled "What Do We Believe?"

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I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of all things. That is the thundering assertion with which we start; that the great fundamental quality that makes God, and us with him, what we are is creative activity. After this, we can scarcely pretend that there is anything negative, static, or sedative about the Christian religion. "In the beginning God created"; from everlasting to everlasting. He is God the Father and Maker. And, by implication, man is most god-like and most himself when he is occupied in creation. And by this statement we assert further that the will and power to make is an absolute value, the ultimate good-in-itself, self-justified and self-explanatory.

How far can we check this assertion as it concerns ourselves? The men who create with their minds and those who create (not merely labor) with their hands will, I think, agree that their periods of creative activity are those in which they feel right with themselves and the world. And those who bring life into the world will tell you the same thing. There is a psychological theory that artistic creation is merely a compensation for the frustration of sexual creativeness; but it is more probable that the making of life is only one manifestation of the universal urge to create. Our worst trouble today is our feeble hold on creation. To sit down and let ourselves be spoon-fed with the ready-made is to lose our grip on our only true life and our only real selves.

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Ever since I read that, I've been drawing and writing more freely. When I'm tempted to let it go for now and go do something mindless, I think, "To sit down and let myself be spoon-fed with the ready-made is to lose my grip on my only true life and my only real self." It's helped.

This is one of those books that nobody ever told me about growing up, though I've been in church my whole life. If you read it, don't miss chapter 2 either, with "what other people think Christianity is." It's a riot.

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"Do good to all." - Blue Jean Quilts! - Artists' Hospital Doctor