Ian Fay
patreon
Commission gallery
🕑 Added 2017-05-04 02:14:44 +0000 UTC Selection of some of the commissions I've been doin!______________________________________________________
-The overwatch one is a WIP, penciled version. The guy wants his mates drawn as their main characters in Overwatch. Fun!
-The Handsome Jack piece is a sketch I was commissioned to do, and the person loved it so much theyve since commissioned the full ink and colour so they can use it for a tattoo.
-The Adidas one ive shared a couple times, but thats finished now thankfully!
-Craft Pirate was for one of my oldest mates, who needed a mascot for a business venture. This was a lot of fun, a bit different to my usual and I learned an awful lot making it (by accident, as always lol.
-The final image is a WIP for a guy who wants an icon for his twitch channel.
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Thankfully I've gotten the lions share of the work done now, just lines and colour for the twitch, overwatch, and handsome jack pieces, and I'm caught up. Hoping to get time to do the GotG print before the weekend too.
I think i bit off more than I could chew with the commissions, and certainly made promises regarding time that were hard to keep, and said "sure" to things that werent actually that easy and cost a lot of time. All a learning curve though, I'm figuring stuff out as I go. Generally, email inquiries have been pleasant and 99% of people have been super polite. Lots of people get put off by the idea I'd charge €100 or more for certain illustrations, so I make a point to do a cost / time breakdown when giving quotes.
Like... some people don't understand this shit, done right, takes time, and is a skilled labour, so the cost reflects that (and believe me, im charging pretty low as it is).
Lesson learned is: dedicate less time per week to commissions. Money coming in is rad, but I can get by with slightly less, and that way ill actually be able to do personal projects and fun stuff for you guys again. Gonna set a day for patreon stuff next week too, a weekly thing.
