Open for commissions
I've been officially working as a fulltime freelance illustrator for almost half a year now and it's been going pretty alright, but I'm always open to filling up my plate with more jobs.
I usually offer two options quality-wise, the Daily and the normal illustration
Dailies (because they're relatively quick to make) are $50
Full illustrations are around $150
Pm me to discuss further
Cheers
Now im in no high position to be giving the universal best advice about how to draw and become successful but I've had my own experiences and I can share the things I've learned from those said specific experiences to help and hopefully inspire others.
Here is an example some guy asked for to start it up:
Q: Dear Xephio, if you were to write a training manual for artist, what would be the do's and dont's? And what would the 7 deadly sins be in art? Your fan, dilandoubishop.
A: Do draw what you find awesome, don't draw for facebook likes and praising comments.
Do study subjects you're unexperienced at, don't stay in your comfort zone forever
Do make mistakes, and do not ever be afraid of showing them.
Do look at works of other great artists that you look up to, but don't waste hours a day doing nothing but staring at works and tutorial videos of other people. Best way to get better is to, surprise, practice.
Do realize that photobashing and using phototextures for big mattepainting is and should be an industry-workflow, you should try to work without any photos on your own personal work.
Do not skip over the basics just because you want to make cool Uncharted 4-like concept art.
Don't be afraid to change your tools, wether its in Photoshop or when your painting on a canvas, breaking the barriers that are your tools and workflows are the best ways to free yourself from an artblock.
Find joy in trial & error, because every mistake you make, every wrong arm or face you draw is another step closer to drawing it better. Learn to learn from your mistakes, otherwise you'll end up in a cycle of non-improvement, you'll be drawing the same thing over and over again and not get any better at it. Look at mistakes and research if needed.
I couldn't name 7 sins at the top of my head but I hope you'll find a few in the text above!
Daily piece of imagination goal
The idea is simple and been done by plenty of amazing artists (however it was Cryptid-Creations's portfolio that really motivated me the most), it's a challenge/goal to paint something daily for a certain amount of time or amount of paintings.
In my case I'm putting the first milestone at 100 and will continue raising it everytime I manage to meet it.
im also not limiting myself to a specific subject, itll be mostly creatures though, with some environment stuff every now and then maybe.
Let's do this.
13-12-2015 EDIT:
100 has been reached, im pumping it up to another 100, so thats 200 with 99 to go.
Let's do this
20k Page views!
Thanks everyone for visiting, fav'ing and commenting on my work, I appreciate it all
P.S. also a total of 420 deviations uploaded thats DANK WOOO HAHA
Open for commissions
Send me a note if you want to get something done, we'll negotiate prices then