Anise was watching vee play magic

my cat is the coolest

also we won

togami outfit arrived!! still need glasses and wig

marl was like “try to look really unhappy” and i couldnt do it

togami pictured here moments after seeing a UNICEF commercial

(fuckin damn you rock that outfit)

I’ve been reading David Allen’s “Getting Things Done" to try to overcome this exact problem myself, perhaps it could be of some use to you as well?

true story: i bought that book like two years ago and never found the time to read it i'm familiar with the general concepts though and try to keep those in mind

I am SO BAD at reading katakana. I’m great with hiragana and I can read kanji without much trouble, but katakana is still the hardest thing for me to read despite that I’ve been reading it for something like ten years??? I don’t really get why. If there’s a lot of katakana in a sentence it all starts to blend together and not look like words. Sometimes even if I take it slowly I still make huge mistakes.

It’s really frustrating because I don’t have trouble reading ANY other writing system I’ve learned. It’s not a matter of not having practice either because I can pick up new kanji without a problem and I even discovered recently that I can pick up Korean fairly quickly too, but somehow this writing system I’ve been reading for years and years is still super difficult. Auuugh why.

well

you know

クケ シツ ソン ラヲ リサ コヨロ ウワフノメヌスマ

haha, white people, think you can just pick out your own words? think again

i've internalized most of them but damn you would not believe the mental gymnastics i have to go through to distinguish シ from ツ. and with ソ versus ン i honestly still just sort of guess and see if i end up with a word i recognize.

art and dollars

i enjoy art and i enjoy commissioning art and i could totally afford to do it all day

but i don’t

i think because it feels like pushing some half-baked idea i can’t realize myself onto someone who doesn’t really care about it, let alone want to flesh it out for me

and money as the sole driver of a creative process is even worse, somehow

this wasn’t going anywhere i’m just sayin

It’s a little ironic, but the people who know that the artist is doing work for money are my favorite people to work for.

It’s terrible to get clients that think I’m obligated to be personally interested in their ideas or that I should be enjoying doing hard work. The ones that don’t acknowledge that it’s a business transaction make it go from a job to a nightmare.

I don’t mind doing commissions as a whole because I can usually find something interesting to do in the art itself, and I enjoy how pleased my clients are with the result. Sometimes I do end up interested in the subject and it’s an added bonus. It’s only when people are arrogant and assume that I’m interested in something I’ve never heard of before that I stop caring about doing it and it becomes just for the money. Or if they get super specific and don’t actually allow me to be an artist so much as a tool to get their precise idea out of their head, if that makes sense. Getting to flesh out an idea is actually the fun part of the commission.

I dunno, I’m not really here to convince you to commission people or anything. I’ve just had to deal with so many people with shit attitudes I just thought I’d tell you it’s refreshing to read a post from someone who understands what a commission is supposed to be, even if you don’t do it often.

oh yeah i'm aware of the irony too. i get to see mel's experiences being commissioned, so.

more irony: i'd be way more comfortable commissioning an artist i already knew... except them i'm sticking a business transaction on a friendship which is just a different kind of awkward. bah!

shame that you get so many clueless commissioners :( and of course transactions are private and artists can't really afford to chastise the majority of their customers, so not much changes. ugh.