#i still have comms to do u_u

[gotchibam]

For those who requested pokemon ko-fi doodle/s before, feel free to let me know if you want a copy of your doodle! All doodle requests have already been finished & posted last year so if you missed yours, please reach out to me here (or thru ko-fi) so I can send it to you!

Also I'm sorry to my ko-fi members for not being able to post any new content for the past 2 months ;_; It's mostly bc I get very busy working on the doodles & commissions (w/c totals around 30-40+ in a month >_<). I've realized that I can't really focus generating monthly content when I'm also working on a lot of comms at the same time. I might have to pause the memberships for now bc of this 😔

Thank you to my members for sticking around this far!! I wish I could've done more but alas I can only do so much :( I might try the monthly support setup again in the future when I'm ready & I've planned ahead on things I'll be posting 😌

#just a quick psa! #sorry to my members again ;_; #and to my november art raffle winner: i'll send you the doodle soon! (sorry it's taking so long >_<) #waughhh... I was going to make 2024 wallpapers w/ a calendar on them to make up for the missed content but #i still have comms to do u_u #maybe for this year I could put more attention to my inprnt store instead #i've been meaning to do that for so long #I still wonder if ppl could really earn a nice amt from uploading prints there but I see artists who actively expand their inprnt store so #i'm guessing it's worth it? :o #having a passive income on the side is what i'd like for this year I think! #it's a nice goal 🌻🌻🌻

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Starting to pack and trying to decide when to take everything off the walls bc I am still living here for a somewhat undetermined amount of time

#gathering up a lot and see what's where but it looks like i have done anything at all bc the flags and comm art and stuff is still up #one of my command hooks broke a few days ago so one of my pride flags (my ace one) is barely clinging to the wall anyways U_U #that hook was also supporting 3 different types of string lights.. i should use my little lights more #need a whiteboard that's just like. reminder that you own x y and z and can use them #legitimately might do that bc I keep picking up things i forgot i even had and it's bothering me 😤 #shai speaks

[starlightrise]

anyways..... happy september, finally got a full night of sleep :’) 🌷

didn’t find a place (rental market is a disaster ! west coast babey!) so now I remain at home and... continue existing (and try to get a job Before relocating)!!

pros: i can stop spamming comms and do more personal art/portfolio over the fall/winter, i spent all summer trying to prove i was capable of paying rent u_u since I’m Not paying $700-900/month I can instead use the money to upgrade my gpu, wardrobe stuff, spoil myself a bit... ALSO. travel, maybe. and finally use my passport that I got in 2019 to use after uni (lol@past me) (also finish teen idle i’m so sorry my child i was busy)

cons: i don’t have much of a direction in my life and i still don’t! & i also don’t want to live here indefinitely!! mid 20s has been agony but i graduated into a pandemic so maybe it gets better! idk!

#personal ramblings SORRY #when u live in the 2nd largest country in the world and it still feels limited... #*by area so ig that doesn't mean much

[rainbowsans]

Boop!!!

just a bit of a heads up!! as i was working on july comms and disney comms my non-dominant arm was really really sore and prevented me from working any further, i cant really focus when im in pain despite it being my non-dominant arm, sorry;;; so i can’t work until it goes away (dont worry ive been stretching it and such)

i’ll also be busy this upcoming weekend because space jam 2 is coming out Friday and tbh fellas? im gonna be hyper-fixating on that for a couple days gfddbgjbdkfgkjd and because i wanna spend time with a friend whos visiting for the next couple of days before leaving. unfortunately...........i have a life outside social media i gotta focus on u_u so if you see me not posting stuff its because of that ^^ regular posting will be back on monday!

another note is that...i unfortunately have to close the disney comms....my body is responding negatively with how much im behind on the requests and i dont think i can handle any more if im being honest. im so sorry...i wanted to pull through and give everyone some nice art in return for helping me but i dont think its healthy for me;;;; the goal will still be there! but i wont be doing disney comms/requests any more....sorry....i’ll still finish the disney requests that i got but i won’t be taking any more. sorry again.

if you wanna help me out you can purchase stuff on my ko-fi store!

or donate a dr.pepper!

please take care of yourselves!! <3 stay determined

#txt #as im typing this its hurting my arm dsfbsbdjkfsd #but i'll be on mobile!! #lurking................watching *hides in bushes* you wont even know im here

[spacetravels]

hi!! hello!!! i’m doing emergency commissions!!

COMM GUIDELINES:

pls message me here on tumblr :”)

paypal payment only!

1-2 characters!

basically will be like samples above; lineart, color, and some shading! pls check my art tag for more samples of my work uou

will not draw R/18 !

to summarize: editing the op (may?) to now (9/6/19): my paycheck came in and even tho i didn’t work less hours than normal, i still made way less than normal and i need to pay my car payment, gas, school supplies, and food u_u

i still haven’t received my financial aide for uni either so things have been tight! i recently got hired for a second job on campus but i’m not starting that for a couple of weeks so i’d love to do commissions until i can start it :””)

for my car payment i am short literally 10 dollars and after that i’ll have zero dollars ;; normally i go on a queue basis but this time i’ll be taking 5 slots to start!

if you can’t afford to commission me but still want to help, i also have a ko-fi for donations! every little bit helps, really!!

reblogs are also much appreciated! thank you for reading!!

KO-FI || ART TAG || PORTFOLIO

#commissions #ko fi donations #amaje art #signal boost

[clownmoontoon]

So wait you went to SCAD right? Did you ever graduate? Why did you drop animation? What was your major?

omgg lots of questions in one ask!! i’ll answer them in parts if you dont mind haha uwu/((also apologies if i come across bitter this was a tumultuous time u_u))((also under a cut bc it got long haha))

🌟 1st part:

yup yup i went to scad for two years (i think..it may have been 1 and some months idk its been a long time), and nope! i am a total art school drop out haha

i didnt even fully realize i was a drop out til this year bc for a while i always had the intention of going back as soon as my money situation was a bit more reliable. not to brag, but i did have quite a sizeable scholarship to attend, however the money was dispersed throughout my intended duration there so there was still a bit i had to come up w on my own. i could do it for a while, but wasnt able to keep it up so i was forced to take an extended leave until i could. the scad people were actually really gracious about it and did what they could to help me! but man private art school is E X P E N S I V Emy mom once described the price like i was going to become a doctor or a lawyer and there’s a running joke about scad being the “harvard of art”. idk about all that but the price tag sure fits haha

but when i realized i had improved a thousand times more out of art school than i ever did in it, i had no real drive to return at all. ((i’ll save my thousands of dollars for anime merch tyvm))

🌟 2nd part:

omg well to understand why i dropped animation you must understand that as a teenager i was a cocky little shit. bc i had never met anyone who could draw better than me, i assumed no one else could (spoiler alert quite a lot of people could and can draw better than me HAHA). even tho i had met w the teachers and staff i still felt pretty good about my skill, and even when i started attending scad i was one of the best in my class so i figured i was hot shit.

its worth mentioning my online presence at that time was little to nothing so i had no exposure to other artists until i had started actively using my da and tumblr about a month into my scad life. i had never even thought about the advantages of digital art vs traditional art, OR EVEN SEEN A DRAWING TABLET much less used one. WHICH WAS IRONICALLY SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP WHEN PICKING MAJORS DESPITE ALL MY PORTFOLIO BEING DONE IN PENCIL.

poor young moon was under the impression that scad would teach her how to do animation u_u but (as i know now, and have mentioned in other posts) you enter art school with knowledge from the work youve already done, then you hone it into a finer style. you dont go to art school to learn animation, you go to art school to get better at animation.  if you wanna go to art school for animation you should already have animation samples in your portfolio hahai didnt know this, and no one felt the need to tell me this at the time which still kinda pisses me off tbh

well no thats not what pisses me off, forgive me for going on a bit of a tangent to explain but when i had talked to my advisor about classes and majors it was decided that staying home and taking what classes i could online and then transferring to campus to finish the rest was the most cost effective solution, convincing me that when i arrived on campus is when they would give me hands on lessons about animation.

it wasnt until much later that i realized w the knowledge i had at the time there was absolutely no way i could handle animation, and im quite certain they were banking on me realizing this and switching majors. which i did.

i went in majoring in animation and minoring in sequential art. i ended up swapping the two in the end, but never actually made it to any real animation classes.

and you may think “but moon when you did research on the school and what was needed for the portfolio didnt you see that you needed animation samples??”

and tbh i did, but when i brought this up as a concern they assured me my art was well enough to bypass that bit for the animation course, and bc i was so full of myself i figured they were right.

tbqh it wasnt until i left scad that realized i had so much more to learn in just about everthing i had the raw talent but my actual skill was bottom of the barrel to be a great artist you need both so after i left scad there was a time when i needed money for my mom so i took on a shit ton of comms (as some of you might remember) and bc i was FORCED to draw everyday for over a year i automatically improved leaps and bounds from where i started, and from where i was in art school.

comparing the art i do now to the shit i made then is like looking at two completely different people’s work haha

i have no real conclusion for this other than that i stick to what ive said before; art school wont make you a great artist, only hard work will do that ♡

#clown honks #anon #not that i have thousands of dollars to spend on anime merch #but if i did then i would much rather spend it on all might merch rather than art school just sayin #haha