Official Guru Art Wh0re Club [OGAWC]
Unlucky Slayer
So what is being withheld from us? I wanna see!
ShadowsRequiem
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So what is being withheld from us? I wanna see!
actually you've prolly seen it on DA already :P but I just noticed it wasnt in his gallery thing lol
Unlucky Slayer
I see. That one is pretty hawt. =P
Jeff Highwind
I think ShadowsRequiem ignored my commission from her. 
Nkah Sennyt
You'll get used to it. I've also done the "waiting for 3 months for a single simple commission" thing too, so have fun with that. Art whoring isn't always glamorous, darlin'. <3
Jeff Highwind
Actually I've encountered it twice as well. First was greyf0x thinking I barely made the time limit then noticing I am not on Quota after he posted his list 2 months after; Second was with a random artist who diddn't even do one commission...and I was second in line. Q_Q
Unlucky Slayer
Yeah I've had the wait more than 3 months deal for one of the pieces I have. Was entirely worth it though. I'm never in a rush when it comes to getting great pieces of work.
Nkah Sennyt
I'm not in a rush either, but I do think there's a certain amount of time one can wait before it becomes irritating.
Mistical miss
Well, there is a limit to what an artist can do. At the rate commissions are being asked for at the moment, its raining. It's not like an artist only does commissions, he or she makes other works aswell. Perhaps at some point, he or she decides to try a new sort of drawing style, which isn't fit for commissions. The artist should have such freedom. Though it would be gentle to tell the audience though.
Sectus
I just uploaded a black'n'white and coloured version of the commission I got from Meshsmoother (only bothered to upload the "naughty" version though). I assume you've already seen it in my other thread 
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actually you've prolly seen it on DA already :P but I just noticed it wasnt in his gallery thing lol
Hmm, is it the shower picture?
Regarding the whole "waiting for commissions"... I've had one relatively expensive commission I've been waiting a freaking half year for! So I hope someone can steer some pity in my direction
Nkah Sennyt
@ Sectus - There's an easy answer. GaiaOnline. They have a section of their forum [with 6million+ users] dedicated to art commissions, auctions, trades, contests, etc. It's pretty easy to earn gold [posting, voting in polls, playing games, etc], but inflation on art is kinda bad. The R&C board. Stay out of Chatterbox. Trust me.
ZenRgy
Hm, this is interesting I may join however I've only had one commission done for me (the artist from whom I requested the other has gone on hiatus).
Need to find more commissioner...isers.
AW Lore
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alright ill post it on the gallery.
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while i agree that sometimes waiting for a drawing sucks, artists do have a life outside drawing, and they have better/other things to do. and sometimes they suffer from the "artist block" and cant draw anything at all.
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Art whoring isn't always glamorous, darlin'. <3
indeed.
Alleji
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Originally Posted by Nkah Sennyt
@ Sectus - There's an easy answer. GaiaOnline. They have a section of their forum [with 6million+ users] dedicated to art commissions, auctions, trades, contests, etc. It's pretty easy to earn gold [posting, voting in polls, playing games, etc], but inflation on art is kinda bad. The R&C board. Stay out of Chatterbox. Trust me.
Wow, did you just seriously recommend gaia to someone? :/
That's like referring people to TS (not Teamspeak). It makes you look bad. >.> Molotov
I'd like to join but, i am not worthy........................yet.
Molotov
double post... awrry
Nkah Sennyt
I recommended people to the R&C area of Gaia. If you're an art wh0re, it's heaven. I assume my fellow wh0res have enough sense not to venture into the horror areas [read: everywhere else]. And I did post a sincere warning about the Chatterbox. >.>
Jeff Highwind
Molotov if you do the commissions we asked for you are automatically an art enthusiast in my book. ;D
Nian
I used to draw on Gaia. The only problem is having to draw Gaian characters while I find peoples original characters much much much more interesting as well as something like GW characters. Because they have style. :P
As far as having to wait ages for commission goes. The artist offering commission should make it clear how long it takes or if they are very busy etc and gracefully accept commission rectracting. Some are slow some are fast. Huhu...I hope I made it clear on my thread that I've been immobilized as far as drawing goes. I mean busy and I feel a bit bad for making people wait, especially EtherealByte atm. But I will get it done. >.< But it's not as though people offering commissions on forums are any kinds of 'pros' in business matters or have any general idea about how efficiently they themselves work on such projects. Like me they might swamp themselves without realizing wheter they could actually do it or not. Once I told a person that I could not finish their request afterall and just ended up getting them pissed at me even though the artwork was/would have been practically free. It's just the way it goes. :P But yeah all I'm saying is that there's never an excuse, everyone knows it and I'm a bad girl myself...augh. I have a artwork promised to my friend that has been hanging for what... a half a year now? I always have those. I bet many people do. >.<
Nkah Sennyt
It's not the wait that's the problem for me, it's the lack of communication. If it's a piece I really want, I will wait for it - if the artists says they're busy or whatever. If they just accept the commission and disappear for 2-3 months, chances are I'll lose interest and cancel.
Sectus
Yeah, long waiting isn't such a big deal... being completely ignored is a lot worse. Especially if you're already commited money to the commission. Fortunately, it's rare that you meet artists which are downright rude or refuse to reply to correspondence.
@AW Lore: I don't know if you already know it, but if you enter your gallery and select Rearrange from the popup menu you get an easy effective way to re-order the images in your gallery (so you can put your favourite commissions first, or group commissions from the same artist together)
Unlucky Slayer
*kicks the forum*
Jeff Highwind
lol @ GetLuckyAlready Slayer.
And after looking at Sectus' gallery I can tell he really likes his mesmers.
Unlucky Slayer
I was kicking it cuz the forum broke and wasnt showing the existance of Sectus' post.
mojave mango juice
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I was kicking it cuz the forum broke and wasnt showing the existance of Sectus' post.
Nah, you just like kicking things
In other news, I was looking through Nkah's pictures and fell in love with this one: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...rkZeal-Kha.jpg I'm building my gallery, almost ready to become a member 
Sectus
I've had that problem once before, Slayer. Dunno why that happens. Posting again fixes it, but then it becomes a doublepost :x
@Jeff: Yeah, I admit being guilty at that Mesmers just looks too pretty! Especially my mesmer 
Nkah Sennyt
Yeah, I couldn't see it either. How odd.
@ mango - That was a freebie from my art wh0re thread on GWO. Not as many artists there as here, though. Edit: Come on. Censoring wh0re is dumb. mojave mango juice
Can I join now? >.>
http://grenthsrejects.soulnexus.org/...&g2_itemId=271
Nkah Sennyt
Welcome aboard. <3
AW Lore
welcome aboard Mojave.
you know you are an OGAWC member when: 10 of the 13 times you log in the forums, you only check the nolani academy art to see if there are any new drawings posted. mojave mango juice
Oh, I know...I used to check Screenshot Expo all the time, and now I check it very little, I'm always browsing Nolani now >_>
And thanks for the welcomes  A guildie did this drawing for me...he doesn't have a scanner though, so he just took a picture of it for me until he can scan it in...I think it turned out pretty good http://grenthsrejects.soulnexus.org/...&g2_itemId=293
Moa Bird Cultist
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Nah, you just like kicking things
In other news, I was looking through Nkah's pictures and fell in love with this one: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...rkZeal-Kha.jpg I'm building my gallery, almost ready to become a member
That picture is pure LMAO <3And aye, the wait can be a pain when theres no communication. Guess I'm lucky like that, most of my pieces have come from people I actually know. Mistical's been working on my latest piece for several months now in one form or the other - it's an ensemble of my 3 most played characters; Rena, Krysten and Aimee. In fact, he just posted the second draft in his thread the other day, (my birthday, weeee!) In other news, I farmed a dead sword the other day on my 1st try In other other news, you know you're an official guru art wh0re when you have the contents of this thread set up as a slideshow on your iPod
Unlucky Slayer
The fact that you have an iPod and put pictures on it is way beyond me.
iPod ftl.
Nkah Sennyt
I <3 my iPod, but it's music-only. ...mainly because I don't know how to put pics on it, and they would be tiny anyways. >.>
AW Lore
newest acquisition:
http://www.tzarsectus.com/gallery/ma...?g2_itemId=297
Sectus
Hey! Your mesmer stole Sanra's rapier, grrr.
AW Lore
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Hey! Your mesmer stole Sanra's rapier, grrr.
Hey, its not my fault your mesmer dumped it on the desk and forgot to take it on her adventure, seriously, thats why the trip to the desert went wrong!
Unlucky Slayer
Thats why my Katherine always carries around her trusty Fellblade and Willcrusher. ^_^
Moa Bird Cultist
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The fact that you have an iPod and put pictures on it is way beyond me.
iPod ftl.
Well, I paid £50 for it, so I can't complain too much, even if the battery is almost dead, (well, it lasts about 8h, the same as my old shuffle, which is more than i need really.)But otherwise, Slayer, I disagree. iPod ftw, but iTunes? Definitely ftl. (Apart from the handy mp3 converter ^^ )Anyway, I thought I'd put a link to Mistical miss' thread here on Guru. Since a lot of my pieces are done by him, I think it's only fair that he gets a little more exposure. So, without further ado: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10111100 Also, his second draft of my terrible trio is on there now and I've added it to my gallery too. Please excuse the crappy editing, thats my fault - the picture was originally two scans, so I pieced it together and resized it and tried to clean up the dark patches on the scan, not to such a great effect. Still, at least the image is in one piece. Right, anyway, I'm off to go drool at the other art threads. Later!
Nkah Sennyt
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