GENERAL Q & A

I’ve been getting quite a lot of questions..and there were several of them that got overlapped so I’ll do my best to cover most of theme but I might have to expand them into another posting.

…Do you take commissions at all?
I might.. sometime in the future but it’s not really a thing that I can afford to do very often due to my work schedule.

… do u have an art blog?
If you are talking about my professional works, I have more of a web portfolio for them. If you  would like to know what it is, you can ask for it through e-mail. (ssaldanji@gmail.com)

… what program do you use? and brush settings?
When it comes to digital drawings, I almost always use Photoshop.
Things that I tend to do most of the time with my brush is, flattening the basic circular brush to about 50% roundness, then maximizing the touch sensitivity by setting the minimum-diameter to 1%. I sometimes add texture to my brush by using dual brush settings or just with the texture setting but this is not a constant thing that I do. Oh and I always turn off smoothing just for the lagging problem.

…Can I use your pictures as references? (not for tracing, but pose reference?)
I’m completely fine with people practising off of my stuff to get better or to roughly reference my stuff for their work since that is a big part of learning how to draw and professional artists use references all the time as well.
However, I do advice to watch out for that fine-line where it becomes a plagiarism.  Applied art industry is a very tightly knitted community where everybody some how know each other. Even as a student, it is possible for you to develop a bad reputation for your career and people will notice if someone is referencing another’s work much too closely. I’ve seen people getting black-listed from companies and getting in trouble during school due to their reputations and plagiarism. Practising through tracing and heavily referencing on your personal space is completely fine, but if you publish that as your own, it can become a problem. Be a honest artist for yourself as that will take you farther in becoming a better artist all together. 

… how long does it take for you to complete a drawing?
It depends on what kind of drawing you’re talking about.
- For my work as a story artist, when it comes to animation production, I have to produce each panel(short-handed fast drawings) within about 10~20 minutes including the bg.   
- For a single comic page, it takes 1~2 hours just on line works depending on complexity.
- For more of the full illustrations, each piece including all the colouring/toning can some times take up to a whole day if it’s complex.
but of course there are always exceptions so at times, I draw a lot faster or slower depending on my conditions.

…I was wondering if you’d like to collab?…
I’d be interested in collab only if it’s one-time thing with people who has solid ideas and means to divide the workload because I don’t want my tumblr to turn into something of an occupation with heavy obligations since that will exhaust me out like when I have multiple jobs.. 

… excuse me senpai, are you lost???
When I saw this at first, I was like … wuuuut?  
lol..but then I realized that they’re probably talking about me starting to follow them. Regarding that, I have these rules where, If I notice myself lingering on a blog for more than 15 minutes or if three to four of their consecutive postings make me laugh, I follow them. And sometimes, I stalk on my followers that pop up on the activity feeds too.. yes I do lol

… Which historical figure if you could would you fight?
This is just so random lol
well.. call me a boring person but I don’t care to fight so.. no one really.


Below are some of the questions that I’m gonna have to make a separate posting for each.. as I can’t answer them simply and some of them need to be in a form of a tutorial.
… how did you learn to draw?
…how long did it take you to get where you are today, art wise?
…some drawing tips, please? …the eyes are very lifelike
…. Do you have any tips for staying motivated?
… you’re a storyboard/comic artist…what kinds of things do you do/how did you get started?
… Hair tutorial?
… should I learn how to draw on paper first then go digital? or doesn’t matter?
… how did you learn human anatomy… some artists get anatomy books for artists and some just kind go for it. any tips? ideas? rituals i have to complete? 

There were more specific questions regarding my Fandoms, and I’ll cover them in another posting.