Entropy City: Making a Wargame
First attempt at art lets me down.
Lets all be honest for a maybe, generally speaking on social media most people have extremes, either its “I will only show the stuff Im proud of” or “I will seeth with rage and tear apart this person I believe wronged me” and I kinda feel that in some ways we’re similar with our hobby at times, if something doesnt turn out the way we wanted it to, most of us tend to hide it and not update until either its “fixed” or we move on to the next thing in hopes it goes better. But if this game is ever to become a sucess I kind’ve feel I should be sharing atleast some of my disapointments without ever reaching that point of pointing fingers in rage.
The failed attempt at commission.
Although I’ve somewhat mocked up a few pieces of “art” I am not an artist, and I am not actually good at drawing and this isnt me being all down on myself I’m merely aware of my flaws and drawing is a skill I do not have. I have certain images in my mind but I’ve never had the skill to complete them. I continued to put off art largely due to lack of budget but I decided to start getting small stuff done, starting with commissioning some concept sketches, it felt like a smart idea. So where do I do, well I started with a popular platform Fivver becasuse it felt like the safest place to start.
I has asked for a sketch for a Hades character based losely around a miniature that I customised because I felt it was an easy place to start. Had things gone well the plan was to start doing a few here and there until I had a decent amount for each faction. Sadly however it seemed that good reviews arent everything, 2 days after the order the artist went quiet. I wont name them as I said I dont want to be that person, Fivver ensured I got most of my funds back, all in all I lost around $15, it could have been much worse.
Ironically I finally heard for them an hour after the review I submitted, Id left it WAY longer than the deadline offered before submitting the query and it was another 4 days before I took it further.
So why share this? I guess the thing is that its important to always be careful with your funds, and to not allow moments like this to deter you from moving forward with a project. I will certainly be continuing to explore options for artist options, I have a lift of options saved and have had for sometime.
I do have a friend Ive reached out to work on the logo’s that Ive done until now, again I started with the Hades as I feel thats the closest to me being happy it just needs to be reworked to be completely my own and have its ‘borrowed’ assets replaced.
Whoa, @jjgrubb I’m sorry to hear that! In my experience, most people “in the hobby” are pretty good with both engagement and – more importantly – the result with commissions. Out $15? That’s a bargain, but unfortunate.
Hopefully your project gets off the ground. I’m an avid motorcyclist and bike gangs are fun!
Yeah it should have been a lot worse, basically I had most of my funds refunded but because of something that happened payment wise he did manage to get $15 out of me.
A lesson learned for sure.