Dear Art Shop Customers...

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I love these. Everything. For example I'm traditional drawer, I'm an artist, not machine. And everyone want their requests in one day- but what if I have no mood for drawing? If I have no time? If I have my own life? I know that a lot of artists here are drawind just a few minutes in tablet and they have their payment, when I must to spent half a day to draw it in traditional!
And artists MUST draw with LOVE, not because somebody requested something and keeps harrasing about doing it.

[meulin7]

where do you make the stamps at???

You can find stamp templates and tutorials on deviantart :).

You have to have an art program that supports .psd files, so you can download the file properly and open it with all the layers.
A few good tutorials I've seen [and used :D] are here ;;
How To : Make a Basic Stamp
Stamp Template
[ Comes with all the layers needed. ]
How to make an Animated Stamp [With GIMP]
How to make an Animated Stamp [With Adobe Photoshop]

[PhantomHawk]

This needed to be said... thank you:)

[Cherry~Chess]

Wonderful. I totally agree. I am an artist and am treated badly a lot but I just think well I'm getting customers for once, I'll put up with it but now I see I dont deserve to be treated that way.

[darlin' belle.]

Hopefully lots of people have read this!

[unicorn9890]

You know something you need to put up there? When someone makes you a lineart that they allowed you to color, COLOR IT!!! I have made LAs in my past and people do not color them, well that was a complete waste of time and art!! ~end of uni's rant

[tuna]

You know something you need to put up there? When someone makes you a lineart that they allowed you to color, COLOR IT!!! I have made LAs in my past and people do not color them, well that was a complete waste of time and art!! ~end of uni's rant

Uh...
I don't think this has to do with art shops...
And, you don't have to force someone to color something...

[unicorn9890]

It has been over a year almost and they have had no us for it. I wish they would actually use it. I never said straight up to them color it. I just kept thinking it to myself, but that was a waste of good art. You even agree if you looked. It was a dog lineart on the savannah in my gallery. Sorry if i upset those who disagree, I am just saying what i think is right!

[tuna]

People choose what they want to color themselves. Again, this has nothing to do with this thread.

[emberonis]

This is very helpful. I read it when I went on a get-tons-of-art kick awhile back, and once I got off that I opened my first artshop. It failed pretty miserably, only received two commissions before it died. But that was that. The lineart was crappy and I wasn't really artistically ready for an artshop. I've had a few crash-and-burn artshops after that, and a few ones that thrived, but lost business when I had to close them for a few months because of a move, but now I've got myself the one that I'm sure will not die for a long time.


But yeah, I'll be extremely lucky if all of my customers read both this guide and my rules. Thank you very much for posting this!