[American Fanart] Spiderman & R2D2
It started out with the Courage The Corwardly Dog brown bag I drew for my daughter in my last post. My hubby, whom I am married for a quite a while, and supposedly knows that I draw, looked at it with somewhat a surprised expression. He stated "I guess you really can draw". (-_-) Fine then I will show YOU! We were invited to go to my daughter's friend's 6th year birthday party, so I decided to show off for absolutely no reasons.
You can say my hubby was pretty shocked to see this! I think it has something to do with the fact that character was superhero that he was very familiar with and not something foreign for him like Japanese anime/comic (he is not a fan). The birthday boy didn't seem to care all that much (was expected) but his parents (I have known them for a long time) were very impressed and were going to frame it for themselves (^O^)
So I decided to beat my hubby down to the ground while I was at it, and I drew this for a friend that I eat lunch with often. She recently had hardship and I wanted to cheer her up (R2D2 was her request).
Boy I really should have videotaped hubby's face when he saw this! (^O^) His eyes nearly jumped out of his sockets and his jaws almost touched the ground (so to speak...) and he went "OMG! You really can draw!!!" ....(-_-) Anyway after being together for nearly 2 decades he finally started growing some respect for me and my hobby. Now he offers to take our daughter to pool and other places more often to give me time to do my hobby (always my agony to find time to draw with kiddo any more). My friends were super impressed too...I guess they never believed me when I told them I drew.
So I am pretty satisfied with American fanart experiment now and back to my Japanese drawing with nicely stroked ego (^O^) I had my fun with it... Hopefully people now understand I am a weirdo but at least I have some very special world I spend my time into.
Thre was one very unexpected incident though. Another friend of mine actually texted me and asked if she could buy it as her son's birthday present. It was a nice compliment but to be honest this was a big dissapointment. I would have felt more ok if she asked me to draw her a new one, or if the request was for at least herself, and not her pre-teen son. Drawing is very personal to me and I don't want to do it for the people I don't know very well. After showing something you just hand-made and your friend goes "hey can I buy it from you so I can give it someone else." This is not my profession/business and this is simply not my mindset. I just apologized her and simply told her that this was for someone else, and ended conversation right there. I already am having hard time enough as is to find a time for my own drawings and I am certainly not willing to open up a whole new cans of worms of comission world...I want to avoid her from asking in future. I probably won't show her any more even if I made any. I need to be very careful next time I am doing something that's more mainstream.
You can say my hubby was pretty shocked to see this! I think it has something to do with the fact that character was superhero that he was very familiar with and not something foreign for him like Japanese anime/comic (he is not a fan). The birthday boy didn't seem to care all that much (was expected) but his parents (I have known them for a long time) were very impressed and were going to frame it for themselves (^O^)
So I decided to beat my hubby down to the ground while I was at it, and I drew this for a friend that I eat lunch with often. She recently had hardship and I wanted to cheer her up (R2D2 was her request).
Boy I really should have videotaped hubby's face when he saw this! (^O^) His eyes nearly jumped out of his sockets and his jaws almost touched the ground (so to speak...) and he went "OMG! You really can draw!!!" ....(-_-) Anyway after being together for nearly 2 decades he finally started growing some respect for me and my hobby. Now he offers to take our daughter to pool and other places more often to give me time to do my hobby (always my agony to find time to draw with kiddo any more). My friends were super impressed too...I guess they never believed me when I told them I drew.
So I am pretty satisfied with American fanart experiment now and back to my Japanese drawing with nicely stroked ego (^O^) I had my fun with it... Hopefully people now understand I am a weirdo but at least I have some very special world I spend my time into.
Thre was one very unexpected incident though. Another friend of mine actually texted me and asked if she could buy it as her son's birthday present. It was a nice compliment but to be honest this was a big dissapointment. I would have felt more ok if she asked me to draw her a new one, or if the request was for at least herself, and not her pre-teen son. Drawing is very personal to me and I don't want to do it for the people I don't know very well. After showing something you just hand-made and your friend goes "hey can I buy it from you so I can give it someone else." This is not my profession/business and this is simply not my mindset. I just apologized her and simply told her that this was for someone else, and ended conversation right there. I already am having hard time enough as is to find a time for my own drawings and I am certainly not willing to open up a whole new cans of worms of comission world...I want to avoid her from asking in future. I probably won't show her any more even if I made any. I need to be very careful next time I am doing something that's more mainstream.