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    Apologies

    By AJHunter,

    I just wanted to apologize to those in the General Chat Thread a week ago when I posted a certain picture...
     
    If you were disturbed byu it, I am truly sorry.
     
    And to the mod who so quickly responded, good job. You guys act fast.
     
    Of course, I won't let this happen again. It was a stupid lapse of judgement on my part.
     
    Again, sorry.
  2. AJHunter
    As you may or may not know, I take commissions for five-inch by three-inch oil paintings.
    The more I think about it, the more I realize I may have set the price a bit high. Canvases that size I can get for $1.50, they don't use much paint, and I'm not well-known or highly skilled.
    So I got to thinking, "How do professional artist price their paintings?"
     
    One suggestion I found put forth a rather simple formula:

    1. Set a price per square inch based on the medium and your skill level,
    2. Take the price of canvas, framing, etcetera, and double it,
    3. Add the two together  
    For step two, the author of the article suggests doubling the materials price in order to be able to break even while still paying a 50% gallery commission. I don't have a 50% gallery commission, but I do have a 25% advertising fee per sale. As such, I'll only be multiplying by 1.25.
     
    I'm not very highly skilled, so I think maybe $0.10 per square inch might be a good price. this comes out to $1.50 for the work and paint put into the painting.
    I don't frame any of these, but I do have to buy packaging, which is about $2.50. Five inch by three inch canvas boards are $1.50 each. This comes out to $4.00, and when multiplied by 1.25, $5.00, even.
     
    Now, the primary reason I'm doing commissions is to keep myself painting and developing my skills. However, there's also the obvious ulterior motive of making a little bit of money. Using this formula, I'll make a grand total of $2.50. This doesn't account for the price of paints, since I don't have to go buy new paints after every painting.
     
    So, all that said, does $6.50 sound like a fair price to you?
    (Unless I get a better suggestion from one of you, I'll probably edit the commission thread sometime within the next week with these changes.)
  4. AJHunter
    A recent move to Linux has left me without EnergyXT (the Linux version doesn't seem to want to launch for me), so I'm gonna have to *shudder shudder* use LMMS.It's inelegant, but at least I'll be able to save.
  5. AJHunter
    I've started work on a cover of Joanna Newsom's beautiful Bridges and Balloons.
     
    Here's the original:


     
    I was able to get the sheet music (arranged by Scott Horsington) from adventure.exe on PianoFiles.com.
     
    Unfortunately, since my DAW of choice for projects like this is EnergyXT and I don't have money for a full license, I'm unable to save project files. As a workaround for this, I'm going to be exporting short loopable samples of both the bass and melody lines and write down when and how many times a loop is repeated. This way, I can pick up where I left off by using them as sample tracks next time I launch. It's tedious and by no means optimal, but it'll have to do until have $50 in my bank account.
     
    Anyway, here's a short preview:


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    Why a blog?

    By AJHunter,

    Hey guys. I decided to start a blog, mostly as a place to write out and develop ideas, which I have a lot of, and to give updates on projects I'm working on.
    However, it'll probably just degenerate into me posting random crap and, eventually, forgetting I have a blog. But until that happens, I'll try to update around once a week with something meaningful and original.
     
    So, until I stop being distracted by the general chat thread organize my thoughts on some ideas I'm nursing, enjoy this propaganda!
     

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