Rafa Stary Makes Free Arts (CLOSED ~ WORKING ON FINAL REQUESTS)

[Octavia Scratch 157]

@Lawyer Slip drew the picture of my character first.

It captures Tavi really well and I love it!!

[BlueberryShiver 76]

14 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

People, very important, I need to announce that I'll be finishing the support for this project, sorry, but I won't be accepting any new requests anymore, but don't worry! I'll still be accepting new requests until the end of the month at October 31! So if you want me to draw something for you for free, these are the final days of your chance to do it! Those who already made their requests will still receive their arts as well, and ask for changes too, but after 31/10/2024, it'll be over! No more new requests accepted, nor changes for old ones! So take this opportunity while you can! Thank you! 

@TechnoZ @crimsonpuff123 @jasperthefluffy do you still want your drawings? I'll wait a week for your answer, if you don't respond, I'll cancel your requests, sorry.

 

 

Hey that is totally understandable! You’ve made so much beautiful art for free! And if you can’t then don’t worry about my gal Cherry Gum! You’re amazing and deserve to stop when you need, especially after making such beautiful art for others 💙

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

2 hours ago, BlueberryShiver said:

Hey that is totally understandable! You’ve made so much beautiful art for free! And if you can’t then don’t worry about my gal Cherry Gum! You’re amazing and deserve to stop when you need, especially after making such beautiful art for others 💙

Thank you for the support, but you sure about it? I'll remove your request from the list, but in case you change up your mind, you can still reconsider it (or even change it) for me to re-add to the list again until October 31 

[BlueberryShiver 76]

6 hours ago, Rafa Stary said:

Thank you for the support, but you sure about it? I'll remove your request from the list, but in case you change up your mind, you can still reconsider it (or even change it) for me to re-add to the list again until October 31 

I’m sure silly! You have enough requests on your plate and it’s the least I can do! You’ve been so sweet helping others with your art and now that you’re wanting to stop, you deserve it for all the absolutely beautiful and perfect art you’ve created! Go ahead and take me off the list 💙

[Lawyer Slip 2,541]

23 minutes ago, BlueberryShiver said:

I’m sure silly! You have enough requests on your plate and it’s the least I can do! You’ve been so sweet helping others with your art and now that you’re wanting to stop, you deserve it for all the absolutely beautiful and perfect art you’ve created! Go ahead and take me off the list 💙

Such a chadly move BlueberryShiver. I'm sorry about your request, but still a cool decision.

[jasperthefluffy 8]

hiya, yes, still wanting the request!! not sure how to reply to messages so just doing this 

[Livealarm 474]

Wait are you still doing my request? 

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

On 2024-10-11 at 9:45 AM, BlueberryShiver said:

I’m sure silly! You have enough requests on your plate and it’s the least I can do! You’ve been so sweet helping others with your art and now that you’re wanting to stop, you deserve it for all the absolutely beautiful and perfect art you’ve created! Go ahead and take me off the list 💙

Okay, removed your request, but don't worry in case you change up your mind, there's still time, peace

On 2024-10-12 at 9:47 PM, jasperthefluffy said:

hiya, yes, still wanting the request!! not sure how to reply to messages so just doing this 

Okay!

On 2024-10-13 at 8:43 AM, Dupluna said:

Wait are you still doing my request? 

Yes!

[Lawyer Slip 2,541]

Can confirm @TechnoZ is probably no longer interested in their request. They told me that their interest in the forums is now next to non-existent. 

So.

Yeah.

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

11 minutes ago, Lawyer Slip said:

Can confirm @TechnoZ is probably no longer interested in their request. They told me that their interest in the forums is now next to non-existent. 

So.

Yeah.

Oh, my strength to Techno, hope it's doing well, thanks for telling me 

[Lawyer Slip 2,541]

1 minute ago, Rafa Stary Mini said:

Oh, my strength to Techno, hope it's doing well, thanks for telling me 

No sweat my dude.

Is my new request on the end of the list?

(Idc where it's at, I just hope it to be on teh list.)

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

11 minutes ago, Lawyer Slip said:

No sweat my dude.

Is my new request on the end of the list?

(Idc where it's at, I just hope it to be on teh list.)

It's in the end of the list but the order doesn't matter, I'll make them randomly (and likely post them all in a single post)

[Lawyer Slip 2,541]

1 minute ago, Rafa Stary Mini said:

It's in the end of the list but the order doesn't matter, I'll make them randomly (and likely post them all in a single post)

Thanks!

One last question.

Why are you mini?

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

10 minutes ago, Lawyer Slip said:

Thanks!

One last question.

Why are you mini?

Because of Dragon Ball Daima, new show of my favorite franchise that just released its first episode last week, the characters become a younger version of themselves there, called "Mini"

[Lawyer Slip 2,541]

1 minute ago, Rafa Stary Mini said:

Because of Dragon Ball Daima, new show of my favorite franchise that just released its first episode last week, the characters become a younger version of themselves there, called "Mini"

Sweet.

It's been fun talking, but I got school and crap.

Keep drawing the good draw!

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,280]

If this is the last request you accept from me, here it is.  Involving a character I'll think you'll love.  

 

It has Applejack as a Star Wars gunslinger (a smuggler with 2 blaster pistols, 1 pistol in each hand).  Applejack is smiling (no teeth visible) and has the same brave face as Mary Stary in your signature.  The 2 blasters have a dark gray and black metallic design to them.  She wears a gray shirt with a red apple on it, dark green fingerless gloves, purple rubber wristbands and blue jeans.  Her shoes and lower legs are not to be visible in the image.  2 things from Shadows of the Empire (a mid-90s Star Wars midquel) are present here.  The rocky brown and mountain canyon terrains of Gall (background and sky), the very place Dash Rendar fought against Boba Fett in the Shadows video game.  Rendar's ship, The Outrider (most graphic version of his ship in that game) is to be present and flying in the background.  Applejack is on the left of the image and facing right upward diagonally and holding the blaster pistols.  Orange lasers are fired out of the pistols.  The Outrider ship is airborne and in parallel to Applejack's pistols that fire the orange lasers.  The ship also fires orange lasers.  

 

Gunslinger - Star Wars: The Old Republic Wiki (fandom.com)

Outrider | Wookieepedia | Fandom

If more details are needed, let me know.  

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,984]

Ten requests as of this writing. Approximately how many hours do you think will be needed to complete all of them?

[CiBP 369]

Hey Rafa, I'd like to take you up on your offer if I can. How about Cheerilee wearing the hat that she gave Spike? The positioning doesn't really matter, I just like your art style.

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

3 hours ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

If this is the last request you accept from me, here it is.  Involving a character I'll think you'll love.  

 

It has Applejack as a Star Wars gunslinger (a smuggler with 2 blaster pistols, 1 pistol in each hand).  Applejack is smiling (no teeth visible) and has the same brave face as Mary Stary in your signature.  The 2 blasters have a dark gray and black metallic design to them.  She wears a gray shirt with a red apple on it, dark green fingerless gloves, purple rubber wristbands and blue jeans.  Her shoes and lower legs are not to be visible in the image.  2 things from Shadows of the Empire (a mid-90s Star Wars midquel) are present here.  The rocky brown and mountain canyon terrains of Gall (background and sky), the very place Dash Rendar fought against Boba Fett in the Shadows video game.  Rendar's ship, The Outrider (most graphic version of his ship in that game) is to be present and flying in the background.  Applejack is on the left of the image and facing right upward diagonally and holding the blaster pistols.  Orange lasers are fired out of the pistols.  The Outrider ship is airborne and in parallel to Applejack's pistols that fire the orange lasers.  The ship also fires orange lasers.  

 

Gunslinger - Star Wars: The Old Republic Wiki (fandom.com)

Outrider | Wookieepedia | Fandom

If more details are needed, let me know.  

Holy damn  I think this is the most detailed request I ever received in my life, I'll try to do it but I'll already give a spoiler, I'll probably not be able to do it 100% accurate to how you asked, some details for me are hard to understand completely 💦

3 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

Ten requests as of this writing. Approximately how many hours do you think will be needed to complete all of them?

I never said that I have a time limit to do them ~☆

1 hour ago, CiBP said:

Hey Rafa, I'd like to take you up on your offer if I can. How about Cheerilee wearing the hat that she gave Spike? The positioning doesn't really matter, I just like your art style.

Of course 

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,984]

2 minutes ago, Rafa Stary Mini said:

I never said that I have a time limit to do them ~☆

O. To clarify, I did not mean how soon the requests would be finished. My question was about generally how long it takes you to finish any drawing on average?

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

13 minutes ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

O. To clarify, I did not mean how soon the requests would be finished. My question was about generally how long it takes you to finish any drawing on average?

Ooooh yes my bad, well, that 💦 hmmm...quite hard to tell, it really depends, specially because sometimes I make some drawings too slow, while other ones too fast, some times it takes me more than a hour to finish the line art and remove all the mistakes, sometimes much less than that, sometimes I add the colors very fast, other hours I don't, etc, it really depends on how much my laziness is attacking me, and the complexity of the art. And other, I usually don't straight start a drawing and finish it, it's very normal for me to switch between at least 2 drawings, so it's really random.

But if I had to pick a "average", I would say that in a day where I'm worried about other many things, It can take me a lot of time to finish a drawing. But wwhenI have no worries, I can finish a drawing in 2 hours or less, but it depends on the kind of drawing, that's mostly when it's just one character with a simple background.

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,984]

5 minutes ago, Rafa Stary Mini said:

Ooooh yes my bad, well, that 💦 hmmm...quite hard to tell, it really depends, specially because sometimes I make some drawings too slow, while other ones too fast, some times it takes me more than a hour to finish the line art and remove all the mistakes, sometimes much less than that, sometimes I add the colors very fast, other hours I don't, etc, it really depends on how much my laziness is attacking me, and the complexity of the art. And other, I usually don't straight start a drawing and finish it, it's very normal for me to switch between at least 2 drawings, so it's really random.

But if I had to pick a "average", I would say that in a day where I'm worried about other many things, It can take me a lot of time to finish a drawing. But wwhenI have no worries, I can finish a drawing in 2 hours or less, but it depends on the kind of drawing, that's mostly when it's just one character with a simple background.

Ah. I see. 12 requests with two hours each on each drawing, assuming the best case scenario where you draw them all quickly... that is still 24 hours of time investment in total to finish all of them. Though, more realistically, would be far longer than that.

On 2024-10-10 at 11:15 AM, Rafa Stary Mini said:

I like to be completely transparent, so, well, two reasons, first, I started to make these requests in order to "train" my abilities in drawing Ponies, I wasn't making that much Pony drawings at the time, I didn't had much idea of what to draw, so these requests were a good filler for me, but now that changed, I now have a plan for the future when it comes to my pony drawings, I already learned a lot and I know what I want to do now, so there's basically no more use for me in making these requests anymore.

Second, my overall loss of interest in the forum, months ago it was very interesting to make these requests, I was enjoying the forum a lot, used to interact with "everyone" and to post everywhere, so I used to believe that making drawings for free was a good way to stregnthen the socialization i used to have here, leading to new friendships and interactions, but now, I no longer have the interest in these, for me it's not working, it was cool to see some users using my drawings as profile pic at the start, but now I really don't care about it anymore, I don't feel anything about it, it may be interesting to still make arts for those who I consider to be my true friends, but making free arts for a lot of users who I don't even interact with is just not interesting or exciting for me at all, I don't get anything from this, I'm not feeling satisfied with it anymore, I'm not interested in sharing my arts with the "forum" anymore, I prefer to post them in my profile only from now on, for only my true friends to see them, but there are people here who are waiting for their arts for months, so I have to do their requests, and give a last chance for those want something, but never asked, so I can give a definitive ending for this, as I plan to never do it again.

That is very much understandable. And time invested in drawing requests is time not invested on projects you are interested in pursuing. I also made an art request thread, which I have not updated, I think, nearly a year now. Yes, it would be nice to eventually finish those requests, but I preferred to prioritize other things, especially because making even one drawing can be a significant time investment for something in which I do not have much interest (I poorly timed the thread's reopening, and I lost interest in it by the time I had more time later on). This to say that it is very much appreciated that you have already made the free drawings you did, because, obviously you did not have to do that... and you definitely did not have to continue to leave requests open, when you have already lost interest in this.

23 hours ago, Rafa Stary Mini said:

I usually don't straight start a drawing and finish it, it's very normal for me to switch between at least 2 drawings, so it's really random.

On this point, I do this as well. However, a problem I have faced many times is that while I originally intended to finish some drawing sooner, for various reasons,  its completion would be delayed again and again. Eventually, so much time has passed that my drawing style would have changed significantly since then. To complete that old drawing, I would have to remember to draw in my older style (or else the finished drawing will appear inconsistent), or to redraw the drawing in its entirety (significant time investment). Unfortunately, this has happened to drawings of mine which were very nearly complete, but going back to an older drawing style in this way is usually rather undesirable for me.

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

10 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

Ah. I see. 12 requests with two hours each on each drawing, assuming the best case scenario where you draw them all quickly... that is still 24 hours of time investment in total to finish all of them. Though, more realistically, would be far longer than that.

Definitely XD but I want to finish all of them until December (and now are only 11 requests, one of the users didn't respond in time, so I had to remove one of the requests)

11 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

On this point, I do this as well. However, a problem I have faced many times is that while I originally intended to finish some drawing sooner, for various reasons,  its completion would be delayed again and again. Eventually, so much time has passed that my drawing style would have changed significantly since then. To complete that old drawing, I would have to remember to draw in my older style (or else the finished drawing will appear inconsistent), or to redraw the drawing in its entirety (significant time investment). Unfortunately, this has happened to drawings of mine which were very nearly complete, but going back to an older drawing style in this way is usually rather undesirable for me.

I face very similar issues XD, my Ibispaint (a few months ago before the clean up) had a lot of unfinished drawings that I started in very early 2024, some even in 2023, I usually don't mind to remake these drawings, but I always think that I should've finished them the same day or week that I started them. Now I only save drawings projects on Ibispaint if It's a drawing that I'm sure that I'll complete (like the requests), because there are a lot of drawings that end up just being a sketch, a concept art, a reference or a idea for a complete drawing, these I send to my Google Photos, it really helped me 

 

10 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

That is very much understandable. And time invested in drawing requests is time not invested on projects you are interested in pursuing. I also made an art request thread, which I have not updated, I think, nearly a year now. Yes, it would be nice to eventually finish those requests, but I preferred to prioritize other things, especially because making even one drawing can be a significant time investment for something in which I do not have much interest (I poorly timed the thread's reopening, and I lost interest in it by the time I had more time later on). This to say that it is very much appreciated that you have already made the free drawings you did, because, obviously you did not have to do that... and you definitely did not have to continue to leave requests open, when you have already lost interest in this.

You're very right, but there is one thing that didn't let me give up on the requests when I already lost interest in them. I barely finish any of my projects, I always start something new, but I never finish it. I spent so much time drawing these requests, and I can't feel satisfied if I don't fnishi all of them, I truly believe that I would feel a lot better if I finished all requests instead of judt leaving this imcomplete, again, there are requests are which were made months ago, I gave the hope for these users, they expect to see their arts, and just giving up on them would made me feel like a weakling, so I must complete them, not because of the users, but because of me, it's a challenge for myself, a challenge I'll complete, something that will finally allow me to say "I finished my work', that's why I plan to post all of them at the same time too, it's part of a deadline I also created for myself, I need to stop relaxing.

Thanks ~☆

[Livealarm 474]

On 2024-10-16 at 8:30 AM, Rafa Stary Mini said:

Okay, removed your request, but don't worry in case you change up your mind, there's still time, peace

Okay!

Yes!

I still want my request please 

[Rafa Stary 2,991]

Just posting here again in case someone missed it! 6 days left to make requests! New requests allowed until October 31! After that day, I will no longer accept new requests, I will only draw the ones I already received ~☆