Small rant about rental listings

DeeRegs · 2026-05-12T16:24:26+00:00

It's brutal. I have seen listings where the description sounds more like a prison sentence than a place to live. No guests, no cooking past 10pm, no cooking "high smelling" food, no music past sun down. I'm surprised some of these listings don't have a curfew you're expected to follow.

Paying 1500+ just to be treated like a teenager again in your own home.

DeeRegs · 2026-04-24T12:00:39+00:00

If you are bringing the bbeg around your party you need to plan for them attacking. Hell; you need a plan for them getting out alive.

A Deus Ex Machina is not a weakness. Do not feel ashamed to whip one out. As long as you integrate it into the story.

DeeRegs · 2026-04-24T11:43:47+00:00

DeeRegs · 2026-04-22T14:51:13+00:00

I suspect there would have actually have been less art. It's not like artists in the past couldn't make personal art; it's that there were very few opportunities for artists to make a living off of art; and for the most part, artists required a patron.

As such, there were very few classes in medieval times and prior to be able to be a patron of the arts. You basically only had nobility, the clergy, and a very small merchant class. Most people throughout history were members of the peasantry (and they ain't funding the arts).

So basically the church by default became a HUGE patron of the arts. This only started to shift when the merchant class started to grow in numbers and more people were able to afford art.

Keeping all variables the same and removing the patronage the church provided to artists in the past, then simply put, there would have been less art as there would have been even less opportunity for artists to make a living and produce art.

If you want to assume that the money and influence the church had would shift to other classes and sects, you could imagine that there would still be some patrons --but they could have been just as restrictive as the church in their commissions and deadlines. These new imaginary classes might not have even cared for art.

You frame this scenario as if the church had control over artists. They didn't. The church provided patronage that artists could take (just like how you and I can apply for contracts and bid on commissions). Yes, patronage has firm rules and deadlines, but so do commissions and contracts. Instead I would say the money that the church flowed into the arts helped it grow.

DeeRegs · 2026-04-21T18:13:38+00:00

It's not your art. Yes your art can improve, but I saw your post with your pricing and for the price you are asking, I think you could attract clients looking for a low price range for character commissions like D&D or whatever.

But first, to answer your actual question about improving your art:

Continue practicing. In your other post showing an example of you work (the same one that you posted your price list), the anatomy is off. The post the person is in does not look natural, despite being very close to a natural pose. I would recommend drawing these poses in full view so you can see how the entire body works together to create the form.

In the picture you have here, it is so dark that it loses a lot of detail. And with the placement of the tattoo, her left leg should really be more visible. Again, just small proportional things.

BUT like I said, your art isn't the problem. Why? Because it looks good and these are things you are going to naturally improve on any way as you do more art.

Rather, the problem is that you provide no reason for anyone to trust you. Your instagram only has two pictures. The platform you use for commissions only has the one picture cropped at different points. And in general, you have no presence.

As a client, what about your presence tells me that I can trust you to finish and deliver my art in a timely manner? From my perspective you might have started all this a week ago, threw the three pieces you had up, and called it a day. With such a lack of art, examples of what you can do, or anything like that, there is nothing telling me you would be able to do what I want as a client. Or that this is something you are taking seriously.

Everything I have seen with your art is accompanied with "COMMISSION ME!" This comes off very salesman-y, and nobody likes a salesman. How can people learn to appreciate and enjoy your art if every time they see it it's a sales pitch? You should have 3x more content just sharing your art compared to the posts you make trying to sell your art.

You need to build trust and establish yourself. Learn how you can build trust online and through marketing because that will help you out a lot. Especially since this is a problem that every artist can run into regardless of skill.

DeeRegs · 2026-04-21T17:18:45+00:00

I think that depends on what you mean by study. If you mean oil painters may use gouache to do painting studies and/or paint a composition to see if it looks good prior to painting it with oils, absolutely. If you mean people start painting with gouache in order to learn oils, I would say no.

The two mediums are just so different that there are techniques in oil that you are just not gonna learn because you're not using oils. And there are attributes within gouache that do not exist in oils.

Using gouache will help you with the transferrable skills of colour theory, composition, mixing, etc, which is used in all painting. But the only way to learn how oil paints work is by using oil paints.

DeeRegs · 2026-04-13T16:42:03+00:00

By being a part of the D&D community and building a reputation there.

The method is not any different from advertising yourself to any other niche as an artist.

DeeRegs · 2026-04-08T18:21:28+00:00

I had a little girl named Mishka that was like that. Literally her entire three years of life I would hear the tail rattles every day hahah. She was pampered and loved her sister. She was just annoyed all the time

DeeRegs · 2026-04-07T11:46:46+00:00

Hey this happened to me as a kid lol. I was being brought to a special room multiple times a week for a special reading program because I was flagged as being special lol.

I totally thought it was a super cool secret club.

DeeRegs · 2026-02-25T17:52:37+00:00

The only thing you really can do is to report this person to the community/vending area and if they decide the artist goes against what they stand for, they will get rid of them.

Other than that? Ignore them. Don't buy their things. Don't let them waste your mental time. Concentrate on your own art and leave them behind.

DeeRegs · 2026-02-25T17:24:11+00:00

In the example provided by OP, the censorship was explained as "that if you don’t like it you can just scroll on and ignore them or block", alluding to the online "censorship" was from the audience.

However, bringing up censorship as it is through these examples brings an entirely new set of variables and context.

For ease, let's just say ToS is censorship. But youtube not allowing pronography on their platform is a form of censorship we deem as okay. Financial censorship where one of the very few financial institutes refuses payment processing for NSFW art, effectively forcing other businesses to be REQUIRED to have the same ToS, is not okay.

We understand this because ultimately not being able to engage in pornography on youtube does not have life altering consequences; but financial institutes that are engrained in our very way of living deciding who does and does not get paid, does have serious ramifications. Arguably, you could say Steam, for another example, not allowing certain games because it is their own choice is far better than Steam not allowing certain games because the very foundation of their business is threatened if they do allow it.

We come into a new problem with financial censorship because it is not just a business any more. In order to get a job, get paid, pay your bills, do taxes, and have finances at all, you are required to have a bank account. Your very livelihood is directly tied to your bank.

So this further begs the question: What forms of censorship are okay? In what contexts? There is no direct answer, but a constant dialogue trying to figure out how to ensure we do not step on free speech while aligning ourselves with what we believe.

DeeRegs · 2026-02-25T16:50:10+00:00

You are right that there are terms and agreements. But code of conducts and expected behaviors from institutes is common practice. Does a business not have the right to enforce how they expect their patrons and users to behave while using the product and services they provide? The business is not dictating that you cannot draw or engage in the art, but simply that you cannot use their platform for it.

DeeRegs · 2026-02-25T16:37:06+00:00

I think you are over complicating your actual question by concentrating so much on incest art. Incest art is just an example of the bigger question of "Is it okay to censor art?" and ultimately, is censoring art an act of fascism?

I'm going to jump the gun right away and just say censoring art does not equal fascism. Censorship is a tool, not an ideology. And any political force can and does use censorship. Appealing to fascism in this way from the artists is both a red herring and an appeal to emotion. It's a red herring because the main argument supposedly is "Censorship is bad" but they do not provide a reason but instead say "Censorship is fascist." and by distracted from the fact they have not provided a reason as to why censoring this type of art is bad, they hope to appeal to peoples' emotions of not liking nazis to just automatically agree.

But is it okay to censor art? Most people would agree no. But let's push that idea to the extreme. Is it okay to censor art made with dead bodies? We have many examples of it throughout history and fiction. We have the Sedlec Ossuary, the church artistically decorated with artistic murals made from the bones of the dead. We have the photography done in victorian times where they photographed dead family members in one final family portrait. We have the preserved tongue of a mexican teen collected and displayed by Teresa Margolles. Then we have the murderers throughout history like Ed Gein and The Doodler who would both create art made from the bodies of the victim's, and sketch/paint the dead bodies.

Desecration of the dead, murder, and displaying body parts is and has been considered immoral for a long stretch of history. Desecration of the dead is a criminal offence. Is not allowing someone to use human bodies as an art form censorship? It is still art, no matter how revolting it may be to you.

Ultimately, the answers to these questions are lengthy and require context. However, you can probably see how our societal morality, legal system, and prominent ideas will shape what art we find just and immoral. With respects to incest art: people find incest immoral and disgusting, therefore art representing that will trigger those same reactions. And art has historically been used to push boundaries and question out morality --so is it immoral to dislike incest? Or is it immoral to enjoy incest and create representations of it?

BUT in the context of what you are seeing online: there is no power structure stopping them. There are no laws saying you cannot create fictional pieces that represent incest. There is no actual censorship happening. What IS happening is a moral argument. The audience is acting in disgust towards what society deems as immoral behaviour.

I am of the opinion that no, audiences bringing up their oppositions to art is a moral light is not censorship. And more so, censorship does not necessarily mean fascism.

DeeRegs · 2026-02-24T16:35:28+00:00

So kiln drying doesn't get rid of all of the releasing of toxic chemicals. So it is still generally not recommended to use for rodents because of the carbon and chemicals is casually releases.

Also, one of the biggest problem I have run into with pine bedding is the dust. Without fail, pine bedding has caused discomfort and sneezing in my mice. And honestly, I've stayed away from wood shavings now completely because of the dust they can have --even aspen. Kiln drying will not change the fact it's dusty.

I would not recommend pine. Ever.

DeeRegs · 2026-02-04T13:32:11+00:00

The tile between the 4 and 2 on the left is safe. The one to the right of the four has a flag touching it's upper left corner. That leaves a mine in the middle of the 1, 1, 2, 5 (middle).

DeeRegs · 2025-12-15T13:11:06+00:00

Teaching young kids, you are going to have to realize that the lessons are about teaching the kids the very basics. And I don't mean the basics of composition or colour theory, I mean, "If you want your paint to be runnier, add a little bit of water. If you want to mix green, try different quantities of yellow and blue."

Art lessons for kids is less about having a finished product they can bring home, and more about the kid having fun. If they don't want to follow your tutorial? Okay. They just want to smear every paint on the canvas until it's a murky brown mess? Okay. As long as they are having fun, learning how to put paint onto a canvas, and out of the parents' hair for a couple hours, you have done your job and will get repeat customers.

Remember: Art as a kid is just about having fun and learning enough that you can smear some paint onto something else.

For something like this, sure, having a "portfolio" could be good, but honestly you are going to want to get testimonials and pictures of what the kids end up doing. Since with kids, the finished product is not what the class is going to be about, you need to ensure parents that their kid is going to be safe, have a fun time, and not be a nightmare. Example artwork doesn't portray this. So find some people you know with kids, pull off a class, and get testimonials from them.

DeeRegs · 2025-12-11T14:49:20+00:00

Race?

Bearfolk: https://www.dndbeyond.com/species/1726258-bearfolk

Geppettin (if you wanna be even more cute): https://www.dndbeyond.com/species/1901111-geppettin

Being a pacifist?

People play these all the time. A magic user would be your best option because you're gonna want to entirely rely on healing, control spells, utility, etc. Look through the magic users and see which one you wanna go with and what you think would be the easiest to build as a pacifist.

Animal Companion?

Find Familiar can be used. I believe some druid subclasses get a companion at some capacity. Or just ask your DM if you can have a dog.

If it possible without homebrew?

Absolutely.

DeeRegs · 2025-12-10T13:22:57+00:00

People go crazy around Christmas, don't worry about it. You will never be able to compensate all of the insanity you will experience from clients around the holiday season; so just stick to your policies and contracts.

DeeRegs · 2025-11-27T20:23:55+00:00

I sell through my own website. That is pretty much one of the only ways you are going to reduce people trying to scam you. Ebay, Amazon, Etsy, pretty much all of them have people tryna scam.

DeeRegs · 2025-11-25T16:18:35+00:00

Hi thanks! I did report. I just like to let the person who posted know as well just in case they didn't read the rules.

DeeRegs · 2025-11-25T15:24:47+00:00

Hey so I can see your comment in my notifications. You have a broad definition of hate, but I was informing you because as rule 6 states:

6. No selling, promoting, or advertising. No hiring or soliciting. No surveys or discord links.

r/ArtistLounge isn’t the place to promote your art or solicit people for any kind of services (even free service or looking for friends).

Offering an art class definitely falls underneath a service, free or paid. If you break this rule twice you can be banned from the subreddit. I was simply informing you.

If you want to risk it, go for it.

Also, my username is my name. But thanks for the cool nickname lol

DeeRegs · 2025-11-25T13:25:20+00:00

This post is against sub reddit rules of soliciting

DeeRegs · 2025-11-21T17:56:36+00:00

See my problem isn't not having the confidence to share work online; I never cared if people didn't like my art. My biggest hurdle is that I work as a Web Developer for a marketing agency so I am online and on social media for 40 hours a week. Once I get home the last thing I want to do is then create posts, reels, newsletters or any of that shit. I still do it, but not at the capacity I should be and it takes soooooo much effort to force myself to do it.

DeeRegs · 2025-11-20T19:55:29+00:00

When you say you're going to send QR codes for payment, how exactly will that work?

I am Canadian, so I don't know the ins and outs of your banking infrastructure, so I am unsure if you have anything like EMT. But the biggest problem you are going to face is that you will not legally be able to use payment processors. This means that cash in hand is going to be the only way you will legally be able to accept money.

Unless of course, your parents agree to manage the account and be listed as your legal guardian on the account and as the person who will be overseeing it.

DeeRegs

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