Hi guys. I know it's been a fair while since I was last here, but as I said last time I popped in we have adopted a little boy so I've mostly been busy looking after him. Part of that though is that I'm on a year off work until the summer. I'm enjoying it a lot, but the one part I'm not enjoying so much is that I get a lot less pay, and for the last three months off I get nowt. So I have no spare cash, and soon will have no cash at all, spare or no.
This then brings me to the next thing. I've been to Bristol Comic Con every year since 2000 and it's the highlight of my year. This year though because I'll be earning no money at all in May there's no way i can actually afford a hotel or the train or anything like that so I may not be going this year for the first time in ten years. That is unless I can raise some cash through commissions.
So, I realistically need to put together at least £300 to pay for hotel, travel and food and drink ideally by the end of March (February would be even better because the sooner I book a hotel room the better...). That's a fair bit of money, but I shall see what I can do. So the call goes out to anyone who would like me to commission something for them. I'm pretty quick and will turn my hand to drawing pretty much anything (although be warned that if you ask for something with lettering on that it's not my strongest point). As for prices, it sort of depends on how long it'll take as much as anything, but as a rough guide assume about twenty quid for a black and white A4 up to £75 to £100 for a colour A3 (although a full colour version of something like the Batman Villains piece would be much more than that simply because of the time that it takes to do). Postage would just be whatever it costs to post it whatever class you ask for to whichever country so could be anything from a very little to quite a bit.
I really don't want to miss Bristol but I can't pretend that I'll scrape the money together some how and then put it all on the credit card so unless I raise the cash well in advance it's not going to happen.
For anyone not familiar with me, you can see various drawing stuff over at my
DeviantART account or on my
Flickr account. I'm currently working on an OGN with Tony Lee to be published by AiT/PlanetLar that is sure to be the next big thing (what? I've been practicing bigging myself up.
) so now might be your chance to get a lovely drawing from me before I become too busy with everything else.
If anyone is interested and wants to ask about prices or whatnot e-mail me on bevismusson@yahoo.co.uk