Hello everyone! First journal of the new year! Hope you had a great end to 2014! I'm back from my trip. Had a great time, and it was wonderful seeing everyone!
So now I'm going back to work on commissions. Thank you for your patience! I'll have all your orders done in a timely manner, so expect to hear from me personally soon.
And now for my new years resolution that I'd planned to announce. I've decided to start doing artwork to raise money for charity. I'd like to do this regularly. For each of my charity pieces I plan to donate all proceeds to animal shelters. Right now on TV I keep seeing that commercial that shows the abused animals out in the cold, and I've seen the cruelty humanity can show towards these poor animals and it just breaks my heart to pieces. So I think it's about time to do artwork for a good cause.
I'm not entirely sure how I'll go about this yet. I'm thinking of doing 2 sets of art pieces at a time. One that I will sell on eBay and choose an animal charity from the choices offered there- probably ASPCA. And the other I'd like to sell on my own, maybe here on dA, and money from that art I'd like to bring to a local no-kill animal shelter in my area- a place that's really good and could really use the money. Though of course I want to research everything first before picking recipients. I'm thinking to split it this way because I'd prefer smaller lesser known shelters that do good work but probably don't get anything near what bigger charities get who could really use the money. And a charity like that would probably be hard or impossible to find on eBay [Giving Works]. Plus I'd like to give the money personally so I know for sure it goes there, rather than sell an auction for which the money doesn't come to me and I have no way of knowing for sure where it went. Not that I'm saying anything shady is going on, but all too often charities and aides desperately need money, get a lot of it, and still no help seems to come and all the money seems to just disappear. So I want to make sure that if I'm giving money to help animals, that's exactly where it goes, and doesn't disappear into someone's pockets.
So those are my plans. When all commissions are complete, and my Christmas freebee sketches are complete, that is what I want to get started on. Provided these art pieces sell, I'd like to do one or two a month and see how that plays out. If anyone has done this before, or has any suggestions or tips, that would be great and I'd love to hear from you.
Much love!
