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Board Marketplace
Re: [GAUGING INTEREST] 8-bits IRL
by
gateship
on 13/06/2012, 06:17:57 UTC
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Intro
i am gateship the author of the Tumblr page that spike has posted. i would like to thank him for taking my post on the other forum website and using them here. i was surprised that it took like a whole day to spend 4 hours on this site (literally). first of all i want to thank you all for supporting me in my hobby of pearler bead sprites. I haven't really done much with the whole "shipping and sending" business, and I'm not sure how often i would use bitcoins, (if ever?) i just confuses my simple 15 year old mind.

About
i do sell my work but so far it has just been to people in my school who normally contact me through FaceBook or person, i normally charge 20$ just because its simpler to do and most of the requested ones use about 3,000 beads and are relatively large. i don't know how serious i will be on commissions to people i have to ship to because of the fact that A) i can't drive myself to the post office yet. B) i'm still only a freshmen in high school. (summer is on its way though.) oh, I am also easily sidetracked by things, i don't know how much of a threat games will be anymore I've cut down a bit, although i do have an untouched version of rune factory to play.

To Business
alright i have noticed and accounted for the flat rate shipping boxes, but I'm not sure if they will be more or less expensive yet. occasionally on tumblr i might make a post saying something like "bored taking suggestions" this is just so i can keep myself entertained with my hobby, and for you to see something from a game come to the real world (wow, that sounded really cheesy) i try to keep my cost's around the multiples of 5. I want to get a bank account soon, I'm not to sure about how the whole money transfer would work.

Additional Notes
you know, at first i wasn't interested in selling my art but once someone asked me for my first commission, I realized that i could self supply this and maybe make a little extra money in between. I still end up spending 20$ at the store for beads because the tubs are only worth buying if your starting out, otherwise the individual packets are better. No, i am not trying to monopolize my product, i'd be happy if i inspire others to take up beading as a pastime. i also realize that some headers out there don't make as high quality things as fast as i do but, I'm only 15 and don't really have that much else to do so i can spend a lot of time just string in my work space, well working.

Other
my work space AT MOST EVEN WITH MY BENT BOARDS is 120X90 beads/pixels so please, take that into consideration if you do request something. i have 2 bent boards at least, and each is 30x30, so that about an unstable 60x60 working space, and thats not fun to put up with. I also have to put up with the supply of my stores as well (hence not being able to make link, or my Pokèmon trees) and i was planning on ordering more of the green tonight but my dad retreated to his room beforehand so, i'll have to do that tomorrow.

So i guess i can summarize this in a thank you, i'll keep at it but just, don't expect immediate results.

Edit: @ChrisKoss, if you want that one exactly he would be they would be 61X76, also it is a .Jpg file which are annoying to do, i also prefer to do a full body sprite of the character.