Anon Portrait 3 Lineart by Anisa-Mazaki on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

(WARNING - PLEASE DO NOT CRITIQUE, or you will be "flamed" and blocked.)

Worked on another Lineart Portrait piece, this time a request comming from an Anonymous Chat app that I use on and off via my mobile phones.
Request came in some time on Jan 19th (I think) and I finally got to finish the piece by the 12th of Feb. Though I told this person the drawing would take anywhere from 3 days to 1 month to make, I took a long to finish cuz unfortunately I developed a bad head cold (cuz my room turned into an Ice Box during Winter and my body couldn't handle sleeping in that low temperature), and came along with a case of acute bronchitis
(Some days my nose would uncontrollably leak clear mucus or would be blocked, preventing normal breathing and some days I got headaches and exhaustion from the really bad coughing. This cough would even interupt my sleep function, so all these effects prevented me from drawing or doing anything much generally. I still have bronchitis and about 6 to 9 other Anon Portrait Requests to do, plus 2 flower drawings, so I have no idea how things are gonna work out tbh.)
Didn't want to post this up yet to DA cuz I wanted to make more illustrations and then binge post all of them, but say what. I'm here already, so I might as well publish it one time and then come back later with new works.

Originally in Dec 2021 to Jan 2022, I tried to do Art Requests via my Therapy Apps as a way to "give back to the community" as a Christmas thank you gift for all those who supported me for the last 2 to 3 yrs on the apps.
The service wasn't successful cuz alot of people who responded (who were not followers) kept asking me to draw stuff, (eg background/environmental art, cartoons, anime/manga etc) that I did not list that I said I would be willing to draw for free (eg Portraits, Flowers, Still Life and Abstract Art), or there would be people who would give me stuff I listed BUT they would be all manipulative and try to convince me to draw some overly detailed, complex image -.- (like a shaggy mop hair looking dog) or would ask me to draw stuff that was un-inspiring (like a great white shark)
OR guys would send inappropriate dms asking for s*x stuff or to reveal my personal information (such as name, location, age, single/married status, if I had s*x before, how many kids I had bla bla bla... You would think with the wake of the Me Too Movement, dudes would stop comming online to be scum... Guess "English speaking" humanity has no hope.)
So yeah, for about a month I was getting super frustrated, and ranted alot via my Therapy app about how upset I was that people were being sly or advantagous - basically making me feel like sh*t and unvalued for my level of work, sssooooo I ended up going back to Anonymous Chatting apps just to get my proper drawing fix. (Originally left the anon apps cuz too many Indian guys would s*xually harrass me, even though these apps have strict anti nudity/anti porn rules.)

And so that's how I got this request, cuz this particular person dmed me a bunch of their selfies, (from them holding a cat, to a full body reflection to this selfie) and they told me to pick whichever image I wanted to use - so I did. I actually found their interaction most pleasant, cuz I didn't have to stress out explaining anything to them (like I always was forced to do in most Anon DMs - which would often frustrate me and kill my drawing vibes.) They just read my large, 2 part ad post on the app and followed the english written instructions perfectly - so I was rather grateful about they way they handled themselves in the DMs - hence why I did their request for 2022 first.