As a commish artist you have to quickly learn your limits. Even if you have to take less comms than ppl who want them, just so you can work unstressed is better. Opening slots more often is better than endless backlog

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Make a visual progress bar or something, go from oldest to newest, learn your workflow and how best to not overwhelm yourself. At worst, it's all finally done. At best you're glad that it is.

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People are not going to commission you twice when you still owe them work, people are going to warn other people that you still owe them years old art. I understand that once you're in this spot you're feeling anywhere between depressed and anxious, but for YOUR well being-

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you need to properly treat this like its work. Put an interesting video on to listen to while you're drawing. You're only hurting yourself by avoiding it, it's time to recognize that it isn't a hobby when you took someone else's money for it. They worked hard for that too.

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Look idk who needs to hear this cause I've seen alot of artists over the years dig this exact hole, but you need to finish your commissions. A percentage of your clients are going to be repeat commissioners. Another percentage of your clients heard about you from word of mouth. 🧵

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