Low relief isn’t as intense as high relief and so creates a calmer aura, one that isn’t panicked nor angry in a way.
in terms of sculpture, low reliefs- many reliefs made but only slight, more so smoothing deviations
high reliefs- many reliefs made but drastic changes to what you began with
Character pieces are by definition short.
If I could give my younger self advice I would say: “Watch what you do, pay more attention to how you do things, some people will take your actions and may think less of you based on how you act.”
A commission is a where the artist is hired and paid to create artwork, where a patronage is when the artist is given financial support through others to provide these artworks.