Eddy_Swan

Lol. nah, It's the drop bears you gotta worry about.

that doesnt work with the power company

I'd Rep you but it won't let me.

I didn't say that. I said selling yourself short and even you admitted that. I am willing to admit I was a little general if its a choice thing like yourself well then that is awesome and very nice of you. I study full time and have had trouble finding a job in the economic crisis due to my hours of availability. so to me commission's are an important source of income. I understand that isn't the same story for everyone. you are definitely showing why you have positive rep there suichi.

Lol I didnt get to do any Double xp this weekend, I was busy... :P

Okay as a buyer and a seller, My opinion, here it goes.

To the local market subject. Sure its great to support the local talent, we have some awesome artists on here, but there are so many great artists out there one would be a fool to not to venture beyond. most of my pieces I have in my collection I got from artist's outside of here, Truth be told I wasn't as big a contributor here back then as I am now. and lately I am a broke a** student who cant afford to buy the artz. I have recently bought a couple off of the foo but those are all planned as gifts to folks I think are doing good things or have been good to me, or to folks who participate here but don't get alot of luck with the freebies. Just about all the business I get is folks finding there way over from this forum to my DA so I am more then happy to give back to it whenever I can. and I think most people feel this way.

as for something else FD mentioned in the other thread about folks who give free art to the community and earning respect before being fully embraced and promoted by the community I agree to a point but sometimes one can't resist the shiny toy's on DA sometimes. I think all of the artist's who actually frequent the boards have gifted art I'd love to have the time myself to gift more and do a second sketch a day thread but in my current circumstances its just not on the cards. but anyway, I'm getting sidetracked.

as for quality on quantity. I have bought some cheaper arts and received exactly what I paid for in one case I did not receive the art at all, it was one of those I need financial help sales and to be honest it doesn't bother me I didn't receive the art I just hoped it helped the person in question. but then again I bring up daggerpoints bust sale's which are absolute bargains! for there prices adding vrykon's painting skills makes a very cheap very awesome piece of work. if you are not familiar with these check them out in my collection and keep an eye out for those sales.

at the end of the day I steer clear of cheap art for 2 reasons, 1: because chances are its going to be of lesser quality except for in rare occasions. 2: most artist's are not good enough to make cheap art look good fast enough for it to be worthwhile, I don't like to take advantage of an artist like that. which brings me to my next point.

Pricing. An artist's price to me should be both affordable and worthwhile for the artist themself, when I opened my first Que I would charge a very small amount take on as many people on the Que I can then spend days to weeks on a single piece I just ended up burned out And in the end I had to refund some folks there money back because I just couldn't face those pictures anymore. at the end of the day if you are working on art for less then minimum wage as an hourly rate you are selling yourself ridiculously short So since then I have upped my prices and I don't take on more then I think I can at any one time. and I don't spend too much time on them either because that can lead to over working and lose the pieces spontaneity. I will never give a client something I wouldn't be happy receiving for the price so if its really dodge I Put the extra time in to make it acceptable often times this does lead me to spend a little bit more time on a piece because I am a harsh critic of my own work But I am getting better.

I probably have more to add but I cant think at the moment so I will come back and add some more later mayhaps.

Edit: thought of something else.

Artistic freedom. I love it personally. and don't like it when folks give me too much in the way of specifics. I'm happy to receive a couple of a screenies and just go for it. in particular I like to take liberties on costumes just to make them more unique. but some artists don't like that.