how much is a comission wearth?

ya simple enfough question but how much do you think a comission should be priced at? i know it is a silly question to ask after i have already stated how much i am willing to pay in infamy and i will stick by it, but i want to know it is if good or not.

this is what i have asked for
what i would like this costume in the thinker kind of set up
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...15-21-55-1.jpg

sitting at this desk
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...5-17-14-26.jpg
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...8-11-23-16.jpg

i would like to the desk to have magic bits like bottles, crystal ball and err magic looking bits. 3 fire imps in the pic, but black rather then red and more guild war-ish. maybe one or 2 other things but nothing major.

If you would like to take it apon your self to do this comission i can varify that i have the infamy for you. hope to hear from you soon

at this price in infamy (villain money) 500million-1 billion

A few things wrong with this thread.

1. we aren't allowed to talk about prices for commission's in this forum.
2. the links aren't working
3. price is dictated by the artist who provides a service the same as any other contractor.The price is effected by a couple of things quality being one of them. you cant just lump all commissions into the same price catagory, alot of people put alot of time and energy into their art. it can take minutes, hours or day's. some artist's can get fast turnaround making it possible for them to do the work cheaper where as others need to be struck by inspration. the price is dictated by time. and hell some artist's are just better then others.
4. you will not get many artist willing to work for infamy. That's like paying a plumber with monopoly money. at the end of the day if you get someone to work for you art wise for infamy I'd consider that a gift.

What Swan said.

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I have removed the question about the real world price of a comission, and corrected the links. i have aslo sent a message to these mysterious adimatrators.

I know that I till prob not be able to get many people saying they will work for infamy but for the ones that are all the power to them. I personaly think doing some art on the side if more fun then farming for it.

I don't agree with Eddy that doing art for infamy is a gift; I'd call it a trade. Once IOs came around, I immediately blew through the millions and millions of infamy I had on my oldest characters, and it DOES take time to build it up. I don't have any problem with trades. I don't think I'd do a full digital color commission with all the bells and whistles for infamy, but I'd at least do a bust shot.

Your offer is VERY generous as an Infamy trade... curious to why you also don't offer Influence. As to what you are asking for... that is one of those specific Client directed commissions that the artist either finds it a challenge to do, or they HATE this kind of thing... and can't do their own thing, which I'm told artists like to do. It depends on the artist... and their mood, pesky little creatures. As to the price of this, if we were speaking in Tony Soprano Poker Game Ziti Boxes... that would be a lot of Ziti.

Where would this transfer be taking place?

Well I am only a sister to art and friend to art, I wish I had the skill I draw wonderful outfits and scenery but figures elude me.

a commision is really up to the Artist to decide what is fair compensation for their time and talent. Most are very reasonable.

if your seriously looking for an artist I suggest deviant you can find tons there

P.S. if your wondering why a lot of my words end up 2 or even 3 words together with no space I am getting used to this new logitech wireless keyboard and the keys are just a bit smaller and the spacebar not as sensitive as my old one.

good luck in your searching , remember the more complicated the comission you are looking for the more it will likely seem like work (thus requiring a bigger incentive ) to the artist so the answer to your question is ....It depends

oh hai a few tips !!

(also when I use the phrase cost here its merely to invoke an imaginary scale , in my case added cost may mean it will cost you a plate of lasagna as opposed to a loaf of bannana bread )


1 ) your pic of your costume is amazingly small , the better picture references you have the better , you might want to include a few different angles

2) if your looking to include fire imps you should always include pics of them , never assume folks know what they are

3) for each figure in a picture its safe to assume that the price goes up so yeah your hero + 3 fire imps will likely be more than just your hero

4)dynamic poses or a pose with lots of background details likely costs more than a static picture with no background

5) while influnece and infamy are intresting currencies you probably should let folks know what server your on as that would play a big roll in folks intrest


I think swans off his gourd with his post as folks will often times do art for things having nothing to do with money , amazingly sometimes folks even do them for free as not everyone here is looking to make their fortunes doing super hero art .

I often end up doing the odd bit of nursery rhyme art for friends and family when they decorate or set up a kids room and personally like to be paid in dinners and baked goods and sometimes merely for an exchange of services .

in this case you did the right thing .

posted what you were willing to trade and what you were looking for , if someone see's the offer and thinks it works for them ...grand ! if its not their cup of tea well no harm no foul in asking right and you might likely get some pm nibbles from folks where you can dicuss price ranges back and fourth in private .

but yeah listing real world money for anything on the forums is a nono on the other hand listing influence is perfectly accepatable as alot of folks do it over on the marketing forums .

Im not doing any sidework at the moment or id actually be intrested in this as I am slowly IOing out my villains and its a much bigger pita red side than it is blue side .

LOL yeah Swans off his gourd! I tried that once though, I sent some muffins to my electric company, they were not amused, they still wanted that green paper stuff. Maybe if my bill collectors were fiending for some carbs?

hahaha yeah I wish my electric company would accept muffins ..they don't even accept art

having an amazing love of sweets yet not having much talent in the kitchen its generally well known amongst my neighbors and relatives that i'll sometimes literlly work for food .

okay to answer some more questions,
here is a larger pic http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f...3-15-21-53.jpg
the reason why this is in infamy is because i am mainly a villain player and while i do have a couple of lvl 50 heroes i have no were near that much inf on them.

I play on vitory, so the transfeer would probaly be there.

and the main reason why this is in digital money rather then real money is because well i do not realy want to sepnd real money untill after i but my damn school books :P

Personally, I think this is a reasonable offer for some folks. I don't charge for non-commercial pics, but I fit the ones I fancy doing in around the other stuff, so it tends to take me a long time to get around to them.

Also, I draw with wobbly lines and use blotchy colours, so I don't draw much of a queue.

I'd also suggest you have a look at the artists here, and check out their devArt accounts, where they often bring up the subject of filthy lucre. Except Foo, who is just filthy.

I wasn't saying in my post that people would'nt do the picture. but for me, Infamy has very little value. The amount of time it takes to get a picture done i could play the game and get enough infamy for what I need. hell with The Rogue Isle's $ doing so poorly that is a very generous amount, but it doesnt help in the real world, and it takes real world time to work on, so to me, its not a fair trade.

but it all depends on the value you place on infamy. there are some very nice folks on here that would probably do it, Hell i'm somewhat tempted to do it. but I wouldnt think of it as a commission. to me, a commission means paid work. Like wassy said a trade probably would be more accurate, but alot of the time that would be spent on doing that image for virtual currency could be spent on work for real money so I wouldnt say it was neccassarily fair.

what I'm trying to say and it might sound harsh, Time is money and infamy ain't really money, so I think an artist is undercutting himself/herself by working for it so if one was to do it I'd think of it as trade on the side of a gift. Like I said most other proffession's dont work for anything other then cold hard cash and if they do it's great but it's out of the goodness of their heart. commissions are a business, commissions are money. thats the way I see it.

But I may be out of my goard

Infamy is not real money, and that is one of the reasons why the offer was up to 1 billion infamy. But also to see what kind of artis would be intrested and half intrested. i never expected to get a full time artist to do something like this more or less just somone who is good and does this in his/hers spare time. hey it worked so i am happy.

Glad it worked out for you

haha I hear ya man I wish I could afford more art. stoopid global financial crisis!

Congratulations, i would honestly be willing to do art for infamy as well, except im on protector so it wouldnt be of use to me happy to hear it worked out though