Friend and SG Pictures

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Just another friendly reminder that we cannot discuss prices on this forum. You should take it to PM or to dA or something.

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Prove to me that you don't photo trace your artwork and I *might* consider your skill to be worthy of such ridiculous prices. I could hire pros for less.

I do know a few professional artists who charge an hourly fee for their work but those artists do not tend to get alot of commission work their way. There can be alot of dispute over how much actual time the artists spend on the piece.

In the guide I wrote, I touched upon pricing. You can get original art (the original physical) of your a character (full-body) drawn by a published professional artist for $40-50 at a convention. Usually, in under an hour.

I think you're over-pricing your work. Much of the art on the featured section of my gallery cost less than what you're mark is set at and well, I've noticed a couple of tendencies in your work which don't quite make it on par with the price you're setting. One, your line weights/values are all the same whether they're details or shape contours. Since all the line weights are the same, the figure doesn't seem to have a whole lot of depth. Two, your colors are somewhat flat as well. On your last piece, for instance, the colors on the skin have no gradients to blend the colors into each other so the different shades look rather harsh.

If I would have been drinking coffee when I read your commission info I would have ruined my keyboard.

best of luck with that.

nobodythere - No thanks.

Everyone else - Ok, ok... point made. No need to keep pounding it in. Anyway, if they're getting those prices then more power to them... Can only bode well for when artists of similiar or better skill want to raise theirs.

Another thing to consider...

Someone like me can lay down a sketch in maybe 2 mins, and if I was a good inker I'd say it'd take no more than 10-20 mins to get to pro-quality-esque.

If I charge a flat rate...

Colors take me something like an 1-2 hours to do and some people take upwards of 40ish hours. So if you are only charging small amount for colors you are making a huge lose on time and it only gets worse with backgrounds that take forever if it's high detail...

Characters are easier to add and don't really take much more time and all you're doing is giving a bulk rate.

So if you charge what looks like a low amount you are getting tons more money for less work and more people, because of lower cost will go for it, that means you are getting more for less and getting more work at higher cost.

Think about it ^.^

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Since when is trying to help you a flame?

This is precisely why I stopped going to art forums too many people want to praised and not enough people actually want help and to become better.

And lastly, if you went to school for this, I'd ask what school? and if you realize that many art schools aren't about training artists so much as getting paid and care nothing for the artists' prosperity. Seriously there are quite a few schools that if you present a degree from them you get laughed at and sent to another college for retrain and if they are placed by the college they are often dropped within a given time period.

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Soon, 'Caemgen VS Bayani' will have erased 'Suichiro VS Juggertha' as the most heated forum rivalry! Excellent... all is going according to plan.

LoL.

NT, don't let certain individuals discourage you from posting your work, or from setting your prices to what you want them to be.

After all, some of us enjoy seeing your work! And those who can afford your prices, will hire you. So hang in there and keep moving forward!