Limito Breaku

Artist blog For Limito (LB, Limit, Limmi) Main blog @keikikudasai Undertale AU: @mothertale

[ffxvandchill]

SUMMER ART AUCTION

ARTIST APPLICATIONS OPEN

We’re going to host a summer auction! Special guests will compete together.. to win the auction’s earnings for their chosen charity! Apply here!: https://forms.gle/wrbvScDuYRyamEWTA

Auction to be held in late July, early Aug, scheduling depends on guest availability and may alter.

You do not need to create new artwork for this auction! All advertising will use your existing portfolio.

Nyx art is a placeholder for our upcoming promo art for this auction.

Artists who have participated in previous auctions are more than welcome to apply again!

Art does not have to be Final Fantasy or Square Enix related.

Please reblog! I haven’t been on tumblr in a while and would appreciate boosts <3 Thank you so much!

Auction Twitter: https://twitter.com/FFArtistAuction

Auction Tumblr: @ffxvandchill​

Previous Auctions:

[thevipersnake]

Hands exercise :) 

[aluckyartist-deactivated2019082]

Need all the help I can get so I’m plugging this again! I’ll post finished rewards for $20+ donors on that account❤️❤️

Any little bit helps, thank you guys so much!

https://ko-fi.com/A1528OY

[aluckyartist-deactivated2019082]

I’m doing some more Ko-Fi doodles this week if anyone wants to help a bro out!

(Context: I haven’t been taking new commissions ‘cause I’m playing catch up, and I wasn’t paying attention to some of my pending charges and now my account is in the negative AND someone’s gotta get diapers soon sooooo lmao any little bit helps!)

[lrstudio]

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!✨

It’s about time I made a new commission post, and it’s going to be a bit different this time around because I’m using google forms.

There are 5 slots available per batch, if you are interested, please fill out and submit a request form here:

Commission form

You can also find more information (e.g. contact info, terms and conditions, slot availability, etc) on the form itself!

Thank you for reading, and as always, a signal boost is very much appreciated! =)

[foervraengd]

Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.

[gorubesshu]

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME

[humblegoat]

guys

GUYS

SHIT

SHIT GUYS

[chandeloor]

are you shitting me right now

years of me avoiding foreshortening aND IT WAS THIS EASY??

[thesylversmyth]

reblogging againg because holy cow, this HELPS

[meitantei-lavi]

I’ll just have to watch this soon

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

I SERIOUSLY REBLOG THIS EVERTIME IT’S ON MY DASH! IT’S SO HELPFUL!!

[hixxiart]

Pricing your Art

So @dreriart made a post about commission pricing and I thought since it is doin’ the rounds I’d copy-paste this thing I wrote on DA over to Tumblr because for some reason I … never … did that … before?? So one recurring thing I see a lot in the art community in many different formats is ‘how much should I charge for my commissions?’ What normally follows is a lot of bad advice. Terrible advice. So I’m here to give you some good advice and tell you all about how to value your skillset and price accordingly. This guide has been written with the intended audience of folk who are just starting out with commissions, but I hope it will encourage other artists to give themselves a fair wage and, of course, a lot of this can be transposed over to other creative professions as well. So let’s answer the question of ‘how much should I be charging people for work?’ The answer to this is deceptively simple. Here are the questions you need to ask yourself to form an appropriate response:

Where do you live?

How old are you?

For obvious reasons I cannot assist you with these. But once you have these you go to Google and you type in the following: ‘minimum wage per hour in <location name>’ Which is more than likely going to bring up an official government page for your area. Here is the one for the UK since that is where I live.Now what? Well. How old are you? Because some locations have different rates for those in different age brackets. But essentially all you need to do is get the following info: How much is the minimum wage per hour for my age in my area? Now that you have this, how long does a piece take you? You do not need to be exact. A rough guesstimation will do. This will form your base price of: Minimum Wage x Estimated Hours Therefore if I take five hours to paint a portrait and my min wage is £7.83 then my base price for a painted portrait is £39.15.

That is the absolute minimum you should be charging for your work.

And please take into considerations the following:

Working outside your comfort zone will up times taken on a piece.

If you’re working with traditional materials, how much for paper/canvas/paint/pens/etc?

Minimum wage is quite often garbage anyway.

Whenever I say this though, I often get a variety of responses in the negatory for this method. I have answers for each of them. So, let’s run a sort-of-FAQ on this method shall we?

I’m not good enough to price that high.

Yes you are. Who says? Your government, for starters. Also me. Here’s the thing. No matter the quality of your art, you deserve a fair living wage for your work. There are lots of people out there with no understanding of the time, effort and tears that go into honing artistic skills. Digital art, making comics, mastering musical composition, sculpting, or whatever it is all takes time to learn and we are constantly growing and improving. And if someone wants to hand you money for what you are producing guess what? You ARE good enough. That is the proof right there. Another human being wants to give you cold hard cash for something that only you can make. If it puts a different perspective on things for you, think of job roles that would be traditionally minimum wage. Probably the one most people will go to is ‘burger flipping at McDonalds’ as an example of a low skill occupation that is stereotypically easy and for those who failed in life etc. etc. (spoiler alert: it isn’t, but that’s a journal entry for another day). Why should this theoretical failure of humanity earn more than you doing a job that ‘anyone can do’? Because art is absolutely more difficult than cleaning out a McFlurry machine (that’s a legit fact by the way: I’ve cleaned one of those and art is way harder). Also, art is a luxury product my friend. No one needs to be buying commissions of their MMO character. They want it? They can play by our rules. And they will.

My family member/friend/random internet guy said that’s too expensive and I should lower my prices.

Your family member/friend/random internet berk is a fucking idiot at best, or intentionally trying to get you to undersell at worst. Firstly, I’d be willing to bet that the person who said this to you is not an artist. If so, what makes them more qualified than another actual artist to tell YOU how to price yourself? Because you trust their opinion? Yeah, but what if their opinion is formed on a factually incorrect assumption of how much art costs/the time it takes to produce because that is a HUGE deal in our community right now. And what if they just want you to stay cheap because it threatens them? Or, as a consumer, want you to stay cheaper for their own selfish purchasing habits? What then? Tell them to fuck off.

But there is someone better than me charging less! Why should a client pick me over them?

Spoiler alert: there will always be someone better than you charging less. There are thousands of mega quality artists out there. I’m considered expensive for what I produce, especially as I live in a country with a currency that translates highly to other currencies. Yet people constantly ask me for commission work. So what gives? Here are some reasons why a prospective client might chose you over someone else:

You are nicer than they are.

You are faster than they are.

You’re working in a niche sector.

They know you personally.

They like your art style better.

You have lots of good feedback.

A friend recommended you.

They aren’t even open for commissions right now.

They had a bad experience with that artist in the past.

You’re easier to purchase from.

You have a larger following and purchasing from you exposes that audience to them by proxy.

There are lots of other reasons but price isn’t necessarily often the deciding factor for a lot of clients. Don’t spend your life being concerned with how other people are better than you or you’ll never be happy.   I’m nervous about pricing so highly! What if no one wants my art?If a client doesn’t want to pay you a fair living wage for their luxury item purchase then that’s a client you can probably do without to be honest with you.Someone complained about my prices being so high! What do I do? Refer them to this:

[rowanlea-101]

Something worth noting is that minimum wage is normally used for people who are employed (not self employed). So people who work contracted 16, 24, 37 or 40+ hours per week for an employer.

Anyone who is not guaranteed work for a set amount of hours per week is absolutely within their right to charge well over the minimum wage, to cover those hours that they are not guaranteed.

Ever wonder why the plumber is so expensive? Or the electrician? The pc repair guy (£60 to transfer my data? Really? All you do is plug it in and leave it for a few hours..)

That’s why. Because most traders/self employed people don’t have work lined up 9-5 mon-fri (though it’s great news if you do!). If my lovely pc repair tech only charged me £20 to transfer my data, or £5 labour (half an hour) + >insert price of laptop screen here< to repair my screen, he’s never going to make enough money to stay open, because he doesn’t have people coming and going in his shop all day every day.

If you’re considering being a part or full time artist, then perhaps consider not just how many hours it takes you per piece, but how much of your time you want to spend on commissions. If you plan on spending 20 hours per week on it (not just the art itself, but consider things like liasing with customers and promoting yourself as well) then calculate the hours with the minimum wage (in the above instance, it would be 20 x £7.83 = £156.60). Then you figure in that week you can hopefully (and realistically) complete let’s say, 3 commissions. That would be £52.20 each. Already that’s more than the base price stated above (which I am not saying is wrong at all). But you’ve covered yourself for the additional work and downtime hours, and given yourself a real expectation that of what income you’ll be earning per week.

[hixxiart]

This is a TOP QUALITY addition to my post.

[99894845980439485]

art

[graphiteknight]

I made a sequel.

[doodlemeimpressed]

[limito-breaku]

@dragonsongdreams

[hubedihubbe]

I’ve been wanting to do a thing like this for a while. Behold my amazing animu mongah skills there wow swoons

[hubedihubbe]

2016 rendition!

[hubedihubbe]

She finally has hands!

[hubedihubbe]

She’s on her way!

[runescratch]

I’ve been asked a lot about how I draw hoods, mostly Talon’s hood, so I hope this helps a little? Just a pretty basic thing but hey there ya go

Hoods are pretty cool, they usually have a lot of variety in how they can look (and sometimes people even wear two hoods at once) so just get creative with it and have fun

[deltainkmoved]

MIGHTY NEED

[thatsthat24]

When You Find the One 📒

[imbiowaresbitch]

Dammit, quit calling me out!

[laraslandlockedblues]

I feel insanely called out

[dconthedancefloor]

Found some hands tutorial by me

Not in English but hope it will help???????

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[limito-breaku]

Terraboo

[capochiino]

I legit have no idea why i did this-

feel free to use it- but pls credit me ^^’

[lightofthedeep]

when someone tags your art as “fav”

[limito-breaku]

I’m still drawing when I can- life’s just been a bit stressful. I may have posted something- and I just don’t remember. C: enjoy nonetheless

[limito-breaku]

Things of Five

Tagged by @thatanonymouschocolate

5 things you’ll find in my bag 💼

My Ipad w/ Apple Pen

Sketchbook(s)

A pencil case filled with pencils

Wallet/Cellphone carrier

Charging Cable

5 things you’ll find in my bedroom 🛏

My video games

My computer

My daughter’s stuff

Commission works (I got from others)

Various items from Etsy of my current obsessions (Ignis cough)

5 things that make me happy 🙂

Cake

Gifts

Good video game music remixes

My kid

Ignis stuff (sigh)

5 things I’m currently into 👍🏼

Final Fantasy XIV

FFXV (do I even need to say it?)

Drawing

Roleplaying

Japanese (language)

5 things on my to-do list 📝

Go to Japan

Feel secure 

Be there for my kid (always)

Work out

Meet my friends <3