commission prices amirite...,,
the thing is, how do i even price these things?? i have multiple art styles and different specific things you can ask for, and some things would be priced lower and higher and.... i don’t want these commissions to seem to excessive or like?? weirdly organized?? which isn’t a very good way to put it but i’ll at least attempt to make it less confusing...
like i have a style that can literally just be a doddle or sketch, that would be placed at the lowest price. the lineart is pretty sketchy, and there isn’t very complicated shading. i don’t know if those could actually be up for commissions though? because they don’t look that great. Then, there’s a style with my nicer lineart and nicer shading, where everything is colored in neatly, but the shading depends on the piece. but this can be done in like..... 50 different styles, because i’m still shifting between styles and i’m not sure which one is the one i’d like to use. the last and most expensive one would be my semi-realism style, with more complicated shading and no or minimal lineart, like basically a painting. i think i’d need to improve on this style a little more, but it could be done.
THEN, those prices would be split up into the amount of it i draw. if you want just the head and shoulders of the character, that’s the lowest, add the torso, that’s a bit pricier, add the entire person and that’s the most expensive. i know a few people do commissions like this. adding a simple background would be extra (i can’t do any complicated backgrounds and environments as of now) or i could make the character transparent so that it could be used for various things.... all of this is still something i’m working out with presenting prices and art styles, etc., in a way that’s nicely organized and set up for commissions.
but how much do i charge..........
i have spent A LOT of money on art and a lot of time on art. THOUSANDS of dollars. while my windows PC for christmas was payed for by my parents, paint tool sai was 60 (??) dollars, design doll (a tool to help with anatomy and body types) was $80, and..... a wacom cintiq was bought for nearly $1000. so uh. holy shit. for someone who has only ever had one job and was 17 when i spent that money....... that was spent in one year because i wanted to further my drawing skills. i went from a wacom bamboo tablet and my old macbook pro, to being SO serious about wanting to learn how to draw and create because it was fun and exciting and i wanted to make a career out of what i genuinely wanted to do. my entire school year was spent doodling in class and learning new things to become even better at art.
but from me, an artist who isn’t very well known and who only has skill in character design, are people going to pay willing to pay even $50 for this?? like really. i mean, i’m trying not to bring myself down and do the whole “ah well my art style isn’t anything special” thing that i do, but either way i work hard on my art. but the type of people taking commissions from me are more likely to be young and out of money. if it weren’t for this, i would want to charge more, but i need to be fair and consider who is paying for these things. is this going to actually give me money?
so this isn’t easy. but if someone could help and suggest me prices for my art, i would be really really grateful. also if you read this entire thing, i’m sorry for wasting your time with my rambling but i have no experience in this. at all.
