[KittyBeary]

I do cheap arts because I'm not that good and I don't want people complaining about overpriced art. ^^;

[trystan830]

hey, Mekatra! welcome back!! =)

[Mekatra]

It's my favorite string witch! Hiya!

It's one thing for you to price your art lower because you feel you are still gaining skill. It's something entirely different for someone else to to try to value your work. They have no right to say that it isn't worth what you're asking.

[trystan830]

Originally Posted by Mekatra

It's my favorite string witch! Hiya!

Hiya! how have you been?

[Mekatra]

Good, good. Busy as heck until the end of the tourist season. ( I work at a coffee shop/information center in a tourist town.)

How have you been?

[trystan830]

oh that sounds like fun... lol

i've been good up until today when... i'm not sure if it's a cold or my allergies. yay. not.

[Glitch]

i normally price low but i thought you know, i kind of like my style now and it takes quite a bit of time so I was like ya ok i'm going for it! Especially when my friends charge 100-200 a character, I was like this is totally reasonable for my time but :l

I dunno. I need a manager!

[Batty]

BOOPS IN.

HALLO THERE, GHOULS.

[KittyBeary]

Hiya Batty! :)

[Death by Mirrors]

Glitch, it is totally reasonable.

First of all, your art looks great. I would believe it if you said you were a full time comic artist / animator / whatever. Your art does have this certain professional air about it.

Second, time. It takes you some to complete the commission, and it probably took you even more to get to this point (now of course it would be ridiculous if one single person had to pay for an artist's whole tuition all alone, but I do believe time contributes to overall value - not just the time you spend on the drawing itself, but also the fact you already had to practice to get that good).

Third, anyone who says they would buy at lower prices aren't likely to buy at all. Nowadays people often think they're entitled to creative work for free (or super cheap). As in "you enjoy what you're doing, so I'm giving you a chance to do it, why do you expect me to pay for that now?!" Well sure, but fun alone doesn't pay bills, and maybe some artists would rather draw different things than that 'Egyptian god Osiris humping Deadpool' image you requested. So essentially people are saying "I like your art, but I don't want to pay for your time". Ironically the very same sort of people has no problem to shell out five bucks for a fancy coffee and several hundreds for trendy clothes to dress like sophisticated art lovers.

In short, your prices are fair. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[Kaderin Triste]

Originally Posted by Glitch

I don’t have a tumblr ._.; It confuses the poop out of me I’m a failure ToT

I said $25 for a full body color
$15 for full body color chibi
Both with or without a background
$10 for color headshots

It probably is too much but they said they’d order if I changed my prices and it hurt my feels

1.) I don't really get most sites like Tumblr, Twitter, etc. I'm not even that confident on Instagram, and that's just pictures. We can be social media failures together!

2.) Those prices are super reasonable and even much lower than they could be.

3.) That person is an idiot and an asshole and I would have doubled my prices just for them because they don't deserve to get your art for even as cheap as you offered it.

[mdom]

We're all gonna be your managers

[Death by Mirrors]

<- joins the social media failure brigade

(I actually have a tumblr, but only use it to store the riddle solutions to a game I play. What's that social thing you talk about? ^^)

[Kaderin Triste]

I used to have Tumblr, but I never really understood what it was for and my only friend on there pretty much only did re-posts of "all white people are ignorant, uncultured racists who can't cook/season foods properly" posts.

[Gallagher]

tumblr is one of those sites that's what you make it

surround yourself with blogs that inspire and compel you, you'll get positivity back

go adding people willy nilly because you just happen to know them without considering the content they put out and you'll have a bad time

it's a site based on bonding through ideas and making social connections from there, not using your social connections to spread ideas

so, in that way, it's different from social medias like twitter, facebook, etc where you add people because you have some pre-existing level of familiarity with them.

[Kaderin Triste]

Yeah....but I get anxiety over adding people I don't know...

And I HATE when I add/like something and suddenly my feed is full up with like 20+ posts/images per day from each new page/person/group/whatever tf it is so I have to go into extreme detective mode just to find my friend's stuff.