Look man either pay them or learn art yourself to feed your fat fetish.
bitch 40 for lineart should be the standard, art is a damn luxury and some of these artists need food
@ whatever greyshades is these days, Like I said, they’re kids who don’t know how to haggle.
>Lineart – 2 hours for pencils, 1-2 hours for lines = 3 hours at $40
>$40/3(aprox) = $13/hr – paypal fees and bank transfer fees = 10/hr
>Colour – 2 hours for pencils, 1- 2 hours for lines, 3-6 hours for colour = aprox 9 hours at $120
>$120/9 = 13/hr – paypal fees and bank transfer fees = 10/hr
Art is an extremely specialised skillset that takes anywhere from 5-20 years to develop, costs around 500 minimum entry to be able to create digital art due to requiring a tablet and software, along with enough RAM to run high-layer drawings depending on your program. Thinking you have any reason or right to haggle with someone because you don’t like their prices is some entitled shit my friend. You don’t walk into an autoshop and try to barter with them for their hourly wage and their parts cost, why the fuck would you do it in something else? It’s capitalism, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it but don’t think you have a right to special treatment.
I guarantee you we’d charge hourly if that was a possible standard but because the industry has no standards peope have to charge what will sell and that is ultimately much lower than it really should. Especially considering most of us have standards against drawing furry mpreg vore.
People don’t realize just how cheap commissioned art online actually is. Most of the time you pay the artists minimum wage.
Just think about that for a second.
Where I live, that’s LESS than minimum wage
I know artists who have made it in the comic or otherwise commercial art industry, and they comfortably charge hundreds for their time, talent and name on commissions.That’s the MINIMUM. We’re talking people who can make several hundred dollars per PAGE of narrative.
Get your heads out of your asses and start supporting online freelancers and their dirt cheap pricing—it’s your fault they’re all valued so low to begin with.
Hey, uh… can fic writers start charging for commissions? Though I strongly suspect no one would be willing to pay, because it’s a lot harder for people to recognize writing as a specialized skill. That, and some of us remember the days when we put disclaimers on our fics promising that we weren’t making any money from them.
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