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While painting Sans I painted in this reference doodle of the gaster blaster.

Really low prices make me less likely to commission an artist. Me: I’m not an artist. I do commission artists - I spend around $300-600 a month on digital art commissions. I sometimes find an artist who has really impressive work, or a unique style, or something else that makes me think “I should commission this person.”. Then I look at their prices and they are crazily low. As in less than 20 dollars for a colour full body character. And I don’t commission them. Because I can’t pay prices that low and feel good about myself for doing it. I know it takes hours to draw even one character. Plus the time it takes to study the brief, look at the references, communicate with me, etc etc. No way are they making even minimum wage this way, let alone a living wage. I commission art because it’s fun. It’s my hobby. If I’m knowingly paying someone slave wages to support my hobby, it isn’t fun. To artists who undercharge: Please reconsider. I’ve heard many reasons why you decide to do this (see below). But if you price your work like you don’t respect it, you won’t get clients who will respect you or your work either. You charge peanuts, you get monkeys. To commissioners who push for these prices: Have some respect. Not just for the artists, but for the other commissioners out there. You’re giving us all a bad name. If you can’t afford decent prices, don’t be mean about it. Save up, or find some other hobby. Or hey, learn to draw.

Comments I get whenever I say the above:

“No-one will buy commissions from me at decent prices.” - That’s a pity. But you realise by underpricing like this you are making your problem worse, by contributing to the “art should be dirt cheap” mindset that seems to exist in dA and other places? (okay mostly dA, that place is a cesspit) Besides, there are other things you can do than keep lowering prices. There’s tons of advice in dA: ‘Official’ Pricing Your Commissions or Artwork Thread Finding Freelance work: pricing and self doubt! And other places: How to get commissions: A guide Getting the Most Out of Commissions If none of the above helps you… maybe you need to reconsider if you are at the right stage in your development to be offering commissions. Sorry.

“I’m only doing this for fun, I don’t care about the money.” - Good for you. But there are others that are trying to make a living doing this. Have some consideration for them, yes?

“It’s the clients pushing my prices down.” - Gah. Then your clients are awful people who don’t respect you. It’s a trap though - you charge low prices, you get cheap clients. There’s only one way out of that trap.

(Commissioner says) “But I want this drawn and I can’t afford higher prices.” - I want to live in an exact replica of Wayne Manor, but I can’t afford that. So, um, I don’t. Simplify your idea, or don’t commission it until you can afford to do so without ripping off the artist.

(Commissioner says) “By paying less per artist I can support more artists.” - No. Just… no. You are not supporting artists, you are exploiting them. Paying less per artists lets you exploit more artists.

“Just tip the artist.” - I have done that, but it sends the wrong message. Tipping isn’t the norm in this game, so when I tip artists assume it’s because they did an extra-awesome job, when in fact I’m tipping them because they did their normal-awesome job. Plus if an artist is charging one-third or one-quarter what they should be, do I tip them 300%?

(Image by me. Not an artist, remember? The price list is made up, but based on real lists I’ve seen recently.)

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Just finished Final Fantasy XV and, yeah, never had a FF game crush me so badly. Jeeze, it did more to me than FFX and Crisis Core combined by a lot... A lot of nostalgia in the greatest ways (it had something from every FF to make it feel at home) But I will say I loved and enjoyed the whole game all the way through, just I'm so...."salty" I guess.

Last submission I made. Is there a no logo thing? I didn't have the slightest idea until I initially submitted, I didn't see it in the initial rules of the contest (I read over it multiple times and am scared I overlooked it.) and I was posting extremely last minute to where I started panicking because Tumblr was erroring like crazy I was worrying I wasn't going to make it.

(My reasons for being so late is because I have literally used every minute I could to work on these and I was putting as much as I could into all of these submissions.) I thought it would be odd if the titlecards had nothing pointing out which game they were supposed to be from. I seen earlier submissions with them so I thought nothing of it either.

I have never submitted anything on Tumblr ever, I actually had to find out where it was.

I hope this is okay, I vectored the "uno" and "cards against humanity" I honestly couldn't hand draw those in time either (I did want to but time was getting low.)

I really apologize if anything possibly breaks the rules for the contest or rules in general.

Submission 4, last entry I finished.

This is for Uno maybe took fiveish hours?

I kept thinking of this sorta scene while watching Minx play Uno, I love how vibrant that game is.

I am highly interested in the paid position as well, 24 years old, US.

(I just realized, I’m not sure if I forgot to tag my last submission.)

This game is freaking eye candy to me, it really is *u*  I added in the actual background because I really liked how that turned out too :o Fullsize version of both pics here~ http://krystami.deviantart.com/art/Xenoblade-511603525 http://krystami.deviantart.com/art/Xenobladethumbnailbg-511602941

I really wanted to draw her, I love her design. better quality version can be found here http://krystami.deviantart.com/art/Mystery-girl-634195485

w.i.p it's almost done, just need to do the bg and finishing touches 8D  just a derpy random part of the picture

Social status: Claptrap~

Would anyone want to buy this figure of Rhys from Tales from the Borderlands? He was a practice figure but I want to make a new one since I've gotten better supplies now :D Just offer..? I dunno. He's about two inches tall. I'll touch some things up on him before sending em out as well . I don't think I can cover shipping costs unless it's added to the payment. But I'm serious, is anyone interested?

I've been in an drawing block for about a year as well as I don't/haven't had a computer. I recently was able to get a sketchbook and need to get more supplies but I am finally out of my block. c: (Undertale helped destroy it haha) Expect more art hopefully~!