Based on minimum wage in my country, and assuming that's USD, I'd expect to not spend more than ten hours total on the piece.

this ^^

I firmly think that if you use the minimum wage then you're undercharging yourself, no exceptions.

It's a good baseline to use for determining the limit of hours worked for amount paid, I won't do commissions for less than minimum wage. The flip side to that is to ensure I'm not doing more commissions in a week than I can handle by not accepting more than two at a time (I have a full time job and a Pathfinder campaign to run, definitely not a full time artist), and that it's okay to increase prices if all commission slots are filling up immediately as there's obviously demand for them.

I will never do commissions for less than minimum wage both because I'm worth more than that, AND because other artists are worth more than that too. If no one wants to commission me at a fair price, I figure either my skill isn't sufficient to demand it, or more likely I don't have the visibility to reach potential customers.

from personal experience it can be anywhere from 7-11 hours though sometimes go way over
I've also been told that I undercharge though so take it with a grain of salt.
Edit: to clock myself I use a program called work.exe that times me when im active in a specified window, it gives me an idea of how long i spent on a picture.

Wow thank you for info about that program ^^

np, here is a link to the tumblr, I had completely forgotten it was made by the Neil Cicierega
https://neilblr.com/post/58757345346

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You're REALLY undercharging yourself if you're doing 7$ an hour for a piece of artwork :,S

Someone's gotta be the Ford of furry artists!

Ahhh I spent 3 days working on this one for $40 https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50853480/
It isn’t really about time spent as much as making art that I think they will like.
People tell me I could ask for more money for my art but it has been a long time since anyone has paid me more than $60 for one piece. ^^;

Depending... and maybe if I'm fast enough, like 4-5 hours on one of my fully shaded pieces. I can most likely get it done in a day, but my timer tracker would only register the 4-5 hours of actual activity. So, results may vary. maybe it's 10 hours and I'm being too generous.

I'd spend a a few days to a week.... basically whatever it takes to do it to the best of my effort for what is asked for... within reasonable limits.

However one important note is I do not do commissions as a profession so i sort of charge on a different mindset instead of minimum wage like a job. I do these things as a hobby.

In my case, I kind of pitch my prices based on "how much someone needs to pay me to make me do it" idea. For me, I find trying to restrict drawing to a fixed timing to be restrictive, stressful and ultimately interferes with the creative process to get something done.

That said your milage can vary. Some artists work better when under pressure with a time limit.

Yeaah, it's difficult to know prices when you do art as a hobby and not as a job... Which is one of the reasons I don't do commissions at all tbh.

Well i put it in a simple mindset of "how much you need to bribe me to do that art" and price it accordingly.

It helps a lot if you do it as a hobby only and dont actually rely on it as your primary income. Means whatever you are paid you are happy cause thats what you set for yourself :D

If you dont want to fix prices you can do it by quotation... i.e. they tell you idea then you give the price. I know a few artists who do that.

Well,it really comes down to how hard you're working on the piece. So are you doing a finished piece or is it just a sketch? Yes,some people charge 100 for a sketch. Is it a single piece or is it intended to be used for mass production like a T-shirt design or box art? There's a lot of factors involved. And in the end,these details pretty much define how much time a piece needs.

So yeah,devil's in the details.

Well then~ how many hours maximum would you work on a piece of digital artwork for 100$?

Like I said,it depends on the details and what's expected and everyone has different prices. And that's not taking into account inspiration. If you get into a piece you could end up spending a lot more time on it just because you like it. And then there's the idea of artist's time and how hard it is to do what the customer asks of them. There's a lot of factors.

For example,for a 100 dollar sketch,probably not more than a few hours,just because it's a sketch and there's only so much you can do for a pic and still have it be a "sketch". You just have to "suggest" the shape of the characters. And even then,there's the question of what you consider a "sketch". Do you include some basic facial features or do you just map out the proportions and general body shapes?

Like I said,details.

The Australian casual minwage is around $25AUD/hr so...

Five hours would be the sane maximum by that metric. But you'd ideally want it done in less.

100$ equals a hefty busy pic for me, i admit it could take me about 10-13 hours for that one.

No idea. I don't do that hour/time counting shit. I draw pretty slow all things considered and my drawing sessions are often fragmented. I just don't always feel like sitting at a computer after 8h of sitting at a different computer at work

3 - 4 hours is about what I anticipate for my $100 pics

As a jeweler and blacksmith, my material costs alone can potentially be higher than that. If it was just the time, I'd say that 4-5 hours would be fair—and then I'd sink 20 hours into it at my own expense because I'm not happy with a 5-hour result.

The not happy with 5 hours thing is so true, glad I'm not the only one that does x3-x4 of their own time.

There is also the whole quality and speed thing. Can you do your color rendering in x amount of time ect. Some artists do cheap work cause they pump out art fast and do many coms quickly which is usually done by live stream artists.

I don't think I'm at a skill level where I'd feel comfortable accepting that kind of money for my art, so I guess technically 0 since I wouldn't even take that tall of an order.

At this time I'm not picky since I really need some money and we all struggling with the FU pandemic.
My prices are really low and I'm to blame lol

As a non-artist, can I ask this question?

What do you feel is a fair hourly wage for artwork, and how long does it take you to draw something to what you would consider completion?

The answer will vary greatly from artist to artist because of how much they consider a respectable hourly wage, and what they consider completion but...

In my case in particular a full render can take me any time between 2 hours to 6 hours, depending on how much love and care I pour into it (concept, pose, background, texturing, finer details... those things are usually what pushes a piece it beyond the 3 hours mark). I think somewhere between 20 to 30 dollars per hour would be fair to me, even if hourly wages is not a good way to measure it. I can do colored sketches really quickly, so those might be a better way of making money than doing complete drawings... but I digress

In this example, I think I would dedicate at least 4 hours to complete a 100$ commission piece, but since I do art as a hobby and don't depend on it for sustenance, I would definitely spend way more time refining details and making it look good. ^^

My point of view would be completely different if I used my art skills to pay the bills.

But yeah again, answer varies greatly because some artists need to take what they can get, and are afraid of charging more for fear of losing the few clients they have... which sucks :,3> to be honest.

I usually don't measure th time I'm spending on a piece unless it's a cheap PWYW sketch, but that is probably a good metric to work off of.

i guess it would be around 10 hours or more? (split in 2 days, around 10 hours per day)

i wouldnt stop until i feel the artwork is absolutely perfect at the very least

considering how screwed are we in Argentina, a $100 USD would help a lot

at the least? prolly 3 lol but i have adhd so its either 3 hours, 1 hour, or 2 weeks

1-2 hours

I'm not sure if I have the skill threshold to charge a hundred in the first place. but that's just me patrix, you might or might not differ your opinion