Twitter version with the picture included

https://twitter.com/Zeitzbach/statu.....02747196735659

So yeah, as I have written in the current commission sheet description, there will be a price bump starting January 2024. The last time I did this was in July 2022 and I tried to hold out for as long as I could but a lot has happened and I'm unfortunately forced to do it now.

To explain myself, it will be easier to check out the gif I posted to Twitter but to describe it in detail, whenever I work on a piece, I used to just do 1 quick sketch that I send for approval and I just quickly refine that before I move on to the lineart. For any mistakes I am unable to fix, I usually try to make them as hard as possible to spot when I work on the full coloring.

Over the year, I have been picking up some lessons from better artists on their drawing process and have been copying them to improve my own crafts. One of the tricks I pick up is to "Sketch twice" or to refine the initial sketch from just quick poses at a glance into something that resemble the final piece and fix pretty much every mistakes possible before I do the lineart. In a way, it's almost like drawing the entire thing with flat gray first. This result in a much better quality with muscular character actually have some beefs in them and way less stuff I have to blur and hide and I can instead make the detail pop out more and go with more difficult poses. This unfortunately increase the amount of time required to finish a piece but because I am still getting used to it and building my speed, I have been omitting this part from the fee whenever I do my price estimation.

So it really doesn't help that inflation has been going up and even with me getting used to it, I am still taking extra time to finish pieces with all the new steps. Sticking to the same pricing from a year and a half ago has taken a considerable toll on my expenses so I have no choice now but to start factoring the new steps into the pricing now. I do not want to skyrocket my prices to unbearable levels though and leave my frequent commissions behind so I will try to split the increase across multiple factors instead so unless you're getting a very large or complicated piece, the bump should feel minor or moderate at worst.

Starting January 2024, there will be a minor bump to the base cost of Headshot, Bust shot, Waist down and Ref sheet and I will be splitting the background into 3 tier instead of 2. Any further increase will be more dedicated toward complexity fee so as long as the piece isn't very difficult to work on, I want to keep the price bump to around 15-20% at best. The exact value will be listed on the new sheet on January.

So until mid-December, I'm sticking with the current pricing with no extra fee from the [Sketch 2] phase with extra slots. If the slots end up full, I will have a reserved queue up to a certain amount so as long as your stuff is already covered in December, you won't have to worry about getting charged with the new pricing.