What am i doing wrong?
a month ago
General
This isn't a "woe is me/guilt-tripping" post, i'm genuinely want to know if there's something i'm missing in regard of comissions, no matter how far on the internet i offer them, i barely get people that want to comission, am i advertising myself wrong?, am i omitting something?, my art does suck and people just don't wanna tell me?, or is it even something out of my control?
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Your art style is simpler (less detail and very flat shading) than of most artists who offer commissions and you need a bit more training regarding consistent anatomy (e.g. the tails here and the blue ones arms: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62752825/ )
Also are you drawing with a mouse instead of an art tablet by any chance? What makes me think so is the consistency of line thickness in many places where pen strokes would usually result in different thickness. E.g. fingertips.
If so, then that's clearly the next step you should take. It makes a world of a difference. Tablets. e.g. by Huion are affordable nowadays.
Yep, the style i've chosen is mostly plain to play with shadows and colours, and i know it's more basic than most, hence why i offer comissions cheap, i thoight 30 USD would be fair, but now i dunno.
Yeah, i'm using a mouse, partially why i'm not very keen in getting a tablet is because i started doing this for interest, but i don't wanna take over others's work, nor pursue a "carreer" in art or so
Needless to say, feel free to comment on this too, opening myself to feedback/scrutiny XD
But yeah, 30$ for this style would be too high for me in every case :(
But you have potential~
How much would you pay for something like that then?
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62204386/
Or this?:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62576593/
Let me preface this by going ahead and refuting one of those claims. No, your art does not suck. That isn't the issue here. And honestly, I would say your prices are pretty fair for what you offer.
But there are several factors that probably contribute to the lack of commission interest. ^~^
Chief among them... probably the lack of consistent posting.
For a hobby artist, that is to say an artist who mostly draws for fun rather than for a living, you post at a good rate. But unless you start posting nearly weekly to start getting more eyes on your stuff, you're going to have a very hard time getting customers. Because what you're known for is very niche content. It's niche content I myself have quite an affinity for, as do others, but it's always going to be a very small amount of people.
The other factor does speak to the quality. Is your art bad? No! I think it's great. And again, you offer it at a good price. But even at the price you do offer, you have to consider that there are other artists out there that people know. Even if they don't have the value you do for your art, the $30 someone could put towards your stuff is $30 that they could instead put towards paying for something more expensive, but from a more established artist with more practice. Especially nowadays, where folks are having to manage their budgets better. That's sort of where I am on my end. ^~^
So honestly, if you want this to be your main source of income, the BIGGEST thing you have to work on is posting more consistently. There will be folks who like your content, and there will be folks who think the price is worth it. But the consistency of posting is what builds peoples' trust in you as an artist to complete stuff in a timely manner.
I know an artist that does fantastic stuff, does even cheaper prices than you, but I do not commission anymore because there is just no guarantee on when it gets done! I waited a year and a half for something and all the while they kept opening more and more slots.
But yeah, you know that I like your stuff. Have from the beginning. ^^
And honestly once I get a background reference I'm waiting on done I have plenty of ideas I'd like to commission from you.
I don't think it was a matter of "your art sucks", but it did admit that my artstyle is plain, which i can understand, i like to keep the style simple, and i also understand people would like to pay more for something more detailed
You do have a point in consistency, and that's one of the problems that i have, and i have thought about it, i would like to post more often, yes, but ideas just don't come to me, or the ones that come to me, turns out that i have already done some, or they've already been done countless times, and i'm afraid of just posting my characters doing the same poses or same scenaros over and over for consistency's sake, and given my more simple artstyle, people can just look at what i have to offer elsewhere. Partially why i opened comissions too, if i'm gonna do the same things over and over, better do it with people that would like to see their characters there.
And yeah, at first i thought about having it be my main source of income, but now i just seeing it as 'a' source of income since i've been confirmed nowadays that such world is gone, probably forever.
.....There's an artist that charges less than me?, mind if you share a link? :V