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possible future headbase commissions: how much to charge?
14 years ago
Looking at my schedule (and knowing how slowly I work on large pieces) it seems it might be beneficial to me to do a few foam-only headbase commissions in a couple of months time. I'm pretty pleased with my foamwork and fairly fast, so I could slot them in within larger projects without any problem.
I was wondering what would be a reasonable price for foam only, and for foam work plus ready-to-install eyes? My work is neat and clean and I think I have a decent eye for shapes. My start price on completed heads is £325. I was thinking £100 or so for the head would be reasonable, they use about £15 in foam and materials and take a day or so to make. Postage would be fairly low since they weigh next to nothing.
What does everyone think?
I was wondering what would be a reasonable price for foam only, and for foam work plus ready-to-install eyes? My work is neat and clean and I think I have a decent eye for shapes. My start price on completed heads is £325. I was thinking £100 or so for the head would be reasonable, they use about £15 in foam and materials and take a day or so to make. Postage would be fairly low since they weigh next to nothing.
What does everyone think?
If you're stuck for time, resin headbases are also a good idea - once you've got the molds you could run off a bunch of casts fairly quickly, I would imagine. Again, you could have ladder options going from a raw cast, to cleaned cast with hinged jaw, up to ready-to-fur headbase with installed eyes, nose, etc.
Also agreeing with P_L above about resin bases, they seem to be quite favourable recently I have noticed.