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17 years ago
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No, I still don't take any, but I thought I'd explain why.
Basically, you can't afford them :P
Lemme clarify that now. I don't have much time to work on them, as I have a full time not art job right now, and I spend my not working time working on stuff for my gallery or playing games. So to take them then they would have to be worth as much as my free time, so how much is that. I'm not going to say how much I actually make, but a computer programmer with my level of experience should be able to get at least $60,000/year (all prices in US dollars). So we do the magic math and that comes to that comes to just a little under $30 an hour. Since it would have to be financially worth my time I would have to charge a premium on top of that, as it would be much easier just to work some extra hours at work, so let's value my time at $40 and hour. The 1pph sketches by definition take an hour, so they would be $40, but if I was being paid to do something I'd spend some extra time to clean things up and make sure it looked nice, probably another half hours worth, so now we have a basic sketch would cost $60. And that is with just one girl and nothing even remotely resembling a background. You want color, right now it's an hour on the sketch, an hour inking it, and 2-3 hours coloring. So 4 or 5 hours total, so doing the math means a simple colored picture is $160 - $200. A more complicated thing, like the deviation 'You Got Groped' took me more like 6-8 hours (since it had 2 girls and a background), so that is $240-$320.
Personally, just between you and I, I don't think my art is worth that much either :P
Basically, you can't afford them :P
Lemme clarify that now. I don't have much time to work on them, as I have a full time not art job right now, and I spend my not working time working on stuff for my gallery or playing games. So to take them then they would have to be worth as much as my free time, so how much is that. I'm not going to say how much I actually make, but a computer programmer with my level of experience should be able to get at least $60,000/year (all prices in US dollars). So we do the magic math and that comes to that comes to just a little under $30 an hour. Since it would have to be financially worth my time I would have to charge a premium on top of that, as it would be much easier just to work some extra hours at work, so let's value my time at $40 and hour. The 1pph sketches by definition take an hour, so they would be $40, but if I was being paid to do something I'd spend some extra time to clean things up and make sure it looked nice, probably another half hours worth, so now we have a basic sketch would cost $60. And that is with just one girl and nothing even remotely resembling a background. You want color, right now it's an hour on the sketch, an hour inking it, and 2-3 hours coloring. So 4 or 5 hours total, so doing the math means a simple colored picture is $160 - $200. A more complicated thing, like the deviation 'You Got Groped' took me more like 6-8 hours (since it had 2 girls and a background), so that is $240-$320.
Personally, just between you and I, I don't think my art is worth that much either :P
Unless you'd like one of your characters to have a "theme song."