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Commission Prices: Honest Question
17 years ago
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Ok, as some of you may or may not know, I'll have been unemployed for a month as of the 10th of this month. I still have yet to find a "real" job. The commissions you all have requested of me have helped me keep a float have given me something to focus on to avoid stress, which I appreciate greatly and am thankful for.
As such I have an honest question to pose to those of you have commissioned me and those who plan on commissioning me in the future. I have been considering raising my price on full color and yiff commissions to $60 and $80 respectfully. The reason behind this that I was working part time (6 hours/day) for $10 before I lost my job. Since finding a new job has been more difficult than I had hoped it would be, I was thinking I could possibly make this my job for a while until something else presents itself. To do that though I would need to be making something similar to what I was previously. Hence raising my prices. Since an average full color piece takes me about 6 hours to complete, at $10/hour that would be where I was previously and would let me do this full time and not worry so much about getting a new job.
However, I realize that I'm reliant on all of you wonderful people who support me to request art from me to make that dream come true. Obviously, I wouldn't ask this of you without making a few promises of my own. If I were to do this every picture would have a full detail background and I would be making a large effort to put more detail into each piece to make the extra expense more worth it. So I'm asking you is this reasonable or feasible to achieve? If I were to raise my price on full color and yiff pictures would you all still request work from me at the frequency that you still do? Or would you look at me like I asked for your right arm?
I want honest opinions on this. If you think I'm crazy tell me so. If you have commissioned me in the past, would you have done so if my prices had been higher?
If you have any other ideas about how I could try to make up the difference without raising prices let me know that too. I'm open to most options at this point.
As such I have an honest question to pose to those of you have commissioned me and those who plan on commissioning me in the future. I have been considering raising my price on full color and yiff commissions to $60 and $80 respectfully. The reason behind this that I was working part time (6 hours/day) for $10 before I lost my job. Since finding a new job has been more difficult than I had hoped it would be, I was thinking I could possibly make this my job for a while until something else presents itself. To do that though I would need to be making something similar to what I was previously. Hence raising my prices. Since an average full color piece takes me about 6 hours to complete, at $10/hour that would be where I was previously and would let me do this full time and not worry so much about getting a new job.
However, I realize that I'm reliant on all of you wonderful people who support me to request art from me to make that dream come true. Obviously, I wouldn't ask this of you without making a few promises of my own. If I were to do this every picture would have a full detail background and I would be making a large effort to put more detail into each piece to make the extra expense more worth it. So I'm asking you is this reasonable or feasible to achieve? If I were to raise my price on full color and yiff pictures would you all still request work from me at the frequency that you still do? Or would you look at me like I asked for your right arm?
I want honest opinions on this. If you think I'm crazy tell me so. If you have commissioned me in the past, would you have done so if my prices had been higher?
If you have any other ideas about how I could try to make up the difference without raising prices let me know that too. I'm open to most options at this point.
I'm in a financial fiasco myself :(
Maybe sometime in the future, you could do one of my mate and I
however, you might find you receive less commissions due to the price...
it's just people are always looking for the good and cheaper commissions...
sorry...i mean, i've paid for those kinda commissions before, but it's more rare.
That being said, a lot of commissioners don't seem to realise just what a good deal they're getting in terms of paying for artwork. Paying effectively $US10 per hour is actually very reasonable, considering that successful commercial artists can and do charge ten times that amount at least.
IMHFO what you are proposing to charge is emminently reasonable for the quality of work you do. However, you will probably find you may not get enough business to keep you afloat at the moment at those prices - the timing is unfortunate.
Once I'm back from my holiday in February I'll drop you a note to see if you are still open for commissions - and I'm quite happy to commit to a $60 commission for something G-rated, whether you raise your prices or not
Good luck, I think you're worth it.
I guess it would depend on the volume of queries you were comfortable at handling
May I make you a suggestion? If you are going to rise the price, try to add a little extra as well, I don't know, maybe people will see it is worth it as well. Don't get the idea of adding something that will take you more hours to do, something small but notable.
*hugs* Good luck man!
But yeah, price changes or not, I'm still going to keep on commissioning you <3
I hope the best for you and your hunt.
Respectively, that way, you do increase price but also remain somewhat decent in price range for other future customers. To me if I pay more than that for a full color one character piece it would hurt my pocketbook badly
Course I did actually tip ya but it was so worth it!
I'm looking to Commission you again, but would shy away if you did that.
I'm sending half the money today (not sure when the check will clear) which amounts to $25, as a downpayment. I'll send the rest when it's done!