Undercharging
9 years ago
I feel like I should be charging more for art but idk. I often spend 3-4 hours on each piece. Thoughts on my current commission prices?
-- thanks all for your input,
-- thanks all for your input,
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Time it takes is subjective, because what might take a long time for an artist could be done quickly by another.Short of charging per hour, using time as a metric is... faulty.
Quality: This is what most people look at for an upfront cost commission, but even this is subjective. How do you rank things on realism vs stylization? At what point does cost increase? Can it decrease?
Service: How good of a service do you provide to our customers. Are they satisfied? Are you able to and or willing to work with them on their small issues?
All these factor into prices.
As for your prices specifically: Yah, you could probably bump it up a bit.
You have gone from
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18543449/
to
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20076242/
In about 6 months. This is a sufficient quality improvement to warrant an increase in cost for an upfront cost commission :P
As for how much, that gets... tricky, and is a bit much to discuss in a single comment without making a wall'o'text
Personally judging by your prices for say Full-body,full shaded i wouldn't hesitate to commission you for a image (one day i will. i got a bee character i would love to see rendered in your style <w<). which to me is a sign of maybe a bit underpriced. i would easilly pay 25 for what you charge 20 for (according to your current commission info).