Very well stated. there are a few artists here that produce awesome quality artworks but charge a ton of money acting like it is their only source of income.

I'm all for artists using art as a side job along side their normal 9am to 5pm type job, whatever that may be, but to flat out charge for art like it is your only source of income like if you loose just one buyer you loose your car or house, seriously people, get real, and get a normal 9am to 5pm type job to carry you for the people who can't afford your prices. my god.

you, however, you produce awesome quality art with very good prices and your calm and patient with people who have to save their money to buy your nice quality artworks.

I'd rather lose a buyer who thinks I don't deserve what I think I'm worth than lower prices for them.

Artists are allowed to price at whatever they think they're worth. Whether it is their full time job or not.

And their expenses are not for a buyer to gatekeep.

Some artists are disabled, some artists can't handle a 9 to 5.

you know what, that's them, I mean seriously...

that's great in all, but I'm sick of artists who think they can use art to replace a full time job in a manner where they can just sit around drawling pictures and charge rent, mortgage, and car payment style prices and actually expect people to just shell out that kind of money like they have thousands of dollars in the bank just sitting around collecting interest.

if you really can pull enough money to pay for a house and car with just artwork, you go ahead, but just remember where the term starving artist came from.

The starving artist is a stereotype and a trope based off of artist struggling to get by. It's not a good thing.

like I said, there is a reason it still exist.

It exists because people believe that artist's aren't worth their prices.

Art is a real job. I work a 7:30 - 5 work day. I have no time to draw due to this. You really expect people to produce quality art and work full time on top of this? I know I can't and thus I lose the option to even sell commissions.

Most artists have to make a decision. Work full time on art or full time in a "normal" job. Or work part time in a generally low paying job because well paying part time work is EXTREMELY hard to find.

So even part time artists struggle with not having enough money to get by.

Once again. Stop gatekeeping artists.

Hey, my buddy, my guy, my pal, both myself and the OP have degrees in art. Meaning, we should be able to make a career out of this, if we so choose. Some furry artists have made this their career (with and without degrees themselves) and if she and i want to devote ourselves full time to art as a job, as a career, and have enough of a demand to do so as many artists before have proven is possible, we are allowed to do that regardless of whatever whiny entitled furry says. Art is a luxury, and will be priced that way when its needed to pay the bills. The only thing that reinforces the starving artist trope is people like you insisting art be priced so low. Im sorry you're mad that you can't afford art from some popular furry artist or whatever but go be mad about it somewhere else. Absolutely no one here agrees with you.

For what it's worth, I fully support artists who go full time on their art. I support them charging what they want, and I think it's incredible when they're able to make it work. After all, in the freelance art world, people make way more than furry artists do...

But I know that's not viable for myself personally, and I just want people to respect the time I put into my work and understand that when I say a certain price, I'm not challenging them :( I've had people tell me that raising my price from $5 to $15 was too much, even though I spent a couple hours or more on each drawing. Or that my multi-character sketch wasn't worth as much as a single character colored piece even if it took the same amount of time...

i hope you realize that i said all of this in support and defence of you and your art and art skills.

Oh sorry, yes, I caught that part, thank you for that :)

I just wanted to say I'm not talking bad of artists who do charge those prices. I'm much more upset at people who try to take advantage of me and make me feel bad for charging what I do, when I don't even charge much when it comes down to it

yeah. some of these artists have no idea what i really mean behind these messages i say.

Ugh... people like that are annoying.

I agree that artists should be paid for the time they take to produce the art that is ordered.

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