I just...


This speaks to me.

On so many levels.

By empathizing on the message or being that weirdo who pays $700? XD

The message. I will never pretend to own more money than I can count.

Why, you ask?


I have ADD. So, you know. Yeah. :V

Also, the joke here, being I could never count that high because I would lose focus because of my Attention Deficit Disorder.

ah ok

So many levels of truth here. It's insane how much people pay for these YCH auctions. It just turns into a contest of will, it's not about the art anymore. I've seen some TERRIBLE YCH auctions go for 300+, when the artists normal rates topped at 50+!

YCHes: Turning the table since the new tens.

Normally it's the commissioners who screw over the artists given the rates professional artists get charged. (...to be fair they normally have to provide a much higher level of finish.) But with some YCHes, man, those commissioners got robbed.

I agree to an extent, however please remember that the artists aren't forcing the bidders to bid the amount they do. The bidders themselves should do their research and decide whether or not a piece is worth bidding X amount of dollars for.

In the end, it's your hard-earned money and you should be allowed to use it however you wish. If you want to bid hundreds of $$ for a piece, go for it! People need to stop shaming these people tbh.

Agree I do not. YCH auctions could be a great thing, if they were just regulated better and made auto-buys at normal and reasonable levels. Like make the AB be the amount it would cost of the client just hired the artist to draw what is there plus a SMALL amount more.

Instead, artists just seem to let the price explode and don't help keep people's poor money choices in check. Charging someone $200 through a bid for something you'd normally charge $50 for (for example), is borderline extortion.

We will have to agree to disagree then, I suppose.
I repeat, the artist is in no way forcing the bidder to bid the amounts they do. You can't blame an artist because YOU decided to pay $500 on a drawing. That's foolish.

Real Life auctions don't work that way either. Someone will not auction off an item and then stop the bidding once it reaches the retail price. They will let it run the alloted time to give others a chance to outbid and get the item they really want.

May I also add, that adding a cap often times ruins the auction for others even more, because a lot of people will just automatically AB and not even give others a chance. I've seen this with many popular artists recently (Falvie and her design auctions, for example)

You also have to remember that some artists don't take commissions as often as others (sometimes even not at all), so a YCH could be someone's only chance at a piece from them. That automatically bumps the value of the artwork up, and the bidders know this. Anyone bidding with a paypal is an adult, and can make their own decisions. I ask again that you please stop blaming the artists for the high-priced auctions. In the end, the artist and winning bidder are both happy and get what they want. There's nothing wrong with that, and if you really don't like how high an auction is, just don't bid. This way, you lose nothing

Browsed your gallery, btw. Amazing work you do. :)

thank you!

I bet you anything most of these artists who make up several hundred bucks from a YCH are thinking "Wow..."

I only dislike when an artist has their commissions at a low price, then suddenly closes them forever and just does YCHs that get much more then the commissions. Why not just raise the prices of your commissions? I kinda suspect so it's harder to get art from that artist so people will throw more money down when a YCH is posted.


My favorite was the time I saw an artist say, and I'm not kidding, "I was going to draw my character in this (fully done picture with only a base head and stuff.) but I figured I could make money and do less of the work then making a new YCH from scratch." It upset me so much that I stopped watching that artist. :/

I believe I might know exactly who you're talking about... unless that is it's somebody else, too.

This is just depressing on so many levels...

Well, always bittersweet to start the morning with such heavy truth. Very nice.

I will fave this, unfave it and then fave it so I can DOUBLE FAVE THIS.

PREACH

You know what they say - there's a sucker born every minute. I bet if Barnum were still alive today, he'd be a trillionaire and would be able to put hundreds of people through college of of just YCHes, Kickstarters *cough*Potato Salad*cough*, and selling virtual items in Valve's multiplayer games.

mine rarely go above what my normal commission prices are.. but my regular prices have me working for $0.03 - $0.05 an hour.. so i'd kinda take whatever money someone would throw at me.. ^^;;;

Just think, if the the YCH offers a big hard throbbing you know what, a fur would offer at least a thousand dollars.

this is... amazing XD

I've run into this problem with Ebay a lot. Such a cute and funny comic.

I compensate for this issue by offering ladder options. Also, some people are just stoked for an opportunity to support an artist that needs the income.

Yes this!

Ladder options?

Bids that reach certain levels get more detail, i.e., color wash, ink and full color, etc.

Ah, ok. I get it. That's a great idea!!

afterthought to mention: That way, if they reach the prices I'd have set for those options anyway, they're available to the bidders. If they go above and beyond, then better for me. Sometimes, commissioners just want a piece, but don't have a pose in mind. This helps some of them resolve that conundrum.

Most of the artists ae busy all the time or drawing only YCH, the answer is simple

A fool and his money are soon departed.

I've seen this happen a lot, but if people are willing to throw their money at someone, who am i to complain?

So much this

I never understood this at all...
People spend too much money on 1 piece when they could commission multiple people and get drawn exactly what they want for the same price.
People are fucking crazy

I understand though if they were blessed with wealth and can just throw money away whenever they want though.

I just saw an auction which is currently at $1,100.

Not even joking @_@

Somehow...I'm not surprised in the least.

Whoever has THAT Much to spend has money to burn.

God.... damn....

Was it like a 5 page comic or something?

One image.

how many chars?

I think it was one. The artist for it was Sixthleafclover, and checking the form, whilst it has no info, it went in the end for 1,500

Extortion.

Indeed, that's why I prefer to stay the hell away from YCH things.

Was looking at the comic auction Gillpanda was running, she's ended it a few days early cause the price was going too high (It ended at $750)

That is high, but at least that's like a 5 page comic.

True, that's the one upside to that one.

I'm not against YCHs because if an artist is hurting for cash they can make what they need with one auction instead of working on a dozen commissions. But yeah it can get nuts sometimes and I think some people just get caught up in the competition and lose sight of what's going on, when you treat an auction like a contest it's easy to go overboard fast and not realize it till your shelling out your rent for that month.

That's not the fault of the artist of course, though when I see the same person post wave after wave of YCHs and ask for massive starting bids way above what they usually charge for a commission I can't help but think maybe their getting a little greedy.

While people might be stupid with money, at the same time artists can just say "No, sorry, that's not fair to take $700 from you for something that I normally charge $80 for".

But, greed is universal. Something all humans suffer from. Not saying that don't need to pay bills like everyone else, but being able to pay rent with about 3 hours of drawing isn't what I call fair.