girahimu-sama:

artists, its REALLY integral that you dont underprice your work when charging commissions. i dont care what you think of your own skill level, it hurts the market as a whole. 

people charging 20$ for a fully coloured picture is just ridiculous. dont lower yourself to that level. 

picture it this way, if it takes you lets say 5 hours to do a finished piece, and you charge 20$ for it as a whole, you’re charging 4$ per hour. that’s less than minimum wage. minimum fucking wage. come on, your work is worth more than that.

now, why it hurts the market as a whole to charge that little is because people think they can get amazing art for essentially chump change because one artist will underprice and then another artist will charge a fair price. people will see the underpriced work and then see the fair priced work and go “thats expensive!” even though it’s perfectly reasonable.

value your work. i know it can be difficult, but if you underprice youre not only screwing yourself over and working for fuck all, youre screwing every one else over as well. basically dont stand for this shit, youre better than that.