Look man either pay them or learn art yourself to feed your fat fetish.
bitch 40 for lineart should be the standard, art is a damn luxury and some of these artists need food
@ whatever greyshades is these days, Like I said, they’re kids who don’t know how to haggle.
>Lineart – 2 hours for pencils, 1-2 hours for lines = 3 hours at $40
>$40/3(aprox) = $13/hr – paypal fees and bank transfer fees = 10/hr
>Colour – 2 hours for pencils, 1- 2 hours for lines, 3-6 hours for colour = aprox 9 hours at $120
>$120/9 = 13/hr – paypal fees and bank transfer fees = 10/hr
Art is an extremely specialised skillset that takes anywhere from 5-20 years to develop, costs around 500 minimum entry to be able to create digital art due to requiring a tablet and software, along with enough RAM to run high-layer drawings depending on your program. Thinking you have any reason or right to haggle with someone because you don’t like their prices is some entitled shit my friend. You don’t walk into an autoshop and try to barter with them for their hourly wage and their parts cost, why the fuck would you do it in something else? It’s capitalism, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it but don’t think you have a right to special treatment.
I guarantee you we’d charge hourly if that was a possible standard but because the industry has no standards peope have to charge what will sell and that is ultimately much lower than it really should. Especially considering most of us have standards against drawing furry mpreg vore.
People don’t realize just how cheap commissioned art online actually is. Most of the time you pay the artists minimum wage.
Just think about that for a second.
Where I live, that’s LESS than minimum wage
I know artists who have made it in the comic or otherwise commercial art industry, and they comfortably charge hundreds for their time, talent and name on commissions.That’s the MINIMUM. We’re talking people who can make several hundred dollars per PAGE of narrative.
Get your heads out of your asses and start supporting online freelancers and their dirt cheap pricing—it’s your fault they’re all valued so low to begin with.
I got a whole masterpiece for like $150 that’s a fucking bargain for the level of talent I commissioned. LEARNING art is hard and takes practice, and I feel like if you gonna bitch about online commission prices then get your ass a tablet and some tutorials and start sketching, bitch. You’ll learn a new appreciation for artists who charge the bare minimum and lower for work you consider “easy” or “simple.”
They are providing a luxury service your talentless ass cannot provide for yourself so fucking PAY THEM. And some of the shit y’all commission probably ain’t even shit THEY wanna remotely draw so PAY THEM.
travis mcelroy: okay so my character is a punk magician with facial piercings and a pompadour undercut
griffin mcelroy, eye twitching: w-well! okay! here’s two npcs, one is wearing a toboggan and the other is a giant older woman in a leather duster who calls herself ‘mama’. they both have shotguns
travis mcelroy, every vein in his head popping out prominently: well MY character stonewalls everyone she meets until they refer to her rescue rabbit by his proper name and title, and she set a hotel on fire and fled from the cops with a strange woman in a truck!
griffin mcelroy, surrounded by an aura of light, levitating several feet into the air: DUCK’S SPIRITUAL GUIDE IS A SIX-FOOT TALL ETHERIAL FEMININE FIGURE WITH A LONG NECK NO HAIR AND NO FACE WHO’S FURIOUS THAT HER CHARGE ISN’T BUFF ENOUGH
travis mcelroy, going full super saiyan: GRIFFIN I NEED TO KNOW IF THIS NPC IS CUTE BECAUSE IF SHE IS I NEED TO ROLL TO MAKE SURE AUBREY DOESN’T GET NERVOUS ABOUT IT AND MESS UP THIS MAGIC TRICK
The funniest homophobic notion out there is the whole, “you’re just a lesbian because you can’t get a man” thing. Like, do you have any idea how easy it is to get a man? It takes a smartphone and ten minutes of time while trying to get a girlfriend is like trying to win the lottery with a single ticket you found on the sidewalk.
take time to figure it out 