Thank you so much for featuring my art!!!!!! I’m overwhelmed with joy that I actually got my piece in!!! I’m a huge fan of your videos and always will be! Please do more like this in the future
Thanks for featuring my work. It seems I did it for the right price. And its good to know that I can raise the price. It took me 40 hours of work (Procreate measures that).
I mostly still don't feel confident enough to seriously manage commissions at all, even though I think I could pass the 15$ mark now and sometimes get small drawing jobs at Uni. I would love to be able to work with peoples characters, Indie devs, youtubers or generally videos, but I already worry about art trades xD Also I am afraid of my personality getting in the way. I feel like that is one of the reasons people are underselling so much while not doing art for a living - you can't disappoint the customer and yourself as much with a low priced artwork, but if you get more expensive the pressure is on. Maybe people need to be more confident in the fact that - if they have higher prices and they are being commissioned - the buyer commissioned you for a reason. They might genuinely like what you do~ I hope that this gives a few people the courage to give themselves more credit for their work!
KareFreeKez I’m currently learning how to draw because I want to become an illustrator and make a living out of my work, but now I’m not so sure if it’s worth it
"Ah yes, you want a 3 minute animation. Okay, well that's 4,500 frames, so that'll be your entire annual income please :). I'll have it ready by this time next year, maybe."
Bro animators are *amazing.* Like I feel like they don’t get the recognition they deserve (probably because they actually don’t get the attention they deserve lol). Kudos to the animators out there who do commissions. Thats some hard stuff there.
@@TigerTzu Eh, with the 50/50 rule it's only HALF the entire anual income beforehand, and they have a whole year to get the other half ready. It's pretty fair...
acentio idk man but as an animator(mostly do tweening and not “real” animation, so kind of in training to say) that touched my heart ♥️ I may not do commissions rn but when I can I’ll try to remember ur comment
i charge almost $200 for thigh-high fully shaded pieces, i've been drawing digitally since i was 13 (i'm 26 now). When I started out I was charging $7 for years, I never thought I'd be able to charge what I do now but just slowly increased my prices by $5-10 every time I noticed my skill increase. i really hope all of the artists out there who are watching this vid keep working hard, drawing as much as possible, and be compensated fairly for your wonderful art!
Yes! I started when I was 15 to draw. One year ago I was charging around 15 for a full shade piece(when I was 17) Now I'm charging 33 (but due taxes i only recieve 30) The bad thing is that I don't have too much visibility, but from time to time a good soul finds me and commission me one drawing At least with one I can pay my public transport things to go to university! (I live far away, I don't have a car and neither money to live with roommates) I hope one day more people sees my art, it's not professional but it's the kind of decent (semi)realism
Hey, I’m 13 myself, if anyone could just go on my channel and check out my speed paints, what would you think people would be willing to pay for my art? I’m planning on starting commissions when I turn 14, and I don’t know what to really do to get my art out there. I don’t know how to start up a shop or anything and was just planning to do commissions through Instagram. My plan sound alright?
@@homosexuaI I would work a little more with anatomy, that's the principal thing if you want people to buy commissions! 😄 I'm not saying you have to be perfect at it, but a good pose and balance in a character really increments the chances of getting commissioned Have you heard about the exercise "gesture"? Check it out. Once you understand how the body works, you can adapt it to your one style, from realism to cartoonish 💕 give it a try and remember! Keep practising! That's the real key Now, talking about how to get visibility: Tumblr, devianart, twitter, even making streamings in twitch can give you visibility You can start doing and publishing fanarts of characters that already exists, so people get to see your post thanks to the tags. You can also work on original characters of course! And step by step, you will see how someone will ask you for a commission The price is up to you, but try to compare your art to another artist commission and see how much they charge and if yous has the same, less, or more worth it! Pd: sorry for my english. Also, I'm don't work in the art industry as professional, but the steps I said before are basically what you have to do
please also take into consideration your customer base. i probably wouldn’t spend 150-200 dollars on a bust of a character but some people might. if your entire customer base is filled with younger teens they probably won’t want to spend much more than $30 if they’re really interested in your art. a huge part of making money is taking into consideration your audience. price your artwork accordingly to your fan base at the time, and gradually increase from there as you grow.
Agreed. Especially when it's fanart rather than something original and only in digital format, I think it should take that into consideration. Though I am definitely not a good judge, since I personally wouldn't pay more than $15 for any art, lol. But I do think those are detractors for selling something. Not dissing fanart or digital art, for the record. But fanart is not technically "yours" and not having an original, physical copy of the art just isn't worth as much emotionally or monetarily. For the audience thing, the only people who care about my art enough to potentially buy it are my mom and some old ladies that are friends of my mom's and they all live in assisted living, so they could barely afford like $5 commissions, LOL.
I spend about 4-9 hours making very very detailed pieces that are the size of an average piece of paper. Some people that have taken my work tells me that every time they look at it they see something else they didn’t see before because it’s so detailed I thought it was worth maybe $15-20 but now I’m thinking I should be pricing them like $50-75
exactly! I myself can draw in that range of time detailed portraits and people have been asking me to do commissions, but i was too scared of asking too much so i'm going to sell it for 3 USD per hour :/ I should have seen this video before... But now I know how the industry works.
Same, lol. I do traditional watercolor pieces that have also been inked for the most part, and they take me literally all day, but I don't feel right charging a bunch. Even if I had an actual market for them with people who can afford or value "art prices." (So far only 1 friend, my mom, and some of the old ladies who live in my mom's building are really interested, and I'm definitely not going to charge them like $80+.) I wish you luck in your pricing, though!
Zowero The Wolf But not every piece has a specific meaning to understand. Sometimes it’s as simple as looking at it and sometimes it means nothing. Art isn’t always the intense thing made to express our deepest emotions and when it is, it’s very rarely a black line with a few circles
I think the factor that plays a major role is the shipping and packaging and needs more effort and care rather than downloads. Of course, if there is talk about physical digital art then yeah you say the impermanence of traditional art plays a bigger role.
My family: you need to charge more than $5 for your comissions Me: eh This video: you need charge way more than $5 at your skill level Me: *surprised pikachu face*
I looked at your channel and HECK YEAH YOU DO!!!! Good luck buddy! If people see art for 5$ they will think it’s low quality and won’t want to spend because they want to feel proud of their purchases it’s weird but it’s just odd psychology I saw a rely explainingmore of this concept in another comment
Dude don’t be modest, that hurt you more than it helped- at this point you’re scamming yourself for charging so critically low xd especially if that’s your main source of income.
It's a lot more complicated to put together a pricing guide for animation as opposed to still art! Do you charge per frame ? Do you offer what is basically a "bulk" discount after a certain length ($12 per frame but $300 for 30 frames for example)? How would you charge for effects, moving background elements, etc? Is this going to be used as part of someone else's content like in a stream or as an opener to a let's play? Is it tweening, vector, or raster? I think the most realistic way to do it, and the ways I've encountered for private work, is to either charge by footage (like "I'll charge you $XXX for every 10 seconds of completed animation"), to charge a flat rate per shot/per scene while factoring in difficulty (closeup on character talking is $50, two characters dancing while the camera spins for 10 seconds is $600), or to charge by hourly work put into it. There's just so many factors I find either a flat rate that factors in my time, or a straight up hourly rate, are the best solutions. And after doing animation long enough, it gets pretty easy to accurately predict how much time something will take to do.
@@tomraines6554 well we usually dont have art already up to sell. you have to commission. and commissions may or may not be open. artists will open comms for a certain period of time, do those, close, and open back up whenever they feel like it or have the chance. every artist does it differently, but usually an artist will present themselves as "open for commissions" and will take commissions by email, text, twitter dms, etc. until their queue is full. so you find the artist you want comms from, wait for them to open, and ask for a commission!
@@tomraines6554 lesser known artists have instagram, twitter, tumblr, and amino/deviantart commissions. Better known artists have etsy or their own store / website. I hate how theres not one place to find artists because sometimes on instagram you really like someones art style but they dont have a shop / dont do commissions.
chaotic_gabby I feel like there should be an app that is solely made for commissions (whether they cost in-app currency or real currency). That would make so many things so much more easier.
I'd like to stress the point you've mentioned at the end: Low prices don't necessarily bring you more customers. They also have the tendency to attract cheap customers who don't value the work you do (whom you don't want as regulars anyway), and they also give the impression of low quality work. The last bit is more true for my field (programming) than it is for art, but outsiders don't have an eye for good art and they don't recognize quality as well as artists do, so many do rely on the price as an indicator as well. Just saying, I'd never commission anyone for less than $10 to draw anything for many reasons, including the two I mentioned. So unless you're a beginner - don't undercharge to attract customers, you're attracting the wrong kind of customers and pushing away the good ones. EDIT: just to clarify, the last paragraph is not referring to something like a quick headshot sketch that might just take 5-15 minutes, of course.
Yeah, low prices just don't "feel good" (people often neglect that part of the equation and that especially OC commissioners have their pride when asking to draw their own characters who have added/sentimental value to themself) and the simple fact to question if the price list is outdated can make a buyer willing to pay a fair/high price just shy out of commissioning anything istead.
100% what Kenny said. Also, paradoxically it's almost always those cheap customers that really try and wring you for everything you're worth--often expecting perfection far above their price point, and constantly trying to weasel in endless revisions and tweaks. (And then of course, gaslighting you when you eventually try to put your foot down.) Conversely the customers that are willing to pay more are often far more fair, understanding, and overall willing to work with you in mutually beneficial ways. (Which is part of the reason why I no longer charge less than $250 for a finished 5-8 hour piece.)
Tfw you sell 15+ hours illustration for a 10$ because you are scared ppl won’t pay more But let me tell you, when I got my first payment I was ecstatic for a days
I seriously needed this video earlier- I used to sell my art for $8 USD but someone DM’d me saying that it was too expensive for an icon drawing so I dropped it down to $5 Now I just- MAN I FEEL CHEATED
Your art is worth much more! And you should always think if it's a good price. Like, would I buy a piece like this for this much money? And if you would you can go for that price!
Egg Champion dude. You don’t know their art at the time. It doesn’t matter if your art took 100 hours, if it looks bad people aren’t going too be willing too pay.
AspenPaw Arts sigh i know what you mean. Obviously skill is important when selling art but even more so exposure. Without exposure there’s no way even really good art would sell
@@lenatv705 i used to price my stuff at 3 dollars because i felt so bad about charging people more than 10 but i realized it wasn't benefiting me at all because i wasn't making back the money i needed to continue working as a artist.
@@grainwilson See thing is I'm not exactly smart here so like. Okay I'm want to be able to make money specifically for family because I want to help in some way and not just be the lazy one that plays video games in the basement all weekend lol, and I want to help people but I'm also not smart on how to set up a PayPal account and like Im still trying to experiment with lighting things and get back on track with my traditional art. Also *school, is the ultimate pressure* long type jahdjfj
Oh my god ikr? I especially hate it when they have a sob story to make you buy their art. This one instagram account I saw was a beginner, with really poor anatomy saying that their phone died and they were poor. They used that to guilt people into buying commissions..
@asui I'm not judging anyone, and I never said it's not art. Please don't put words in my mouth. Low quality is not *bad*, it simply needs improvement. What, is self improvement bad now? Should I not work to improve my art because it's currently "my style?" If they don't want to improve specific skills, that's totally fine. But don't say I'm putting someone done if I give them constructive criticism.
ok this is gonna sound weird maybe but this video is so professional. like idk how to describe it but it just is. its also very underrated. I subscribed! :)
same, I came into it thinking it's going to be like a casual-talking-from-personal-experience but then they bust out 5 professional judges and even some outsider input. truly gamer
I was shocked watching this. I realized my art easily falls into the high end of the 30-$45 range. I am looking to start commissions and I had been thinking I'd charge around $20 max. I thought "nobody will buy it if it's any more", but after listening to your explanations I understand better. Thank you so much for this.
try asking the people around you! if you are just starting with commissions and such i recommend that you communicate with the buyer and find a price that is suitable for you but that is not to say you make it more expensive or the buyer makes it cheaper. Do not under sell or over sell yourself.if you are known for having cheap commissions with good quality more people will buy from you but you wont be making the same money you put into the pieces but if you are known for overpricing your works then people wont want to purchase from you. communication is key!! have close friends or family tell you what they think you should price it as to get a perspective of a buyer. If you drew what your profile picture is its so cute! digital works are much easier to sell because they cant get damaged in shipping usually and they are better for making merch and prints( in my experience its super hard for me to get traditional art to look the same on paper )
One of the best videos on this site. Saw it years ago, and it always stuck in my mind - I think this is as close to a scientific test for this as you can do. I love how much care you put into the entire process and making sure all kinds of perspectives were considered. Just wanted to let you know this is beyond excellent and I am grateful for the work you've put into it!
Them: Very beginner art should be $5 at least, even for headshots Me: How 'bout 40 amino coins (33 cents) for a fully shaded full body with a complex background? Random choosing beggar: How about 5 amino coins for that? Worse choosing beggar: How about I take your art without credit? Worst choosing beggar ever: I'll let you draw for me if you join my patreon and praise the ground I walk on, then I shall take your art and use it in a video without credit. If you dare ask for credit, I will tell you to kys Me: Bruh
Honestly I am just not confident enough to sell my art, I can't imagine charging people for my shitty shitty stuff. And I never know how to react when people message me and commission me for art. I just apologise and tell them I don't do commissions yet.
water drinker I would tell you to actually take up a few of those offers on commissions and experiment. You never know what its really like until you try it. If you think you’re not ready yet, brush up a bit more on what you may need to improve on for your artwork to be considered for commissions if you feel as though you may do them in the future. Its all about practicing and experimenting when it comes to things like this. Good luck!
in my experience (taking any departments like rents, restaurants, art, tattoos, ect.) Cheap prices attract cheap customers. If you have low prices, people will always try to bargain with you even lower than the price you are charging. If you have that issue, try to have a good portfolio of your work and what you enjoy doing and then get your prices higher. the more pieces you post, the more consistent your style will show in these and attract the right type of customers for you. You could also time youreself whenever you are making a piece and make an average of the time you spend per piece (don't forget to cathegorise them like in this video). find a price for that average and make it your base price. Like that if someone is asking for a simpler piece, you will make a bit more money, but you won't need to always be right on spot (and most of the time loose money for not charging extras) for time and charges. BUT don't forget to charge more if you think it will take more time (or at least warn your customers of your ''overtimes'' fies). More than often a customer will be happy to pay more if the quality or amount of details will be there. The key to that is communication. If someone is comming to you with a project and you say to them right away that you think you might need more than the base price depending of how the project is going. Like that, you stay really transparent and establish a trustworthy relationship with your customer and there should be no problems (still if your customer is new to commissioning, explain to him the whole process so he don't feel cheated or in a fog).
"Beginners level: $5-$10" Me: - sells art I spent hours on for $3 and cries because no one values art from where I'm at and won't be willing to spend more than $5 on it - Edit: drop down your Instagram art accounts if you have any! I wanna try to support you and you can check out everyone else's too- if you're interested mine is @sqrqhart
My mother was an artist for over 20 years, traditional embroidery that takes days to months to make. Even a small piece at 5€, people asked to lower prices constantly. Just for the joke I asked her to make extremly simple designs (2colors decorated button at 1€ piece) and people still asked to lower prices or plain Stole&Run away with the presentation pieces outside the box I intentionally left not attached to the table. Morale of the story? There will ALWAYS be weirdos just asking for free stuff and taking it by horrible means regardless of the quality of your craft. So, the problem may not be people not valuing art, but your prices just not feeling adequate to potential clients. Just be confident on your works, ask yourself "what price range would feel good if I had to buy art from someone else who draws like me" and rise the prices to that margin. Free doesn't count, what you can affort doesn't either. Just what would feel adequate if you had the budget to buy something like that. Because when the weirdos can't steal art or bully a commission into a free request, they go away. And only then real clients willing to pay for their ego to feel good having new pieces of art may appear.
Once a girl in my class wanted my art I said the price (it was 1.55) When i came home i made the drawing (it took half an hour) Then i was in school and when i gave her the art, she just said she did'nt want it anymore
Canvas is not really my forte, but be honest with how much your materials cost and pay attention to number of hours spent. Also, it's an original, so ++$. Other than that art quality judgement is the same: is it low, medium, or high?
Along with what Crown Prince said, keep in mind the shipping costs if you're giving a physical piece to them(like postal fees and gas if your post office is far away)
depends where you are in your career. But usually people start out with price per inch^2 (area). So if say you charge $1 per square inch, an 8"x10" would be $80. A lot of client also like this better than priced per time since they think you just gonna drag out the time to charge more, the area method makes more reliable psychological sense to them? At some point you stop using this model and just price it w/e depends based on demand.
As someone that's been doing personal commissions off an on for 20+ years and done a lot of research into fair wage practices a lot of these value estimations feel very on the low side. You could get away with doubling the prices in many of the cases presented or even tripling them in others. Some prices seem very arbitrary though when you contrast them against each other, like that bright yellow digital sketch page being marked as 250+ by two people but then full color traditional pieces that came later that were much more polished and had equally strong stylistic choices being estimated at only 80-120? Hopefully the main thing people come away with from watching this though is to raise their prices. So many people undercharge for their work and the goal should be to get entry level up to at least 15usd an hour and normalize that.
Honestly that's what I am aiming for. I can usually draw icons withing like what... 3-4 hours? Despite having a rather simplistic style (disability go brr) Honestly if I had a big enough name in the industry I'd triple my current prices for sure.
I agree with your point, about dress up games, example: gacha life. Ive seen an amino of ingame gacha adopts, they sell it to such a high price, like over 75-500+ amino coins (bid auctions) compare to that to actual artists' commission prices on other aminos, being more cheaper than just buying a very expensive ingame created oc. Its unfair for the artists working hard on the commissions they do for a cheaper price.
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@@getoutofmyroom9590 daannnggg I'm a gachatuber and I didn't know they charged that much, but I say that hours of time do count plus the lineart. I'd still sell it $15 U.S and under, maybe $10 and under.
@ yup, well if people use gacha life as a base like for poses, and use it for a custom adopt, its good. Except for ingame dress up oc created. but i dont know about the gacha edit commissions, as long as they keep it up to a fair price. since the creator of the game worked very hard just to find out people have been using his games out of profit.
I highly agree I only edit for fun I could never think of selling and edit. It’s the original artist’s property I can’t sell something I used of a base of someone else’s hard hours of work I use bases to improve shading it’s inconsiderate of people who would do that I’d feel too ashamed to do that I use gacha to practice smooth lineart and shading I’m not very good at creating something from scratch just for practice which I am fixing I’m walking away from edits and working on just my art. And I think that it’s worth doing edits because if I didn’t I would not be here at my ok skills today it’s worth editing these things but selling them is just wrong to me and orgional artists don’t deserve that. But if it’s YOUR original art freehand then go for it
The best decision i ever made was switching websites. I started on deviant art, and didn't get much attention to my commissions. Went to Furaffinity, nearly nothing. Got only starting bids on some YCHs, and a little more than that. Then i made and account on Inkbunny, and i have clients commissioning me each time i open my commissions, Auto buying slots in my YCHs, and asking me when i'll be open for more commissions or YCHs because they either missed their chance, or want to get more art from me. This was the most amazing change to my selling experience. I will be raising my prices when i open commissions again, cause i cant keep up with the amount im getting, and cannot sustain myself with the current pricing. I have nice returning clients who tell me i need to raise my prices as well, and i agree with them. My point is, if you feel you should be getting more attention to your art, maybe you just haven't found the right audience yet. i surpassed my Deviant Art and furaffinity accounts stats in the first week of posting on inkbunny, and I've had my deviant art account for 9 years... that was my eye opener. and even though i only have nearly 400 watchers and rising on Inkbunny, with the amount of attention i feel im getting, i'd almost think that i have way more. i dont need a super big following to make a living like i originally thought, but just an interested fan-base who enjoy me and my art and support me by buying my stuff. I'm definitely not saying to go make an Inkbunny, but I'm saying try and find the right audience of people. Maybe on your current platform of choice, or trying out other ones, because changing sites definitely worked for me.
I NEVER SAW THIS, MY FRIEND JUST SENT ME THIS,, BUT OMFGG, ThAnk YOU so muCH💖😭💖💖💖😭😭 I was selling my reference sheets for 70$, later increased them to 100$, and this video, honestly gave me much courage in my work, i’ve been scared to sell my art for high price, thinking people would say this is to expensive, but thank you so so much for encouraging me💖
(I know I'm late-) Some people will always say It's too expensive, but don't listen to them. Art is a luxury, not everyone can pay for it and no one "needs" art, so theres no motive to feel guilty ^^
@@nyetnyetsu I mean, what is a comission "just for fun"? You're still working and still spending your time on that. More than this, a comission with full body, full background, full finalization for 50$ would probably give you way less than your work really cost. It's a case by case scenario
I like to carve stuff with foam, and makes it 3D like carving but harder/ easyer. Sometimes there not big, like a house I made, and sometimes they’re giant, like a castle I made.
Additional comment, maybe a bit off considering the topic, from a buyer: when using a payment method, make sure that it's possible to leave a tip. Depending on the quality of the work received, time it took, theme, etc., I personally tend to leave a tip between 10% to 25% (sometimes more in extreme cases) of the original price as a tip. Too many times have I been unable to do so because there's no way to tip the artist, pre or post reception of the piece. Anyway, it's just a thought. :3
Whenever I look how to price my art online they always say "base it on how much time you spend, materials yadda yadda yadda" And I'm like: I WANT NUMBERS GODAMNIT
Woah calm down. Are you under age or do you know what "minimum wage" is? The point being that you price your art according to YOU. If youre okay with making $4 an hour bssed on your work then you can. If you arent, then figure out how to make pieces faster. The same goes for materials. If youre spending like $100 on copics / oil paints / digital art software / tablet then you have to make enough to pay yourself back. If youre spending too much on software or traditional materials then you need to figure out to pay less or work with what you have.
@@MyFictionalChaos That part about according to you is what they're talking about. According to you can be about a 10 year professional artist that knows what they're doing and what their limits are. They can without second guessing say that artists like them are either overcharging or undercharging for so and so. Then there is the amateur that has no opinion set in place peranently for pretty much anything and according to them will rather be based on the generosity of ther costumer base. Just because the latter artist is ok with bucks doesn't mean it's up to standards with their actual work. If everybody kept pricing that way, there wouldn't have been any standards to go after in this video either.
yay i see my artwork at 4:57 its the lowest priced character sheet :D but the drawings of the word art and the character by themselves took me 25 minutes in total so its pretty high compared to the time taken (the entire artwork took 1 hour in total)
3:30 Whoa, didn’t expect my art piece to be in this video (the one in the middle). Thank you so much! I honestly thought my art would be less than that.
this video was like a blessing or something lol. A while ago I took my very first actual big commission. The commission was a tattoo design for the entire arm. The commissioner, someone I know personally, asked me to create a design based on many interests and things she values (such as nature, sports, her family, etc.) so they sent me a huge list of random things they wanted me to include. Finding a concept or an idea was hard enough but I managed. But then after finishing the layout they would add more and more things on the list and the design started getting more and more complicated. After finally finishing the drawing (which took me around 20+ hours) they still wanted me to change things and I‘m sort of helpless at this point. I don‘t know how much to charge since I lack a lot of experience regarding pricing (and I‘m not that confident in my work to charge too much) and I‘m also getting very frustrated with them overcomplicating things because I‘m afraid that at this point adding even more things would only result in them getting lost in the drawing. If anyone has any advice on what I should do, you‘d be helping me out a lot!!
This is the most useful video I’ve ever watched. I used to sell flat color full body illustrations for 20 cents. They took me about 2-3 hours to make. Not do’n that anymore.
Me:*makes art that takes hours sells it for 5 dollars* Someone: "isnt 5 dollars expensive for a drawing?" Me: 😑 Edit: okay I'm not a gacha person ok I do real art and this happened to me one time and I thought it'd be a good joke this video I guess something like that so yeah but I don't do gacha and I do real art and you know it I'll change your profile pic i will
I love Angelique sorry, my comment was probably came off very rude. What I’m trying to say is that if the art she is talking about is basically a gacha drawing with some modifications to the outfit or something, then yes. 5 dollars is a bit much seeing that you just made profit off of somebody else’s hard work. but if it isn’t a gacha edit and it’s good enough to sell, then yeah i agree with her. (also just because it took her 5 hours doesn’t mean it’s automatically good art)
I can't believe I charged $5 for a flat-colored fullbody--with prop interaction, costume pieces, and a simple back ground. I should really pump up my prices lol
So the closest to my skill level is probably NattStar which you priced at 30 to 45. Really? And here am I, selling my art for 1$ because I'm too scared to price it higher. Edit: I've decided to change my fullbodys to about 10$.
You really shouldn't undercharge for your work. If you see yourself at that skill level, charge at least 30. Respect yourself as an artist. You will find customers willing to pay the real value. You just need to market yourself more. Put yourself out there. Customers who aren't willing to pay fair prices aren't customers worth keeping around.
There were multiple people who submitted who said the same: they sold their art for a dollar. Your time is worth much more than that, even if you happen to be a beginner (and the people charging $1 were certainly not beginners). Unless it's amateur, entire characters start at $25 _minimum_. That'd be a base price for a flat color full body with no shading, like sugar_munchkin's example.
@@CrownePrince Thanks! ^^ Your video really helped me. I now found the courage to price my art higher + finally make a website (which I wanted to do for a while).
One issue is that the price something is being sold for influences the perception of it's value. Why would I want to buy art if even the artist doesn't think it's worth anything?
I'm a middle school student and am JUST starting to consider selling my art. This video has helped me a lot in figuring out what price my art would be suitable for. Thank you and keep up the good work!! 👍👍
Me: *makes art* My classmate: "can you draw me?" Me: "sure, give me a penny" My classmate: "seriously? I'm just gonna go to my friend who obviously draws better!" Me: ( ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ) "Bro-"
This reminded me I used to gift a lot of drawings to my classmates until one day one said "you took all this time to do that thing?, I would have done it better", since then I just give my close friends drawings for free, people often try to take advantage of artists.
My mom: "you'll never make money out of your stupid art" Me 3 months later: **sells a piece of art for 300€** what? Edit: please stop arguing in the replies, it makes me mad and sad at the same time, let people have their opinion it's alright if you think I'm lying, at least I know that i am saying the truth :(
@@carlo4393 Well first, he couldve improved a lot. But even if he didnt improve that much. There are still parents that dont believe that you can get money out of art. Especially if its not realism. I dont know what his art looks like, but I've literally seen parents think their childs art isnt good when it was AMAZING. Like it was brilliant. Not everyone has nice parents.
@@carlo4393 you're allowed to have your opinion and so is every else. Not everyone has nice or even apathetic parents, so please understand that. Parental narcissism does exist.
Thank you so much for making this video! I've always been wondering how to price my art. The discrepancy of the information here and my prices are so big. I would charge my bust commissions for $20 but I'm scared, thinking it's too expensive...then this video shows that my prices should be on the $50 - 75 mark. I'm still gonna work on improving my art, and this video really opened my eyes to the bussiness side of the art world. Thank you!
I've come to the realization I've been massively undercharging. My art style is constantly improving and with the most recent piece I did of a detailed galaxy themed character, was only run for about $35 dollars. At the time I made my sheet, I considered my prices to be fair. But now since my style has improved so much, I think its time to make an updated sheet.
This video is everything I always needed to hear, ever since trying commision work i've always undersold myself, then again i would assume a few artists do this in the beginning
I feel very out of touch, because I can't imagine ever paying that much for art, or ever charging that much for my art despite this video saying I'm at a fairly high skill level... I guess I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.
@@yourturn1942 Guess so. I'm barely keeping homelessness at bay and rarely ever have proper food on the table, so it's such a foreign concept to spend on something like this. Not trying to bash anyone cuz hey if you have the money for your interests, I can't really judge, even if I can't understand it.
If you are requested a piece of original art from an individual, it IS a commission. Giving it away for free doesn't make is any less so. Coming from someone who has done this many times, especially for family and friends, don't let yourself feel guilty for charging for your art. Take your skill into account but you need to remind yourself that your time is a valuable commodity, and you don't get that time back. Just as you are expected to be paid working a "traditional" job, you deserve compensation for your work as an artist. Gifting is a different story, that is of your own volition and choice. But when someone asks you to make them a piece you are being given a commission. I of course charge family/friends less for work, but that's a personal choice. Charge what you feel comfortable, it takes time for many artists to fully realize the value of their work. I am still learning myself.
That's literally me. I do whatever people ask me to do, although I don't always pull through but because it's free, it's more forgivable to be completely unreliable. Personally, I don't think my art is worth dirt yet.
free commisions are also viable, i did a freebie once and after that he wanted to work for him more, and now he pays me, just dont hesitate to ask for money. my freebie was to build myself a portfolio.
Thats the entire point of the video tho. If you have a recognizable name then you have to upcharge. If you draw amazing pieces and "open shop" for the first time and charge $200 youre not gonna make anything. You have to grow your base
not only does this give good demonstration on commission pricing and the opinions of different groups, it also is good to show proper ways to give criticism.
Thanks guys! This is super helpful to many artists, whether their experience is very low to be high. I find your price guesses very accurate and informative. Having artists and buyers from all perspectives to price these pieces also brings a new, fresh view into how much art sellers should properly price their art. I would also like to point out how well edited the video is- must have been gruesomely painful! Again, thank you for this wonderful video!! 💕💓💓💖💕
I casually take 50 hours or more for my more complex drawings, that's why I usually don't draw them for people. I only rarely trade these pieces when I find something I really want.
Before seeing this video I've been selling fully shaded full bodys for 20 dollars and you're tellin me that I shoulda been selling em for 70?! So many hours of work wasted for so little money... Glad I found this video!
I VERY MUCH ENJOY A VIDEO LIKE THIS. AS AN ARTIST WHO'S LOOKING TO START COMMISSIONS, HAVING THE CRITICISMS OF SO MANY PEOPLE IN ONE PLACE IS BRILLIANT! THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN INFORMATIVE FOR MY NOVICE BRAIN, THANK YOU.
After 2 years of drawing Im finally gonna start making commisions, I was so worried about how to put a fair price to my honestly pretty beginner drawings, but I think I landed on a nice price for my skill level, I'm just hoping 1 person commission me, even if only 1 person ever buys my art, I'm gonna feel acommplished.
this was incredibly helpful. I find a lot of people seem to believe you cant charge high prices or hourly rates because nobody would buy that, thanks for clarifying that!
Yeah dude. It's kinda hard for me to say this but I've noticed being recognized is the key. If you have over 10000 followers on instagram you can literally post a 2 minute doodle adopt and sell it for 20$. Kinda sad knowing there are probably millions of great artists like you not getting offers because they're not recignized very very much. Just keep posting and don't lose hope and it'll get better ❤️sorry thats a little too long---
FantasyAU Cosplay instead of requests, what I do is join competitions, MAPS etc. They give you exposure too more than just the 2 or 3 people who got a request
@@vixendais9988 Not even, just the random dude who owns it because they stole it from your trash bin way back when you deemed this piece not worth showing anywhere. As an authantic "unique uncatalogued piece of art" of your collection, it become even more valuable. Then it double prices each time it's stolen or damaged.
everyone else: such a great video me: I can see the heavy influence of Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland music score in the background music. It's beautiful and sounds like the scenes before the big fight.
@@shiningstar737 Exactly. He is clearly not a man of culture. What a saucy and shameful dank baroque. Ta-ta oui oui mosier la pee-pee de Franca del Monet. Pizza Pizarro Montenegro Papi!!! 😫🇮🇹🗼
I'd love to see a scribble kibble on the upcoming animated Lackadaisy short film when it comes out, and how the character designs were simplified down to be more animatable yet still recognizable from their normal beautiful painted style. I don't know about the animation quality yet, but character design sheets have been revealed, and they really show excellent simplification from their comic-style to the animation. I don't know how much you take suggestions but Lackadaisy is really great and I think it deserves a good look once the short comes out.
@Burn Me Please as both an artist and someone who buys art when they can (though im VERY cheap so i sadly have to count each dollar i spend) , please don't think your art is necessarely worth just 3 dollars ! Maybe some people do think it's only worth that much, but with such a drastic lowering of your prices I'm pretty sure a lot of your fans who couldn't/hesitated to pay $20 jumped on the occasion to support an artist they liked and now could afford ! I don't know your art but i sure know if an artist i followed who i really didn't want to spend $20 dollars on did such a price, i would most probably consider it, let alone if i was ready to pay if the piece was $17 or the like $3 is an incredibly cheap price, and i think a price more along 10-15 dollars would still bring you more requests (not as much, but probably more than you think !) than your usual $20, but would at least be more compensating to your time and efforts and reflect your skills more. Just my opinion/advice tho, you do what u think is right for urself of course (Though to any artists reading this : if something takes you more than 20min to make, whatever your skill level is, you need to charge it higher than $3 ! Seriously!!) Also, a selling technique that some friends of mine tried with pretty good results : try charging your art less, but frame it as a limited discount (as in, your prices will go back to usual in some time, tho it's your call if you put an actual date to it or just let your public in mystery as to when that'll happen, both strategies can tip hesitant would-be-customers to the actual-customers side, as long as it's executed well) and advertise it enough for your public/followers to be aware of it ! They will see it as an occasion to treat themselves and buy some of your stuff for once :)
@Burn Me Please Same. I am not even a beginner artist anymore but most people don't want to pay more than .50 cents for a full body sketch, and I advertise a LOT, and then when say I do requests people swarm the the page and ask for it. I did get 2 $25 commissions from a same buyer though. That boosted my motivation a bit.
Burn Me Please How many people were willing to buy the 20$ ones? If say 6 people were, then it’d take 40 people at the price of 3$ to just make what you potentially could’ve gotten at 20$. Since it’s the same amount of effort, just changing the time, you’d have to spend over 6 times the amount of time and energy to make the same amount. So there’s a chance that pricing it at a higher price may save you some time and thus be advantageous.
This is super crazy, I definitely feel lucky because I’m selling my art for $300-500 a portrait or landscape...that’s digital work...maybe because i already have a fashion brand? Edit: work time is about 5hrs to the most 10hrs
Hello ! I'm definitly interested in how do you sell your art, and what standard should it fit to get this pricing ? Would you answer to me ? I would be gratefull if you helped me a bit to understand how do we get to live by our art. Thanks in advance !
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Are you going to raise, lower, or keep the same commission prices after watching?
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Thank you so much for featuring my art!!!!!! I’m overwhelmed with joy that I actually got my piece in!!! I’m a huge fan of your videos and always will be! Please do more like this in the future
Thanks for featuring my work. It seems I did it for the right price. And its good to know that I can raise the price. It took me 40 hours of work (Procreate measures that).
I was wondering on good places to sell my art
This is extremely informative please keep making more
I mostly still don't feel confident enough to seriously manage commissions at all, even though I think I could pass the 15$ mark now and sometimes get small drawing jobs at Uni. I would love to be able to work with peoples characters, Indie devs, youtubers or generally videos, but I already worry about art trades xD Also I am afraid of my personality getting in the way.
I feel like that is one of the reasons people are underselling so much while not doing art for a living - you can't disappoint the customer and yourself as much with a low priced artwork,
but if you get more expensive the pressure is on.
Maybe people need to be more confident in the fact that - if they have higher prices and they are being commissioned - the buyer commissioned you for a reason. They might genuinely like what you do~
I hope that this gives a few people the courage to give themselves more credit for their work!
What I learned in this video:
The Art Industry is tough.
ikr
Indeed
VERY
It is
KareFreeKez I’m currently learning how to draw because I want to become an illustrator and make a living out of my work, but now I’m not so sure if it’s worth it
If you find charging for a single image difficult, just imagine the headache it is for animators to price their works. xD
"Ah yes, you want a 3 minute animation. Okay, well that's 4,500 frames, so that'll be your entire annual income please :). I'll have it ready by this time next year, maybe."
Bro animators are *amazing.* Like I feel like they don’t get the recognition they deserve (probably because they actually don’t get the attention they deserve lol). Kudos to the animators out there who do commissions. Thats some hard stuff there.
@@TigerTzu Eh, with the 50/50 rule it's only HALF the entire anual income beforehand, and they have a whole year to get the other half ready. It's pretty fair...
Wowie there’s so much to think about
acentio idk man but as an animator(mostly do tweening and not “real” animation, so kind of in training to say) that touched my heart ♥️ I may not do commissions rn but when I can I’ll try to remember ur comment
i charge almost $200 for thigh-high fully shaded pieces, i've been drawing digitally since i was 13 (i'm 26 now). When I started out I was charging $7 for years, I never thought I'd be able to charge what I do now but just slowly increased my prices by $5-10 every time I noticed my skill increase.
i really hope all of the artists out there who are watching this vid keep working hard, drawing as much as possible, and be compensated fairly for your wonderful art!
I've been doing the same! Every so often a $10 increase when I notice my skills improved. That's usually once a year.
Yes! I started when I was 15 to draw. One year ago I was charging around 15 for a full shade piece(when I was 17)
Now I'm charging 33 (but due taxes i only recieve 30)
The bad thing is that I don't have too much visibility, but from time to time a good soul finds me and commission me one drawing
At least with one I can pay my public transport things to go to university! (I live far away, I don't have a car and neither money to live with roommates)
I hope one day more people sees my art, it's not professional but it's the kind of decent (semi)realism
Hey, I’m 13 myself, if anyone could just go on my channel and check out my speed paints, what would you think people would be willing to pay for my art? I’m planning on starting commissions when I turn 14, and I don’t know what to really do to get my art out there. I don’t know how to start up a shop or anything and was just planning to do commissions through Instagram. My plan sound alright?
@@homosexuaI I would work a little more with anatomy, that's the principal thing if you want people to buy commissions! 😄 I'm not saying you have to be perfect at it, but a good pose and balance in a character really increments the chances of getting commissioned
Have you heard about the exercise "gesture"? Check it out. Once you understand how the body works, you can adapt it to your one style, from realism to cartoonish 💕 give it a try and remember! Keep practising! That's the real key
Now, talking about how to get visibility:
Tumblr, devianart, twitter, even making streamings in twitch can give you visibility
You can start doing and publishing fanarts of characters that already exists, so people get to see your post thanks to the tags. You can also work on original characters of course!
And step by step, you will see how someone will ask you for a commission
The price is up to you, but try to compare your art to another artist commission and see how much they charge and if yous has the same, less, or more worth it!
Pd: sorry for my english. Also, I'm don't work in the art industry as professional, but the steps I said before are basically what you have to do
Sara yeah, thanks! :D and I am trying to work on anatomy
Skilled artist: $100 at most
Banana on wall: 80K
Black dot on white background: 3'000'000$
its called money loundering
It must have taken plenty of hours for the banana on the wall
John Hernandez
It was legit duct taped to the wall 🤣🤣😂
@@noahbrando4799 yes I know this. I think everyone heard how ridiculous it is.
please also take into consideration your customer base. i probably wouldn’t spend 150-200 dollars on a bust of a character but some people might. if your entire customer base is filled with younger teens they probably won’t want to spend much more than $30 if they’re really interested in your art. a huge part of making money is taking into consideration your audience. price your artwork accordingly to your fan base at the time, and gradually increase from there as you grow.
yes!! all of my followers are like 10-17 years old lol, that's why I wont be opening comms (or they're poor)
Agreed. Especially when it's fanart rather than something original and only in digital format, I think it should take that into consideration. Though I am definitely not a good judge, since I personally wouldn't pay more than $15 for any art, lol. But I do think those are detractors for selling something. Not dissing fanart or digital art, for the record. But fanart is not technically "yours" and not having an original, physical copy of the art just isn't worth as much emotionally or monetarily.
For the audience thing, the only people who care about my art enough to potentially buy it are my mom and some old ladies that are friends of my mom's and they all live in assisted living, so they could barely afford like $5 commissions, LOL.
“How much is your art worth?”
Like 2 cents lol
Lol same
If family is buying maybe a dollar!
*me at school*
*Friend* : can you draw me something
*Me* : yeah that'll be a penny
I say looking at the floor feeling like garbage
Same
Mine is like lower
I spend about 4-9 hours making very very detailed pieces that are the size of an average piece of paper. Some people that have taken my work tells me that every time they look at it they see something else they didn’t see before because it’s so detailed
I thought it was worth maybe $15-20 but now I’m thinking I should be pricing them like $50-75
Good job boyyy
Yes! That’s amazing! So happy for you! Bump that price up!
exactly! I myself can draw in that range of time detailed portraits and people have been asking me to do commissions, but i was too scared of asking too much so i'm going to sell it for 3 USD per hour :/ I should have seen this video before... But now I know how the industry works.
Hey do you have insta or anything like that? I’d love to see your art!
Same, lol. I do traditional watercolor pieces that have also been inked for the most part, and they take me literally all day, but I don't feel right charging a bunch. Even if I had an actual market for them with people who can afford or value "art prices." (So far only 1 friend, my mom, and some of the old ladies who live in my mom's building are really interested, and I'm definitely not going to charge them like $80+.) I wish you luck in your pricing, though!
Meanwhile modern art be like:
A black line and a few Orange circle.
*oh yeah that'll cost like, a million dollars*
The art industry as far aa art shows go is all money laundering anyway.
you need high iq to understand art.
ikr
Zowero The Wolf But not every piece has a specific meaning to understand. Sometimes it’s as simple as looking at it and sometimes it means nothing. Art isn’t always the intense thing made to express our deepest emotions and when it is, it’s very rarely a black line with a few circles
I wonder what tf did they do to manage to achieve that
i never took into consideration that traditional art would cost more for its impermanence. ive never touched digital. this puts a lot into perspective
I think the factor that plays a major role is the shipping and packaging and needs more effort and care rather than downloads. Of course, if there is talk about physical digital art then yeah you say the impermanence of traditional art plays a bigger role.
My family: you need to charge more than $5 for your comissions
Me: eh
This video: you need charge way more than $5 at your skill level
Me: *surprised pikachu face*
DO IT :D - and good luck :D
I looked at your channel and HECK YEAH YOU DO!!!! Good luck buddy!
If people see art for 5$ they will think it’s low quality and won’t want to spend because they want to feel proud of their purchases it’s weird but it’s just odd psychology I saw a rely explainingmore of this concept in another comment
WasabiLover yes!
Dude don’t be modest, that hurt you more than it helped- at this point you’re scamming yourself for charging so critically low xd especially if that’s your main source of income.
im 12 and supposed to send my refined works at 40$ im excited but wierded out at the same time like 'am i lying to myself by accident ?'
I would really like another video like this, but focused on 2D animation... cut-out, frame by frame or both
Agreed!
Please make it happen.
yes, as a frame-by-frame animator I need this :0
It's a lot more complicated to put together a pricing guide for animation as opposed to still art! Do you charge per frame ? Do you offer what is basically a "bulk" discount after a certain length ($12 per frame but $300 for 30 frames for example)? How would you charge for effects, moving background elements, etc? Is this going to be used as part of someone else's content like in a stream or as an opener to a let's play? Is it tweening, vector, or raster?
I think the most realistic way to do it, and the ways I've encountered for private work, is to either charge by footage (like "I'll charge you $XXX for every 10 seconds of completed animation"), to charge a flat rate per shot/per scene while factoring in difficulty (closeup on character talking is $50, two characters dancing while the camera spins for 10 seconds is $600), or to charge by hourly work put into it. There's just so many factors I find either a flat rate that factors in my time, or a straight up hourly rate, are the best solutions. And after doing animation long enough, it gets pretty easy to accurately predict how much time something will take to do.
Yesss
Me: **draws picture and inks it**
Also me: *25 cents please*
Weirdo: Meh, it's just an inked peice, not even a colored one. Make it 10 cents and I may consider buying it...Maybe.
i’d say mine costs about a cent, maybe even 2
Plus shipping?
@@haoqw 2 CENTS!!!!!! THATS OUTRAGEOUS
@@hazelwilliams4866 oh my god i follow you on instagram!!👁👄👁
What’s my art worth?
A slice of cheese
1/100th of this month’s rent
Yes pleeez
you dont understand how expensive alot of cheeses can get
-HiddenCracks- on slice isn’t a lot
Wow man that's pretty expensive
Before watching: $2
After watching: $25 (+2 each character) (fullbody)
Where do I actually go buy y'all's (the comment section) art? Like I would buy art but don't know where to find it
@@tomraines6554 well we usually dont have art already up to sell. you have to commission. and commissions may or may not be open. artists will open comms for a certain period of time, do those, close, and open back up whenever they feel like it or have the chance. every artist does it differently, but usually an artist will present themselves as "open for commissions" and will take commissions by email, text, twitter dms, etc. until their queue is full. so you find the artist you want comms from, wait for them to open, and ask for a commission!
@@tomraines6554 lesser known artists have instagram, twitter, tumblr, and amino/deviantart commissions. Better known artists have etsy or their own store / website. I hate how theres not one place to find artists because sometimes on instagram you really like someones art style but they dont have a shop / dont do commissions.
chaotic_gabby I feel like there should be an app that is solely made for commissions (whether they cost in-app currency or real currency). That would make so many things so much more easier.
@@averyk7 true!
my friend takes 4 hours to make a digital drawing, and he makes it free for everyone because he thinks he draws very bad, F.
That's a big F
+ Think about where your customer base is from. For example, in some countries 30$ would be way too expensive to afford.
bro your friend is the man jesus is fan of
F and also *same*
I do that but they usually take 5-8 hrs
I'd like to stress the point you've mentioned at the end:
Low prices don't necessarily bring you more customers.
They also have the tendency to attract cheap customers who don't value the work you do (whom you don't want as regulars anyway), and they also give the impression of low quality work.
The last bit is more true for my field (programming) than it is for art, but outsiders don't have an eye for good art and they don't recognize quality as well as artists do, so many do rely on the price as an indicator as well.
Just saying, I'd never commission anyone for less than $10 to draw anything for many reasons, including the two I mentioned. So unless you're a beginner - don't undercharge to attract customers, you're attracting the wrong kind of customers and pushing away the good ones.
EDIT: just to clarify, the last paragraph is not referring to something like a quick headshot sketch that might just take 5-15 minutes, of course.
If you'd lose half your customers by doubling the price, do it and save yourself half the time.
Yeah, low prices just don't "feel good" (people often neglect that part of the equation and that especially OC commissioners have their pride when asking to draw their own characters who have added/sentimental value to themself) and the simple fact to question if the price list is outdated can make a buyer willing to pay a fair/high price just shy out of commissioning anything istead.
IM GONNA UNDERSELL MYSELF ANYWAY AND YOU CANT STOP ME
100% what Kenny said.
Also, paradoxically it's almost always those cheap customers that really try and wring you for everything you're worth--often expecting perfection far above their price point, and constantly trying to weasel in endless revisions and tweaks. (And then of course, gaslighting you when you eventually try to put your foot down.)
Conversely the customers that are willing to pay more are often far more fair, understanding, and overall willing to work with you in mutually beneficial ways.
(Which is part of the reason why I no longer charge less than $250 for a finished 5-8 hour piece.)
But some ppl overvalue their art too
Tfw you sell 15+ hours illustration for a 10$ because you are scared ppl won’t pay more
But let me tell you, when I got my first payment I was ecstatic for a days
i spend alot of time on drawings but still i make commissions worth only advertising 😔✊
Haj heloł Polsko
Toru no elo
też spędzam godziny na designach i rysunkach ale i tak jak dostaje dwa dolce to sie ciesze jak nigdy xD
Lena TV dam ci piec jak chcesz
Ale cholera wg tego filmiku mam brac 75 dolcow?? Dla mnie 10 euro to juz overprice smh
Oh golly. The art showcased at 11:00 looks gorgeous!! I’d be willing to use all the money in the world for that one piece! :0
*_pulls out wallet_*
You'll have to fight me for it
@@smolpeepee245 Excuse me, sir. But this magnificient art of work belongs to me! //pulls out wallet at the speed of light
@@nekochadechu ah! God has spoken!
that's cute. please, you think you can put a price on that masterpiece? it belongs in a museum for the world to enjoy smh my head
Sivan the Hedgehog I guess its *priceless* , aye?
I seriously needed this video earlier- I used to sell my art for $8 USD but someone DM’d me saying that it was too expensive for an icon drawing so I dropped it down to $5
Now I just- MAN I FEEL CHEATED
Your art is worth much more! And you should always think if it's a good price. Like, would I buy a piece like this for this much money? And if you would you can go for that price!
Egg Champion dude. You don’t know their art at the time. It doesn’t matter if your art took 100 hours, if it looks bad people aren’t going too be willing too pay.
AspenPaw Arts but then the same problem is that good artists don’t get enough exposure all thanks to the algorithm so then they end up underpricing 😔
@@tokioeee yep ;/ and there's some artists who are big and don't have half the skill but charge twice the price ;/
AspenPaw Arts sigh i know what you mean. Obviously skill is important when selling art but even more so exposure. Without exposure there’s no way even really good art would sell
Everyone: complicated artist stuff
Me: *i h e a r t h e f a t r a t*
Monodyyyyyyyyyy
the description: warrior songs
Woah, before this I was thinking my art was worth $5-20 max... Now I'd say it's 25-40ish...
so proud of you dude. I think artists should think higher of themselves while I wouldn't price my art over 6$. Kind of a bad habit ^^"""
@@lenatv705 i used to price my stuff at 3 dollars because i felt so bad about charging people more than 10 but i realized it wasn't benefiting me at all because i wasn't making back the money i needed to continue working as a artist.
Before this video I thought mine was worth nothing but now I'm like "okay it's not too bad" but I'm too self conscious to ask or even try
@@tripwire8992 you should try! I'm sure your art is amazing and someone would love it!
@@grainwilson See thing is I'm not exactly smart here so like. Okay I'm want to be able to make money specifically for family because I want to help in some way and not just be the lazy one that plays video games in the basement all weekend lol, and I want to help people but I'm also not smart on how to set up a PayPal account and like Im still trying to experiment with lighting things and get back on track with my traditional art. Also *school, is the ultimate pressure* long type jahdjfj
Beginner artist: *draws stick figure with a little bit of color and shadow, thinks anatomy is for weirdos* I only commission for 75 USD UwU
And the worst part is if they're famous and actually get a lot of offers.
A lot of people say my art is amazing and I should do commissions and not just requests but I think my art is horrible qwp
Oh my god ikr? I especially hate it when they have a sob story to make you buy their art. This one instagram account I saw was a beginner, with really poor anatomy saying that their phone died and they were poor. They used that to guilt people into buying commissions..
@asui Low quality art is low quality art. Nothing wrong with saying that. Just improve before you charge more than $15 for it.
@asui I'm not judging anyone, and I never said it's not art. Please don't put words in my mouth. Low quality is not *bad*, it simply needs improvement. What, is self improvement bad now? Should I not work to improve my art because it's currently "my style?" If they don't want to improve specific skills, that's totally fine. But don't say I'm putting someone done if I give them constructive criticism.
ok this is gonna sound weird maybe but this video is so professional. like idk how to describe it but it just is. its also very underrated. I subscribed! :)
felt the same way! they thought about everything ^^
same, I came into it thinking it's going to be like a casual-talking-from-personal-experience but then they bust out 5 professional judges and even some outsider input. truly gamer
Me, about to start taking commissions: Five dollars should be go-
Video: No.
Me: Oh.
Lmfao so true
My plan was supposed to be : 10 dollars for a full body and 3 dollahs for a headshot lmfao
I was shocked watching this. I realized my art easily falls into the high end of the 30-$45 range. I am looking to start commissions and I had been thinking I'd charge around $20 max. I thought "nobody will buy it if it's any more", but after listening to your explanations I understand better. Thank you so much for this.
_Bold and Brash? More like it's belong to the trash._
*~ Monty P. Moneybag*
Mr. Friendship it’s “More like belongs in the trash”
Is the grammatical mistake intentional or accidental?
Words of a true gamer
*More like belongs in my ass.*
@@leonm.6950 But it doesn't rhyme that well-
Pretty sad I’ll never know my art’s worth
It was nice to see everyone else’s submissions though
Your price comes down to what feels right. This Video is merely a guide to assist you with that decision.
Same haha
Wait- I know you
-Skyrim guard
wow_name
try asking the people around you! if you are just starting with commissions and such i recommend that you communicate with the buyer and find a price that is suitable for you but that is not to say you make it more expensive or the buyer makes it cheaper. Do not under sell or over sell yourself.if you are known for having cheap commissions with good quality more people will buy from you but you wont be making the same money you put into the pieces but if you are known for overpricing your works then people wont want to purchase from you. communication is key!! have close friends or family tell you what they think you should price it as to get a perspective of a buyer. If you drew what your profile picture is its so cute! digital works are much easier to sell because they cant get damaged in shipping usually and they are better for making merch and prints( in my experience its super hard for me to get traditional art to look the same on paper )
Yo so you're saying I could make like 15 bucks on a headshot
Ah if only people actually bought it
exactly, it's like prices from a perfect world that doesn't exists
I don’t want to ruin the perfection of 69 likes
I do get them lol.
Now it 169 likes lol
Been drawing for more than 15 years and still haven't got a single comission lol
And my illustrations, while not breathtaking, are not that bad.
One of the best videos on this site. Saw it years ago, and it always stuck in my mind - I think this is as close to a scientific test for this as you can do. I love how much care you put into the entire process and making sure all kinds of perspectives were considered. Just wanted to let you know this is beyond excellent and I am grateful for the work you've put into it!
Them: Very beginner art should be $5 at least, even for headshots
Me: How 'bout 40 amino coins (33 cents) for a fully shaded full body with a complex background?
Random choosing beggar: How about 5 amino coins for that?
Worse choosing beggar: How about I take your art without credit?
Worst choosing beggar ever: I'll let you draw for me if you join my patreon and praise the ground I walk on, then I shall take your art and use it in a video without credit. If you dare ask for credit, I will tell you to kys
Me: Bruh
Lol, that escalated quickly.
Hmm the worst chosing beggar seems like a drama......
LAND OF THE LUSTROUS PFP 🗣️
Honestly I am just not confident enough to sell my art, I can't imagine charging people for my shitty shitty stuff.
And I never know how to react when people message me and commission me for art. I just apologise and tell them I don't do commissions yet.
water drinker I would tell you to actually take up a few of those offers on commissions and experiment. You never know what its really like until you try it. If you think you’re not ready yet, brush up a bit more on what you may need to improve on for your artwork to be considered for commissions if you feel as though you may do them in the future.
Its all about practicing and experimenting when it comes to things like this. Good luck!
If your profile pic is too judge, you’re amazing!
@@aspenpawarts9333 thats most likely not their art
@@mymo_on4722 o
what the hell, your pfp is good did you draw it yourself
Am the only one who thinks about making abstract art with cheap materials and selling it on Ebay for no more than 150$ lol
Same I immediately thought of ways to make money 🤦🏻♂️
... guilty!
Tip for pencil users: Use a sealant spray to go over your work and that'll keep the work you're selling from smudging
in my experience (taking any departments like rents, restaurants, art, tattoos, ect.) Cheap prices attract cheap customers. If you have low prices, people will always try to bargain with you even lower than the price you are charging. If you have that issue, try to have a good portfolio of your work and what you enjoy doing and then get your prices higher. the more pieces you post, the more consistent your style will show in these and attract the right type of customers for you.
You could also time youreself whenever you are making a piece and make an average of the time you spend per piece (don't forget to cathegorise them like in this video). find a price for that average and make it your base price. Like that if someone is asking for a simpler piece, you will make a bit more money, but you won't need to always be right on spot (and most of the time loose money for not charging extras) for time and charges. BUT don't forget to charge more if you think it will take more time (or at least warn your customers of your ''overtimes'' fies). More than often a customer will be happy to pay more if the quality or amount of details will be there. The key to that is communication. If someone is comming to you with a project and you say to them right away that you think you might need more than the base price depending of how the project is going. Like that, you stay really transparent and establish a trustworthy relationship with your customer and there should be no problems (still if your customer is new to commissioning, explain to him the whole process so he don't feel cheated or in a fog).
Should do another video on how to market to get shoppers. This video was very helpful.
i agree, along w info on how to use platforms to your advantage to get noticed and such to increase audience and get more potential buyers
Yea i agree!
"Beginners level: $5-$10"
Me: - sells art I spent hours on for $3 and cries because no one values art from where I'm at and won't be willing to spend more than $5 on it -
Edit: drop down your Instagram art accounts if you have any! I wanna try to support you and you can check out everyone else's too- if you're interested mine is @sqrqhart
My mother was an artist for over 20 years, traditional embroidery that takes days to months to make. Even a small piece at 5€, people asked to lower prices constantly. Just for the joke I asked her to make extremly simple designs (2colors decorated button at 1€ piece) and people still asked to lower prices or plain Stole&Run away with the presentation pieces outside the box I intentionally left not attached to the table. Morale of the story? There will ALWAYS be weirdos just asking for free stuff and taking it by horrible means regardless of the quality of your craft.
So, the problem may not be people not valuing art, but your prices just not feeling adequate to potential clients.
Just be confident on your works, ask yourself "what price range would feel good if I had to buy art from someone else who draws like me" and rise the prices to that margin. Free doesn't count, what you can affort doesn't either. Just what would feel adequate if you had the budget to buy something like that. Because when the weirdos can't steal art or bully a commission into a free request, they go away. And only then real clients willing to pay for their ego to feel good having new pieces of art may appear.
From where I'm from most people still think of art as a side hobby until you get into a good medical or engineering college
Screw em
Once a girl in my class wanted my art
I said the price (it was 1.55)
When i came home i made the drawing (it took half an hour)
Then i was in school and when i gave her the art, she just said she did'nt want it anymore
tell them terrorists win if they don't buy your art
This was very helpful for digital art and sketches but I am still lost on how to price paintings done on canvas board. Any tips?
Canvas is not really my forte, but be honest with how much your materials cost and pay attention to number of hours spent. Also, it's an original, so ++$. Other than that art quality judgement is the same: is it low, medium, or high?
Along with what Crown Prince said, keep in mind the shipping costs if you're giving a physical piece to them(like postal fees and gas if your post office is far away)
Plus 5 dollars or more per hour depending on your skill plus cost of canvas and half the price of your full pallette of paint
If I could actually paint on a canvas
I would sell it for hundreds of dollars
depends where you are in your career. But usually people start out with price per inch^2 (area). So if say you charge $1 per square inch, an 8"x10" would be $80. A lot of client also like this better than priced per time since they think you just gonna drag out the time to charge more, the area method makes more reliable psychological sense to them? At some point you stop using this model and just price it w/e depends based on demand.
As someone that's been doing personal commissions off an on for 20+ years and done a lot of research into fair wage practices a lot of these value estimations feel very on the low side. You could get away with doubling the prices in many of the cases presented or even tripling them in others. Some prices seem very arbitrary though when you contrast them against each other, like that bright yellow digital sketch page being marked as 250+ by two people but then full color traditional pieces that came later that were much more polished and had equally strong stylistic choices being estimated at only 80-120? Hopefully the main thing people come away with from watching this though is to raise their prices. So many people undercharge for their work and the goal should be to get entry level up to at least 15usd an hour and normalize that.
Honestly that's what I am aiming for. I can usually draw icons withing like what... 3-4 hours? Despite having a rather simplistic style (disability go brr)
Honestly if I had a big enough name in the industry I'd triple my current prices for sure.
fun fact: if your drawing includes a dress up game it is worth NOTHING.
Edit: i cant believe i have to say this again, but, *ABSOLUTELY. NOTHING.*
I agree with your point, about dress up games,
example: gacha life. Ive seen an amino of ingame gacha adopts, they sell it to such a high price, like over 75-500+ amino coins (bid auctions) compare to that to actual artists' commission prices on other aminos, being more cheaper than just buying a very expensive ingame created oc. Its unfair for the artists working hard on the commissions they do for a cheaper price.
@@getoutofmyroom9590 daannnggg I'm a gachatuber and I didn't know they charged that much, but I say that hours of time do count plus the lineart. I'd still sell it $15 U.S and under, maybe $10 and under.
@ yup, well if people use gacha life as a base like for poses, and use it for a custom adopt, its good. Except for ingame dress up oc created. but i dont know about the gacha edit commissions, as long as they keep it up to a fair price. since the creator of the game worked very hard just to find out people have been using his games out of profit.
I highly agree I only edit for fun I could never think of selling and edit. It’s the original artist’s property I can’t sell something I used of a base of someone else’s hard hours of work I use bases to improve shading it’s inconsiderate of people who would do that I’d feel too ashamed to do that I use gacha to practice smooth lineart and shading I’m not very good at creating something from scratch just for practice which I am fixing I’m walking away from edits and working on just my art. And I think that it’s worth doing edits because if I didn’t I would not be here at my ok skills today it’s worth editing these things but selling them is just wrong to me and orgional artists don’t deserve that. But if it’s YOUR original art freehand then go for it
Someone said it
The best decision i ever made was switching websites. I started on deviant art, and didn't get much attention to my commissions. Went to Furaffinity, nearly nothing. Got only starting bids on some YCHs, and a little more than that. Then i made and account on Inkbunny, and i have clients commissioning me each time i open my commissions, Auto buying slots in my YCHs, and asking me when i'll be open for more commissions or YCHs because they either missed their chance, or want to get more art from me. This was the most amazing change to my selling experience. I will be raising my prices when i open commissions again, cause i cant keep up with the amount im getting, and cannot sustain myself with the current pricing. I have nice returning clients who tell me i need to raise my prices as well, and i agree with them.
My point is, if you feel you should be getting more attention to your art, maybe you just haven't found the right audience yet. i surpassed my Deviant Art and furaffinity accounts stats in the first week of posting on inkbunny, and I've had my deviant art account for 9 years... that was my eye opener. and even though i only have nearly 400 watchers and rising on Inkbunny, with the amount of attention i feel im getting, i'd almost think that i have way more. i dont need a super big following to make a living like i originally thought, but just an interested fan-base who enjoy me and my art and support me by buying my stuff. I'm definitely not saying to go make an Inkbunny, but I'm saying try and find the right audience of people. Maybe on your current platform of choice, or trying out other ones, because changing sites definitely worked for me.
I noticed a lot of people make NSFW art on there, do you have to do that kind of work toget notice on the site?
I NEVER SAW THIS, MY FRIEND JUST SENT ME THIS,, BUT OMFGG, ThAnk YOU so muCH💖😭💖💖💖😭😭 I was selling my reference sheets for 70$, later increased them to 100$, and this video, honestly gave me much courage in my work, i’ve been scared to sell my art for high price, thinking people would say this is to expensive, but thank you so so much for encouraging me💖
(I know I'm late-)
Some people will always say It's too expensive, but don't listen to them. Art is a luxury, not everyone can pay for it and no one "needs" art, so theres no motive to feel guilty ^^
@@PedroShadow2011 true. But if you just want to make the commission for fun, i’ll just put it less than 50$ honestly.
@@nyetnyetsu I mean, what is a comission "just for fun"? You're still working and still spending your time on that. More than this, a comission with full body, full background, full finalization for 50$ would probably give you way less than your work really cost. It's a case by case scenario
I like to carve stuff with foam, and makes it 3D like carving but harder/ easyer. Sometimes there not big, like a house I made, and sometimes they’re giant, like a castle I made.
That's super cool!
Additional comment, maybe a bit off considering the topic, from a buyer: when using a payment method, make sure that it's possible to leave a tip.
Depending on the quality of the work received, time it took, theme, etc., I personally tend to leave a tip between 10% to 25% (sometimes more in extreme cases) of the original price as a tip. Too many times have I been unable to do so because there's no way to tip the artist, pre or post reception of the piece.
Anyway, it's just a thought. :3
Whenever I look how to price my art online they always say "base it on how much time you spend, materials yadda yadda yadda"
And I'm like: I WANT NUMBERS GODAMNIT
Woah calm down. Are you under age or do you know what "minimum wage" is? The point being that you price your art according to YOU. If youre okay with making $4 an hour bssed on your work then you can. If you arent, then figure out how to make pieces faster. The same goes for materials. If youre spending like $100 on copics / oil paints / digital art software / tablet then you have to make enough to pay yourself back. If youre spending too much on software or traditional materials then you need to figure out to pay less or work with what you have.
@@MyFictionalChaos That part about according to you is what they're talking about. According to you can be about a 10 year professional artist that knows what they're doing and what their limits are.
They can without second guessing say that artists like them are either overcharging or undercharging for so and so. Then there is the amateur that has no opinion set in place peranently for pretty much anything and according to them will rather be based on the generosity of ther costumer base.
Just because the latter artist is ok with bucks doesn't mean it's up to standards with their actual work. If everybody kept pricing that way, there wouldn't have been any standards to go after in this video either.
@@artlover5060 ???
I'm always like _"you guys are keeping track of that stuff???"_
yay i see my artwork at 4:57
its the lowest priced character sheet :D
but the drawings of the word art and the character by themselves took me 25 minutes in total so its pretty high compared to the time taken
(the entire artwork took 1 hour in total)
Still a cool ref tho, I really like how bouncy your style is lol
so cute!!!
_ Schnee _ it’s so cute
Trailtracker yeah, its pretty undetailed
Kurowski no
why do you ask?
3:30
Whoa, didn’t expect my art piece to be in this video (the one in the middle). Thank you so much! I honestly thought my art would be less than that.
Artistic Candy
It’s awesome!
I know I’m late but I love that style, and it stuck out to me because I love CC haha.
Keep up the awesome work :)
This piece definitely caught my eye, it's a very charming drawing!
Artistic Ruby cute!!!! I love the lineless style you have
It's super cute!
this video was like a blessing or something lol. A while ago I took my very first actual big commission. The commission was a tattoo design for the entire arm. The commissioner, someone I know personally, asked me to create a design based on many interests and things she values (such as nature, sports, her family, etc.) so they sent me a huge list of random things they wanted me to include. Finding a concept or an idea was hard enough but I managed. But then after finishing the layout they would add more and more things on the list and the design started getting more and more complicated. After finally finishing the drawing (which took me around 20+ hours) they still wanted me to change things and I‘m sort of helpless at this point. I don‘t know how much to charge since I lack a lot of experience regarding pricing (and I‘m not that confident in my work to charge too much) and I‘m also getting very frustrated with them overcomplicating things because I‘m afraid that at this point adding even more things would only result in them getting lost in the drawing. If anyone has any advice on what I should do, you‘d be helping me out a lot!!
This is the most useful video I’ve ever watched. I used to sell flat color full body illustrations for 20 cents. They took me about 2-3 hours to make. Not do’n that anymore.
Me:*makes art that takes hours sells it for 5 dollars*
Someone: "isnt 5 dollars expensive for a drawing?"
Me: 😑
Edit: okay I'm not a gacha person ok I do real art and this happened to me one time and I thought it'd be a good joke this video I guess something like that so yeah but I don't do gacha and I do real art and you know it I'll change your profile pic i will
Wait for the right buyer 😂👍 5:53
It really does depend on the quality of the end result, not how long it takes, though.
If it’s a gacha drawing then he’ll yes it’s too expensive
I love Angelique sorry, my comment was probably came off very rude. What I’m trying to say is that if the art she is talking about is basically a gacha drawing with some modifications to the outfit or something, then yes. 5 dollars is a bit much seeing that you just made profit off of somebody else’s hard work. but if it isn’t a gacha edit and it’s good enough to sell, then yeah i agree with her. (also just because it took her 5 hours doesn’t mean it’s automatically good art)
Would you sell a diamond for a cent?
I can't believe I charged $5 for a flat-colored fullbody--with prop interaction, costume pieces, and a simple back ground. I should really pump up my prices lol
So the closest to my skill level is probably NattStar which you priced at 30 to 45. Really? And here am I, selling my art for 1$ because I'm too scared to price it higher.
Edit: I've decided to change my fullbodys to about 10$.
You really shouldn't undercharge for your work. If you see yourself at that skill level, charge at least 30. Respect yourself as an artist. You will find customers willing to pay the real value. You just need to market yourself more. Put yourself out there. Customers who aren't willing to pay fair prices aren't customers worth keeping around.
There were multiple people who submitted who said the same: they sold their art for a dollar. Your time is worth much more than that, even if you happen to be a beginner (and the people charging $1 were certainly not beginners). Unless it's amateur, entire characters start at $25 _minimum_. That'd be a base price for a flat color full body with no shading, like sugar_munchkin's example.
@@CrownePrince Thanks! ^^ Your video really helped me. I now found the courage to price my art higher + finally make a website (which I wanted to do for a while).
One issue is that the price something is being sold for influences the perception of it's value.
Why would I want to buy art if even the artist doesn't think it's worth anything?
@Planets Ahead10 true, but I don't really know how much value sombody sees in my art. :/
I'm a middle school student and am JUST starting to consider selling my art. This video has helped me a lot in figuring out what price my art would be suitable for. Thank you and keep up the good work!! 👍👍
Me: *makes art*
My classmate: "can you draw me?"
Me: "sure, give me a penny"
My classmate: "seriously? I'm just gonna go to my friend who obviously draws better!"
Me: ( ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ) "Bro-"
THIS IS SO ACCURATE 😭😭
This reminded me I used to gift a lot of drawings to my classmates until one day one said "you took all this time to do that thing?, I would have done it better", since then I just give my close friends drawings for free, people often try to take advantage of artists.
once in school I'd draw for my friend some random drawings and they paid me for one drawing 1 cent. *stonks*
My mom: "you'll never make money out of your stupid art"
Me 3 months later: **sells a piece of art for 300€** what?
Edit: please stop arguing in the replies, it makes me mad and sad at the same time, let people have their opinion it's alright if you think I'm lying, at least I know that i am saying the truth :(
@@carlo4393 why do you assume he's lying it's very true
@@carlo4393 my gaurdians say that all the time as long with "your lazy" and "your a faliure" or "why cant you be like your siblings"
@@carlo4393 you dont even know their mom. Like, it became a cliche for a reason. Bc SO many parents think like that.
@@carlo4393 Well first, he couldve improved a lot. But even if he didnt improve that much. There are still parents that dont believe that you can get money out of art. Especially if its not realism. I dont know what his art looks like, but I've literally seen parents think their childs art isnt good when it was AMAZING. Like it was brilliant. Not everyone has nice parents.
@@carlo4393 you're allowed to have your opinion and so is every else. Not everyone has nice or even apathetic parents, so please understand that. Parental narcissism does exist.
Thank you so much for making this video! I've always been wondering how to price my art. The discrepancy of the information here and my prices are so big. I would charge my bust commissions for $20 but I'm scared, thinking it's too expensive...then this video shows that my prices should be on the $50 - 75 mark.
I'm still gonna work on improving my art, and this video really opened my eyes to the bussiness side of the art world. Thank you!
8:47
*That moment when you recognize art from fnaf amino*
I've come to the realization I've been massively undercharging. My art style is constantly improving and with the most recent piece I did of a detailed galaxy themed character, was only run for about $35 dollars. At the time I made my sheet, I considered my prices to be fair. But now since my style has improved so much, I think its time to make an updated sheet.
This video is everything I always needed to hear, ever since trying commision work i've always undersold myself, then again i would assume a few artists do this in the beginning
I feel very out of touch, because I can't imagine ever paying that much for art, or ever charging that much for my art despite this video saying I'm at a fairly high skill level... I guess I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.
I guess some people have a lot of money on their hands
@@yourturn1942 Guess so. I'm barely keeping homelessness at bay and rarely ever have proper food on the table, so it's such a foreign concept to spend on something like this. Not trying to bash anyone cuz hey if you have the money for your interests, I can't really judge, even if I can't understand it.
@@littlekitsune1 This, this is mood
yes i feel that way too. I think it's because we look at art more critically than most people who don't draw
*Sees this literally after I make a free commission.*
Still not sure if its a commission but eh-
more like a request
Oof same
If you are requested a piece of original art from an individual, it IS a commission. Giving it away for free doesn't make is any less so. Coming from someone who has done this many times, especially for family and friends, don't let yourself feel guilty for charging for your art. Take your skill into account but you need to remind yourself that your time is a valuable commodity, and you don't get that time back. Just as you are expected to be paid working a "traditional" job, you deserve compensation for your work as an artist. Gifting is a different story, that is of your own volition and choice. But when someone asks you to make them a piece you are being given a commission. I of course charge family/friends less for work, but that's a personal choice. Charge what you feel comfortable, it takes time for many artists to fully realize the value of their work. I am still learning myself.
That's literally me. I do whatever people ask me to do, although I don't always pull through but because it's free, it's more forgivable to be completely unreliable. Personally, I don't think my art is worth dirt yet.
free commisions are also viable, i did a freebie once and after that he wanted to work for him more, and now he pays me, just dont hesitate to ask for money. my freebie was to build myself a portfolio.
Me: (Draws a Person)
*Considered Trash*
Famous Artist: (Draws a Line)
*Worth 1million*
It really do be like that
Thats the entire point of the video tho. If you have a recognizable name then you have to upcharge. If you draw amazing pieces and "open shop" for the first time and charge $200 youre not gonna make anything. You have to grow your base
This makes me feel like I still undercharge a lot :') But in my eyes its a great amount!
TheGuavaArtist same
not only does this give good demonstration on commission pricing and the opinions of different groups, it also is good to show proper ways to give criticism.
Thanks guys! This is super helpful to many artists, whether their experience is very low to be high. I find your price guesses very accurate and informative. Having artists and buyers from all perspectives to price these pieces also brings a new, fresh view into how much art sellers should properly price their art. I would also like to point out how well edited the video is- must have been gruesomely painful! Again, thank you for this wonderful video!! 💕💓💓💖💕
I casually take 50 hours or more for my more complex drawings, that's why I usually don't draw them for people. I only rarely trade these pieces when I find something I really want.
11:00 incredible! Such talent!
Yesssssssssssssssssssss! These types of videos are so cool and really helpful, tysm to all parties involved for making this~
Welcome
Before seeing this video I've been selling fully shaded full bodys for 20 dollars and you're tellin me that I shoulda been selling em for 70?! So many hours of work wasted for so little money... Glad I found this video!
I VERY MUCH ENJOY A VIDEO LIKE THIS. AS AN ARTIST WHO'S LOOKING TO START COMMISSIONS, HAVING THE CRITICISMS OF SO MANY PEOPLE IN ONE PLACE IS BRILLIANT! THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN INFORMATIVE FOR MY NOVICE BRAIN, THANK YOU.
So according to this I have been way underselling my art. Thanks! I'll be adjusting my prices soon lol
reminder to adjust prices if you havent already
I actually can't believe I got featured!
Ima go and try to improve my art now :3
Luckkyy!!
Much gud art uwu
@ 4:06
After 2 years of drawing Im finally gonna start making commisions, I was so worried about how to put a fair price to my honestly pretty beginner drawings, but I think I landed on a nice price for my skill level, I'm just hoping 1 person commission me, even if only 1 person ever buys my art, I'm gonna feel acommplished.
this was incredibly helpful. I find a lot of people seem to believe you cant charge high prices or hourly rates because nobody would buy that, thanks for clarifying that!
"You should be charging about $5-10 per piece."
Me: 3. Take it or leave it.
Jk no one commissions me.
"Do you know how much your art is worth?"
Me: HAHA zero
I once did my friends poster for his arts class for 15 burgers, he saw it and gave me an additional 10 for effort. I charge my commission by food
Man I my commissions are $5 for a full body, and people don't even but those! You're tellin me that could be making $40???? Dhhdhdhdhdhh
Maybe post your commissions on more places?
Yeah dude. It's kinda hard for me to say this but I've noticed being recognized is the key. If you have over 10000 followers on instagram you can literally post a 2 minute doodle adopt and sell it for 20$. Kinda sad knowing there are probably millions of great artists like you not getting offers because they're not recignized very very much. Just keep posting and don't lose hope and it'll get better ❤️sorry thats a little too long---
i could be making 80~ yet here i am not even selling for 5, its a sad market
Guys. I had one commision. It was for 20 amino coins 😂😂😂😂 I spent 4 hours on it
People won't even take my art for free fml
Having literally 0 idea about how to start pricing my art in order to start taking commissions, this was incredibly useful!
This is such a helpful video, not only the info on pricing, but the very constructive critics this panel made. More please!
Me: *no traffic* Don’t do it future me, don’t do it.
Future me: rEqUeStS OpEn
FantasyAU Cosplay instead of requests, what I do is join competitions, MAPS etc. They give you exposure too more than just the 2 or 3 people who got a request
Mona Lisa...
Eden's garden...
Sixtine...
Babel's tower...
I know !!!
To sell it you need to have your painting outdated of hundreds years !!!
@@vixendais9988 Not even, just the random dude who owns it because they stole it from your trash bin way back when you deemed this piece not worth showing anywhere. As an authantic "unique uncatalogued piece of art" of your collection, it become even more valuable. Then it double prices each time it's stolen or damaged.
me: makes 40$ art
Also me: hold on i gotta find out the price of chips and then I'll tell you the price
I was very unsure if I'm ready to sell my art but you convinced me that I am! So I'm building my portfolio!
good luck! ^_^
Seeing the prices of these works has really inspired me and given me a better grasp on quality of art. Thank you!
3:40 was not expecting namjoon there, but a nice surprise
Ikr lmao
bunni he is also there at 10:03 like DHJSJDKSDJKS
I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEOME TO MENTION IT LOL
SAME
The biggest issue I have is finding clientelle who possess the means to pay what I assume I'm worth, so I'm constantly selling my art for $35
everyone else: such a great video
me: I can see the heavy influence of Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland music score in the background music. It's beautiful and sounds like the scenes before the big fight.
This is genuinely the most helpful video I have found about pricing for commissions
wow never thought that my artworks would be that much, this boosts my confidence to start open commission for the first time soon
11:00 definitely worth a.... eh.... (counting)
(57) eh.... (counting in Latin)
A.... octodecillion
That number can only be called... A COTILLION
A “cotillion” is a dance style from 18th century France for socializing, not a number
@@shiningstar737 that's the joke... -_-
Not a very well constructed joke
@@shiningstar737 Exactly. He is clearly not a man of culture. What a saucy and shameful dank baroque. Ta-ta oui oui mosier la pee-pee de Franca del Monet. Pizza Pizarro Montenegro Papi!!!
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Me: well let’s see how much I should charge for my art
Me after the video : I know the price it’s ....... 0 bucks ;-;
Same
Relatable
Me: *Draws high realism horse portraits for 15+ hours*
Also me: *30$ will do the trick!*
I'd love to see a scribble kibble on the upcoming animated Lackadaisy short film when it comes out, and how the character designs were simplified down to be more animatable yet still recognizable from their normal beautiful painted style. I don't know about the animation quality yet, but character design sheets have been revealed, and they really show excellent simplification from their comic-style to the animation. I don't know how much you take suggestions but Lackadaisy is really great and I think it deserves a good look once the short comes out.
Thank you very much for this video, Crowne. I was considering opening commissions, but was clueless on how much they should cost. This really helped!
Lol I spend around 3-4 hours on a basic fullbody (colored and all)
I only price it at around $3? I'm scared no one will buy it if its higher
Same here, not many people will buy anything over like 30 if you are not popular or "skilled" enough :/ Great world we live in.
Same here dude. Pricing my art over 5$ would make me feel selfish and like I'm a narcissist, I don't think it's worth this much.
@Burn Me Please as both an artist and someone who buys art when they can (though im VERY cheap so i sadly have to count each dollar i spend) , please don't think your art is necessarely worth just 3 dollars ! Maybe some people do think it's only worth that much, but with such a drastic lowering of your prices I'm pretty sure a lot of your fans who couldn't/hesitated to pay $20 jumped on the occasion to support an artist they liked and now could afford ! I don't know your art but i sure know if an artist i followed who i really didn't want to spend $20 dollars on did such a price, i would most probably consider it, let alone if i was ready to pay if the piece was $17 or the like
$3 is an incredibly cheap price, and i think a price more along 10-15 dollars would still bring you more requests (not as much, but probably more than you think !) than your usual $20, but would at least be more compensating to your time and efforts and reflect your skills more. Just my opinion/advice tho, you do what u think is right for urself of course
(Though to any artists reading this : if something takes you more than 20min to make, whatever your skill level is, you need to charge it higher than $3 ! Seriously!!)
Also, a selling technique that some friends of mine tried with pretty good results : try charging your art less, but frame it as a limited discount (as in, your prices will go back to usual in some time, tho it's your call if you put an actual date to it or just let your public in mystery as to when that'll happen, both strategies can tip hesitant would-be-customers to the actual-customers side, as long as it's executed well) and advertise it enough for your public/followers to be aware of it ! They will see it as an occasion to treat themselves and buy some of your stuff for once :)
@Burn Me Please Same. I am not even a beginner artist anymore but most people don't want to pay more than .50 cents for a full body sketch, and I advertise a LOT, and then when say I do requests people swarm the the page and ask for it. I did get 2 $25 commissions from a same buyer though. That boosted my motivation a bit.
Burn Me Please How many people were willing to buy the 20$ ones? If say 6 people were, then it’d take 40 people at the price of 3$ to just make what you potentially could’ve gotten at 20$. Since it’s the same amount of effort, just changing the time, you’d have to spend over 6 times the amount of time and energy to make the same amount. So there’s a chance that pricing it at a higher price may save you some time and thus be advantageous.
This is super crazy, I definitely feel lucky because I’m selling my art for $300-500 a portrait or landscape...that’s digital work...maybe because i already have a fashion brand?
Edit: work time is about 5hrs to the most 10hrs
Oooh what's the name of your brand? And 10hrs can be quite tough, how do you stay motivated?
Hello ! I'm definitly interested in how do you sell your art, and what standard should it fit to get this pricing ? Would you answer to me ? I would be gratefull if you helped me a bit to understand how do we get to live by our art. Thanks in advance !
$0.01
That’s my arts worth
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same
No me
I relate to that way too much (;
Mine not evenXD
you must be worst at finances than art then.
Petition to make a website for the promotion for the unnamed artist who deserves better for their art and effort!
I love how supportive this comment section is