>>7727255
How many hours does it take for u to complete an art piece, 3 hours? 4 hours? 9? Charge per hour. Do 20 dollars and hour but if ur Jewish like me do 50 and say youre from Palestine so they can feel sympathy for yoh

>>7727257
you are so epic anon. i think it took me about four or five hours for this one. so i think twenty an hour makes sense.... that's a hundred for the piece. makes sense ig

Your pricing depends on the demand. Look up the commission sheets of your genre's other artists and see if they are constantly full or if the artist needs to constantly spam how his comms are open.

Price according your clients being 1st worlders with money to spend of luxury of having an artist make personalized handcrafted art. Thirdworlders might offer cheaper comms because in their country they can live like kings by making 200-1000 bucks a month while in firstworld that's a very low income. If you are firstworlder, don't try to compete with thirdworlders in prices. The clients want to comm you because they want art from you specifically.

Start with $30. Increase it by $5 every 3 months based on demand

Your first priority is numbers

>>7727255
I intentionally undercharge to bring down the prices of other artists because I already have an alternate income source

>>7727255

>pic related
$1.00

>bigger quality, full body, masterpiece quality
$3.00

>novel format
$5-10

>>7728150
Very edgey
made me Very angery and sad
Very troll good post

>>7727255
How tf are you gonna get commissions without a following

>>7727257
Terrible advice; you're not charging for time, you're charging for value. The more proficient you become the more value you typically provide for less time. People who take longer are usually very amateur.

>>7727255
OP, think of a starting number you're comfortable with and do five rounds of it. If you charge $100 and have no problem filling slots, you're undercharging - after those five, increase your price by 15%. If you have no issues with those, increase again. When you eventually reach a point where you stop getting frequent asks, you know your current market value.

Don't pay attention to any one person saying you charge too much when you have others still willing to pay. The world's cash is in the hands of the 1%, catering to the 99% will leave you among them.

>>7728150
One of the reasons I went into AI was exactly this. An artist rebuffed me in high school and I want the whole industry to fade.

Taking advantage of the thread's theme, how do you charge for comic-related commissions? Unfortunately, this is the first question most people ask me when they come to me with price-related questions, which is a headache, especially when you also have to act as a scriptwriter and character designer on top of drawing the comic. So far, I've come up with four ways to approach this problem.
>$100 or $120 per comic book page, regardless of the number of panels
>the same idea as above, but with a panel limit of eight or nine panels per page
>$20 or $25 per panel with a minimum of three panels per page
>the same idea as above, but if the page has more than six panels, the price remains at $120
I've seen people set limits on the number of characters per panel. I don't know if that's a good idea, although I admit it's annoying to work on panels with more than five or six characters.

>>7727255
About $25 dollaridoos as starting point

>>7727255
Raise your prices until people stop haggling
Imagine it's an auction, obviously the product sells once the buyers stop arguing about what it's worth

Your clients are your fans. They want a drawing from you and only you. They’re not just looking for someone to get the job done.
You should charge whatever is necessary to make it worth your time. You’re not competing with other artists who charge less. Don’t listen to people who try to convince you this is a hyper-competitive environment.
If I want a drawing from Artist1, I can’t just go to Artist2 because they’ll produce a completely different result.
At the end of the day, you’re a hobbyist. You make your own rules.
If you charge less you will have more clients to choose from but yeah this all requires you to have an audience on social media.