>>7881120
Arts' worth is a completely nebulas thing, beyond the obvious factors of pricing in the materials (of which there are none for digital), how does one factor in the skills (and the time to obtain those skills) of the artist? Their prestige? The worth of the art to you?
Ultimately art is worth as much as you are willing to pay - and you were willing to pay $50 for the commission, so clearly you felt like it was worth that amount.

Whether you're happy with the end result is another matter altogether. Perhaps if you were willing to pay more, and paid for the option to critique and make changes to the work, you'd be happier with it... but since you're bitching about a $50 work, I don't think you'd ever be willing to pay more, so that's a mute point.

So yes, it's worth $50 dollars, because that's what you paid for it.

>>7881120
It was worth it to you at the time of exchange which is the only thing that matters, otherwise the exchange wouldn't have happened
You didn't pay for the product tho, you paid for the probability of being satisfied with the commission

I didnt exactly know what I was getting, I only posted a few reactiom pictures with the character, amd the artiat nevwr asked for a reference. Orginally, the drawing actually was missing the V neck and the pocket, so I assume they went off of memory. I didnt really know what I was going to get for 50 dollars, and I wanted to know if this was normal for 50 dollara or not amd especially since the artist juat kind of left and returned and didnt ask me anything idk

>>7881120
No and this probably took approximately 10 to 20 minutes to draw.

Artists are just too pretentious and greedy these days. When I did commissions for a month I would sell realistic pencil portraits for 10 euros each and would mail the original piece to the customer. Then I donated all the money I made to a racist man in need.

>>7881165
>I only posted a few reactiom pictures with the character, amd the artiat nevwr asked for a reference.
So... did you give him reference or not? It sounds like you did, so why would he ask?

>>7881179
>When I did commissions for a month I would sell realistic pencil portraits for 10
And that's how little you value your time and work.

i's this krvim spencr

Yes its kevin spencer... I legit feel like an asshole for asking but i dont wanna tell the artist and make thwm feel bad bc it sounded like he needed those 50 dollars its just idk i was expecting a little more like a little more shading or something idk

>>7881204
i getchu. he can add more shading ask him. its 50 dollars and it doesmt cost him 2 shade more

I also wanted him to do something specific but that was my fault that i didnt tell him and i also thought i had to specifically say "use this as a ferwnce image" for it to count... i remeber before he drew kevin he said "oh thats a hat... i thought it was a bowl cut" and o thouvbt he wouldve asked stuff like that first and he disnt but thats not rly his fault i just dont rly know how these things wprk bc i dont commission ppl often

>>7881207
idk how 2 help u w that currently but be more presice next time if u wanna be happy with the result

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>>7881120
I see that begs tend to overprice their art a lot, specially that le big YouTuber tells them that they are always underpricing. Kinda reminds me when I was in college, some people sold desserts to pay for tuition which were very overpriced and not that good, so I went and made baked goods myself and sold in a much cheaper price while still having a 50% profit and they got really mad

>>7881180
Yeah I don't put much value on my art because it literally isn't that deep. And it never will be. You all are just so brainrotten, pretentious and narcissist that you really think you are "special" and that your mediocre art is worth anything.

It's not. There are thousands out there better than me and you. Draw for your fucking self and because it's your passion and don't pretend you're better than anyone else.

>>7881258
>You all are just so brainrotten, pretentious and narcissist that you really think you are "special" and that your mediocre art is worth anything.
You've already said your art was worth $10. Why didn't you give away your worthless art for free, you pretentious hack?

>It's not.
It is. If someone pays for it, at that price, that's what it's worth. The art OP posted is worth fifty because people are willing to pay fifty.
Why is a Picasso painting worth so much?
Why is a first edition book worth so much?
Why is a Pokemon Card worth so much?
Why are old game carts worth so much?
Because people are willing to pay that amount.
Just because you're some pretentious faggot who waxes philosophical about how money doesn't corrupt his passion, or whatever bullshit you're trying to spew, I don't give a fuck. If an artist wants to charge a thousand for a sketch, and someone is willing to pay that, then good for the artist.
Stop trying to give your retarded hippy dippy business advice of 'charge nothing, lol'.

>>7881272
Because I wanted to make some money to donate it to a racist homeless man?? It's not pretentious to ask for a little, it's just pretentious to overvalue your drawings just because your mommy said she likes your doodle when you were 12. You're not special.

You really don't understand my point. Nothing you wrote in your lower paragraph correlates to my point.

The reason why some people are willing to pay high prices for a bunch of bullshit is because kissing the asses of artists has been normalised in history.

Enter an art school and tell me those people aren't incredibly self centered. They really believe what their doing is special or meaningful in some capacity, which justifies ripping retarded little faggots off in their mind.

Again, you are not special. And your time is not valuable.

>>7881145
>>7881150
>>7881272
tired oldfag here who still visits this forum sometimes, surprised you got some great real answers in here, op. (it’s these.)

>>7881277
> It's not pretentious to ask for a little
So it's only pretentious when you say it's pretentious. You placed value on your work, therefore you said your work has value.

>You really don't understand my point. Nothing you wrote in your lower paragraph correlates to my point.
You
>your mediocre art is(n't) worth anything.
Me
>It is. If someone pays for it, at that price, that's what it's worth. The art OP posted is worth fifty because people are willing to pay fifty.
How are they not correlating? And we're in a thread about the monetary worth of artwork.

>Enter an art school and tell me those people aren't incredibly self centered.
irrelevant.

>Again, you are not special.
You keep repeating this line. Is this what this is all about? You thinking that others think they're 'better than'?
I can't speak for others, like you seem to think you can, but I don't think I'm special. I have limited time, I want to do what I love while I can, and wish to be paid doing so, so that I may do as much of what I love in that short time as possible.
It's not hard to get.
I would rather be drawing, than flipping burgers, and if I get can paid more to do so, then I will take that opportunity.

>And your time is not valuable.
Then work for free, give your boss back your paycheck, because your time is not valuable, nor is your efforts.
However, I value MY time, even if you don't value MY time, I do. So I will ask for compensation for my time, and if I spent my valuable time on on a drawing for someone, I expect to be paid for it.

>>7881120
you paid for it, so yes

>>7881305
Yours still missing the point.

Your time isn't valuable because you're an artist. A person who does a real job deserves to work for a good amount of money, an artist should not be pampered because he already is a narcissist asshole.

I know that you think you're special, even if you won't admit it, because you're an artist. And all artists are the same in this regard. Hence why you don't deserve to get your ego boosted, infact you deserve to suffer.

>>7881321
Creating commission art is work. Its why more artists should charge hourly rather than a baseline price. Youre spending your time making someone else's slop. As a person who doesn't get any commission work this may be beyond your understanding. Perhaps you should draw more anon, maybe then you'll learn to hate it less

>>7881321
>labor theory of value
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOOK AT THIS RETARDED JEET AHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAAAHHAA
things have value due to supply and demand, you dumb nigger

>>7881120
>full-body and colored
Could be. Do you like it, OP?

>>7881179
you're not paying for the time they spend on a drawing
you're paying for how long it took them to get to that level

>>7881321
>you think you're special, even if you won't admit it, because you're an artist. And all artists are the same in this regard. Hence why you don't deserve to get your ego boosted, infact you deserve to suffer.
Well, then I hope you suffer a whole lot mr.ten dollar artist. We wouldn't want you to get an ego.

>>7881120
>was this worth it?
no, you got scammed

>>7881404
nu-uh

>>7881338
I love to draw hence why I don't need to be paid 3 gazillion shekels in order to do it. I stopped after a month because I was getting way too many requests. I also rejected any requests that weren't of subjects I personally like. Because, I don't do it for shekels.

And you won't have to do it for shekels either if you get a real job :)

>>7881120
Yes. Infact no artist should even get out of bed for anything less than $50USD.

>>7882268
well why not get rich doing what you love? just threw out a fat opportunity for no reason

>>7882268
Do you draw so slow that you can't work a day job, draw what you like, and also get side money from comms?

>>7881120
Well you ordered it. So if you have to ask someone else if it's worth it then I'm gonna guess you think it wasn't worth it. Me personally no I don't find this worth it

this would be $2 if a third worlder made this

>>7882388
This under cutting is exactly why noone ever getting out of the slums, especially them.

>>7882268
You are such a smug little faggot for no reason shut up already PYW

Why would you get a comission of kevin spenser. This bearly even looks like him, nigga any asshole can doodle kevin spenser. If I spent 50$ n got this id br pissed off

>>7881120
>tfw I grinded for 4 years and this is still beyond me the clothes fuck me up.