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Really low prices make me less likely to commission an artist. Me: Iâm not an artist. I do commission artists - I spend around $300-600 a month on digital art commissions. I sometimes find an artist who has really impressive work, or a unique style, or something else that makes me think âI should commission this person.â. Then I look at their prices and they are crazily low. As in less than 20 dollars for a colour full body character. And I donât commission them. Because I canât pay prices that low and feel good about myself for doing it. I know it takes hours to draw even one character. Plus the time it takes to study the brief, look at the references, communicate with me, etc etc. No way are they making even minimum wage this way, let alone a living wage. I commission art because itâs fun. Itâs my hobby. If Iâm knowingly paying someone slave wages to support my hobby, it isnât fun. To artists who undercharge: Please reconsider. Iâve heard many reasons why you decide to do this (see below). But if you price your work like you donât respect it, you wonât get clients who will respect you or your work either. You charge peanuts, you get monkeys. To commissioners who push for these prices: Have some respect. Not just for the artists, but for the other commissioners out there. Youâre giving us all a bad name. If you canât afford decent prices, donât be mean about it. Save up, or find some other hobby. Or hey, learn to draw.
Comments I get whenever I say the above:
"No-one will buy commissions from me at decent prices." - Thatâs a pity. But you realise by underpricing like this you are making your problem worse, by contributing to the âart should be dirt cheapâ mindset that seems to exist in dA and other places? (okay mostly dA, that place is a cesspit) Besides, there are other things you can do than keep lowering prices. Thereâs tons of advice in dA: 'Official' Pricing Your Commissions or Artwork Thread Finding Freelance work: pricing and self doubt! And other places: How to get commissions: A guide Getting the Most Out of Commissions If none of the above helps you⌠maybe you need to reconsider if you are at the right stage in your development to be offering commissions. Sorry.
"Iâm only doing this for fun, I donât care about the money."Â - Good for you. But there are others that are trying to make a living doing this. Have some consideration for them, yes?
"Itâs the clients pushing my prices down." - Gah. Then your clients are awful people who donât respect you. Itâs a trap though - you charge low prices, you get cheap clients. Thereâs only one way out of that trap.
(Commissioner says) âBut I want this drawn and I canât afford higher prices.â - I want to live in an exact replica of Wayne Manor, but I canât afford that. So, um, I donât. Simplify your idea, or donât commission it until you can afford to do so without ripping off the artist.
(Commissioner says) âBy paying less per artist I can support more artists.â - No. Just⌠no. You are not supporting artists, you are exploiting them. Paying less per artists lets you exploit more artists.
"Just tip the artist." - I have done that, but it sends the wrong message. Tipping isnât the norm in this game, so when I tip artists assume itâs because they did an extra-awesome job, when in fact Iâm tipping them because they did their normal-awesome job. Plus if an artist is charging one-third or one-quarter what they should be, do I tip them 300%?
(Image by me. Not an artist, remember? The price list is made up, but based on real lists Iâve seen recently.)
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This is a really well written, wonderful post that addresses a lot of important points in regards to commissions, pricing and client attitude! Thank you very much for including my âGetting the Most Out of Commissionsâ guide in your post!
Iâve (and many other artists) have definitely spoken about the issues with commission pricing, and Iâm just really glad to see that there are so many people that are so supportive of artists getting paid a fair amount for their work. I laughed so hard at this 'IÂ want to live in an exact replica of Wayne Manor, but I canât afford that. So, um, I donât.â what a perfectly delightful turn of phrase that mirrors some client attitudes perfectly (and I didnât laugh, I pretty much witch cackled).
I do want to say, though, that as skeevy as you will likely feel when you commission an artist for what you feel is unfair wages (and I mean âyouâ in a general sense, not specifically addressing the OP!!) that cutting those artists off entirely by not commissioning them is perhaps not the best course of action. It is absolutely amazing that you have such a great client attitude and a lovely sentiment in regards to the value of artwork, but the reality of the situation is that an artist will probably value your paid patronage over your lack of paid patronage, whether you feel your decision to not commission them is a righteous motive or not.
Furthemore, itâs the fact that the artists who are unknowingly underpricing themselves that probably need the most help! I think itâs fantastic that we all make these posts where weâre saying âyou donât have to live like this!â but for so many artists, the alternative appears to be such a hopeless fantasy. I think, if, as an informed client, you want to proactively help out struggling artists, then, commission them, whether you feel they are underpricing or not. Give them the BEST client experience that artist could possibly have.
And because it is just a fact of life that most clients that pay a measly $20 or below usually turn out to be the difficult ones - when artists swap war stories with each other Iâm always just thinking, geez, itâs not like clients either underpay you OR are terrible, itâs ALWAYS that theyâre both, omfg can you just pick ONE?! - well, you can be the client that pays $20 and above (because yes, tip them!!) AND is a dreamboat to work with. Make artists recognise that there are people out there that are both willing to pay a decent amount AND are willing to provide them with a really lovely working experience, neither of which, I feel, most amateur artists ever really experience.
I am delighted when an artist tells me I am their very first client. With all artists, I strive to be the best client I could possibly be (which, by the by, is actually not very hard to do which is why I am always consistently disappointed by artists who tell me about terrible clients they have had because itâs really not hard to be a decent person) so that they will expect successive clients to treat them the same.Â
On a note about tipping (and I guess about pricing as a whole) - itâs really not so much about the amount but the intent and the meaning. A 20% tip on a $20 commission means about the same as a 20% tip on a $200 commission - to both artists, it says âI really appreciate your work, I think you deserved a little more for what you produced, thank you for working with meâ. At least, this is the reason why I tip (alongside practicing rogue commission practices like assuming +1 char will be +100% of the original price, because most artists charge less than the base price of a commission for a +1 character and I think thatâs crap).
I think itâs most important to know that while pricing is a big issue, client attitude is a bigger one (if not just THE biggest). Youâre not a horrible client for purchasing cheap artwork, or for not tipping - to be fair, there is no expectation for you to have to school artists in fair wage, and of course a tip is a just generous gesture on top of what is already expected.
Just be a good client. Honestly, in the end, the artist wonât remember the monetary amount you paid them, but the way you treated them. 'But 'be a good client' is really vague! Can you tell me exactly how?â I'm sorry because this isn't the kind of thing I feel I can teach you, because the way you truly feel about the value of art and the value of an artist's time and effort should inform your actions anyway. What I'm saying is that if you have a positive, considerate, appreciative attitude towards art & artists, you don't need me to tell you what to do in x or y situation - you already know how to conduct yourself appropriately!
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