#I'm happy to promote your campaign on my page if you promote mine too

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When I was pricing my commissions, something that helped me was actually more about my labor then what other people wanted to buy, surprisingly.

I started with prices ridiculously low. Like, most artists would say they were way too low. Like, 10 dollars for a colored piece, low.

And while for lineart I felt fine, every time I finished a colored piece? I felt exhausted, tired, sad, and like I worked way too hard for way too little money. It felt like I was being scammed even though I'M the one who set the prices. I was miserable.

So I changed my prices. My current commission prices are;

6$ lineart

20$ colour

(+6$ each additional character)

At this level, when I complete a piece, I feel satisfied and comfortable, and proud of myself. The money feels like a reasonable amount to receive for the work I did. The lineart price didn't even change (it was about 6 dollars before) but changing the price of coloring made a huge difference in feeling like I made a fair exchange.

Character pricing is sort of similar. I used to charge like, a multiplier for characters- this meant that instead of a static number for each one, it was just the price of the itnitial peice multiplied by the characters. But that was way, way too expensive. And I realized that the only phase where the number of characters even made a difference was lineart- if I'm coloring the whole page, I'm already going over all of it in color already- so different characters might mean more colors or different ones, but it doesn't feel like an increase in effort for me personally. So it would be unfair to charge more for something that felt so...nothing? Whereass for lineart it feels like a bigger difference. So now, as you can see in my prices above, I just charge the lineart price of 6$ again for each character.

When you're selling something, you have to remember it's an EXCHANGE, it's supposed to be fair both ways. The customer gets art they enjoy, and YOU get an amount of money that makes it worth it. It's supposed to be beneficial for you, too, when you get the paycheck. It's not supposed to feel like you're draining yourself- ideally you and the customer should both be equally happy with what you got out of it!!

So I would stop and think about, like, the minimum/lowest possible amount of money you would need to get for different kinds of art to feel like you were fairly compensated. Then, start there- at that minimum price. If too many people are ordering commissions at once at those prices and you're getting overwhelmed, then that means you have high demand and you can raise the prices a little to even things out (which will also slow the rate of orders).

But try not to lower your prices below that minimum threshold!! If you're not getting buyers, you can try advertising or campaigning harder, or maybe just working on learning new techniques you can use so you can improve your art in general, but don't sell yourself short!! People don't always have spending money and you might not have a big audience, but you shouldn't overwork yourself- and charging too low IS overworking yourself. It's a kind of self harm. Find another way to redirect.

Right now I'm getting ready to launch my own advertising thingy for saving up for @/dashcon-two (check it out if you haven't!! Very poggers) , and I haven't finished it yet (I'm drawing ads and making plans) but I'm gonna try and get that started once my sickness is out of the way fully so I can start saving up. If you want/need to get more comissions then you're getting, and you can't lower your prices any further, then you should start working on promoting them or networking- maybe you can team up with other artists and promo each other!

I'd also start working on a terms and conditions. People don't really talk about it, but having a terms and conditions is really important, and I wish I already had written mine when I started. You don't need to hire a lawyer- don't worry about that!- but you should research what sort of things to say and include in the terms for a commission. You can also use the terms and conditions of other artists for reference :D!!!

Would you guys be interested in commissions? If yes, how much should I charge.