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haganenoyuki · 4 months ago

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the below situation has me considering actually ironing out a system for commissions for that sort of thing. there's a lot of people who are way better and faster than me at character art but I think my workflow and intuition with flyers and posters and other graphic stuff is good enough that I can justify asking for rates that I would find worthwhile to work for

#it's tricky though #jobs take variable amounts of time so I want to charge hourly #dad is obviously the blueprint for how I think about freelance art and that's how he's always done it #but that's also tricky to quote on because I don't have a great intuition for how long things will take at a baseline #and the key is overestimating and then coming in under budget #and it's also maybe intimidating to customers if they don't know how much it'll cost up front or the estimate is a lot #otoh it also means that it's way easier to work more closely and make lots of revisions #and at the end I'll be satisfied that I got payed for the work and they can be satisfied with the result #very nonstandard though it seems

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