#if youre a commissioner:

[ferronickel]

I am begging artists to charge more for their commissions. Pleading. If you are charging anything less than $20/hour you are undercutting the market and making it harder for working artists to earn a livable wage. (And really, truly, you should be aiming at something like $50/hour). Why would anyone want to pay artists what they're worth when there are artists out there asking for pennies for the same thing?

I understand that it's difficult finding commissioners willing to pay higher prices (because they've seen artists charging nothing for art, that's why), but that's something we can fix together if we normalize charging what our work is actually worth!

[cymk8]

her hair so CRISPY

(commission!)

[zazrichor]

the witch and the bard 🌹

[deadwooddross]

Speaking of design commissions, here's one from a bit ago! The Rat, who isn't really all that ratty but by coincidental adaptation to a fairly hostile environment

[bubblebaath]

"hmm... not bad"

[exhausted-undead]

have a quick jayvik while I test my new drawing equipment

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Commissioners please check your spam folder again ... It's me I'm in the trash can

[quiddling]

kissy kiss kiss

[koboldfactory]

some of the commissions from the current queue!

[ineed-to-sleep]

Just saw somebody trying to justify their shitty use of generative ai by saying "commission artists only say that ai isn't valuable because they want you to believe you don't have value as the commissioner" and I just wanted to crawl out of my skin. Like WHERE did they get that idea? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever had to read with my own two eyes

Let me tell you, as an artist who does commissions, yes you have value! Obviously the art that I make will be very different depending on the instructions you give me and having good material from the start will make the result much better. When artists say that AI isn't as valuable as a real artist, they're not saying you don't have value as the person giving instructions, they're saying that they have value as well, being the person who went through the process of spending hours carefully drawing the ideas you've given them. When an artist says "AI isn't going to do as good of a job as an artist", they're defending the value of their own work, not dismissing the value of yours. An artist defending their own value should not be twisted and villainized like this like jesus fucking christ that was such an asinine take I had to say something

[suchscary]

Too many artists who do commissions, in my experience, don't take their job seriously enough.

It's a meme how some artists take months to complete a comm and "haha im so grateful for having patient commissioners" but that's just poor work ethics on the artist's part.

When you offer commissions, you don't just offer art, you also have to communicate with your client properly, give them proper updates, ask them for feedback during process, discuss things that your ToS doesn't cover if needed, and so on.

Just for example, if you're taking longer than expected, let them know why (just vague "due to personal problems" is enough) and if needed, offer a refund or another alternative instead of making your commissioner reach out to you for updates themselves and possibly stressing them out.

Otherwise, you're treating your commissioner like a nuisance that you're forced to work with, not a client who offers you money in return for proper service.

[fishsticxz-art]

yet another custom character sheet commission! the design includes references to all the player characters and themes and lore from the campaign. designing it was a lot of fun :D please don't use if you're not the commissioner!

[bonepriests]

trying to finally execute on a tab concept ive wanted to do for a while. wizards.

[serennes-art]

final batch of emblemcon comms!

[celticbotanart]

🎵EU FALEI: F A R A Ó!!!!!!🎵

Commission for Cy, featuring the Egyptian god of storms Sutekh / Set! Thank you so much, this was A BLAST and as always with this kind of work, I always end up learning so much! <3

commission info | patreon | twitter | Ko-fi | VGen | bluesky

[embroid-away]

so close! 😍 yet still so far to go 😭 and who knew shoelaces could be so complicated 🥾😩