#paulianne doll

[calochortus]

Darjeeling by Nat Via Flickr: Alchemic Labo Unoa Sist 1.5 Quluts

[musumeadventures]

April is here, so it is time for another interview! Please welcome PauliAnne Dolls, an incredibly talented faceup artist. You can read the whole interview (En/Es) in my blog: https://bit.ly/3dRDDbn

[dedrastarling]

Veloria Migidoll Yuri on Dollshe26F Wig eclipse21, faceup Paulianne Dolls, sweater Junipa, necklace Silent Visions

[queenofsquids]

I don't know much about fashion doll or vinyl doll faceup prices. But here are a couple of BJD artist prices and some of their work that is maybe vaguely similar to ones you've turned out recently. The two artists that I would put you in league with are some of the very best in the game, in my opinion.

Work you charged $70 for:

Matahata charged $130 (last info I could find, possibly out of date as I don't think they do commissions any more):

Komorebi charges $150:

Paulianne charges $170:

To be clear, in my opinion your work is most similar to some of the top BJD artists who charge double or more your current price. I don't know if upping your price would drive off other customers but it wouldn't drive me off.

pricing

Someone is interested in a RH repaint for Día de los Muertos and I-- ugh, I hate figuring out prices for things. How much is too much?

I don't think I'm good or worthy enough to charge more money, but friends disagree and constantly get mad at me for not charging enough. It just feels wrong to charge more.

Also thinking about doll repaints v. bjd face ups. Wouldn't it make more sense for doll repaints to cost more than a bjd face up because doll repaints (usually) require the painting of eyes and that is where most of my time and materials go. But if I raise the price for bjd face ups to what has been suggested to me, then fashion and toy repaints will be much too expensive.

On one hand, I do want to attract customers because this is currently my only way to make some money. But on the other, I'm not too concerned of turning this into a business.

Either way, RH would technically fall under bjd style face ups because of the eye situation, but that type of face paint definitely costs extra and either way I have no idea what to charge.

Bleh.