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Me, while watching Bravest Warriors: I’m not going to start shipping Chris and Danny. I refuse to suck myself into another gay blue and red ship it’s not gonna happen–
Me: *gets to the episode where Danny makes a robot version of Chris in order to make Chris jealous and in the end roboChris ends up falling in love with Danny and even tries to get Danny’s attention by putting on a sexy dance*
Me:
Big mood right now XD
The yule cat sounds like something parents made up to make their kids stop complaining about getting clothes for Christmas. I’ve gotten some form of clothes every year so I wouldn’t know.
“Oh, a pair of socks, thanks! This means the yule cat won’t get to eat me this year!”
A tool that I’ve found is really handy is a called the Cash Clock. It’s a simple program that measures both the time that you’re working on a piece as well as how much money you should be earning. You can adjust the hourly wage to whatever you feel is right. Simply start the clock whenever you begin working on a project right up until you’re finished. It can give you a clear indication of what you should charge for commissions.
No artist should make below minimum wage for their artwork.
The Cash Clock is found as a download here.
Please, please, please at least make sure you’re making minimum wage.
Please stop lowering the pay floor for independent artists everywhere by thinking $5-10/commission is anywhere close to an acceptable rate for something you spent three hours on.
ALSO, be sure to add on for your time/money on study and supplies when setting your hourly.
If someone asks for watercolor on stiff paper, take into account how much your watercolors cost, how much your paper costs, the amount of time you’ve spent on the project and the amount of time spent building that skill.
To calculate that:
Cost of raw materials * percent of usage = cost of the materials used for a project.
EX: For paper, (price of pack * size of pack) /#of sheets used= cost
(I tend to say about 5% for pencils/brushes and 10% for pens/paints/inks on relatively small projects.) - This applies to your digital materials too! Your tablet takes wear, your pen nibs take wear, your computer takes energy to run, your art program has costs…Take those into account.
And for your time spent studying, there are two ways of thinking about it:
“I went to college”: Approx. tuition for your art classes * percent of knowledge used = knowledge put into the work. I would use about 0.2% up to 2%, some people will use more, and certain projects will use more. This is pretty much whatever you think’s fair.
“I spent my years studying on my own, barely paid a dime.”: This is fairly subjective, but, I say about 0.5 to 2 cents per each year of study.
Think of it this way if you’re one of the “I’ve been drawing for as long as I remember” people: When did you get serious about drawing, and start actively deciding “I’m going to improve my art to a professional/expert standard” count the number of years between then and now. For me, it’s about 8 years. So there’s basically a flat $4 on all my work for the mear fact I’ve spent time actively learning how to improve my art.
A combination of those would be really to use your personal study time, and then add a small percentage for paid-study.
So, I’ve taken 3 5-credit college art classes, which together costs around $1200 SO about $6 is the base cost given my time and money spent on learning to art.
Therefore: My cost for an hour of digital work, with the base of the US federal hourly wage (just under $8) would probably be around $25. And this using my MINIMUMS. And my minimum is probably different than yours.
YES, I know it feels weird asking very much for something you have spent your life doing in such a natural way, and it feels weird asking for much when you are always looking at other artists’ works and not thinking yours is The Best, BUT, your works are valuable. And, when you ask so little for your art, you cause the entire online commission artist community to either lower their prices or deal with messages about how “Outrageously High Priced” their commisions are. You devaluing your work hurts both yourself and others in the long run.
Your time and effort have value. Your use of materials has value. Your knowledge has value. Demand for that to be respected.
me at this point of the year, reacting to any bad news
The earlier in the year you reblog this the funnier it is
its day two… how we feeling today, tumblr?
the suffering never ends
This is the real process
Resources for you!
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BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.
This is what I need!
I think I have this somewhere, but just in case
CHARACTERS!!
This is a spell designed to give you more dreams and more meaningful dreams! It’s one of the more complicated crafts I’ve done lately, but it has been so worth it. I’ve done this a few times and have fine-tuned the recipe, so hopefully it works well for you! (And as always, substitutions can be made if need be. One of the reasons there’s so much stuff in it is because I just attract herbs that are good for this type of spell, apparently.)
What You Need:
Best performed during a full moon on a Monday.
What You Do:
Voltron AU where everything is the same except they get cat ears/tails when they become paladins.
