Need your opinion on prices
Hii,
I've been doing anime styled digital art for 4-5 years now and I started opening commissions on DA 2 years ago. I had a few commissions done (10 in total) but I struggle to find people interested in commissionning me.
Here is a link to my prices :
Do you think my price range is too high ? Maybe the quality is not enough for the price ? Where do you think the problem comes from ?
Thank you for reading ~
I've been doing anime styled digital art for 4-5 years now and I started opening commissions on DA 2 years ago. I had a few commissions done (10 in total) but I struggle to find people interested in commissionning me.
Here is a link to my prices :
[OPEN] Point/$ Commissions ~Information available here as well ~
What you'll receive :
- The file will be sent via note on my Stash,
- Full resolution,
- 300 DPI,
- Keep in mind that high level of detail might not be seen or sometimes removed on a chibi scale.
Information
• No background or a very simple one.
-> For halfbodies you can ask for a specific background for + $7 / 700pts
It's already included in the Chibi Scene.
• Multiple characters is ok.
* 2 characters are 2x the price,
* 3 characters are 3x the prise, and so on...
• I can do
- Boys and girls
- Fantasy stuff
- Basically any humanoid
- Anthro (if it is tail, ears or paws only)
Ask me if you are looking for a genre that is not in the list ~
• I don't draw
- Furry ( but sm
Do you think my price range is too high ? Maybe the quality is not enough for the price ? Where do you think the problem comes from ?
Thank you for reading ~
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Thank you for the share, I had already looked a similar journal but I'll read it again !
They definitely aren't excessively high, charging more at least for some of these categories would probably be a good idea as long as it doesn't negatively impact the demand you get too much for you.
Thanks for your advice !
You could actually charge higher prices for the non-chibi artwork. I mean you're offering the chibi stuff at a higher price than say ordinary busts, fullbodies etc. You've got the skill, certainly. The quality is pretty good all round too from even the ordinary sketches to the full colour pieces.
I think the marketing/advertising is uneven slanting your commissions towards chibis versus the other way round, or even a balance between the two. It could be a game changer if clients that see your commission page think you specialise in chibis more than say ordinary custom works.
I like that you have a TOS, are clear about payment methods, and have a clean and clear commission sheet.
It does show the price, what you can do and are willing to do. Plus the rules around that for commissions. It's a major step in the right direction. Some artists that have been offering commissions for ages, don't even get that right.
You have.
You'd definitely appeal to anime-enthusiasts wanting such artwork of their characters. Plus you're already doing adopts which is a new avenue. Maybe try YCHs? The issue might also be simply advertising. Plus saturation, I mean there's thousands+ artists offering a similar style and commissions too.
Thank you very much for giving your opinion, your comment is very helpful.
Thank you also for the advice and tips, I think I'll go toward the marketing solution. DeviantArt is maybe not the right place to focus on too maybe..
Thank you also for the advice and tips, I think I'll go toward the marketing solution. DeviantArt is maybe not the right place to focus on too maybe..
I was asked to do a pencil portrait, and it will have 2 people in it. I quickly spout out, that I would charge $50, and they plan on taking it, while I was not thinking I would do that with one person, but 2 people is different and I should charge more.
It might be a price from the past when paychecks were a lot smaller, but I think of it as an introduction back into drawing again.
When you find people that want art, you set a good price to make it worth doing. For the work you put into it, I am sure you will not be able to get anything to make it worth doing with the $7.
The main problem is, this website is an artist website. a few people pass through that are not artist, but not create an account to interact. Mostly artist do that, and they are more interested in improving than buying art.
When I work with a program, I do what it does best, to go with the flow and not spend time making it do what it is not good at. All mediums are like that, like pencil and water colors needs the white of the paper to be the brighter areas in the art, and you avoid filling them in. This website is like that, because it has things it does best for artist, while most new artist try to sell their art to other artist, and wonder why nobody is buying.
The forums are helpful, and when it comes down to getting attention around here, to spend less time doing art, or do very bad art so any artist feels they can help with advice.
Personally, I always sell my art to local people, and sell art with programming online. I spend no time at all trying to get noticed. When I first came here I looked at what makes artist more noticed, and a DD works, but this is a closed community. Being popular here is only here. People all over the world are outside of this closed community. It might be open to everyone but it has a lot of artist and tons of images being uploaded all the time. A person could get looking around and not remember why they came. That makes it closed to the outside, like the inside of a black hole, nothing gets out unless the artist uploads to a lot of other places.
It might be a price from the past when paychecks were a lot smaller, but I think of it as an introduction back into drawing again.
When you find people that want art, you set a good price to make it worth doing. For the work you put into it, I am sure you will not be able to get anything to make it worth doing with the $7.
The main problem is, this website is an artist website. a few people pass through that are not artist, but not create an account to interact. Mostly artist do that, and they are more interested in improving than buying art.
When I work with a program, I do what it does best, to go with the flow and not spend time making it do what it is not good at. All mediums are like that, like pencil and water colors needs the white of the paper to be the brighter areas in the art, and you avoid filling them in. This website is like that, because it has things it does best for artist, while most new artist try to sell their art to other artist, and wonder why nobody is buying.
The forums are helpful, and when it comes down to getting attention around here, to spend less time doing art, or do very bad art so any artist feels they can help with advice.
Personally, I always sell my art to local people, and sell art with programming online. I spend no time at all trying to get noticed. When I first came here I looked at what makes artist more noticed, and a DD works, but this is a closed community. Being popular here is only here. People all over the world are outside of this closed community. It might be open to everyone but it has a lot of artist and tons of images being uploaded all the time. A person could get looking around and not remember why they came. That makes it closed to the outside, like the inside of a black hole, nothing gets out unless the artist uploads to a lot of other places.
Thank you for this interesting comment ~
I didn't see the platform like that and it helps me to understand my situation better. Thank you again, it was very helpful.
I didn't see the platform like that and it helps me to understand my situation better. Thank you again, it was very helpful.
To be honest, I think those prices are way too low. You could be charging 2-3x that much easily.
Regardless, I don't think prices have anything to do with your commission volume. I might be wrong, but chibis just aren't in that high of demand anymore. You're catering to a market that's overflooded and dying.
Regardless, I don't think prices have anything to do with your commission volume. I might be wrong, but chibis just aren't in that high of demand anymore. You're catering to a market that's overflooded and dying.
Thank you for your reply ~
Ok, I thought Da was the perfect place to "highlight" all the different artists, even though they propose the same "anime-style " service. Thank you for helping me though !
Ok, I thought Da was the perfect place to "highlight" all the different artists, even though they propose the same "anime-style " service. Thank you for helping me though !