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Brahkest In reply to Demon-Child-13 [2013-09-07 00:27:37 +0000 UTC]

Ah, that's what I thought those were XD
Thanks for the info~

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Demon-Child-13 In reply to Brahkest [2013-09-07 04:15:46 +0000 UTC]

No problem. XD

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Brahkest In reply to jem--jam [2013-09-07 00:32:28 +0000 UTC]

That would be very helpful. Would you mind linking me to your thread as well?

I could use all the help I can get P: I'm a little paranoid on forums (for no real reason
other than anxiety). One thing I definitely want to ask, how do you "give" people
their commissions? Here on DA, you can just download them but how do you go about
it? I've been told to submit to places like photobucket or whatnot for the owners to get
them.

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jem--jam In reply to Brahkest [2013-09-07 01:43:46 +0000 UTC]

Of course! Here's mine: Link (I'm organizing things right now so it's a tad messy)

I use photobucket and puush to share the artwork with my customers. Photobucket allows you to use the direct url for the image. So when you start a message on the forums there's a little tree symbol on the tool bar you can click on and it will ask for a url. If you input the url from photobucket then the image will show in the message. I usually do this for small images or sneak peaks and such. I use puush for the final image, which opens up a new tab with just the image. (you can download push for free and it's super easy to use)

Of course you could just use photobucket for everything, but if you delete the image on photobucket then it won't show up in the thread either. It's good to have examples easily viewable for people and reasonable prices! 

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Brahkest In reply to jem--jam [2013-09-08 00:01:53 +0000 UTC]

Great ;D Thanks for that!

This is super useful. I didn't even know about puush so I'll check that out.

I hope more questions wouldn't bother ya~
Do you know what prices are good? Of course things would depend on art
quality, size, and whatnot, but what are examples of prices you've seen or
done that people are okay with? (such as for headshots, full bodies...)

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jem--jam In reply to Brahkest [2013-09-08 16:37:06 +0000 UTC]

I generally go more expensive the longer something takes me. So for small busts that I recolor I only charge 5-10K treasure! It's not a lot, but a lot of people get them so it's worth it. I kinda just go up by 5K from there, so the next thing time wise would be 10-15K and so on. For full pieces I charged 30-40K (which is still really cheap for the amount of time I put in ; u ; ). I've seen successful artists charge over 100K treasure for full pieces too, so I guess you just have to judge what people will want to spend? The average I've been seeing is 20-30K treasure for most people's stuff.

I've always liked having something really cheap that's easy for me to finish quickly as the main focus, and then have the more expensive stuff as an option ' u ' I've seen other people just offer everything too, so I guess that's your call to make! 

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Brahkest In reply to jem--jam [2013-09-08 20:12:02 +0000 UTC]

Super helpful again, thanks c;
I think I can finally manage up some prices now. I was recently up in
tumblr to check other people's prices and this one person, who did
great sketches, got complaints for over 4k. I was shocked but I assume it
was due to people wanting "free" art I suppose. But it's good to know
now that people are willing to spend to get some art

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jem--jam In reply to Brahkest [2013-09-08 21:54:01 +0000 UTC]

Yay! You're welcome of course ' u '

Oh what...4K is like nothing, nobody should complain about that!

I'm glad I could help, and if you make a thread I will DEFINITELY get something from you ^ u ^

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