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Selling at Cons is best during the...

Spring	11.5%	[ 117 ]
Summer	29.4%	[ 300 ]
Fall	7.2%	[ 73 ]
Winter	5.5%	[ 56 ]
Any time!	46.5%	[ 474 ]
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[LavenderMintRose]

Woot! Just got confirmed for Anime Next and sent in my payment. All that worrying for nothing ^_^

[Kyousouka]

Congrats~ I requested a 24h table so I don't know until next week ;_;

[LavenderMintRose]

Ooh, good luck with that!

[Vicemage]

Yay! I got my confirmation from Nebraskon today! biggrin

[Jayde Panda]

I'm on the waiting list for Anime USA... I'm #5, so I guess that's not too bad; I'd much preferred to have gotten a table though. XD

[Vicemage]

Being #5 at least gives you a shot at it. ^_^

This is a legal bump. This is also my strong desire to say "HOORAY! AD FORUM IS NO LONGER AT THE TOP OF THE LANDING PAGE!"

[Kyousouka]

Ooh, they finally moved the AD back down. Parrrty!

Edit for the sake of being on topic:
Do any of you guys have experience with at-con Copic commissions? How should those be priced compared to pencil sketches, long commissions, etc? I've got no idea at all.

[Vicemage]

I do them, and I do price them a fair bit higher, as they take a LOT longer to do than a pencil or ink sketch... I feel like I might be underpricing based on the work involved, but so be it, I'll keep my prices lower for now...

I do pencil at $10 , ink $15 , and marker $25 .

[Kyousouka]

Do you have any examples of those? I've only been doing quick sketches so far (for $4), haven't done any serious commissions at cons yet.

[Vicemage]

The most recent ones I have online are from about a year ago... (not counting a couple I'm doing just here at home right now) from a local con where I could do them at home overnight, and actually scan them instead of my usual photos. Marker, pencil,, and I don't seem to have a recent ink sample up.

[Cetriya]

this was done for 5$ card size
This was done for 15$ half body half sheet of paper
Something like this would have cost 40$ full page full body background
2 characters, full body bw for 25$


my prices are,
small items like cards, badges, stickers are 5$ in color
half body full body
pencils 5$ 7$
Ink BW 10$ 15$
Color 15$ 25

+character 5$ 10$
+Background 5$ 15$

[Kyousouka]

Cetriya: Oh wow. Don't you think you're undercharging for the larger ones? Unless you're super-fast.

[Cetriya]

you mean the 25$ color ones?

coloring is the easy part, its the drawings that take time.
Also, my prices are based on the fact that I want to run out of my markers as soon as possible, and I kind of dont correct my anatomy as much.

It used to be higher, but this is the price that I get business at cons and depending on when I get them I can do about 4-6 a day but I only get about 5 a con.

Besides, I'm not popular, when demands get higher, I'll up my prices

[Kyousouka]

I was referring more to the inked full bodies xP Colouring is the easy part for me too.

I tend to go by hour rates when pricing myself, maybe that's why I price myself higher. I aim for $10-ish per hour at least, with extra costs for when I could be doing other things (I charge more if I'm busy IRL, etc).