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oh come on guys, give the brat a break. He obviously needs the Gaia gold to pay his bills, food, gas and rent rolleyes
Seriously, if the price of doing avi art was no more than 10k right now- I wouldn't bother setting a shop up- not when most of the good items cost over 100k. So... stfu
 
     

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If I'm going to be spending my free time drawing art for someone, I'm gonna expect a LOT in return, especially if I'm being paid in fake money. If you want to be cheap with your gold then expect cheap art in return.


I am not trying to be being cheap. the matter is, is that I dont even have the gold they charge. and maybe something is wrong with me but I just cant see paying 20k 50k or over. The most i would ever pay would be 18k. and that is still a bit pricy to me. but like i said people on gaia work hard for thier gold and the people who make gold fast... well can someone tell me the trick?



Obviously you get what you pay for... 10k for a good one... uh...... If everybody else is willing to pay millions for great arts, why should good artists be willing to sell it for 10k?


Not everyone else is willing to pay millions for art! I did pretty good on my avi art (when I used to do it) and like I said I would NEVER charge over 1k! And then I thought i was being a b***h and charging to much.

Not everyone is willing to pay millions for art, certainly. But there are many people willing and able to pay that price. As long as those people exist, artists are not gonna lower their price. Artists don't have to sell to YOU when they have all these other people lined up to buy their expensive art.

If you want to make money fast... try selling art. ^^ Art should be priced fairly, but "fairly" can vary WIDELY depending on the quality of your art. Auctions are a good way of gauging the price IMO since the buyers decide the price.
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if someone is willing to pay millions, that's someone who truly appreciates your art. So I would add to that, as long as there are people on gaia who have true appreciation for artists and their work, the prices will never drop razz

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*nods* As long as there are people willing to pay me like, 100k per picture (when I want to do commissions) then there is no reason for me to lower my prices. I get way too many people clamoring for my slots when I do open them. I mean, I hadn't even had the thing about commissions in my sig for more than two minutes before someone PMed me and wanted a picture in exchange for a Kuro's Induction (current MP, 220k).

Even then I spend... let's say, 6 hours on the picture (though in all likelyhood it is more), that is about 16,666g per hour. If a sealed goes for 35k, then I am working for somewhere around $1.25/h. In real life at my job in the tailor shop, I get $11/h. It isn't really worth it, but I like getting some virtual currency to spiff up my avatar sometimes.
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Gaia gold/item commissions -- OPEN & Updated Nov28!
 
What gets to me is the number of artists on Gaia who think their stuff is particularly good. It's been a long time since I commissioned someone with Gaia gold or items instead of real money (art contest aside, because I'm not asking for anything better than a scribble there), but man... I looked through the shop and auction threads just now, for the first time in about a year, and CRIPES DO PEOPLE SUCK!!

Reading through this, I'm reminded of all the cr*ppy scribbles I used to pay for, and the uppity attitude people would get when I said I was hoping for some of their better work, not the cr*p they tossed out in freebie threads. Freebies are one thing, folks... but it's just offensive to commission for decent art and get cr*p in return.

I'm oh so vividly reminded why I left Gaia to commission on deviantart. Real money or no real money, some people take their commissions much more seriously than others. I've rarely had the issues on dA that I had here.
     
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not to brag or anything, but i draw ******** amazingly.
and i agree with you that people who are drawing shitty art on gaia and charging liek 98123748716234548562134 kajillion golf for it are dumb as hell.

i want to start a bribe art shop but idfk how, so right now i'm working off of commish.
if you care to see my art it's on eixem.deviantart.com
a few pages back since i havent uploaded anything in a while
and ive gotten better since then but its like hell if im ripping pages out of my portfolio notebook so i can put them on dA lol. so uh, i'll do your avi art if you buy me s**t, idk.
 
     
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im awesome at drawing in rl i just dont do anything on here
     
so true.. so sad.. v.v
 
     
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