I took a realistic look at the quality of my work this afternoon and I asked myself if I would pay the prices I'm asking for work that is of the same quality as what I normally produce. The answer was a resounding "no." When I looked at my pricing scheme in my Terms of Service, I noticed that a flat-color drawing with two characters in it would cost me 80 dollars, which is the exact same price I paid for a much higher quality work done by a popular artist involving my mate Jade and me being intimate together. I have to face it: my work is not worth the prices that I was asking, pure and simple. No matter what some artist I knew told me about what a semi-pro artist would make in real life, for me to sell any amount of my art online requires that I drastically lower my prices.

So that's what I've done. I've lowered the price for a pencil sketch to $10.00, digital lineart to $15.00, and flat color to $20.00. Extra characters are now $5.00 each. That same image I mentioned above, at this new pricing range, would cost a commissioner a grand total of $25.00 instead of the $80.00 that the old ToS would have required. It is a far more realistic price for my art than what I was asking before.

I won't be doing slots, and I've made the Terms of Service much simpler. I will still be requiring full payment up-front before I begin work. To be brutally honest, this is for my own protection: back when I used to require payment upon completion I got shafted by a commissioner when I mistakenly sent the high-res version of a pic to him instead of the low-res preview pic before he was finished paying me. He promptly used that mistake on my part as an opportunity to declare that my work, which he agreed to pay me ten dollars total for, wasn't worth the full price and strong-armed me into accepting seven dollars instead. I wish I didn't have to ask for payment in full up-front, but if it weren't for some opportunistic dipshit who got greedy over three dollars, I wouldn't be forced to do this in the first damn place. I accept PayPal only and will not be offering refunds.

I'll still be giving customers the progress reports as I finish each phase, and I'll be more than willing to make changes to things like positioning and so on in the lineart, though I'll be more resistant to doing so in sketches simply because it's much easier to re-position something in a layered digital format than it is to re-position it on paper with an eraser.

TL;DR:

I've lowered my prices to be more realistic given the quality of my work and how well-known I am as an artist. New prices are:

Single Character:
$10.00 for a pencil sketch
$15.00 for a digital lineart
$20.00 for a flat color digital work.

Add $5.00 for each additional character.

Payment in full is required up-front before I begin work. Paypal only, and no refunds.

I will give progress reports at each phase of the work, and I will make necessary changes, though I will make those changes in the digital lineart version because it is easier to do than it would be to do it in a traditional pencil sketch.

My new Terms of Service can be read in full on my Dropbox at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m9a0sgrryxz6djf/150909-TermsofService.txt?dl=0

Thank you, and have a wonderful day.

~Inanna