Hello!

A little about me:
*Gaiaonline and Tinierme veteran
*Art college dropout (lol)
*Currently attending college for Social Work
*9 months pregnant and engaged
*28 years old

I have been drawing seriously ever since I was about 17 years old.
I still have A LOT to learn when it comes to art, color, backgrounds--etc... but I'm generally self-taught.

I'm trying to build a new digital art portfolio and am most inspired by peoples individual creativity.
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Which is why I am making this shop.

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Art Examples

Above is my new Facebook art shop. I have all my recent pieces on there for examples.

BECAUSE I'm both new to this community AND I don't know how the pricing/currency works...
I'm solely going based off what y'all think my art is worth.
BUT if you are art pricing-educated.. I'd REALLY appreciate some help on this so I can have a more solid price-point.

Thankies!

you can do two ways of attempt pricing art commission request

1.) pricing based from other artist's commission sheet and how they divide the request feature

2.) knowing how long do you finish 1 piece and decide its price base on art piece's complexity.

3.) based on 2.), but its priced per hour.

my end, i used 1 and 2. I am also open to negotiations as I explain which is takes longer and which can be budgeted to their needs.


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if you dont have a pool of fan base or customers (first time art commission with irl currency), I recommend doing some small art trade (with limited numbers cos they can attact fans but also it is time consuming cos you are doing it for free) and free art (or virtual currency like voltra)

in time, you will have some that might be your potential customers.

The number of followers can be overwhelming for twitter/insta artist users. But I would like to note that numbers dont reflect number of commission that you get from paid clients. So its okay to have small amount of followers from the beginning.

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How to get yourself market for art commissions: (easy versiom)
+ join discord servers / forum
+ follow the server/forum's guidelines before posting your commission ad
+ make some small social interaction. it didnt have to be regular thing. only the thing that you can do within your capacity.
+ posting your current works on server/forum or in app insta/twitter
+ follow back your followers (i know its not important but it is a social ettiquette that makes the follower to feel the respect)
+ dont delete your follow unless you have a reason
(some from my insta followed me just to unfollow later is well.. off putting. they do that assuming you dont notice and still see their works. but thats bad follow manners. Only unfollow if you dont like the person or any other reason.. not for intent to scheme like i mention earlier)
+ kindness and respect gives you long mile run for art commissions. people tend to get big headed when they have big follow count for some odd reason. Dont forget that followers followed you cos they are interested on your works. they are human also.

but regardless as they are human, dont forget that you are one too. if any of your followers hurt you, you will feel the hurt. same goes vice versa.

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i hope i help >u<

I Loved your art! Do you mind I request some art from you? I need to do art of OC of {{Female Protagonist}} and Creusa in MUV suits.