At the Furry Cons I go to, there are a levels of art sketching that I do. Pencils, inks and grey scale. I mostly do grey scale because 'everyone' else is doing it. I put a high price on it to chase everyone away, and they still come.
I bought markers, which I guess I like well enough - but often I forget them at home. I switch to my box of watercolor, which I love.
So, there I sit - doing art late at night. The watercolors are out.... what harm is putting color on instead of grey, grey, grey. I've done it a few times.
Now my mind spins through the implications. Color overnight sketches at cons. I would be able to charge more. I'm charging $80 for greyscale - so that would be $100 for color. tempting.
I charge $100 for take home colored pencil pics. I can't charge the same for at home work (where there is a lot more detail and un-distrurbed, unrushed work done) then I do for at come homework. So, this means I will probably up the price of my Take Home work (or lower the at con prices...)
I also need to figure out what to charge for watercolor Take Home work. I have a price for colored pencil, and one for acrylic... but I like doing the watercolor now. I feel confident in offering it.
Thinking.
I spoke with Donato once and he said I should put my commission prices up fairly high so that I would be available to do the work I wanted to do - instead of directed things. I see what he was saying.
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