It honestly blows my mind that there are so many people willing to pay this kind of money, assuming this is a standard-ish price for commissions.
I'd also point to these prices as why it's completely unjustifiable to paywall commissions, but I won't go on that rant again.
These prices are cheap compared to actual, professionally price-rated art commissions. This is the low-end, buddy. If anything, despite how much it may seem at first, this is a steal for an artist with very high-level quality and consistency and popularity like Khyle does/has.
Lets just say a commission takes two full time days, that would be a minimum of 200 divided by 16 hours. That makes an hourly rate of $12.5 USD. At first it sounds expensive, but assuming the time taken is right, is also an acceptable rate depending on where the artist lives.
I was complaining before about charging $10 dollars just for showing boobs. This calculation gives a different perspective about not to be that expensive after all.
I wasn't complaining or saying it should be cheaper, I was expressing how I find it bizarre for so many people to be eager to drop such a massive amount of money (apparently even more massive than I thought) on what simply amounts to an image with character(s) of their choosing. The only time I'd even consider it is if it was something that was going to be printed, framed, and hung on my wall for the rest of my life.
Then again, there's also plenty of people who send $100 to streamers just to read off a single message and people who drop thousands on cosmetic microtransactions in games, so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised. Maybe I just have a vastly different perception of value.
If artists are going to charge this, then it's not like anything I say or do would change anything anyway. But I stand by my statement that if you're making this amount of money off of commissions, it really seems excessive to also force everyone else to pay something to see the finished product. A lot of artists don't, which is nice, but there are plenty who do.
I wasn't complaining or saying it should be cheaper, I was expressing how I find it bizarre for so many people to be eager to drop such a massive amount of money (apparently even more massive than I thought) on what simply amounts to an image with character(s) of their choosing. The only time I'd even consider it is if it was something that was going to be printed, framed, and hung on my wall for the rest of my life.
Then again, there's also plenty of people who send $100 to streamers just to read off a single message and people who drop thousands on cosmetic microtransactions in games, so I guess I shouldn't be that surprised. Maybe I just have a vastly different perception of value.
If artists are going to charge this, then it's not like anything I say or do would change anything anyway. But I stand by my statement that if you're making this amount of money off of commissions, it really seems excessive to also force everyone else to pay something to see the finished product. A lot of artists don't, which is nice, but there are plenty who do.
That's because you are cheap, my dude. This is barely anything. Try to get anything custom built and you'll see prices go up on anything and art is essentially always a permanent custom job work.
If artists are going to charge this, then it's not like anything I say or do would change anything anyway. But I stand by my statement that if you're making this amount of money off of commissions, it really seems excessive to also force everyone else to pay something to see the finished product. A lot of artists don't, which is nice, but there are plenty who do.
Do you think $200-300 per commission is a lot to live off of? How many of those do you think they complete in a month? Even if you were to assume rom collector's $12.50 an hour was accurate, they aren't working those hours nonstop. It's not a 9-5, they complete as many commissions in whatever time frame they're able/willing to.
Regarding Khyle specifically, a quick look at his Twitter shows he uploads a new piece every 2-5 days. Are they all commissions, does anyone know? Did he get paid for every one of them?
Also, this just feels really entitled. It's the artist's creation, and it was funded by a single person, "everyone else" doesn't even have a right to know it exists, much less see it. If the artist wants to charge the people who didn't pay for it in the first place to see it, and the commissioner agrees to those terms, then it's not really anyone's place to judge. It doesn't belong to "everyone else."
It's the artist's creation, and it was funded by a single person, "everyone else" doesn't even have a right to know it exists, much less see it. If the artist wants to charge the people who didn't pay for it in the first place to see it, and the commissioner agrees to those terms, then it's not really anyone's place to judge. It doesn't belong to "everyone else."
Then I'll just continue my campaign of periodically tagging paid_reward_available on appropriate posts for people who prefer not to deal with that.
Evidently I hold some pretty shit views so I'm going to be quiet instead of continuing to dig the hole.