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quick psa for nonblack artists attempting to draw Dolores with her hair down.
Dolores appears to have a mix of type 3C/4A hair
here’s some hair charts for reference
her hair is curly not wavy, so if her hair were down it would look something like this.
also if you’re attempting to describe her hair in fan fiction, the hairstyle that she has is called an afro puff. It can also be referred to as a ‘pineapple’.
The creator of the original, the animal reference tool, made their own human reference tool which allows you to search based on different body parts and poses!
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfectoutfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered!Originally@modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)
Hey. Remember when I shared 10 years worth of photos that I took for painting references & design projects? Including these photos from a crater?
My account got suspended. For no reason. (I suspect it’s P*yP*l).
So I’m doing this again but via Patreon.
I know Patreon isn’t the ideal platform for selling digital files. There’s a delay between the pledge and the actual charge/delivery. But this is the only platform I can safely use for now. To make it up to you, I’ve increased the number of themed photo pack options to 12.
Once you’ve received the files, you’re by no means obliged to continue supporting me there. But for the more serious supporters, I’m offering a permanent link to my drive folder, which contains 779 photos (and steadily increasing).
I hope these files can be more helpful to a lot of people, instead of just sitting in my harddisk waiting for me to get the right project to use them. You can read how my offer works in full here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/24760431
So@dreriart made a post about commission pricing and I thought since it is doin’ the rounds I’d copy-paste this thing I wrote on DA over to Tumblr because for some reason I … never … did that … before??
So one recurring thing I see a lot in the art community in many different formats is ‘how much should I charge for my commissions?’
What normally follows is a lot of bad advice. Terrible advice. So I’m here to give you some good advice and tell you all about how to value your skillset and price accordingly. This guide has been written with the intended audience of folk who are just starting out with commissions, but I hope it will encourage other artists to give themselves a fair wage and, of course, a lot of this can be transposed over to other creative professions as well.
So let’s answer the question of ‘how much should I be charging people for work?’
The answer to this is deceptively simple. Here are the questions you need to ask yourself to form an appropriate response:
Where do you live?
How old are you?
For obvious reasons I cannot assist you with these. But once you have these you go to Google and you type in the following:
‘minimum wage per hour in <location name>’
Which is more than likely going to bring up an official government page for your area. Here is the one for the UK since that is where I live.Now what? Well. How old are you? Because some locations have different rates for those in different age brackets. But essentially all you need to do is get the following info:
How much is the minimum wage per hour for my age in my area?
Now that you have this, how long does a piece take you? You do not need to be exact. A rough guesstimation will do. This will form your base price of:
Minimum Wage x Estimated Hours
Therefore if I take five hours to paint a portrait and my min wage is £7.83 then my base price for a painted portrait is £39.15.
That is the absolute minimum you should be charging for your work.
And please take into considerations the following:
Working outside your comfort zone will up times taken on a piece.
If you’re working with traditional materials, how much for paper/canvas/paint/pens/etc?
Minimum wage is quite often garbage anyway.
Whenever I say this though, I often get a variety of responses in the negatory for this method. I have answers for each of them. So, let’s run a sort-of-FAQ on this method shall we?
I’m not good enough to price that high.
Yes you are. Who says? Your government, for starters. Also me. Here’s the thing. No matter the quality of your art, you deserve a fair living wage for your work.
There are lots of people out there with no understanding of the time, effort and tears that go into honing artistic skills. Digital art, making comics, mastering musical composition, sculpting, or whatever it is all takes time to learn and we are constantly growing and improving. And if someone wants to hand you money for what you are producing guess what? You ARE good enough. That is the proof right there. Another human being wants to give you cold hard cash for something that only you can make.
If it puts a different perspective on things for you, think of job roles that would be traditionally minimum wage. Probably the one most people will go to is ‘burger flipping at McDonalds’ as an example of a low skill occupation that is stereotypically easy and for those who failed in life etc. etc. (spoiler alert: it isn’t, but that’s a journal entry for another day). Why should this theoretical failure of humanity earn more than you doing a job that ‘anyone can do’? Because art is absolutely more difficult than cleaning out a McFlurry machine (that’s a legit fact by the way: I’ve cleaned one of those and art is way harder).
Also, art is a luxury product my friend. No one needs to be buying commissions of their MMO character. They want it? They can play by our rules. And they will.
My family member/friend/random internet guy said that’s too expensive and I should lower my prices.
Your family member/friend/random internet berk is a fucking idiot at best, or intentionally trying to get you to undersell at worst. Firstly, I’d be willing to bet that the person who said this to you is notan artist. If so, what makes them more qualified than another actual artist to tell YOU how to price yourself? Because you trust their opinion? Yeah, but what if their opinion is formed on a factually incorrect assumption of how much art costs/the time it takes to produce because that is a HUGE deal in our community right now. And what if they just want you to stay cheap because it threatens them? Or, as a consumer, want you to stay cheaper for their own selfish purchasing habits? What then? Tell them to fuck off.
But there is someone better than me charging less! Why should a client pick me over them?
Spoiler alert: there will always be someone better than you charging less. There are thousands of mega quality artists out there. I’m considered expensive for what I produce, especially as I live in a country with a currency that translates highly to other currencies. Yet people constantly ask me for commission work. So what gives? Here are some reasons why a prospective client might chose you over someone else:
You are nicer than they are.
You are faster than they are.
You’re working in a niche sector.
They know you personally.
They like your art style better.
You have lots of good feedback.
A friend recommended you.
They aren’t even open for commissions right now.
They had a bad experience with that artist in the past.
You’re easier to purchase from.
You have a larger following and purchasing from you exposes that audience to them by proxy.
There are lots of other reasons but price isn’t necessarily often the deciding factor for a lot of clients. Don’t spend your life being concerned with how other people are better than you or you’ll never be happy.
I’m nervous about pricing so highly! What if no one wants my art?If a client doesn’t want to pay you a fair living wage for their luxury item purchase then that’s a client you can probably do without to be honest with you.Someone complained about my prices being so high! What do I do?
Refer them to this:
This is feckin’ brilliant. If you’re creating a custom product of ANY kind, then this the kind of info you need. I’m in the middle of being commissioned to create a “brochure” for a local sample processing lab and I legit had no idea how to charge for my work. Not just because I’ve never done commissioned work before, but it’s going to be a combo photography/PowerPoint/writing/graphic art project, so how the heck was I going to rate my worth and work? This is a great jumping-off point and I’m feeling a lot more confident about what I’m going to be doing. :)
Hey, if you don’t mind sharing, I’ve always wondered how you got that soft celling look on your characters in your comic. Any tips? I’m currently working on my own comic and I kind of want to go for a less harsh form of cell shading. Thanks!
A couple people have asked about the way I color things and I’ve been meaning to post a tutorial on it :]. I’ve never been too good at describing my process, but I hope this helps!
The creator of the original, the animal reference tool, made their own human reference tool which allows you to search based on different body parts and poses!
[Image ID: A list of “ethnicity” with a “choose one” selection requirement: White, Black, Latino, and Asian. End ID.]
Are you fucking kidding me. I clicked through wondering if I’d finally stumbled across a drawing ref site I could suggest to artists trying to draw Polynesian people, but no!
USA learn that there’s more than four “ethnicities” challenge. Hell, the site completely erases Native American people.
