My bad elbow is acting up again, so I had to resign from my work and there’s nothing I can work as until my operation in the summer time. I would super duper appreciate it if you would like to commission anything from me, as I live in one of the most ridiculously expensive cities in the world, and would love to be able to pay rent and get some food between going to classes,
The pricing is listed above, please just hit me up at w.radkiewicz@gmail.com if you’d like to commission me.
If you’d like more examples of my sketches, go to my Instagram @fassynatin
What I will need : references, if they are your OCs : please make sure to write a brief description of their looks + how they behave, if it’s a couple picture : how do the couple interact etc.
Commissions are open to help ease some of my school fees! I can draw OCs and fanart as well as stylized real people! Rates for commercial work (covers for novels/albums, illustrations/characters for advertising) will be higher!
Okay, so I owe several people art, and a handful of people writing. Don’t worry, I still intend to follow through, but I need your help to make sure that I’m organized since I lost my original commission sheet when my laptop was stolen a year and a half ago.
“A year and a half ago?” you might ask. “But it’s been so long, and you’ve owed me for longer than that!” True! Some of you have even been waiting for ten years (from the donation drive) for me to draw you the things I’ve promised, and that’s terrible. A lot has happened in that time, and it all boils down to one thing: depression. Legit, professionally diagnosed, chronic depression + anxiety + ADHD + insomnia. Cool, right?
But excuses, excuses… I want to get these done, I want everyone to be happy, and I want to show that I am so grateful for all of the patience and understanding you guys have shown. BUT I’m moving soon and I have a full-time job, so it’s still going to take a while. What I am going to do, then, is this:
As of now, officially, I am no longer taking on any new commissions for the foreseeable future, with the exception of:
On-site at conventions
Livestream events
Professional work (at my full contract rate)
All artwork, with the exception of those events + professional work, will now strictly be personal projects, including merchandising through things like redbubble. Commissions are just too much pressure when I don’t have the budgeted time for it, and I can be much more productive working on other things. I don’t want to charge enough for custom work/personal commissions to make financial sense, so I am saving them for events. They’re fun to do, I just can’t handle it on top of everything else outside of very limited runs.
Yes, that means that Clingy Badges will still be a thing, but right now I don’t even have any cons lined up, so it’ll be a while. And when I do them next, they will be much better, because part of this downtime is devoted to developing better products. (This also means that I have a crapload of prints that I need to find homes for… ugh…)
Anyway, back to the matter at hand: Do I owe you art/whatever? Let’s talk and make sure that we’re on the same page. Please help me get back on track by sending an email to work@gabapple.com with the following information:
Your name/username
Your email address
Date you commissioned me (estimated is fine, it’ll just help me find the original records)
What I owe you (or what you want if you’ve changed your mind)
I will construct a new spreadsheet via google docs and have 4 projects on deck at a time, utilizing Harvest to manage my time.
And of course, if you would prefer a refund, I completely understand… it just might take me a bit to get it to you.
SO. That’s pretty much it. This post has been a very long-time coming. Thank you for reading, I appreciate all of your patience and understanding. <3
Wow I’m sorry but that made me feel really degraded. I wasn’t going to raise it to $100 or something. It’s a perfect price to a buyer, but my art isn’t worth 20 dollars but that’s not my point.
Yes I know it’s a good deal, but I’m not a robot. Even if I’m someone that “sucked” at drawing, the matter is all about the time spent on my drawings. On average it takes me 6 hours to create 20 dollars worth of a drawing. That’s like 3.3ish dollars an hour. Working all day. Possibly no sleeping until the next day. No breaks except to use the bathroom or to eat 1 cup of ramen or not eat at all. Because of the time limits I’m receiving.
Please keep in mind the only reason people ever charge 20 dollars for a commission is due of the crippling trend of amateur artists selling themselves short at those prices- a trend that artists like Rinji has to compete with. Any self respecting artist knows that is hardly an acceptable price for their works. Rinji knows that. And that is why I applaud them for raising their prices because it is our responsibility as artists to educate people like you that a 20 dollar commission is not a perfect price at all.
I hope you have learned something from this, anon, and please, never, ever assume nor determine the price of an artist’s time if you are the client and they are their own employer. The price is set by them and it is your choice to either comply or move on.
can we talk about how living wage is $15/hr?
Can we talk about how artists should have THAT as a baseline, and because they are SKILLED WORKERS IN THEIR PROFESSION, should actually be charging even more?
I charge at around $15-$20/hr. My dad’s a freelance graphic designer and has been in the industry for over 20 years; he charges $80/hr.
Rinji works at a little over $3/hr
can we talk about how the expectation for low commission prices is a issue, or…?
because $100 is NOT a ridiculous price. At ALL. That’s ~$16.60/hour for a 6 hour commission, which is cheap as hell.
I mean I get why people price the way they do; competition.
HOWEVER: Each commissioner is commissioning YOU because they like YOUR style. Usually? People are more than willing to pay more. Fuck, dude. I worked at a place that sold knife sets for like $2000/set, and people ate that shit up. People spend money on whatever they want as long as they know it’ll be quality work that they’ll enjoy.
^This.
We should really be encouraging our fellow artists to charge themselves as they would as a professional. You’re offering your services because you know your art is worth doing business with. If we’re not going to stand up for our own industry, no one will.
I know there’s a lot more I could have covered but with tumblr’s image limit and my own need to get back on personal projects and packing my room up, I stuck to the ABCs of understanding artists and not being a total douche.
It’s not just tumblr that has this issue, or even the internet in general—it’s society at large.
To everyone else in the world, artists are lazy people who just draw pictures, right? Because magical elves totally design the clothes you wear, or the logos for your companies, or pretty much everything you own, consume, or enjoy.
One thing I never understood is the perception of those who draw or create cartoons are childish. Like…do you expect other kids to be drawing comics or animating cartoons?
Art from Anime Banzai 2013, which was a month ago. Aha. Guys, I am so far behind. I swear I will fix this.
