/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2671965
You mean decide on what to value yourself as? You have to have a careful look at what prices people who are in a similar skill range charge, and that's pretty much up to you. Then, take into account stuff like how long you take to do a piece, your popularity and demand, and if you want to have temporary lower prices to increase the amount of people who can actually afford you.

Although when starting out, you have to whore yourself out for commissions, offer specials, discounts, requests, freaking anything to get exposure, so that hopefully you'll get a popular or well known person to get something for free, link to you, and then hopefully someone with money comes along and offers to commission you.

You can't wait for people to accidentally find you through your occasional posts, you have to market yourself. The great thing about the furry community, is that there are places where you can buy an advert banner slot for about $25 a month, which gets about 3000 page views over a month if it's an averagely attractive banner. commissioners almost always post art you do for them, and it will more or less always be with a link back to you. Do something attractive, and when someone favorites your post, it shows that picture on their profile which links back to you. There are stupid amounts of forums around furry stuff, and if you do one raffle there, you can get a load of attention and someone might buy something. PLUS, you also have lots of sites that repost your art (like e621, reddit, etc), which have moderators that ensure pieces have the correct artists tagged with a link back to them. be active in the community you want to sell to.

On FA, when you post something it will always go to the front page for a bit so you always have a chance to catch the eye of someone, so it's great for putting up YCH adverts or pieces with your commission info or details on a special.

I added a post I saw somewhere ages ago, I've always kept it's advice in mind.

>>2493880
If you hide the first post, and all replies, there are only 7 replies visible itt, counting this one, 6 of which are still responding to the bait, and another one just saying "git gud"

This thread is fucking shit. 4chan needs a "request thread nuke" button under the report function.

Also, for the OP, the best I can put out there is that
1. Learn to draw. If you can't draw, people won't pay for your shit. Well, that's not really true, there's plenty of shitty artists that do get comissions but it's just not sustainable. Shouldn't be surprise you have to be good at what you do to make money with it
2. Put your art work up everywhere, and I do mean everywhere, pic related. Maximize your exposure as much as possible. Sign your images and leave an appealing URL at the bottom (deviant art, tumblr, whatever) so that no matter where they're shared, tumblr, 4chan, wherever, people can find you
3. Find a niche and fill it, just like every other business. Don't know if you have any weird fetishes but if you do, well, the weirder the better, because that means your art for that fetish is in high demand and your commissioners will be loyal. It is a good idea to cast a wider net though, so if you can manage drawing multiple styles at once it's good to get normal commissions from normal people, of which there are many but can be fickle, and more loyal commissioners for niche work. Best way to make money as a restaurant owner? Own multiple restaurants.
4. Be nice, be the bigger man, don't start drama. You're on the internet, people can be mean to you without consequence, and being mean to them back does not help. Money changes hands online moors as a matter of charity than exchange these days, so be worth their charity The best way to lose costumers is to be a dick, so don't be one.
5. Always take cash upfront, drop commissioners who are too needy and whose commissions aren't worth the time, and use paypal invoices instead of just asking them to send you money directly.