OUTRAGEOUS Price for a SKETCH!
138So, this artist posted this art addressing the complaints that people were saying $100 for a sketch? How dare you? You should kill yourself. That does sound like an outrageous price for a sketch, but when I actually look at what the artist was valuing at $100, these are not what I would call a sketch. These are complete drawings that actually do worth $80 for a full-body full-color option. I think the artist could've benefited for a rephrase. Instead of sketch, just say drawing, and I don't think the issue will exist.
// I want you guys to realize that in a market where people are mad at $80 video games that takes years to produce you are trying to charge 100 bucks for a sketch you did in an hour.
Well, someone doesn't understand how art works. First off, sketches do not take an hour to make. My videos may only take at least 8 minutes, but there is a lot of time and effort being put into writing the script, creating the slides, editing, compiling them all together, rendering, scheduling the shorts version, all these things are not done in under an hour, and so are these artist sketches.
There are loads of people who can make videos where they ramble for 8 minutes with minimal editing. I'm not one of those people because I like to write, and I have standards. So, if you value the creative process of any artistic medium, you know for a fact that something like this can't simply be done in under an hour, and even if it can, it wouldn't be good, unless you are really talented, which is very rare.
Second, video games that are being sold in public, no matter what prices they're set in, are not the same as personal commissions. Video games are also sold commercially in multiple copies to people and can sell thousands, if not, millions of copies. Sketches are personal for only one person. Companies can absolutely profit from selling video games for $20, let alone $80 compared to artists who can barely profit from one $100 drawing.
// It costs nothing to make a digital sketch
Wow. What an insanely reductive take. There's this thing called time and labor. I think you should look them up.
// You are not entitled a living wage from a self-employed profession.
No one is saying that. We're saying that you shouldn't tell someone to kill themselves just because you don't agree with the price.
// As you can see from thousands of likes my tweet got
Confirmation bias doesn't mean you're right.
// It is clearly overpriced for art commissioners.
Well, let the market decide on that one. And no. You're not the market. You're just one person out of many.