How much should I charge for nail art?
So, I m going to be running a booth at my local carnival and the booth is going to be me and a couple of my friends (all amateur nail artists) doing children s and teens nails. I do have the stuff for stick on nail art and 3d art as well. I was just wondering how much I should charge for French tips, a regular polish, nail art stickers, 3d nail art, etc.
Nude Art Modeling..how much should I charge?
In a art class environment you can charge $15-20 an hour. I normally charge the models I shoot and not the other way around. I have never paid a model for figurenudes. For commercial work I have though. My day-rate for fine art figurenudes done for-hire is $5000.00 and this means you would own the copyrights. I am at the extreme high end of the art market though. This only took me twenty years. See examples of my nudes here - http://www.figurenude.com/Curtis.Neeley I would work out a trade-out of several hundred in the LEAST to pose naked. Once you have done it - you can't undo it! Say maybe you would require a trade out of $4500 and cash of $500 for a day nude with a photographer like me. I have people too often paying me to photograph them to need to hire models. There are scores out there who don't. I would be VERY careful of any photographer who feels a need to hire a model. One bad photography shoot's results haunt you for life. Look at their portfolio.
As an artist, how do you deal with people who say you charge too much for your artwork?
As an artist I can tell you that there will always be people who think your artwork is too expensive. And I say to you; those people are not your target market. You need to focus on who will appreciate your artwork, at your price point, and find ways to expose yourself to that distinct group of people. And from experience I can tell you that very often your own friends and family are not your target audience. The familiarity they have with you tends to color their opinion of what your art is worth, mostly toward the negative. Familiarity may not breed contempt, but it sure gives them the idea that I will offer them some kind of discount. The people who buy my more expensive art pieces are often total strangers who see my art displayed in a gallery or through a show. Because some people think $2.00 is too much for a hamburger, while others are very willing and delighted to pay $100 for a fine steak. Find the people who think your artwork is like the $100 steak, but also create artwork that is very high quality. Because people who appreciate fine art, like those who appreciate fine dining, are out in society, looking for appealing artwork and so you must spend some more effort tapping into the people who value your art- and that is an art in itself and will take some creativity and perserverance as much as creating your artwork.
I'm only a teenager. How much should I charge for my art?
‘Don’t Try’.if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut,don’t do it.if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screenor hunched over your typewritersearching for words,don’t do it.if you’re doing it for money orfame,don’t do it.if you’re doing it because you wantwomen in your bed,don’t do it.if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again,don’t do it.if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,don’t do it.if you’re trying to write like somebodyelse,forget about it.if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else.-Bukowsky“Somebody asked me: “What do you do? How do you write, create?” You don’t, I told them. You don’t try. That’s very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It’s like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks, you make a pet out of it.” — Charles Bukowski
How much to charge friends for an art commission?
I'm still a newbie artist, and I've only done a few commissions before (some paid by the hour projects, as well as lump-sum pay). I've never charged much, since I am not very experienced yet. Anyway, some family friends asked me to do a large calligraphy project, of about 450 words. They insisted that they were willing to pay what was fair, and wanted me to charge them what I felt my time was worth, and they didn't expect it to be cheap. I think they felt it would be their way of supporting their young friend while she's in college (me). However, my friends aren't exactly wallowing in cash (they have a large family as well as supporting lots of people in need), so ethically I don't feel like I can charge them very much. This would also be my first calligraphy commission, so I really don't have a clue how much it would be worth (cost for supplies is fairly negligible, and I already had them purchase the frame). Any advice for figuring out what to charge them?
How much should I charge my friend for a logo?
This is foreign territory to me as I normally avoid mixing friends and money. My friend's fiancee and her brother are starting a business and they asked me to design the logo for the company as a paid favour. They were the ones to state they would pay me for my trouble and I am inclined to agree as it is for her family rather than herself. It took me best part of two days to complete a design they were satisfied with (what with the drawing elements and computer editing etc) and on a rushed deadline. Now they are asking me to state a price for them and I'm a bit clueless. Bit about me: I went to art school to study illustration and graphic design, but it is not my profession. I am currently still a student studying marketing, branding etc at university so yes, it would be my line of work eventually. How much would anyone suggest charging? Preferably someone with art commission/friendly favour experience.
How much should I charge for a commissioned piece of art?
Same amount as you would charge for a free-style work, and possibly a respectable chunk-o-change for the additional work of completing the commission, such as reviews, approvals, and rework. 25% add. (Personally, I'd put a 100% add on it, based on my last commission that I didn't charge enough "more" for. YMMV.)
What should I charge friends and family for my artwork?
For very close friends (the ones who saved your life after the accident or took you in that first year when you were homeless), or immediate family members (parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, children), make it a rule to give only ONE gift of art. Remember: you are in effect giving them something worth thousands, and when you become even more successful may be worth hundreds of thousands. How many times do you receive a gift of that value?Other than that, DO NOT GIVE YOUR ART AWAY FOR FREE unless you get a substantial career boost thereby. If the President asks for a piece of your art to hang in the White House and go into the national collection, it’s worth it. If the local food bank is holding an auction of several dozen works by local artists and you will be mentioned on one line of the catalog, give a cash gift instead.If you wish, and can afford it, give them a discount. Do so rarely and make a production of it, so they will know that you are doing them a great favor—as you are.
How much should I charge for hand-drawn portraits?
It depends a lot on the quality of what you can do. Realistic portraits usually get charged more. I say you should ask for about 15 or 10 dollars. That is a pretty good beginner price for any artist that is just beginning to sell. I think 5 dollars is too cheap for anything artsy that anybody has ever done. If people take wave to 10-15, then you can increase your price.
How much should I charge for my vector portraits?
I draw vector portraits of people and I originally do it on Fiverr where I get $4 per portrait. But I spend maybe 2 days at most working on them and making sure they turn out right that $4 is kind of a rip off to me...but I don't know how much to charge that isn't too much or too little. Should I base pricing on DPI? I normally deliver at 100 dpi. I never give people my original source file it's always in jpg or png which I realize doesn't guarantee great quality but for $4....yeah. And I am very strict as to what people use my portraits for, not allowed to be resold, claim it as their own, or use for promoting purposes. Anyways I plan on donating some money from each purchase to a charity to attract people more, but how much should I charge and how much should I give to charity?