Hello! :wave: I thought of making this small guide, based from my personal experience, to give tips to artists, mostly beginners, to be more successful at selling commissions, since seeing from my previous journal many had difficulty with it. So here are some tips to help boosting your sales.
Have your commission info somewhere visible
Possibly, people won't even know you are taking commissions or if they are open if you don't put your commission info somewhere they can see. You can do this in a journal, that I mostly recommend, since it will be showing into your watcher's inboxes and most of your watchers probably rarely visit your profi
Portrait Commissions [CLOSED] by Blue-Ten, journal
Portrait Commissions [CLOSED]
I've opened up commissions again! Details are on my Tumblr, but you guys can send me a note here with your commission request if you want ^o^.
Slots:
rufiangel (https://www.deviantart.com/rufiangel)JamesTheReggie (https://www.deviantart.com/jamesthereggie)Jose LuisMichael T.J.jillustrationsAll commission slots filled! Thanks so much!
OPENING COMMISSIONS (Read it all please) by starca, journal
OPENING COMMISSIONS (Read it all please)
-THE COMMISSIONS ARE CLOSED FOR THE TIME BEING-
PLEASE USE THE COMMISSION PRICE CALCULATOR:
http://deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://windystar.myartsonline.com/calculateCommissionCostBefore2022.html
How to use the calculator example:
A "kiss animation" is usually: animation/320x240/preliminary sketch/2 characters/ no background/no extras/20 frames (2 seconds or 2 "main actions") = total 60 Euros
(Euros to USD -or other currencies- change every day/moment so try to convert it here: http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=EUR;to=USD;amt=1 :) )
The prices will be like this:
(These are for info only, to save you from complicated
:star: PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BEFORE COMMISSIONING ME :star:
Commission status is CLOSED.
Wow, that filled up really fast. It only took 36 hours for the list to get full ^^; I will open again sometime in March.
Thanks for being patient!
:star: General Commission Info
If you are interested in a commission, please send me a note with the title "Commission" and the following info in the following format:
The Required parts must be filled out for me to give you a price estimate. If you want to see an example of how much each type costs, please scroll to the bottom for samples.
The Optional parts can be filled out for specific requiremen