Topic: Traditional/digital art commission pricing

Posted under Art Talk

Artists who both make traditional and digital art, how do you price your commissions?
Do you combine or separate price ranges for traditional and digital?
Do your digital artworks have the same standards as traditional paper sizes, and/or vice versa?
Does a high resolution and screen size affect the price?

"Agent" here. Typically with digital art it's related to demand, current workload, and overall level of experience. Due to vectors, the size of the work is, more often than not, entirely irrelevant.
Physical and Digital have different pricing as a general rule, as unlike digital artwork which only requires electricity and time, Physical Art requires additional resources such as pencils, pens, paint, crayon, pastels, charcoal, or similar, in addition to the paper or canvas it is on, shipping costs, and other relevant issues.

Digital artwork, as any errors are infinitely undoable/correctable, and the ability to work on the individual pixel elvel, typically has a much higher fidelity and standard (as errors cost nothing but time to fix when noticed) than physical media, as to fix an error in the latter you need to start over entirely, causing small errors to be left as-is.

votp said:
"Agent" here. Typically with digital art it's related to demand, current workload, and overall level of experience. Due to vectors, the size of the work is, more often than not, entirely irrelevant.
Physical and Digital have different pricing as a general rule, as unlike digital artwork which only requires electricity and time, Physical Art requires additional resources such as pencils, pens, paint, crayon, pastels, charcoal, or similar, in addition to the paper or canvas it is on, shipping costs, and other relevant issues.

Digital artwork, as any errors are infinitely undoable/correctable, and the ability to work on the individual pixel elvel, typically has a much higher fidelity and standard (as errors cost nothing but time to fix when noticed) than physical media, as to fix an error in the latter you need to start over entirely, causing small errors to be left as-is.

Hmmmm, interesting...
In other words, digital commissions are priced differently than traditional, right?

alexyorim said:
Hmmmm, interesting...
In other words, digital commissions are priced differently than traditional, right?

Yes. Varies artist-by-artist, and based on regions and resources available, but typically they are priced very differently when an artist offers both.

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