the zombie chick, black and white ink, has been gradually getting some color over the past few days and by sunday she'll be done and off to the new home with some friends. i don't wanna jump the gun and add pics just yet, so once it's done i'll post them up. i need to color the left-most arm completely and vignette the background in watercolor (pray... i don't normally do watercolor, especially not over top of, around, or even in the same room as the expensive colored pencils i had to buy).
the other thing i'm realizing is that the pricing that i have set up for these art projects is ridiculously low. i mean, everybody has got to start somewhere, so i figure i trade profit for making a reputation, and keep a few bucks here and there but it all goes back to buying materials anyhow... this is quite the conundrum. once i set a price for something i don't raise it or lower it, but i feel like somebody is gonna come across my etsy store and see something they want and not know why it costs more than the big fancy oil painting that they saw listed for half. ugh, art is silly at times, especially once money gets involved, BAH!
anyways, i'm tired and thinking way too much about things that i shouldn't worry about until they come up in real life. good news though is that i went to a comic book thing and two girls were walking around with their butts hanging out, high five :) haha
ps. bethany hates this picture, mwahahahaha :)
Pricing is always such a pain >< Sometimes a good way to do it is to sort of charge by the hour. Set a fair hourly work price and just keep track of how long a work takes and judge it by that. Sometimes this doesn't work though, haha.
ReplyDeleteI'm so looking forward to the finished zombie pic, I'm sure it'll look great. And I wouldn't worry too much about the watercolors, they pair really well with colored pencils so just go slow with em and you'll be fine^^
Also, if your comic book thing was a con I'm super jealous! I haven't been to one since 2008 ;_; I miss going and cosplaying and buying awesome stuff you can only get at those things.
yes the comic book thing was the baltimore comic con :) it was kinda cool but it may be different than the ones you guys get down south, i think yours may be bigger. the baltimore one was good, costume contest was funny, and lots and lots of shops doing reaaalllly good deals, like any 5 comics for a dollar lol
ReplyDeletei was going to buy a katana sword but my girlfriend and sister were talking me out of it and then when i couldn't find the price tag i gave up... did see an art auction though, the prices certainly werent what you would have expected, it was almost like anything that got money shouldn't have and anything that went for cheap should've been way more (that's just me though)
i do hate that picture. and you crushed my chicken legs sitting on me. :P on you brotha.
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