First of all I was going to post something like this later on because I thought I wasn’t in such a bad situation and could wait a bit, research, etc. but it really is an emergency and I don’t know what to do.
Anyways before I get to the whole commission part I’d like to say, I’m about to be homeless, technically I still have a place for a day? Our landlord said we have to go since we haven’t been able to pay rent on time lately thanks to my sister and her husband who were doing meth, stealing from us, and caused us to not be able to pay anymore, we might have been able to stay but thanks to them bringing in destructive roommates and tons of pets, the house is ruined. We haven’t been able to even buy food and apparently my husband makes too much money for us to get food stamps, we have no transportation, no means for anything honestly. They told us we need to leave pretty much today but if my husband gets paid today we MIGHT be able to stay til the 28th (I’m guessing since that is when our lease was supposed to be up) Also if possible read this post to have more info on some things. http://krystami.tumblr.com/post/119042715224/i-need-to-maybe-say-this-please-read-if-possible Anyways onto the selling art part, I wanted to research on how to price my works, (like type, size, detailing, etc.) but I honestly am not sure, especially with the limited time I have and all those posts about paypal and what not. When it comes to drawings I’ve been paid in the past, but when it comes to sculptures I have NO sort of clue what to go by, or how to send, how to add shipping cost and what not to what I’m sending, again with the whole size, detailing, time taken, etc. oh, as well as I need to find out how to package it safely. I’ve sold some mini figures in person to people but no online. I honestly want to get what it’s really “worth”? I don’t want to be underpaid and I don’t want people thinking I’m charging too much, but then again it is my art and I should be able to price it what I want, right? These have been conflictions to why I haven’t posted anything about it or one of the reasons I haven’t replied messages. I don’t know what to do, luckily my husband works at a job dealing with shipping, receiving, etc. so I’m sure he could do that for me. (I mean when he isn’t tired from working) I wanted to take the time to put everything together and make everything neat and think out all of this but with everything, I haven’t been able to, not just for the reasons in this post or the post linked, but so much more. (maybe all those times people said things would give you bad luck were true, I have so much bad luck I think something normally deemed as bad as good, or just plain out “better” than other bad things.) So for anyone who read this, I do plan on doing commissions, I want to right away, I just have no price lists or experience of most things. If you want to know more about ANYTHING (personal or related to art, commissions, etc. PLEASE message me)