What are some things you watch out for when you began commissions? Any payment or communication tips? I’d like to know! All suggestions are greatly appreciated 🧏♀️🧏♀️🧏♀️
#Questions for experienced art commissioners!
simple pecan
stiff pilot
hello! some stuff from my personal experience so far:
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always ask questions before accepting a commission or giving final prices. I've done this so many times where i would take a commission based on an idea and then when i saw the character design i would regret the price i set that for, things like too much details or hard to render materials.
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try to keep a portfolio with finished works only. having wips is fine as long as it doesn't take space. for example: on my artstation i put wips as secondary pics following the main work finished, this way it doesn't take space in the main portfolio page but people can still see the proccess if they click on it. your portfolio should be an example of what you can do and helps the clients to check your artstyle consistency.
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have a TOS, even if just listing things you like and dislike to draw. don't like drawing mechas? make it clear in your TOS or job description.
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be patient with revisions and back and forth, it will be a headache to do the back and forth sometimes but its mostly for the better of the commission, the client usually has the final say in how it should look. you can always give opinions but if the client says not to those you should know how not to feel that as a personal thing.
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related to the last one, try not to grow too attatched to your commissions. composition, colors, pose, etc... all that us subject to change and sometimes being too attatched to your own art will lead do attriction with some clients that want more control of the commission.
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and lastly, always. ALWAYS ask for payment upfront, be it partial payment or 100%. this is the most important thing, don't be at risk of doing work without being paid, commissions are a service and should be compensated like it.
those are the most important ones i can think of rn. good luck with the comms."
simple pecan
hello! some stuff from my personal experience so far:
- always ask questions b...
Thank you so much! do you also have any perferred ways of communication thats worked the best? ive seen discord isnt very safe and was wondering about your experience
stiff pilot
Thank you so much! do you also have any perferred ways of communication thats wo...
i usually do discord or vgen since most of my comms are there, email works too i think