>>5780962Yeah, in my experience, the dynamic is commissioners don't have your best interests in mind. In the end they are just consumers looking for the best price and don't care about your ability to pay rent or how long it takes to make something genuinely good and how that impacts your ability to make bills. I think it's easy to forget that at the end of the day, it's a monetary transaction as a business that's taking the lead here, even if artist to commissioner interactions are usually more interpersonal.
Artists need to treat themselves purely based off demand for themselves rather than advice from their marketbase when it comes to prices, I learned this the hard way with extremely messy pricing practices early on.
I align with Louis Rossman's stance on business. He knows he charges a lot, but he's charging a lot to promise enough room for him to give them service he can be proud of, because charging a lot from your customers is the same as demanding a certain level of respect from them for your craft.
From the business owner standpoint, you would also be extremely hard pressed to find much success with competitive low prices and high quality, which is the mecca of the consumer side. I don't think the "choose 2 of 3" really applies for our half of the equation unless you're a master willing to work for peanuts, in which case you're definitely not trying to live off of it.
