>>5960238Kind of. Thirdies only drive the price down for simple requests or customers who don't really give a fuck, when you start putting additional conditions like deadlines, eventual retakes or decent customer service the market goes back to being just you and three other guys who're probably busy right now.
It's like regular labour. Say I want new tiles for my roof or something : if I don't give a fuck how, how well, or when it's done, I can just hire whoever so I'll go for the cheapest one around. If I for some reason want it "by next week", "with gluten-free fair trade tiles", or "not done by immigrants", suddenly there's like three companies I can talk to and I'll pay whatever they ask for fundamentally the same thing.
Once you price out the poorfags, people hire you because they want YOU to draw stuff, not "whoever is dumb enough to do this for 70$"