AVOID this BAD art commission advice you've heard! 🚫

Why don’t you get art commissions? These traps are the most common reasons why nobody buys your art, why you aren’t getting art commissions, and why you can’t make good money off of your art. I want to empower and advise you on what to watch out for when you take art commissions from here on out! Nowhere else on YouTube will you find anyone giving you as much actionable advice to gain art clients and starting your freelance art business. I believe in you and I want you to succeed! Please avoid these common pitfalls and bad advice in order to make money on your art and have an amazing art business.

Do you have any questions? Anything you need clarified? Ask me in the comments! I ALWAYS answer your comments. No lame hearts and ignoring comments from this guy.
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00:00 I've been there too
0:19 who told you that??
1:23 this is bankrupt
2:32 can I be honest with you…?
3:48 you’re not Jeff Bezos
4:43 you’ll crash by doing this
5:44 taken advantage of
6:57 welcome to the farms!
8:30 where to look??

[TheArtMentor]

What’s the worst art commission advice you’ve ever heard or tried?

[katia]

Me not trying to not be too 'salesy' hits too close home, lol! Thank you for tackling these issues from a fresh perspective!

[jazzwolfblaze]

Right now when it comes to commissions I feel like a fisherman waiting for someone to bite it's very frustrating. I do get commissions but they are rare. Makes me often wonder if my art is mediocre or if the market for what I draw just isn't there.

[Saf_Ibn_Sayyad_Bacon]

This is the fault of bad artists that don't know how to work with clients and price reasonably

[immortalgraveyard]

Worst advice is to take literally any art job. I personally specialize on female characters and I love comic-book style.

Once I took a commission for three landscape backgrounds - I hated myself for taking this commission, it took me about 40 hours to produce and this was so exhausting. I just don't feel any emotional connection if an illustration doesn't contain any characters.

So, yes, just don't draw what you don't like, even if you have the ability to draw it. Better spend your time doing enjoyable stuff and slowly build pleasant client base.

[stallout_art]

Great video! I totally agree with not taking commission advice from popular artists, plus the current market is way different from the market years ago when they first started selling commissions

[magnus]

Really just walked into my feed and hit me with that being too afraid to market for fear of failure, even though I know my ability is on par with multiple character concept artists. I might be a little slower, but that's beside the point. I can work on speed, just fine.

I always get worried when I see how much I _should_ or _could_ charge because it feels wild and like that won't get me clients, but at the same time I also refuse to do any commissions for less than thirty dollars and I can't handle when I see people charging twenty dollars for a full body sketch piece. It's not even worth the consultation and file set-up time below a certain price. Seeing people charging too little was a big part of why I didn't get into commissions earlier in life, honestly.

[StarlightAkari]

What's your opinion on having listings on those commission websites *IN ADDITION* to having our own main website for our clients, at the same proper pricing?
Reason I ask is solely because of the commission websites search functionality. Ex: I have sold digital downloads on etsy simply through thier search that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
Sure the most likely scenario is that we price ourselves out of those websites and aren't chosen, but it wouldn't hurt to have the listings around "just in case they're stumbled upon" right?

[PCBOX-cszv]

agree with everything but do you prefer to work in freelance website ? that's to test freelance, i see the works some of them easy for me but i feel i don't have the FREELANCE EXPEIRENCE TO DO IT and thanks for the video ✌️🖌️ i really appreciated

[Evolith]

As a counterpoint to the argument of valuing the wage of making artwork against the wage of an "unskilled McDonald's laborer", the restaurant worker has to operate in a physically tasking environment, through grease, grime, and sweat, with the kind of potential workload that makes you thankful for a shower at the end of the day. The same goes for environmental service workers at instituations like hospitals and schools. And the same for unlicensed yet necessary personnel in all manners of workplaces.

An artist has the privilege to work in an environment of their own making and choosing, to take a break whenever the moment fits them, to get up and make a tea when they feel like it and return to a comfortable workstation. I cannot disagree that it isn't mentally taxing to make art as a job but it certainly isn't the same physical drain that other jobs encompass. One comes home drenched in sweat mised with who knows what else while the other takes a seat and works in a flow state.

This might just be me stating this as a hobbist drawer with outside employment in a different field who has worked their way through everything from lifeguarding for less than five dollars an hour to concierge to unpaid internships to rehabilitation work and to clinical technologies. But plenty of artists that I've collaborated with seem to have nothing to compare their workload to and take their conditions for granted. I understand the mutual plight to make ends meet. However, people should understand what the perks of their job are and see the trade-off when comparing roles. Otherwise, this becomes a fallacy of false equivalence and will only drive ego that dehumanizes other workers.