fchan

"My good friend, whom shall remain nameless, has her prices relatively steep for a reason:  she doesn't like doing commissions, mainly because she's a perfectionist and usually ends up doing them over 4 or five times before she's satisfied. She might charge $70 for a clean piece, simply because she'll spend in excess of 10 hours on that single piece."

If we're going to get into pointing to other artists as examples  of an arbitrary standard of pricing then I'd like to point to myself.

I charge $0 for commissions. I also give my furry/yiffy art away for free. FREE. So by your argument I could say that your "friend" is a total rip-off and that you're a fool for thinking her work is worth $70 bucks. But that would be total bullshit seriously believe that.

To be honest I think you're "friend" is probably not being paid enough. $70 for 10 hours work? People make more working as cashiers and that doesn't take years of practice and the discipline it takes to learn how to draw decently.

I'm glad Wookie can get $500 bucks from a fandom that's so stingy that it thinks $70 is steep. It's the cheapskate attitude of furs that makes me charge $0 since I don't want any fur to think that I need the little money that comes out of their tight wallets and that I should be grateful to them for the tinsy amount they're willing to pay for a decent drawing.