I have found that many art shops seem to be charging more and more for artwork and characters. Now I understand that everyone is entitled to ask for what ever amount of payment they see fit. My friends (chosendragon and oldlizmar) and I believe this is a real problem, and here is why.
[Example] A new artist has just started getting some characters, and is also new to chicken smoothie. She has no rare pets or pets of an older year, she cannot buy C$ and she has no pets on most peoples wishlists. Sure she can try to "win" one of the free characters in the Oekaki adoptions thread, but there is a slim chance she will. Now all the free or really cheap adoptable pets that are put together in a rush and because of that she isn't very interested in them.
Now I understand the artist may be coming from another side and have to charge a high price, and here is why.
[Example] This seasoned artist has been around chicken smoothie for quite some time, she spends hours perfecting her lines and getting everything right. She has dealt with people not filling out a form or two and she has even spent hours on a commission only to have the person not answer back and never got payment. She has a high price on her work because she takes pride and is tired of having people not pay so she has the prices high so if someone skips out on payment she still has several rares from other commissions. She also knows that pets are "currency" on this site.
I am suggesting that we all work together to provide quality art work for reasonable or cheap prices.
For artists who have "teired" systems and offer different qualitys of artwork, such as sketch, normal, "premuim," etc. another way to do this is offer one or more of these tiers free. Now, I'm not suggesting that you offer EVERYTHING free, only as many as you feel comfortable with' with a list to keep everything in hand.
I thank each and every one of the artists willing to do this now the recommended time you stay in this program is at least a month but this is NOT a lock in date and it is NEVER a requirement. You can be open for as long as you want to as little as a day and if you want to opt out earlier than your automatic opt out date please just PM me about it and I will remove you from the list.
If you have ANY questions or ANYTHING you need to talk about please PM me, my box is open to anyone and everyone and if i don't get to you right away I will get to you as soon as I possibly can
This art program is a work in progress and at the moment a bit messy please hang in there!
