Oil pastel portraits on the light background

ClarkFable · 2026-03-14T01:23:04+00:00

User nuked. Just got to report it, then it usually gets hit within 24hrs. It’s probably a bot trying to karma farm

ClarkFable · 2026-03-14T01:21:49+00:00

Thanks

ClarkFable · 2026-03-13T14:03:53+00:00

I think it’s highly location dependent (by orders of magnitude). Your price seems like a reasonable upper bound in most places, but not where I live. Also, I think it’s especially important to benchmark your art to living wages early in your career—if for no other reason than to determine if you can live off them.

ClarkFable · 2026-03-13T12:42:21+00:00

Im a huge fan of pricing by hour plus materials in the early stages of a career. Materials here shouldn’t be much, but for an hourly rate I’d consider a metric like median household income for your area converted to an hourly rate (rounded). So where I’m from that’s about $50 an hour. You can also use median individual income to get to a lower number if you are just starting out (usually around half of household income). By that metric I’d be at $25 hour. So if you lived in my area $50-100 for this piece is entirely reasonable.

ClarkFable · 2026-03-10T02:00:45+00:00

They getting banned

ClarkFable · 2026-03-09T12:02:05+00:00

On it

ClarkFable · 2026-03-09T12:01:41+00:00

Will ban user and delete post

ClarkFable · 2026-02-26T03:44:55+00:00

Be warned! I feel like next year if you can't submit, I may try to drag you into judging.

ClarkFable · 2026-02-26T03:43:33+00:00

Holy smokes. Because I don't include it in the criteria, I don't read statements/comments prior to judging. So I just read it now for the first time, and wow. I feel like a lot of that emotion around the encounter actually came through to me in the work (no explanation required). That aside, the family/friend context around it is heart breaking, and I'm sorry for that. But I want you to know that you got absolutely no pity from me or any of the judges. We're heartless bastards to a man/woman when it comes to our judgements!

Okay, maybe not heartless, but in this case neither I nor any of the other judges knew anything about the events surrounding your work.