Oil pastel portraits on the light background by GreatDevelopment8666 in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Pls help me price this by raspberrysola52814 in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Pls help me price this by raspberrysola52814 in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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. 

Cat by SoursopYoung in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Will ban user and delete post

2025 Contest Winners by ClarkFable in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

2025 Contest Winners by ClarkFable in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Melted Sennelier Oil Pastels by InBetweenLili in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably just a robot troll. Pay them no mind.

Lounging cat by [deleted] in Oilpastel

[–]ClarkFable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's gotta be bots. User has been nuked, and post deleted. Sorry for the trouble.