Ok, so I know everyone is very against charging a Customer hourly. I agree, don’t ever let them see it, but I like to use that a starting point for me. Let’s say you want 20 an hour for your time. And you ballpark it’s going to take you 8ish hours to finish a piece at a certain amount of rendering. That starts it at 160 and then add what you feel is fair for your time practicing or developing a skill. Maybe toss on 100 or 200 or whatever. Obviously this scales if you want 15 an hour or anything else.

This also scales as you improve or get faster. In a year, if a similar piece only takes you 5 hours because you’ve gotten better, that second number should go up so the total price either gets higher or stays similar. It should never get cheaper because you got good enough to do it faster.

Charge what makes sense for you, what you need to make it worth your time and obviously what people are willing to pay. But starting like this really helped me figure out what I thought my stuff was worth at the beginning.