Comment on Six Ways to Earn More Commissions by woohooligan
nice journal with good information, i get alot of requests so i thought i would start doing comissions but im not quite sure how people are going to pay me, i know alot of people do paypal and stuff but im not sure how you do that, could you give me a tip? also do you think my art is good enough to do comissions?
also, just wondering but if you take a comission, do you need to send what you draw physically to the person that buys it or is it something you decide? also do people upload comissions they do or just send the buyer the drawing?
I've seen plenty of people making commissions with your level of skill.... Looking through your gallery, it looks like the most popular pieces there are lined by another artist and you've done the colors. If you're only offering colors, just make sure it's clear up-front that the person requesting the commission needs to supply the line-art. I can't really offer advice on setting up PayPal in particular. I know PayPal is a bit different in other countries because they have to conform to the local banking laws. But the basics should be the same - you have an email address you sign up with and then once you have your PayPal account, people can send you payments through that email address. You may have to manually convert from US dollars if people want to pay you in US currency. Someone recently sent me $5 in Canadian currency and it's sitting in my PayPal account labelled $5 CAD because I haven't converted it to USD.
Good luck!
ahh, nice, thank you for the tip, and yes i do quite alot of colors but i also draw stuff myself, just not that often, so maybe ill do comissions for both 
but ive never really wanted to do comissions because it feels weird taking money to draw if you know what i mean anyway ill try
but ive never really wanted to do comissions because it feels weird taking money to draw if you know what i mean
anyway ill try LOL You mean it feels weird taking money to do something you enjoy? 
Yeah, people have been saying that for centuries... weird little thing we do in our heads, we're told growing up, "work doesn't have to be fun, it just has to pay your bills"... but then... if all you did was pay bills, why would you even bother? So why not enjoy what you do for a living?
Yeah, people have been saying that for centuries... weird little thing we do in our heads, we're told growing up, "work doesn't have to be fun, it just has to pay your bills"... but then... if all you did was pay bills, why would you even bother? So why not enjoy what you do for a living?
ikr i kinda know u have to take money in the end to work with it so...
some times i write different than i think, if i think about it i wont feel that bad to take money xD
i kinda know u have to take money in the end to work with it so...some times i write different than i think, if i think about it i wont feel that bad to take money xD
But we do have to make ourselves think it through to get over that feeling.