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<blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 9472682" data-attributes="member: 7038056"><p>Not to mention those are niche skills that probably take time to do properly, so you get to listen to people complain about why you charge so much. My wife used to sell photo-realistic hand drawn portraits of people done in charcoal and pencil. When I first saw one across the room, I thought she was a black and white photographer they were that good. At the time she would charge $100 because for a single person it would take her 8-10 hours to do a job, which honestly isn’t worth her time given the time spent acquiring the skill to do that. First she learned the hard lesson of needing to ask for a deposit up front because people would conveniently forget the price until the work was done and then think it was time to negotiate. Then after getting the deposit, she'd deal with people changing their mind over and over on what they wanted and then complaining what they got wasn't what they wanted and expecting some of their money back. She eventually got tired of being insulted and stopped doing it because dealing with people just sucked the enjoyment out of it. She still does plenty of creative stuff for fun or gifts for family and friends, but refuses to do anything creative for money because of how crappy people can be.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Velderan, post: 9472682, member: 7038056"] Not to mention those are niche skills that probably take time to do properly, so you get to listen to people complain about why you charge so much. My wife used to sell photo-realistic hand drawn portraits of people done in charcoal and pencil. When I first saw one across the room, I thought she was a black and white photographer they were that good. At the time she would charge $100 because for a single person it would take her 8-10 hours to do a job, which honestly isn’t worth her time given the time spent acquiring the skill to do that. First she learned the hard lesson of needing to ask for a deposit up front because people would conveniently forget the price until the work was done and then think it was time to negotiate. Then after getting the deposit, she'd deal with people changing their mind over and over on what they wanted and then complaining what they got wasn't what they wanted and expecting some of their money back. She eventually got tired of being insulted and stopped doing it because dealing with people just sucked the enjoyment out of it. She still does plenty of creative stuff for fun or gifts for family and friends, but refuses to do anything creative for money because of how crappy people can be. [/QUOTE]

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