Astra
Re: Love this thread
One-of-a-kind items are great, but it's not too often you can earn a living from them unless you either find a rich patron or get really, really lucky. And part of it is not having been the kind of person who could afford original art unless the artist was underpricing it.
I used to do a great deal of bargello work, and played with the idea of selling some of it until I took a look at how I would have to price it - 150 hours of time to create a purse times, say, $15/hr is $2,250. They're great purses, and they last forever, but ouch!
Right now I'm working primarily between Bryce and Adobe Photoshop, with a hefty dose of Kai's Power Tools and Poser thrown in. I'm working on learning Painter, and do some modeling with RayDream, as well as using VistaPro for terrain effects and CorelDraw for any number of things. I have an old version of PaintShopPro, that I got before I could afford PhotoShop - it's still on the computer, but I have to admit I haven't touched it since I have had PhotoShop. I've use both a mouse and a small Wacom tablet and stylus - one of these days I'm going to grit my teeth and upgrade to a commercial size tablet again (had a large one back in the dead days of DOS while I was working with CAD, but it couldn't handle pressure-sensitive work).Nevada34 said:Astra, may I ask what software you use? Do you use any kind of digitizing tool? Or just a mouse? Many years ago I used an older version of Adobe Illustrator for a Macintosh, on my job at the time, and I loved it. Right now I have Paintshop Pro, and am not nearly as happy with it. Are you familiar with the newer versions of Adobe Illustrator, or is there something better?
Not really - Kinko's does a marvellous job at printing (once I submit to the tyranny of CMYK), and if I were going to do prints of a traditional medium, I'd have to go through the digitization process after finishing in any case. I suppose it's a case of thinking that if it's good, then you can offer it for a great deal less to a lot more people.Originally posted by joanna-gaian
Another reason I went back to a traditional medium rather than a computer one is that I really missed having "originals" to show and sell. Does that bother you at all?
One-of-a-kind items are great, but it's not too often you can earn a living from them unless you either find a rich patron or get really, really lucky. And part of it is not having been the kind of person who could afford original art unless the artist was underpricing it.
I used to do a great deal of bargello work, and played with the idea of selling some of it until I took a look at how I would have to price it - 150 hours of time to create a purse times, say, $15/hr is $2,250. They're great purses, and they last forever, but ouch!