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Hi, I am Kim Hu
Freelance Illustrator & Concept Artist 🥤💀
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ALT Lineup of my original characters, from my personal, yet unpublished comic project
ALT One of my environment illustrations
ALT Another of my environment illustrations
ALT My characters Fritz and K9, the dog
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
is every conversation on here botted to be 50% more annoying or are people really just that obstinate and cynical about scoring clout now
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
also "I can't make that much because the economy is fucked" =/= "artists just don't deserve to be paid that that much"
don't let the ruling class tell you your worth because I promise you they'd pay you $0 if they thought they could get away with it
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
if you don't like it, no one is making you buy it
if you're jealous, charge more - it's better to have less clients at higher rates than more at lower rates
stop tripping over each other to race to the bottom and make this industry worse for everyone
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
I'll just say it: if you think $4.5k/80 hrs for experienced work is too much, then dog-pile me too because:
- I started making about that much in 2017 & have made more since 2019
- I've made up to $7k/2 wks i.e. 80 hrs in the past
- right now I make over $5k/2 wks before bonuses
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
"I can't try to raise my prices what if nobody buys anymore" that's okay. don't. play it save. never find out. I'm not your mom. I'm not your financial advisor. keep working harder for less money
or in the words of my favorite character
"my commissions are $150 and I am booked out for years I cannot accept any new ones sorry"
damn, maybe if you offer them for $300 you'd only have to work half the time, and if you'd ask $1500 instead you'd have to work a tenth of the time for the same pay. much to think about
having all the brokies in my mentions is no fun, can you go back to hating on me for liking the gay marvel mercenaries?
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
When I see artists who can sell comms for such a big price my first reflex is to sit down in front of my desk, take my pencil and work on my own lack of skill to reach their level of skill and demand thinking to myself "so it is possible"
do not expect any hot takes here after today, I am but a humble artist drawing a skull faced mercenary and his robot boyfriend
if you are a comms artist and you are scared clients might go away if you do this, try a simple trick. let's say your commission waitlist is 6+ months long. open a fast track lane. 30/50/100% more gets you up to the front of the line. see if people bite. you might be surprised
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
Trying so hard not to be mean but y'all need to have the actual skill before going at a better artist's throat I'm being so fr rn
yeah, usually if the price on commissions is so low it is not enough to live on (duh); so they need to take on way more work than they can reasonably finish. hence all of these things like comms taking forever or the artist ghosting will happen
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
Thanks for the 51k! Welcome to my page.
My name is Karla, I am a concept artist with more than 8 years of experience in the games and animation industry, I love streaming art and games and going to coffee shops to eat pastries. Here is a study:
Kim Hu || 99.6% inactive retweeted
There's so many artists out there who are getting blaring market signals that they can charge more but then don't because they've been socially conditioned to not value their work or time