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*$9 because the texture abuse raises the price by two dollars.

Wouldn’t you rather spend your money on art that you’d like to look at?

Art by http://saccharinescorpion.tumblr.com/

submitted by -orangeaipom

if this picture took less than an hour to draw, $7 is about the bare minimum level of  reasonable compensation. if it took the artist any longer than that, they are being underpaid for the amount of time they spent.

why are people constantly fucking bitching and crying about artists getting paid “too much” for their skilled labor, while nobody ever pitches a fit about the fact you can make $8.81 an hour standing in front of a door and saying hello to people

do people even have any concept of how little minimum wage actually is? even a full time minimum wage job is going to get you 1200-1500 dollars a month tops, and most positions that hire at minimum wage are going to be part time to avoid having to actually give you any benefits like health insurance (and freelance artists still have to pay for their own health insurance even when they’re working well over 40 hours a week, which is exorbitantly fucking expensive to buy individually). go look at craigslist for the prices of renting apartments in your area and see how comfortable a life you’ll have working 8 dollars an hour when you factor in the prices of food, transportation, taxes, the out-of-pocket medical bills you’ll have to pay, clothes, etc.. even if you cram yourself into apartment with a billion other people it can be hard

nobody ever argues that walmart greeters don’t deserve to make the bare minimum living wage for the work that they do because for some reason people believe training an ability for your whole fucking life and then spending countless hours creating individualized pieces to the specification of your commissioners is easier and of less value to society than saying hello to people who walk into a walmart

it’s fucking ILLEGAL to pay a walmart greeter 7 dollars for an hour of work, and yet people will sneer at an artist who doesn’t want to work at a $2/hr wage

i don’t care if an artist is hawking terrible weeaboo pictures of his fucking shitty naruto OCs rubbing their massive inflated lactating jugs all over each other, he is entitled to set his price at the minimum wage. you don’t have to buy art that you don’t like, but getting indignant over an artist expecting the most basic grade of compensation for the time spent makes you the worst kind of garbage shit trash

I understand paying $7 on art, just not /this/. That is not the kind of art you should quit your day job for.

There are actual people who paid for this kind of art. I am critiquing them, not the artist’s decision to price. I just think they’re making a bad decision.

7 dollars is absolutely fucking nothing dude

in real life, the value of standing in front of a door saying hello to people in walmart for an hour is worth 8.81 dollars

that’s not because being a walmart greeter is valuable work, it’s because THAT IS THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM RATE OF HOURLY COMPENSATION YOU NEED TO SURVIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

if you seriously believe that this artist is not skilled enough to warrant being paid the absolute minimum living wage possible and you’re not also out there protesting the fact that no skill menial labor workers like the people who work for walmart and mcdonalds et al also make enough money to eat, you either a) have absolutely no concept of the value of money in the real world, b) are a complete sociopath, or c) are a level of stupid i can scarcely comprehend

“critiquing” them oh my god

IPGD speaks the fuckin’ truth.

I actually think that’s a good piece of art. 7$ is kinda cheap imop.