Okay...

Jul. 16th, 2007 10:14 am
silverthorne: (Symbol of the Heirs)
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Need an opinion from some folks who would have a better idea than me at this point of what to charge for a piece of art.

I know at least three of you have seen my dragon print that I did way back in 1991 (Clue, you were there when I inked the little bugger in Carol's Texas apt.).

I have a trucker friend who's interested in buying a print of it to take to a friend as a tattoo pattern. I know he's the type to keep his word when he says he'll destroy the print once the tattoo is on, and not leave a copy for the tattoist to reuse.

Question is...how much should I charge him for the print? And...any other thoughts from the art-selling savvy amoungst you?

Date: 2007-07-16 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cluegirl.livejournal.com
I'd say, since what you're selling is one-time right-of-use for the design, and not a print that's to be put up on someone's wall and displayed, that something low and simple would be appropriate. I mean he's already going to have to pay someone else to put it on him.

Now that said, I have seen tattoo designs sold for $250, but they were custom work, done by high dollar pros, and intended that they'd never be sold to anybody else, so that's kind of a different matter.

I think perhaps you ought to ask him what he's comfortable paying.

If I were selling what amounts to an unmounted, unmatted photocopy of one of my pictures, I'd have a price in mind somewhere between five and ten bucks, but I'd want to see what he thought of paying first. Kind of like a hold out bid on ebay, yaknow?

Date: 2007-07-16 04:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silverthorne.livejournal.com
Yeah, I was thinking somewhere between 10-20, but I wasn't sure if that was too high or too low. I have next to no name artistically speaking, and it'll be a cheap print of a piece of work that people can buy elsewhere (and destroyable), so going for the high dollar price seems both dishonest and greedy to me. I mean, he saw the old, dusty grey-paper print on my desk cubical, but all I would be giving him is a cardstock copy, which I can make, more or less, free at home. It just has to survive the 'ink copier' at the tattoo shop, and that's it.

Now, if I'd had a decade's worth of 'name' behind me, that would be different (of course, if that were the case, hopefully by then I'd have a really good idea of what my work was worth anyway. *g*), and I might consider selling it for more (or seriously suggest to him that he let me design one specifically for him).

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