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Light realistic drawing of wine and barrels
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Pricing - I suggest starting at a price lower than you think they're worth, and gradually building up to more realistic prices: but don't go absurdly low; people need to know that you value your work, but do not have an over-optimistic idea of its value to them.
You are doing the right thing - because what builds your reputation is continuing to post high quality work where people can see it - so not only here but on Facebook, and specialist sites - in your case, sites for coloured pencil artists (and any other media in which you work). Build your name and identity, and you will build your price-range.
This is a very competitive market, and not at its most healthy at the moment, but you produce excellent work, you've reached a high degree of proficiency at a very young age, and if you continue to publish your work wherever you can, you will be noticed.
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by Robert Jones, NAPA
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Pricing - I suggest starting at a price lower than you think they're worth, and gradually building up to more realistic prices: but don't go absurdly low; people need to know that you value your work, but do not have an over-optimistic idea of its value to them. You are doing the right thing - because what builds your reputation is continuing to post high quality work where people can see it - so not only here but on Facebook, and specialist sites - in your case, sites for coloured pencil artists (and any other media in which you work). Build your name and identity, and you will build your price-range. This is a very competitive market, and not at its most healthy at the moment, but you produce excellent work, you've reached a high degree of proficiency at a very young age, and if you continue to publish your work wherever you can, you will be noticed.Robert, thanks for the response, but it's a bit problematic for me. Decide an initial price, because you usually look to make a price comparison on other artists who are similar in level. and in style. And in the medium to your paintings, but I almost can't find artists who suit me in level or painting style, and even those who are similar paint in other mediums and in other sizes, (usually larger paintings than mine) and their amount of detail is also not the same, so I can't do Price comparisons from other painters, so the whole story is very complicated for me
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Hello,
I'm sorry you don't hear from me. And you don't see progress in painting, but that's because I started studies in another city. And I only come home every few weeks. And only then I continue the painting. a little more each time,
But I did some small paintings in the meantime. of pencils in shades of white and gray on black paper, you can already see a small one that I uploaded to my portfolio
And meanwhile now I managed to make a little more progress in painting. And you did the bottle back there,
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Fantastic. And yes, I understand your previous comment. I can't really advise - there are so many differences in our respective predicaments - but all I can really say is a) your work is of high quality; b) never allow yourself to be beaten down to a price below that which you know your work is worth.
I realize of course that this is subjective. However, you have one enormous advantage - you are still very young. I well understand that this may not FEEL like an advantage, with all the calls of duty and conformity to which you are subject, in a part of the world so besieged by hostility that you are all constantly on alert - I'm assuming you are still living in Israel. But it means that you have time - time to learn, to develop, to teach, to join in with and partake. This, though it may be hard to see it at times, is so much better than living against a background of ignorance, stultification, inertia, and complacency.
Your time is coming, David - all you need to do is to keep working, and publicizing your work: you have all the gifts, talents, whatever you wish to call them, that any young person could want: and hard work and determination can only enhance them. I don't know if rewards in financial terms await you - some rise, some fall, some stay where they are - but I'm confident that you will succeed in any way that you define success. Just work, and persist.
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Robert, thanks for the response and the compliments,
And I think I have some kind of starting price for my paintings. And I hope it works
Good, but it do
esn't matter, the main thing is that now I was able to continue with the painting properly. And I'm done with the leaf in the middle and I'm trying to make the big barrel,
Say what you think about it, does it look good?
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It looks very good - add an extra "very"! You have the true eye of an artist - I can't explain that, but some have it, some haven't; some strive for it and never attain it; some strive for it and eventually do. To have it at your age strikes jealousy into my heart! But for your sake, I'm glad you have.
