How much gold to charge for an art commission?

[Swarley]

I'm doing a character commission for a friend of mine, and I've never been in a position where I need to put a price on something I've made. She's insisting on paying me gold in game but I really don't know the value of gold anymore or what is reasonable to ask for. The picture will be large, full-body and fully colored with a background. Any suggestions?

[Thuronn]

One hundred million gold

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/spor...Dr.%20Evil.jpg

[Swarley]

Sounds like a good start.

[Khelek]

ige says 1k gold is 5 bucks to buy, if that's of any help.

[The Stig]

I offered my mate a Battered Hilt if he installed and configured PHP for me at work (Windows Version). This is because I do not have Admin Access rights to the server.

EDIT: He accepted too, and was actively asking me for it. Until I used it and told him the user didn't need PHP more, hah.

[Norellicus]

If you wanted to do this economically, look at either the goldsellers' price or figure out how long the commission will take you and figure how much money you could make if that's explicitly what you focused on in game for that period of time. Add some figure for your 'expertise' if you like.

[Swarley]

Wow.. you can buy 1k gold for 5 bucks now? Thanks for the help guys.

[Dryr]

unless you have a means to sell the gold for irl $$, or have some immediate use for gold in game, the amount is trivial. The fact is wow has made a pretty good game by not making gold necessary in huge amounts for anything other than one-time npc mount costs or trivial repair bills. if you don't need gold, don't expect to be able to trade said gold for irl $$ either. Just ask for whatever they think its worth, it will be a symbolic payment at any amount imo.

[Krye]

It would also help to see the quality of your art. When I used to whore out Gaiaonline, people would spend hundreds of dollars worth of gold on art.

[Swarley]

I've only got about half the lineart done, here you go:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...hi/nakapre.jpg

[Meph]

I demand some female tauren on gnome male porn art