What is the cost of your work

What is the cost of your artwork? Do you even attempt to calculate the cost of your work? Do you figure the cost of your artwork? Some would say, “well I do my artwork for me and if others enjoy it so be it”, but what if someone wanted to buy it? How would you price the piece? Would you just throw out a number? I know many have a set rate based on their actual cost of doig business but did they use real data to calculate that? I’m sure some did, others maybe not, but what about us, the hobbyists or “weekend warriors”? Do we base a number on our hourly rate of pay? Do we base it on hour overtime rate?

There are internet stores that you can upload your artwork to and open an online store for potential customers to browse and buy your artwork. The internet store has a base price they established and then it allows you to ad your markup but how much is too much or how much is too little?

Many of us, have fixed costs we can calculate, such as the cost of Photoshop/Lightroom, which I caluclate at 32.8 cents per day based on the $9.99 price plan, not counting sales tax. We can project the cost of our computer based on let’s say a replacement every three years, or did you even figure that cost in?

The whole point of this post is to get me, and hopefully others to, at very least, think about how you price your photography and artwork.