>>23932406because is a high level skill, if you think about it there aren't many artists out there, probably only one country has as many doctors as there are good artists in this world, but either way, since we are talking about the vei case, neon, the artist of it was paid 5k, and spent like 3 months on it on and off, so is a reasonable wage for the ammount of time and work it put on it. instead the rigging of artgun is the one that was priced 15k, she asked 75$/h for it, and considering that the number of good 2d riggers are like a dozen, is a good price for an high end skill, even more if you consider that there are shit programmers that ask more than that. But really most artists are underpaid and the customer base is full of cheapstakes that always try to haggle down so it can be hell. A drawing usually takes many many hours to do
