User blog comment:SsVivid/SsPortraits/@comment-4536066-20130609003625

So guys, here's the thing. I know a lot of you have said you want me to reopen this and are interested in commissioning one of your characters, but if/when I do, the price would undergo some changes.

I don't know if any of you have noticed, but even as this has been closed, I've been working on a few portraits - and most of them were created in large part for practicing/improving my skillset and the quality of the pictures. I've worked on my ability to adapt models to heavy physical changes by making vampyres and a mahjarrat, as well as finishing a three-part series of one character growing up and sharing a handful of traits between all three portraits. I've tried out new ways to shade and make the shadows on a face more elegant and less blocky. More important than all of those, perhaps, is that I've completely overhauled how I do hair to bring it up to standard with the rest of the portrait.

The downside is that it now takes me at least twice as long to do one picture, particularly because the new hair process takes probably triple the time it originally did. (This last Asurja portrait took me three days, off and on.) So, I'm discouraged from reopening partially because I'm concerned about how many people will ask for them all at once, but mainly because it's not worth what I'm getting for it. The obvious solution, then, is to raise the price and make it worth my time.

What I'm thinking is either: raise the in-game price to a minimum of several million gp OR eliminate in-game payment altogether (which is fine, since it's technically RWT anyway) and only accept game card codes and paypal, because lets be real, actual money is much more valuable to me than a few million artificial coins. What I want to know is what those of you who are interested in portraits have to say about this and maybe what you would like to be paying if, hypothetically, you were to take out a commission.