A pretty common formula is cost of materials plus hourly wage of your determination. For example, if it takes you 3 hours to complete a portrait and you want to be paid $25 an hour, the total charge would be $75 plus cost of materials used.

The boots took forever and I hate those laces with a passion. I don’t know if my methods are cheating too much but I tried. With the boots, I actually transferred the original sketch from paper before going digital (

Took a lot longer between this and the line section than I had planned, but it's good to post in these classes again! I attempted level 2 with a couple of them but it was tougher than j expected lol

This turned out great! The value of the ears creates contrast against the skin of the face because it is a lighter value. I would bump the value down in that area a bit so that areas isn't competing with the eyes for attention. Overall, really nice work. How did the client like it?

Here are my attempts. I don't think my lines are very clean. I'm open to any suggestions !

Here is my first submission. I struggled with this more than I anticipated. However, after several attempts and taking notes, I have completed a submission for this project. Any feedback is welcome! <3 (Disclaimer: I am recovering from a repetitive strain injury in my wrists, which made it challenging to control the pressure of my pencil.)

I realized that until this assignment, I've treated value as lighting. It's very challenging to decide whether I'm looking at a light value, or a light colour. I took the reference pictures to Krita and used the colour picker tool to study where the colours settled on the colour selector. Is that cheating? It helped a lot and made me see how I was wrong many times. I was fantastically inspired by N.C. Wyeth's painting and wanted to just make a quick sketch of it. It's not the assignment, and I'm posting it here just because I really like it :). A year ago I couldn't have made a quick sketch like this, I think, so I'm happy that I've learned something. Then I thought I'd try out a two value study by adding a lighter value to a dark silhouette. That's something I want to learn well, making quick thumbnails with just shapes and value. What a perfect assignment for me, thank you!

I tried drawing along... I feel super slow! But it is really motivating and fun. I think I still need to spend more time on the foundations, to improve the proportions, but overall I am really satisfied with how it turned out.

i was lazy on the shoelaces. also that camel is definitely flirty. (done digitally)

I was stuck with a 2B pencil while on a work trip for the first two. I was able to add in darker pencils for my others which helped a lot.