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MonochromeKiss wrote: And to think all those times my parents scared me into thinking artisits were forever poor.... Most artists are forever poor, or paying the bills some other way.

And the biggest part of the problem being the artist community cutting its own throat. People desperate to get their work out there, that they'll sell for whatever price. Neverminding the huge amount of labor that went into the creation.

Even a CG piece that took only 20 hrs to put together should cost much more than $400  That puts the artist making about $20/hour, and that's for a mediocre artist. (Comes out to be about $40K/year for someone with the equilevent of a bachelors degree, and it actually works out to be much less than that. )

Yes, art is expensive because you're paying a highly skilled professional for their labor, and that's not cheap, nor should it be.