Wyświetl załącznik 2853432
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archived 3 Jan 2022 05:57:08 UTC
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Mama gags is abusive towards Louie? Press X to doubt.
As
@Next Task and
@The Dude say, I'm pretty sure Mama Gags is angry at Lou a lot. I also believe Lou when he says she's a mean drunk. La Casa Gagliardi is probably not to the point where most people would call it abuse, no. And it's clearly not a one-sided affair, where Mama Gags is guilty of everything while Lou suffers like a saintly Cinderella. But it can't be a happy household.
His story in the Tweet sounds pretty straightforward: Mama Gags needed help with something. Lardace couldn't hear her calling because he had his music too loud.* Mama Gags got tired of shouting so she came and banged on his door. Lardace got upset because hOw waS hE suppOsEd tO kNow his mom needed help? He had his headphones on, everyone knows that! And now his angst has flared up and he needs money to buy crotchboob porn.
* (if his headphones are so effective that he can't hear his own mother cry for help in the next room over, why does he need noise-cancelling headphones?)
It's a bogstandard family argument, the kind of thing that might happen between any single mother and her 14 year old, stay-at-home son. The only difference being that Lou's nearly 40, and most teens who get yelled at by their mom dream of moving out and getting their own place - where they can PARTY ALL NIGHT and mom won't nag them! - rather than dreaming of staying perfectly sedentary and blowing other people's money on crotchboob, while mom slaves over the spaghetti pot downstairs.
First: how does commissioning a piece of art de-stress you? How stupid does he think we are? And second, how much money is he asking for? We know that he buys profile pictures from 13-year-old Macedonian children for seven dollars apiece, but doesn't art normally cost like 50 bucks? Maybe @BoobWhiskers can correct me, but it sounds like he's asking for a lot of money from the way that it's phrased. If I buy a paperback book, it can cost from 7-10 dollars (anything more expensive than that, I steal legally appropriate via the Internet), but he only buys self-published furry shit and comic trade paperbacks, which can run you 25-30 dollars, so wildly overpriced. The Lord of The Rings trilogy is available for free online, and I've spent 65% of my free time thinking about it since I was thirteen years old (the rest of my bandwidth is apportioned among music, alcohol, professional development, tits, the Mass Effect trilogy, and, oddly enough, Lou Gagliardi. In no particular order. But Lou comes last). So is masturbation. It's like he's counting on the fact that nobody else has unlocked the cheat code that recreation doesn't require you to spend money.
The short answer is: it depends. Every artist prices their commissions differently, so there's no definitive answer as to how expensive crotchboob art would cost.
But $50 isn't unreasonable for a bit of art, no.
Usually online artists charge between $50 (for basic lineart comic pages and single panel scenes) and $100 (for larger, polished pieces), with prices dipping as low as $20 for the most simple stuff (a portrait, maybe?) to $150 or more for complex scenes involving multiple characters and/or subject matter the artist not comfortable with, but is still willing to draw. SFW artists tend to charge less (e.g. if you go to a nerd convention, which are usually clean, it's easy to find $10 commission offers) and some artists, particularly industry professionals with high work demand who moonlight as loligurovore artists or whatever, charge a lot more. On the very highest end, there's not really any ceiling to how much you'll be charged; if he were really lucky and dedicated, for example, Lou could probably hire Alex Ross to paint a reference sheet, but he'd be treated as an industry client, and charged accordingly (hope you got DC Comics money, Lou!). I can't even begin to guess how much it would cost to hire a Ross, but that guy charges over a grand
for prints so you take a guess. And on the very lowest end, you can get art for only a couple bucks, usually from kids or from mentally-ill artists with severe, crippling social anxiety.
It's even possible to get art for free, if you're an artist (or a writer!) and can find someone willing to do art trades. Lou says he writes on commission, so surely he can find a fellow furvert willing to draw crotchboob in exchange for a fapfic...?
$50 is a good baseline price for a normal-effort piece, however.
The trouble is, Lou tends to want reference sheets - which, by their nature, require multiple drawings of a character in a variety of poses and angles. They're also notorious for being projects where the buyer will request dozens of specific details, and change his mind halfway through. I'm not well versed in reference sheets, but my understanding is that $100-$200 is a reasonable range for ref sheets. Some artists will do ref sheets for as little as $50, but they're usually treated as major polished pieces (the equivalent of asking for a detailed scene with multiple characters and full colour/shading), and so priced accordingly.
tl;dr Lou routinely overstates the amount of money he needs for porn art, but part of the problem is how much and what kind of porn art he wants. So when he asks for way too much, it's a lie with a kernel of sinister truth.
