It's a pretty common payment for petsites, unfortunately. The ones that do offer actual real life currency are often extremely underpaying, unless your art style is SO GOOD they MUST have you OR you're going to be the site's ONLY artist or one of their EXTREMELY FEW artists.
For example, I once worked for misticpets and was offered 15$ for a site pet, but considering the absolute level of perfection they required of you to match their site style without a style guide to follow, and amount of hours I had to put in in order to match it, it was not worth it, either. One pet I worked on took me 5+ hours to do because it never seemed to fit their extreme standards, nor would they teach me how to make it fit their standards. At that time, I was also making 20$ an hour when I was doing illustration work, so like. Contrast and compare. I could have made 100$+ in that time, and it's very commonplace in the petsite industry to so severely undercharge because its workers are more often than not doing so on a passion-project basis.
Sites that Slash owns almost never offer real life currency positions, and when they do, they are not guaranteed and nor are they permanent. You can absolutely have an RLC paying position on the site, but at any time, they can approach you and say "hey, we can't pay you anymore, so either accept items/site currency or find something else." Currently, Aywas is paying their breeding artists in items as opposed to site currency, and breeding is a MAJOR part of their site function. Unless you are an artist who works specifically during their "Prediction Pool Party" event where you can set real life currency prices for art (any other time of the year, you can't), you're not going to be making any RLC from working on Aywas.
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Re: Pet sites
(Anonymous) 2022-02-13 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)For example, I once worked for misticpets and was offered 15$ for a site pet, but considering the absolute level of perfection they required of you to match their site style without a style guide to follow, and amount of hours I had to put in in order to match it, it was not worth it, either. One pet I worked on took me 5+ hours to do because it never seemed to fit their extreme standards, nor would they teach me how to make it fit their standards. At that time, I was also making 20$ an hour when I was doing illustration work, so like. Contrast and compare. I could have made 100$+ in that time, and it's very commonplace in the petsite industry to so severely undercharge because its workers are more often than not doing so on a passion-project basis.
Sites that Slash owns almost never offer real life currency positions, and when they do, they are not guaranteed and nor are they permanent. You can absolutely have an RLC paying position on the site, but at any time, they can approach you and say "hey, we can't pay you anymore, so either accept items/site currency or find something else." Currently, Aywas is paying their breeding artists in items as opposed to site currency, and breeding is a MAJOR part of their site function. Unless you are an artist who works specifically during their "Prediction Pool Party" event where you can set real life currency prices for art (any other time of the year, you can't), you're not going to be making any RLC from working on Aywas.