Outrageous - paying to create art on a digital sketchpad! Freelance Career

troshalom · December 2019

Ok, so I totally get why it costs money to create a painting, you need to purchase supplies. But for the painting freelance career you use a digitial sketch pad. Once you have purchased the software to create digital art you don't have any other expense.

My sim joined the painting freelance career and has to make 3 icons. It pays §364 but my sim has to spend §150 to create the 3 icons (§50 per icon), so in reality it pays §214. Come'on EA -- let's be realistic. Writers don't spend money on ink and paper everytime they create a book on a computer, so why do painters have to pay per icon to create digital icons!

This needs to be fixed.

bshag4lv · December 2019

There's a mod over at MTS that makes all art free on digital sketchpads.

LauraR · December 2019

[quote="troshalom;d-969898"]Writers don't spend money on ink and paper everytime they create a book on a computer, so why do painters have to pay per icon to create digital icons!

This needs to be fixed. [/quote]

As a writer I can absolutely confirm that yes, we actually do spend quite a lot on ink and paper, especially during edit phase. There's a certain kind of focus that only comes with the act of a physical pen on paper.

Sharonia · December 2019

Painting without the career is more profitable and far less hassle than the freelance career is. Maybe I just don't enjoy freelance careers though. The amount of rejection for jobs in the digital artist career frustrates me.

WaytoomanyUIDs · December 2019

Also Adobe Creative Cloud subscription can get annoyingly expensive if you use more than one application & need the stock photo library. The plans aren't as flexible as they used to be. It's either 1 program, the photography plan or everything, which is annoying if you need just Photoshop & Ilustrator, which isn't in the photography plan.

troshalom · December 2019

LauraR wrote: »

troshalom wrote: »

Writers don't spend money on ink and paper everytime they create a book on a computer, so why do painters have to pay per icon to create digital icons!

This needs to be fixed.

As a writer I can absolutely confirm that yes, we actually do spend quite a lot on ink and paper, especially during edit phase. There's a certain kind of focus that only comes with the act of a physical pen on paper.

@LauraR I'm a writer too, and I was discussing in game writing on the computer. In the Sims they don't write with pen and paper. 😜

troshalom · December 2019

WaytoomanyUIDs wrote: »

Also Adobe Creative Cloud subscription can get annoyingly expensive if you use more than one application & need the stock photo library. The plans aren't as flexible as they used to be. It's either 1 program, the photography plan or everything, which is annoying if you need just Photoshop & Ilustrator, which isn't in the photography plan.

Yeah @WaytoomanyUIDs true dat, that's my I am a perpetual license holder -- Still using PS CS5.5

But even with a subscription to Adobe CC you don't pay per art creation, you pay by the month or year.

troshalom · December 2019

Sharonia wrote: »

Painting without the career is more profitable and far less hassle than the freelance career is. Maybe I just don't enjoy freelance careers though. The amount of rejection for jobs in the digital artist career frustrates me.

@Sharonia Imma have to agree with ya on that. I just wanted to play through all the careers at least once. I finally switched my Sim over to the actual writing career, it is more lucrative and they get to keep and sell the books they write.

I just wanted the sim to stay home with the toddler and not send to daycare or hire a nanny. Since I play with long life I was still able to get her to a top toddler tho with him going to work.

CherryBerryCloud · December 2019

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simmerLella · December 2019

LauraR wrote: »

troshalom wrote: »

Writers don't spend money on ink and paper everytime they create a book on a computer, so why do painters have to pay per icon to create digital icons!

This needs to be fixed.

As a writer I can absolutely confirm that yes, we actually do spend quite a lot on ink and paper, especially during edit phase. There's a certain kind of focus that only comes with the act of a physical pen on paper.

For some people, not all.

I'm wired differently than that, and a blank sheet (or used) of MS Word is so freeing. I can't imagine EDITING on PAPER since high school (only 'cause we were a bit broke for a computer at the start, and I hadn't practiced typing). A night mare. My paper writing is all cross-out lines and arrows, haha.

Also, I close up pens immediately before I put them down (they don't die often but we have TONS, we keep picking them up free here and there, hahaha

). I do enjoy having a lot of notebooks, but those are for NOTES, lists, drawings, etc. (so many lists and reminders). I used to have many messy notebooks of poetry, etc., and they weren't as organized or well-preserved as my computer files. (That last part's important for my own collection.)

(I'm not a fiction writer, btw, people always seem to assume writer = author, which I find weird as there are many kinds.)

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The other part was already responded to, but I'll add ... costs are small; probably electricity and eventually wanting to upgrade to a bigger drive? Certainly not something noticeable per document or session.

DeKay · December 2019

They gotta pay to buy all those stock images for inspiration. XD

Nindigo · December 2019

@DeKay As always you have a meaningful explanation ready

DeKay · December 2019

Nindigo wrote: »

DeKay As always you have a meaningful explanation ready

You know it. 😂👌

troshalom · December 2019

DeKay wrote: »

They gotta pay to buy all those stock images for inspiration. XD

@DeKay didn't think of that 🙃, but my vendors always put in unpaid stock images until I approved them, then they purchased them. So the artist can get inspiration from a stock site, without paying for the images -- soooooo -- still don't see why they gotta pay 50 simoleans per icon.

Melpomena · December 2019

May be they have to pay to protect the copyright.

GalacticGal · December 2019

LauraR wrote: »

troshalom wrote: »

Writers don't spend money on ink and paper everytime they create a book on a computer, so why do painters have to pay per icon to create digital icons!

This needs to be fixed.

As a writer I can absolutely confirm that yes, we actually do spend quite a lot on ink and paper, especially during edit phase. There's a certain kind of focus that only comes with the act of a physical pen on paper.

Yes, I concur. I, too, have gone through much paper and multiple laser ink cartridges. And I print on Low-ink! I'm in the final (I hope) editing phase of my latest novel. Go, me! LOL

And hearing the piece has an effect, too. Reading from a page is far different than reading from a screen. You catch more in both the hearing and the reading from paper.

But, I must say I don't understand why if you have an art program, you should have to pay for each piece of art created. We're speaking apples to oranges here.

troshalom · December 2019

Congrats @GalacticGal on getting the book out of your head on the the computer/paper -- most of my book is still in my head the whole trilogy. I do agree, I personally like to edit on paper too, I catch things I miss on screen or I'm just old skool like that,

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