• Effort and time spent drawing your shit.
• Our skill level to draw your shit.
• The years of studying and practicing it's taken us to have that skill.
• All your possible "revisions" because you're a picky fucker, during sketching, coloring and even final pieces.
• The final magnificent piece itself.
• The, most of the time exclusive, right to use our work for display in whatever it is you wanted it for, so long as it was agreed by both parties (artist & you)
  

Here's a list of what is not being sold to you:

• Rights to the characters and/or series in question, whether full or partial.

Isn't that very easy to comprehend, champs?
Well, not for some people. No. Not at all. Some people think it's perfectly fine to offer less than 2 bucks for (TWO) fully finished, good quality, relatively high res pieces of artwork just because "it's fanart and you (the artist) don't own the rights" - sweetie, the fucking day that fan-art equals to me not having to lift a single finger to get it done, I will accept that laughable excuse of a job.
But for now? It's a more bloody profitable use of my time to go sit on my toilet and take a shit than to even humour your retarded offer.

You don't even respect the people you're attempting to hire with the pocket change you got out of your pants during laundry day. No, your "wall of shame" pointing to all the artists who in some way or another disappointed you is not, and will never be, professional, needed or respectful - I don't care what they fucking did to annoy you as an employer*.

Did I mention that demanding an artist to show you a sample specific to your needs before they ever see a cent from you, and then telling them that their work does not meet your quality standard (in oh much much less nicer terms), makes you the very definition of douche rimjob nozzle?

...And please stop advertising how some artists have gotten thousands of dollars working for you, because even if it happened, it's pretty much slave work. Divide all that shit by the amount of hours and artwork they've had to give you and I'm certain the end result will be a negative sum. How people subject themselves and their trade to this is beyond my comprehension - especially considering the fact that you want to pay after the works are finished and delivered to you.


The very question of whether an artist can charge or not for fan-art goes out the window the second you make an offer, the sum does not matter. If you really did care about the possible legalities of purchasing or selling work that comes directly from a third-party copyrighted source, then you wouldn't be trying to fucking buy it in the first place. You'd ask for volunteers. But you're not, eh? Well, you're almost not, since we've already covered how pretty much any other activity under the sun is more profitable than your near two bucks, which can't even afford the oxygen spent while drawing. And that's not counting things such as paypal fees.

You just want an excuse to be a cheap bastard.
Also, no, I'm not an improper artist nor immature person for pointing out that your "offer" is a load of crap (except cheaper).

^{*Beggar. The correct term is beggar. Oops.}