dannykojima1

What the different between Freelancing and selling art on DeviantArt?

Here is a Pro and Cons about being a freelance artist under company rules:
Pros:
1. Being your own boss.
2. Doing whatever you can do without being told what to do or not to do.
3. Getting a $20 tip from some return buyers? Congratulation!
4. Pausing your gigs, so you can have a few days break or away on vacation.
5. Set a limit on orders in queue to create less stressful.
6. Wear any clothes whatever you want when working from home without worries about your boss smelling you.
7. No dress code.

Cons:
1. You have to spend hours a day working on the artwork during the time started count-down before make a delivery.
2. Sometime you don't always get commission from all different clients who come across your gigs.
3. You will never know what going to happen, sooner or later your account will may be ban for breaking the Company's Terms of Service.
4. The company will always side with the buyers/clients. Not you (as a seller).
5. You get scam most of the times from shady buyers when they disputed an order for refund via Customer Support after half way complete the project.
6. Your account get permanently restricted for working outside of the company which is goes against the company's policy. I mean, it's a good things to work inside of the company rules! So the two of you don't have to create a Mexican standoff between you and the buyer.
7. You cannot have more than 1 account.
8. Dealing with impatient buyers, threatening to dispute the order for a refund.
9. When your account get permanently restricted, you can never create another account to freelance ever. Ever. Your whole online career is pretty much done. Time for you to move on, find a job.
10. Company take some of your earnings after complete delivery to a buyer.
11. Dealing with angry buyers threaten you to Customer Support to get your account restricted.

Pro as an artist on DeviantArt.
1. Sell your art through Premium download with whatever price you want!
2. Sit back, relax, watch movie or playing video game while buyers and fans downloading your art prints and Premium art with whatever price you created.
3. People will keep coming back to buy your art on your DeviantArt store when you're away on vacation.
4. Feel good about being. Your. Own. Boss!
5. Get commissions from all different buyers with whatever you set up.
6. Create many commissions with price as much as you want for the buyers to place an order.
7. Create many Tiers (Subscribers) as you wanted and you can charge them $6.99 - $19.99/month. Tier is a good place for your subscribers to join for a lounge hangout, chat, etc.
8. Create your own group for your fans.
9. Having a system NFT protect got your back, and protecting your art without worries about thief try to steal it for profit on NFT sites.
10. DeviantArt doesn't take few of your earnings for themselves. The money is all yours! Cool, right?
11. Create journal updates for your fans.
12. Post status update to keep your fans update about your art or your story.
13. You can have 1 or 2 more accounts on DeviantArt, as personal such as buying art or for selling art and commission work.
14. You may share your art to only those friends you only wanted to share. No one else can see it unless you send them a link of your Sta.sh.
15. Withdraw money from PayPal and/or Bitpay to your bank account.

Cons:
1. The site is confused if you're new to DeviantArt.
2. Not able to sell your art unless you pay $9.95/month for a Pro membership.
3. No NFT Protection for your art without a Core or Pro membership.
4. Have to wait for few days for DeviantArt to processing your earnings after you completed a delivery to buyers. It happen to me a lot, so I never withdraw my money anyway.