Hey tamashi!

Hi Lori

I've never really made money for my hobby, but I think the questions you're asking yourself are things all artists end up considering at one point or another.

Yup, seems pretty cliche hahaha

I would certainly never worry about asking too much - the customer can always say no if they're not prepared to pay that much. Asking too little is more difficult, because all artists might benefit if they all refuse to be paid beneath their value.

I guess that's right... probably I should try some values to find out what's good. I did some research and it felt a little strange.

One tip I heard for hobbyists, which sounded convincing, is to never work for a discount ("mate's rates" is what we call it in Australia - giving a discount to a friend). As soon as someone's paid any amount of money for something, they'll expect professional quality. Either work for free, in which case you can put it off or decide not to do it at all if something comes up, or work for full price and deliver a full service.

That's funny because that's exactly what I was thinking a while ago. A friend got me that commision I mentioned above. After I was done (kinda) he got a twitch affiliate and I could make him an offer. But he didn't ask me directly and we have this awkward combination of "friends", "got no money" and "hey you got your first commision by me"
So I was thinking "I would like to create an emoji but I don't want to ask THAT much money from him... But I should. Hm." so I didn't make an emoji so far.

I'm no professional and I'd like to keep it a hobby - at the same time I think I have some skills when it comes to pixel-art. Not the best for sure - but above average? I don't know @A@

Follow your passion. Like one person who is good at guitar, he will play with the joy and still can earn money through performance. Or I just play a game but still can get some reward money through that apknite mobile game.