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.

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

"troshalom;d-969898" 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.

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.

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.

"LauraR;c-17335341" wrote:"troshalom;d-969898" 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. ?

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

bshag4lv
Seasoned Scout
5 years ago
There's a mod over at MTS that makes all art free on digital sketchpads. :)
llrook
5 years ago
"troshalom;d-969898" 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.
Sharooonia
5 years ago
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
New Scout
5 years ago
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
5 years ago
"LauraR;c-17335341" wrote:
"troshalom;d-969898" 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
5 years ago
"WaytoomanyUIDs;c-17335404" 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.
CherryBerryCloud
5 years ago
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DeKaythePUNK
Seasoned Adventurer
5 years ago
They gotta pay to buy all those stock images for inspiration. XD
Nindigo79
New Spectator
5 years ago
@DeKay As always you have a meaningful explanation ready :D
troshalom
5 years ago
"DeKay;c-17336011" 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.