Need Help pricing question??

[purebrilliance art]

I painted by hand a 3"x6" metal sign and wondered how should I go about pricing hand painted design work? this my first work, I have no software or equipment and in a small community. Incase I get another request for a sign? How do you price it.
I have approx. 25 hours in time creating this. Oh and it is double sided. pics may be too big? Thanks for any input!.

 

[Gino]

Do you really mean 3' x 6' double-sided ??

Well, there are so many places to start. Way too many mistakes to be selling this as finished artwork/signs. Lettering is all over the place and those kinda split letters with tabs are not really for signs. One phone has dashes..... the other doesn't. Letter sizes are too over and undersized within the same word. Far too many crooked letters. Colors are kinda awkward. Kerning is very bad.Negative spacing is out the window.

I'n trying to be nice, but around my neck of the woods, no one would pay for those.

What substrate did you use and what kinda paint ?? Did you do this on an easel or flat on a table ??

 

[purebrilliance art]

Do you really mean 3' x 6' double-sided ??

Well, there are so many places to start. Way too many mistakes to be selling this as finished artwork/signs. Lettering is all over the place and those kinda split letters with tabs are not really for signs. One phone has dashes..... the other doesn't. Letter sizes are too over and undersized within the same word. Far too many crooked letters. Colors are kinda awkward. Kerning is very bad.Negative spacing is out the window.

I'n trying to be nice, but around my neck of the woods, no one would pay for those.

What substrate did you use and what kinda paint ?? Did you do this on an easel or flat on a table ??

Hi, WOW good points, good to know my first as I said neighbor asked me and design is from his business card, I meant to do dashes on both, that can be fixed, yes 3x6 ft metal sign going in a rack , letters are measuring same size in each word?, I appreciate the feedback, Guess its a start over, although the customer liked it?, I will add dashes and seal other side and consider this a learning adventure, I know nothing about signs, guess a class is next option before I try another and if it's that awful I will just give it to him. I used outdoor acrylic paint designed for metal, pretreated primed the sign and painted flat table. Now I may have to start all over. REALLY GOOD POINTS!! thanks

 

[purebrilliance art]

Not sure how to use this, sorry about that.
Hi, WOW good points, good to know my first as I said neighbor asked me and design is from his business card, I meant to do dashes on both, that can be fixed, yes 3x6 ft metal sign going in a rack , letters are measuring same size in each word?, I appreciate the feedback, Guess its a start over, although the customer liked it?, I will add dashes and seal other side and consider this a learning adventure, I know nothing about signs, guess a class is next option before I try another and if it's that awful I will just give it to him. I used outdoor acrylic paint designed for metal, pretreated primed the sign and painted flat table. Now I may have to start all over. REALLY GOOD POINTS!! thanks

 

[JBurton]

Guess its a start over, although the customer liked it?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if the customer likes it, sell it as is. If it's something you find disappointing, it's on you to redo until you'd be satisfied passing it every day.
Props on taking one on the chin from Gino and not bellyaching, I believe he cut his teeth on hand lettering, he is a great resource. Not sure about the best way to go about learning hand lettering any more, but there are more than a few old salts on here that may point you in the right direction.

 

[Gino]

Totally, if the guy like it and will pay ya, by all means, take it and move forward.

I was only trying to be helpful.

All flat letters will be the height setter, but the 'rounds' will be slightly above the height lines and below the bottom letter. It's an optical illusion. Most of your letters have completely different weights within the same word, let alone in the same line of copy. Some to most of your letters seem to be pointing slightly up, down, straight ahead and somewhat different heights. Look at the #2 in the phone. They're all different sizes and the bottom dash is different in 2 of them. The 0's are different weights and the 8 looks like it has scurvy. Tanks, chambers & pipes runs uphill and almost off the paint band. Your tabs within the lettering is missing at a buncha places and the period in St. is outta proportion. Ya probably should have something between the 3 words to define them better.

Pure..... there's more, but try to digest this and we'll move forward later, if ya wanna.

 

[Gino]

Oh, based upon your hours and adding in the metal, we'd be around $3,57.00 Back in the day, we could do a 4' x 8' double sided by hand, in either a long day or 2 of them in about 3 days Remember shop rates were like $12 and $15 bucks an hour. Times certainly have changed.

 

[Graphic Extremes]

I still do a lot of hand lettering on fire trucks, but they don't care about pricing as long as it is exactly what they want..

 

[victor bogdanov]

Why not just do it digitally in under an hour? Will look 1000x better too