03 Jan 2007 at 05:13 - 125
You SO need to increase your prices Eggy... by at least 10 times. As much as I'm sure you will meet lots of lovely people who will give you large tips, I'm pretty certain that there will be those few people who say: "Draw these 4 characters in a group portrait please, and with full colour too! I'll pay lots extra". Problem is, "lots" is rather subjective, and you might end up getting paid 5k. After all, that's 1k for each character, as asked, and 1k for colour! perfectly fair! The problem is, that the image, with group composition, and colouring probably took you far more than five times as long to complete as a simple standard character sketch, and as such, probably isn't fair as far as you're concerned.
The only reason I bring all this up, is because I went through exactly the same kind of teething troubles when I first started doing my commissions here on Guru. Even if your prices were much, much higher, demand would far outstrip your supply. The Guild Wars crowd are ravenous for images of their characters, it would seem ^_^