One of the craziest common practices in the Furry Art Commission circuit is charging less for an extra character. More characters make a picture exponentially more difficult, not additively- and they definitely don't make it easier, which is the only reason you'd charge that way.
And then you have the fact that artists charge flat rates for comics that end up being fractionally less than if they'd charged per character instance. That is just... nuts to me. Not only do you now have to draw the characters themselves multiple times, but you have to do composition, paneling and lettering- Composition being easily 50% of the effort of drawing before you even draw a single line- and then actually put it to the page.
And now we have to imagine taking unpaid time out of doing commissions to pick up the full time job of writing, composing, drawing, editing, lettering and publishing your own comic, just, for free. Your living situation has to be so perfect just to even consider doing something like that. It's unreal.
