The other important thing to consider is, if you keep offering low rates for a prolong time, you'll eventually have the reputation as the 'cheap freelancer' and I would imagine it would be very difficult to change this perception. If you find yourself in a situation that you want to offer less, then I would state in the…
I've been working for myself for free (creating my own art for portfolio and practice) this month for 3DInktober2019. Individually the pieces are probably not the most portfolio-worthy, given that the large majority of them were done in a day. But, collectively they would look good I believe. The reason why I'm…