Crafting art - and selling it?

[Calydor]

So, a group of friends are running a completely custom Pathfinder campaign and so far having great fun. During downtime, my character has taken up the hobby of carving wooden figurines, and is actually doing decently thanks to exploiting Shape Wood, but that's another story.

Last session ground to a halt when we came across a recurring traveling vendor, my character pulled out a carved eagle and asked, "How much is this worth?"

Ten minutes later the GM gave up finding an answer in books or message boards, so now I'm asking on his behalf - how would you calculate the value?

The wood has minimal value by itself, so it's the art of the figurine that comes into question; what would well-carved animal figurines actually be worth?

[Franko a]

By the rules, I believe it depends on how much you spent on the wood.
picking up a piece of ironwood you found on the road, minimal profit.

Sending an exhibition ( that costs thousands)to the tallest mountain where there is a common pine, cost*3, as long as you take long enough to make it.

(yes its a game flaw)

[CampinCarl9127]

There are no written rules for this. Take the material and craft check into account and make a judgement call.

[Wamulus]

The easiest method would be to treat it as a profession role (and use those rules).

If you are looking for something more concrete, look at similar objects and compare. There are actually rules for this.

If the things being crafted are about as detailed as a wooden holy symbol or a prosthetic hand: 1gp.
If you’re making something with fine detail, like a functioning flute 5gp.
(Prices are from Ultimate Equipment)

Your GM is letting you get the base materials for free (which makes sense in the case of a wood block), so deciding on the value of the finished product should be the player's decision (and would set any craft DCs required).

[David knott 242]

You may also want to take a look at the crafting rules in Pathfinder Unchained. Without those rules, the value of the item is simply a function of the cost of the materials and the character's Craft skill rolls -- but I suspect that you want to take into account such details as the complexity of the item being crafted.

[Nox Aeterna]

I dont think crafting has a real gold limit when it comes to art.

You craft based on the item price you are creating , that is about it.

If he thought the art price was 100000 gp , then he paid a value based on that to craft and passed the DCs , that is the "value" of said item.

An example of how high can art go from magnum opus:

Prerequisite: You must either have sold five or more self-created works of art worth a total of at least 5,000 gp

Goal: Either sell a single self-created work of art for at least 25,000 gp