illustrator salary
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- Jaline0
kodap was one of the first illustrators I really liked on the Internet...
- NO Jaline, Shoes where the fist things on the Internet you really liked. :)roundabout
- MLP0
kodap.. never saw your work before, but you're now on my list.
- 98328923980
Still love your work, kodap! Try to negotiate harder when you can. It sounds shitty for artists, but you have to learn to become a businessman when you work freelance.
- kodap0
I feel so bad, I had to take a low-budget commission with urgency this weekend, for a two-day+1/2 spent in an illustration work.. it fuckn bothers me, I feel like a slave now. damn. (I need the money, couldn't negotiate) fuck reps!
- also, how are the contracts with agents? can't you be with more at the same time?9832892398
- squire2250
I've admired Arthur's work for a while and I don't see why this man wouldn't deserve everything he has coming to him. Everything doesn't have to be hyper detailed for it to be good. Its appropriate and it works for him. I've literally studied a few a his works just to try to make myself better. Now that I know his freelance salary, thats a big incentive to step it up.
Arthur, I gotta email you! I been trying to figure out two things when it comes to illustration.
- MLP0
arthur... nice work btw.
also lately there are a ton of dudes doing mag work and their stuff is so simple i don't understand how they get paid what they do. some are just monotoned shots with a little vector work on top. so, if you're good, there's plenty of people doing it that you're better than.
- MLP0
one market that's relatively easy to get into is magazines. the inudstyr is so incestuous that if you're good, people will use you regularly and find out about you very quickly.
going by what i've hired out on the low-end, you can do very well billing freelance.
- migy0
I make a living, but it aint an easy living. Send an invoice wait 3 months to get paid starts to wear a bit thin after a while too. But its not flipping burgers.
- Redmond0
That's very cool that you can make 180k tracing portraits in Illustrator using 3 exciting shades of kakhi.
- pr20
I kid around all day long, work only 10 days a month and get laid on almost each set i'm working on and still make almost 70k a year. And it's only the begining of my carrier with my ass barely out of school. So even though 180k sounds a lot i trust the guy is making that much.
PS. Of corse u realize this post is only to bring up the fact that i get laid a lot, right?
- brenton0
Just kidding, illustrators. I think you guys need more credit for the work you do.
- brenton0
$5.25 an hour + tips
50% of the profits from the pieces on the wall in the coffee shop
- ricstultz0
Yep, project per project, some years are better than others... I'm poor but love what I do, so the trade off is worth it.
- roundabout0
Nice work there arthur, 180K, fuck me!. Maybe you could give me some business advise?
- Just find out a way to make money doing what you enjoy. Then work your ass off.arthur
- Sounds about rightroundabout
- marychain0
I think what Vague is trying to say...is that 180K - 200k is a very high yearly income. It is not the norm for an Illustrator to achieve this for a variety of reasons...lack of talent, lack of speed, iniative, representation or experience to name a few. Hell..180K is way above what 90% of the world makes...so it is a bit unusual.
However...more power to Arthur an the lot for getting there. Arthur...you have amazing work...and obviously lots of business savvy and experience. Kudos to you sir.
- vague0
aw stop tuggin at my heartstrings, please.
- Randd0
you've even irritated me now, vague
- _niko0
drew struzan probably makes that much per poster.
- migy0
are we talking $ or £. I mostly work for peanuts.