Hand-painted illustration rate
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- loool
My girlfriend has a gig in sight, it's for hand-painted illustrations (which she never did before). She is a classical painter though, so she paints like a boss, it's just in illustration she never had actual work...She's going for a meeting about the rates and I'm interested how much would be ok to propose for children book illustrations...we live in Belgium, so it's less than London rates, and she doesn't have illustration portfolio so, I'm kinda stuck with the estimation...any help please?
- spot130
Estimated Time x Hourly Rate x 20%
or
Estimated Time x Hourly Rate + Royalty on Sales
- de4k0
As spot13 said, but maybe a license fee rather than royalties.
License fee depends on the print run and distribution of the book.
Obviously you would want more for 500,000 copies being sold worldwide for 50,000 only being sold in Belgium.So creative fee (time x hourly rate) + license fee
- a publisher won't take licensed illustrations unless it was an exclusive.Gnash
- Gnash0
depends on the size of market and distribution. Some publishers will do an advance plus royalties. I've had illustration quotes on ranging from 5K to 11K on an 18 page boardbook for kids (totally depends on the quality of the illustrator). I don't think the fact that it's hand-painted affects the publishers perspective on cost. It's a COG vs SRP issue.
- Gnash0
and obviously don't get talked into a buyout
- loool0
thanks all!