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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7768755" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>For Illustration, depends on the experience and skill of the illustrator.</p><p></p><p>Your paragraph introducing and discussing rates is pretty good, but the lists that you put down from Spencer probably should not be listed as to what most of those who are inquiring about rates need to know.</p><p></p><p>For someone starting, I'd never pay them that unless they had exceptional skill. It's WAAAAY too high. Good way to never get employed if that's what they are looking for, at least for normal projects.</p><p></p><p>On the other side of the equation...WAAAY too low for someone who is really skilled and has a good bit of experience. I'd jump on those rates for full page illustrations in half a second for someone who had a good amount of skilled and showed that they were very dependable.</p><p></p><p>Average going rates right now are probably somewhere around $20/hr for illustrators (or €19 [typo corrected] perhaps for other areas outside the US) in the West right now. That's for someone competently skilled that can work at the usual rate of work that other illustrators work at. Someone just starting out probably shouldn't expect that...and someone with a great record might be able to charge a LOT more than that.</p><p></p><p>As you state Spencer is an experienced professional artist it means he's been around for a while. Anyone who's been around for awhile SHOULD know what they are worth and how much they can charge. They don't need a guide and thus the values you list are probably completely worthless to them. Those asking the question your guide is trying to answer probably should not expect to charge as much as someone who's been in the industry for a while. If they do that, unless also working with someone who is clueless or does not know any better, they will lose every time. IT's simply...if the choice is between the guy that is good and dependable vs. someone who we don't have a record of or a lengthy experience with to know how dependable they are in crunch or how good they can create with a deadline, but they are both charging the same price...most people will go with the dependable experienced pro over the inexperienced unknown every time.</p><p></p><p>Most of my experience is NOT in the RPG field though, so maybe things are different with RPG illustrators than general illustrators as a whole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 7768755, member: 4348"] For Illustration, depends on the experience and skill of the illustrator. Your paragraph introducing and discussing rates is pretty good, but the lists that you put down from Spencer probably should not be listed as to what most of those who are inquiring about rates need to know. For someone starting, I'd never pay them that unless they had exceptional skill. It's WAAAAY too high. Good way to never get employed if that's what they are looking for, at least for normal projects. On the other side of the equation...WAAAY too low for someone who is really skilled and has a good bit of experience. I'd jump on those rates for full page illustrations in half a second for someone who had a good amount of skilled and showed that they were very dependable. Average going rates right now are probably somewhere around $20/hr for illustrators (or €19 [typo corrected] perhaps for other areas outside the US) in the West right now. That's for someone competently skilled that can work at the usual rate of work that other illustrators work at. Someone just starting out probably shouldn't expect that...and someone with a great record might be able to charge a LOT more than that. As you state Spencer is an experienced professional artist it means he's been around for a while. Anyone who's been around for awhile SHOULD know what they are worth and how much they can charge. They don't need a guide and thus the values you list are probably completely worthless to them. Those asking the question your guide is trying to answer probably should not expect to charge as much as someone who's been in the industry for a while. If they do that, unless also working with someone who is clueless or does not know any better, they will lose every time. IT's simply...if the choice is between the guy that is good and dependable vs. someone who we don't have a record of or a lengthy experience with to know how dependable they are in crunch or how good they can create with a deadline, but they are both charging the same price...most people will go with the dependable experienced pro over the inexperienced unknown every time. Most of my experience is NOT in the RPG field though, so maybe things are different with RPG illustrators than general illustrators as a whole. [/QUOTE]
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