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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 477156" data-attributes="member: 6791">I have two friends that have done art for RPGs. Each of those little illustrations you see in the book don't pay that much.  Even way less if they're doing art for smaller RPG publishers. Most artists I know do it for the fun of it and to pick up a little extra income. They have their day to day job (which may also be art related) and then they have freelance assignments for RPGs. They do those when they get home and on the weekends.I actually have a lot of artists friends who would like to do more RPG related stuff. But I noticed that a lot of time, they get turned off by the amount of money they'd be paid for it. Again, most that do it, do it for the love of RPGs and their genres.The only way I can see an artist making a living solely on RPG work, is if he has a steady stream of assignments from a big company. I know of a guy (I don't know him personally, he's a friend of a friend) But when he was doing painted cards for CCGs from WotC, he was making enough on just those only. But I think if you're only doing the side margin black and whites maybe only once or twice a week, you're not going to make enough money for a living. Another odd thing I found out, the painter/illustrators that do covers for even some of the biggest fantasy novels don't get paid that much actually. I want I mean by 'much', is enough to pay bills and stuff for the length of time it takes you do paint it. Most such illustrators take on multiple assignments to make ends meet.</blockquote>

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