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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 634316" data-attributes="member: 5834">reI will throw in my two cents, since I cannot help but do otherwise a great deal of time.Many artists like to game or at least associate with gamers, I have had my fair share of artist friends and associates. Art is no easy undertaking. Even pictures that look very simply can take some time if the artist colors them.I still remember when I was planning to start a comic book company. I initially was planning to work with a friend, but the person wanted to do a strange duck character I didn't feel like financing. Not that it wouldn't sell, but I just wasn't into the character. I had to find a new artist. Well, comic book artists do not come cheap. I contacted a professional art agent (yes, quite a few artists have agents), the lowest price I could find was $5,000 for a color cover, black and white interior, 32-page comic book. That was not going to work for me because I was a start up.I had to take the alternative route of finding a good art student with a similar dream to mine. I called an art school and started inverviewing students. Even students were charging $50 or $100 dollars for a few pages of art. Doc's price is very fair in my opinion. Art, illustration, inking, , digital coloring, or color separation are all expensive and time consuming activities. The comic book companies usually emply different people to draw the book in pencil, outline the drawing in ink, color the book, write in the words and bubbles, and prepare the drawing for print. Very time intensive.One fully colored drawing for $50 is well worth the price. If you don't have the money, fine, but to imply that it is not worth it is showing a very poor knowledge of the price of art or illustration, whatever you prefer to call it.</blockquote>

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