Print screen on the left: Prices in dollars converted to euros // Print screen on the right: The "sweet spot" you should be considering to price your art work
This is a Will Terry video resume, original here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6xrt5ko1uw#t=18
1_Estimate the time you'll spend on it.
2_Try know the budget directly from client or art
direction.
3_Find your bottom line payment
3,5 _ Is it fun? Do you want to do it? Rethink your bottom
line (up or down)
4_When
you have the limit amount phone, email and negotiate.
Note to self: [after video and 10 years illustrating]
If you don't win that assignment it's ok - it's
better to have that TIME to work on something you like.
Don’t take a job just because you feel you should be working on something, if
you’re a freelance it means sometimes you’ll have a free agenda.
Your time is
worth money – If you’re in the market “on sales” that’s the only type of client
you’ll attract: big fish looking for bargains or poor clients with no money (usually,
neither of them has a real concern for commissioning good art). Then again, a poor client, good project… maybe a YES just because you want.
Go pro bono if it makes you happy but don't "sale" your soul.
Feeling you're working for nothing or even doing a bad job: ruins your spirit
and portfolio, oh, and dropping some tears as you draw blurs away your vision and
ruins the paper - (or perhaps not, if
you’re up to watercolors)
We never loose a job, we win time to do other stuff that are really
interesting and meaningful to build a good portfolio …while you’re saying
goodbye to a poor client.
Sometimes “NO” is just freedom for all the “YES” you’re looking for.
(…and that’s a huge “note
to self”… well, reassessing values is also a good practice against insomnia)
